Putting It Together

Sherronda Jamerson joins us to discuss racial trauma and how it can compromise clinical discussions and outcomes. For more information please visit: Do You See Me?: Silence vs. Voicelessness | Recorded Webinar

Chris Kelleher joins us to discuss a framework for addressing the social determinants of health, and how it can help conceptualize holistic individual and community well-being. For more information please visit: The Seven Vital Conditions for Health and Well Being: A Framework for Community Action in Skagit County | Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) Network

Dr. India Ornelas sheds light on the Amigas Latinas Motivando el Alma (ALMA) program, including efforts to disseminate this culturally grounded and community-based intervention to Latinas living in the Yakima Valley of Washington State. 

Margaret Kuklinski, PhD and Jim Leighty, MSW, LICSW from the Northwest Center for Family Support (NCFS) discuss the importance of braiding recovery and treatment support for caregivers with opioid use disorder (OUD), including prevention for their children.

We welcome Elizabeth Powell, Kasey Burton, and Andra Kranzler from the Tenant Law Center to discuss tenant rights related to behavioral health issues.

We welcome back Dr. Kira Mauseth to hear what it means to be part of a healthy team and how we can improve the workplace without doing 'more', even under high-stress conditions.

Join us as we speak to Dr. Kira Mauseth about disaster behavioral health and considerations for personal and professional preparedness.

Hear about how 206 South co-founder Adrianna Kara was able to translate a tumultuous childhood and high ACE score into building a community center where she mentors youth, and travels the country teaching weightlifting.

Hear from Breann Vandenberg, a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) instructor from a rural community in Oregon who works in agriculture. Breann shares her first exposure to MHFA, her experience starting MHFA in her area, how it combats stigma and why this training is so effective.

We welcome back Dr. Lonnie Nelson to discuss how to make clinical and legal environments and processes feel safer and more welcoming to individuals with a history of trauma.

We speak with Dr. Nelson about de-escalation in clinical settings using principles of rapid rapport building.

Rebekah Demirel joins us to discuss decision-making through a trauma-informed lens, as well as how we can carry this resilience into our practice as mental health professionals.  

Carol Dickey joins us to discuss how the stigma attached to mental health disorders is entrenched within the child-serving systems and extends to the family members of children living with complex behavioral health challenges.

We welcome back Dr. Kira Mauseth to discuss best practices for addressing behavioral health in the context of natural and human-caused disasters as well as critical incidents. 

We speak with Jennifer Springsteen about grief and the importance of tending to it as mental & behavioral health professionals.

Dr. Kira Mauseth breaks resilience down into four "ingredients" we can practically employ in our professional and personal lives. This episode focuses on the fourth ingredient: Hope.

Dr. Kira Mauseth breaks resilience down into four "ingredients" we can practically employ in our professional and personal lives. This episode focuses on the third ingredient: Adaptability.

Dr. Kira Mauseth breaks resilience down into four "ingredients" we can practically employ in our professional and personal lives. This episode focuses on the second ingredient: Connection.

Dr. Kira Mauseth breaks resilience down into four "ingredients" we can practically employ in our professional and personal lives. This episode focuses on the first ingredient: Purpose.

Learn how healthcare clinicians in Idaho are addressing the state's high suicide rate-- the 11th highest suicide rate in the U.S in 2019-- by building resilient individuals and communities.

In this episode, we speak about queer and transgender youth mental health with Ryan Tieu, who brings their professional experience as a social worker and lived experiences as a first-generation immigrant, queer, transgender, and young person of color. 

We welcome back Sherronda Jamerson to discuss the challenging and emotional question, what does it mean to be an ally?

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Kira Mauseth about the reality of crisis work, its emotional and physiological impacts and strategies to build resilience.

We speak with Washington State Representative Tina Orwall, Lucilla Mendoza (WA Health Care Authority) and Rochelle Williams (Volunteers of America Western Washington) about the launch of the nationwide 988 crisis line launch and the Native and Strong Lifeline, which is the Nation's first crisis line dedicated to serving American Indian and Alaska Native communities and is staffed by Native crisis...

In this episode we speak with Sherronda Jamerson about unconscious or unspoken racism and how it compromises clinical discussions and outcomes.