Podcasts about behavioral health department

The Mendocino County Courts and Behavioral Health Department is two weeks into a controversial experiment to use court resources to move schizophrenic and psychotic residents into treatment.

San Luis Obispo and SLO County's Behavioral Health Department, have started to promote “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion”. Fred Munroe and his guests will discuss their importance Thursday afternoon, from 1-2 pm on Public Radio, KCBX

As Cabarrus County enters a new era of behavioral health care, we're detailing the collaborative journey that led us to this stage. From discussions about the County's Behavioral Health Department to a first look at the "continuum of care" planned for the Regional Behavioral Health Center, this episode explores how CabCo is clearing a path forward for those struggling with mental health.  HELP IS AVAILABLE If you or a loved one is struggling with a mental health crisis, free, confidential help is available 24/7. Trained crisis counselors can be reached at the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 or 1-800-273-8255.  Other resources: Mental Health America of Central Carolinas: https://mhaofcc.org/ NAMI: https://www.nami.org/affiliate/north-carolina/nami-cabarrus/www.nami.org Partners' 24/7 Help Line: 888-235-4673 Atrium Health 24/7 Behavioral Health Hotline: 704-444-2400 Daymark 24/7 Crisis Hotline: 877-492-2785   GUESTS:   Jim Love, Mental Health America Storyteller and Kannapolis resident  Steve Morris, Cabarrus County Commissioner Aalece Pugh, Assistant County Manager  Kamilah McKissick, Behavioral Health Director    HOST:  Dominique Clark   PRODUCED BY: Cabarrus County Communications and Outreach  

Today I got to hang out with someone I've adored for a while from afar, from her podcast, Dr. Aliza Pressman. She's a developmental psychologist with nearly two decades of experience working with families and the healthcare providers who care for them. Aliza is an assistant clinical professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics in the ICAN School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, where she is co -founding director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Aliza is also the host of the award -winning podcast, Raising Good Humans. It is such a great podcast. I love it. I've been a long -time listener. She holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MA in Risk Resilience and Prevention from the Department of Human Development at Teachers College, and her PhD is in Developmental Psychology from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Science. Aliza also holds a teaching certificate in mindfulness and meditation from the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley. Aliza is the mother of two teenagers and her first book is out right now. Y 'all, it is so good and I mean this. It is The 5 Principles of Parenting. And what I love so much about this, it lets you off the hook for like really what doesn't matter, and helps you focus in on what does, and it spans age ranges from like infancy to teenagers. There's different chapters and sections for you to dive into, so you can kind of use it as like a reference text. So go snag The 5 Principles of Parenting and let's dive in.  Connect with Dr. Aliza Pressman: Instagram: @raisinggoodhumanspodcast  Website: https://draliza.com/ Order the book: The 5 Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans Podcast: Raising Good Humans Connect with us: Instagram: Tiny Humans, Big Emotions (@seed.and.sew) Podcast page: Voices of Your Village Seed and Sew's Regulation Quiz: Take the Quiz Order Tiny Humans, Big Emotions now!  Music by: Bensound Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now wait a minute. This week's guest is so special Ronna pushed (Bryan) out of his co-hosting chair so she could have the guest all to herself. Joining us in The Carriage House for our fifth season premiere, excuse me, is celebrated developmental psychologist Dr. Aliza Pressman!  Host of the invaluable podcast RAISING GOOD HUMANS, Dr. Aliza is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. She's also the co-founding director of the Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Her new book, THE 5 PRINCIPLES OF PARENTING comes out TODAY, pardon me, and is a must-read for any parent! Dr. Aliza gives her expert advice on a variety of listener questions, including setting family boundaries, attachment issues, hygiene, and potty training.  It may be a new year, but it's the same luxurious club you've come to love! AR Social Club is now accepting members for February! Join us for February's Kiki and make it a Valentine's month to remember. arsocialclub.com And if you REALLY want a Valentine's month to remember, you absolutely MUST join us for our annual Carriage House Lonely Hearts LIVE Show on February 10. Surprise guests, games, prizes, songs, and all the love advice you'll need to keep your relationships in top shape. Tickets at askronnalive.com Sponsors: If there's one thing we know and love, it's skincare. And our friends at OneSkin have got you covered! Try it out by going to oneskin.co and using the code RONNA for 15% off your first order! Original songs are the perfect gift. At SongFinch, you can choose your artist, answer some questions, and sit back while they write a completely original song just for you! Go to songfinch.com/ronna and start your song. After you purchase, you'll be prompted to add Spotify Streaming for your original song for FREE! That's a $50 value! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“I think that with regulation, the funny thing is that it's either I want to control the weather around my children, or I want to control my children, but regulation is very much a self thing for adults and a co regulation thing between you and other, especially you and a young person whose brain isn't fully able to self regulate. But if you're so focused on controlling all these outside things that you can't, like the weather, then you get to let yourself off the hook of getting into the much harder, but more possible work of self regulation and of figuring out your own stuff. And all of that has much bigger benefits to your kids, of course, than making the weather perfect around them, but it just is harder. Even though it shouldn't be so easy to change the weather, but it does appear that is what happens, right?”  So says Aliza Pressman, development psychologist and Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital where she is co-founding director of The Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Aliza is also the host of the hit podcast, Raising Good Humans, and the author of The Five Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans. I love Aliza for many reasons: Yes, we all want friends who are developmental psychologists on speed-dial, but she's also different in the way she delivers advice. For one, she cuts right to the point, reminding and reaffirming that while yes, every family has its own complicating factors, the basic tenets of raising good humans are simple. You don't need your own PhD in parenting to do the job, nor do you need a PhD to re-parent yourself, you need to focus on the elements she outlines in The Five Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans: Relationship, Reflection, Regulation, Rules, and Repair. As she explains, through practice and normalizing imperfection, along the way you'll discover the person you're ultimately raising is yourself. By becoming more intentional people, we become better parents. By becoming better parents, we become better people. In today's conversation, we touch on these tenets while also exploring the particular social world we find ourselves in, one in which there seems to be an expectation that we can and should control the weather for our kids.  MORE FROM ALIZA PRESSMAN, PhD: The Five Principles of Parenting: Your Essential Guide to Raising Good Humans Raising Good Humans Podcast Aliza's Website Follow Aliza on Instagram Aliza's Newsletter To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“There's a part of the person that knows something is wrong, but they live with it for so long that they've learned to adapt around it.'”   - Greg Helsel A National Survey of Children's Health data showed approximately 30 percent of children experience one Adverse Childhood Experience (ACEs) - excluding external factors – and about 14 percent experienced two or more. Another study said that 1 in 6 adults experienced four or more types of ACEs in their lifetime. During today's show, Dr. Robin invites Greg Helsel to unpack what some of those ACEs people often experience in life and why it can disrupt their life and cause them to get stuck. He will also share some reasons people choose not to seek a therapist – everything from shame to their vulnerability of being wounded from previous help. Greg also explains some key landmarks that have changed about therapy in the last 10 years – including the accessibility for it being much easier than it used to be. He'll provide some helpful ways someone can take their first steps if they are ready to seek help.  About Today's Guest:   Greg Helsel is the Clinical Director of Behavioral Health at AdventHealth in Kansas City. His commitment to his patients is the same mission he carries to his friends, families, and community; to end needless suffering. Through AcceleratedResolution Therapy, he has been granted the opportunity to assist people in letting go of heavy burdens, restoring themselves to a healthy and productive life.  Mentioned in the Episode:  The Body Keeps the Score book by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk  Behavioral Health Department at AdventHealth  Outpatient Clinic at AdventHealth in Shawnee Mission: (913) 789-3218 

The impact of conflict on our kids has everything to do with the kinds of conflicts, the emotions behind them, how we resolve them...or not... and how we present them to our children. What makes children resilient is not whether they see conflict or not, but rather what we teach them about it and themselves. Learn how to nurture resilience in your children even when in conflict as we interview Dr. Aliza Pressman, Family, and child therapist. Dr. Aliza is a developmental psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with families. After co-founding SeedlingsGroup and the Mount Sinai Parenting Center, she began the Raising Good Humans Podcast to bring the latest research on child development directly to parents. Without having to sift through journals or endless parenting books, Dr. Aliza is empowering parents with the knowledge they need to make choices for their families. She's bringing her expertise and background to listeners every week and starting a new community around evidence-based parenting practices. Dr. Aliza holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MA in Risk, Resilience, and Prevention from the Department of Human Development at Teacher's College, and her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital where she is co-founding director of The Mount Sinai Parenting Center. Check out her pages: Website - https://draliza.com/ Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/2NCujIiYYaZ3vI1ZE9VBts Follow us for more! YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@richinrelationship5766 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/richinrelationship/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/richinrelationship/ Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/richinrelationship/_created/

On February 3, the Mental Health and Substance Use Advisory Board held another of their monthly public meetings. KVMR's Julia Ggem spoke about some of the topics mentioned with Phebe Bell, director of the Behavioral Health Department, after attending the meeting.

Dr. Aliza is a developmental psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with families. After co-founding SeedlingsGroup and the Mount Sinai Parenting Center, she began the Raising Good Humans Podcast to bring the latest research on child development directly to parents. Without having to sift through journals or endless parenting books, Dr. Aliza is empowering parents with the knowledge they need to make choices for their families. She's bringing her expertise and background to listeners every week and starting a new community around evidence based parenting practices.Dr. Aliza holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MA in Risk, Resilience and Prevention from the Department of Human Development at Teacher's College and her PhD in developmental psychology from Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital where she is co-founding director of The Mount Sinai Parenting Center.Support the show

October 27, 2022 — Measure B, the half-cent sales tax to fund mental health, is heading into its fifth year, when the tax will be reduced from a half-cent to an eighth of a cent. The behavioral health training center in Redwood Valley and the critical residential treatment center in Ukiah are now open. A crisis respite center in Fort Bragg could be open by the end of the year, and preparations to demolish a building and build a psychiatric health facility in Ukiah are underway. But now, with the prospect of much less revenue and several buildings to maintain, the 11-member oversight committee is turning its attention to how to pay for long-term maintenance of the physical infrastructure. Two items at Wednesday's special meeting dovetailed with one another. County facilities director Janelle Rau offered a presentation about the maintenance and life cycle costs of the Measure B-owned buildings, which have been added to the county's list of assets. Commissioner Sherrie Ebyam proposed developing a long-term financial plan, including projected revenue and ongoing costs, and expectations for the prudent reserve. The prudent reserve for Measure B is currently 6.85%, following the county's policy per advice from former county CEO and Measure B oversight commissioner Carmel Angelo. Rau told the committee that the numbers she estimates for maintaining a 20-year life cycle for the buildings is rough, because one is new, another is not yet built, and the other hasn't been used for very long. “So that's the CRT (critical residential treatment center), the puff (psychiatric health facility), and then the training center in Redwood Valley,” she clarified. “From an operational perspective, it's approximately $155,000 per year. That's the total of the three buildings. So Redwood Valley is approximately $35,000. The psychiatric health facility we're estimating at between $78,000 and $80,000, and then the CRT was an estimate of $42,000. And again, that's an annual cost to operate, separate and aside from the services that are included in that. From a capital asset management perspective, over a 20-year period, for a total of the three buildings, we estimated $3 million: $553,000 for the CRT, the psychiatric health facility a little over $2 million, and then the Redwood Valley training center, approximately $400,000.” Dr. Jeanine Miller, who is the current chair of the committee and the head of the county's Behavioral Health Department, posed the question that may have been on everyone's minds when she asked, “Do we need a capital facilities reserve for Measure B to be able to maintain these buildings for twenty years?” Commissioner and county CEO Darcie Antle said, “My question would be, if it's not Measure B, Jeanine, are you going to have money? Because otherwise it's going to come back to the general fund, and that's not likely an option.” Miller replied that, without a plan, the money for maintenance and repairs could come out of the very services the buildings are supposed to house. “Behavioral Health would not have that if we do not have it through Measure B,” she confirmed. “I don't know where those costs would come (from). It would actually come from having to reduce client care overall. There isn't going to be any revenue on these buildings. If we were to be generating revenue they would most likely be running in a hole, which means we'd be using Measure treatment dollars to maintain them at a zero budget. So there isn't going to be a revenue to maintain these facilities, because the services are not going to cover themselves, so we are trying to make it so the services do cover themselves, which means not creating a large rent to maintain the buildings.” Miller added that the current plan for a prudent reserve is not specifically a capital reserve. “At the time, what we brought forth for the prudent reserve was to cover treatment services long term, knowing that the psychiatric health facility is not going to be 100% covered. It's going to require Measure B dollars to operate. We've known that from day one. We also don't know if the crisis residential treatment will or will not be able to operate at a zero dollar amount. Will it be able to cover all of its costs? This year is really going to tell us whether or not we're able to cover all costs or what that looks like long term. So when we brought a prudent reserve forward, that's why we brought it forward...we didn't want to build a building and then four years from now, we do not have the funds because we're not bringing enough in, and then how do we fund that loss for those facilities.” The eight commissioners present voted 6-2, with Commissioners Tom Allman and Donna Moschetti dissenting, to ask the county's Behavioral Health and facilities departments to put together a multi-year financial estimate for the committee to review at a future meeting. Commissioners agreed that a crisis stabilization unit was beyond the financial abilities of Measure B. Moschetti, who represents the local branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, summed up the committee's perspective. “NAMI National as a whole, supports the CSU,” she said. “However, NAMI local does not. It does not pay for itself. It's a beautiful idea. It is a wonderful part of the mental health continuum of care. But it is very expensive. First of all, we'd need staffing. It's hard to staff anything we have already. But secondly, you can keep a person for 23 hours and 59 minutes. You can only bill for 20. And of course we're not going to let people go when they're not able to go. And so we'd have to provide four hours of care at no reimbursement cost. I personally, and I asked my board, we don't think that this county can support that.” The committee has been charged with assembling a stakeholder group to craft a request for proposals from service providers competing to offer drug addiction treatment. Miller estimated that the document could be ready for review in 60 days.

October 24, 2022 — Drug overdose deaths increased dramatically last year, with the availability of ever more powerful synthetic and addictive drugs. Dr. Jeanine Miller, the director of the county's Behavioral Health Department, told the Board of Supervisors last week that opioids and synthetic drugs are taking a heavy toll.* “We went from 43 (overdose deaths) in 2020 to 72 in 2021,” she said. Three additional people who died from overdose were determined to have intentionally committed suicide. “When we look at opioids as a whole, we're looking at natural, semi-synthetic, and synthetic. That's our number one. If we separate that out, and just look at the synthetic, which is fentanyl, our number one overdose is actually methamphetamine, followed very close to fentanyl. We believe fentanyl would be actually the number one if it wasn't for Narcan and Naloxone, and we continue to work on getting that in our community.” The opioid blocker Naloxone was first approved as a fast-acting medication for opioid overdose in 1971. But Narcan, the nasal spray that can reverse overdose within minutes, only received tentative FDA approval in 2018, with final approval granted in April of the following year. Since then, it's become a mainstay for first responders. A smattering of communities across the country have installed vending machines, where people can help themselves to a free box of Narcan. Some local organizations offer it for free to people suffering from drug addiction, and to their friends and family members. On Saturday during Farmers Market, county, tribal, and non-profit workers set up tables in Alex Thomas Plaza in Ukiah to share information about drug overdose and treatment, and to spread the word about the rising death rate. Lindsey Daugherty, the Executive Director of NAMI Mendocino, the local branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, spoke about what's still being learned about Narcan. Some reports indicate that people who have overdosed multiple times require more than one dose of Narcan to be revived. “There is some research out there to suggest that we are developing some kind of an immunity to the Narcan,” she said. “Or that the opiates are becoming stronger and stronger, or being taken in higher doses. So that is one theory. Another theory is that it can take a couple of doses of Narcan to bring someone back to consciousness. Typically, you would give a dose and wait two minutes to see how that goes, and give another as needed.” She added that “Narcan itself is not psychoactive. It's an opiate blocker, so it blocks the opiate receptors in the brain, stops that person from being high immediately, and throws them into acute withdrawal, so really intense withdrawal symptoms.” She pointed out that Narcan is still relatively new, but that “There is no known side effects currently to giving people multiple doses of opiate blocker.” Gabriel Ray, who works for the Pinoleville Nation's Native American Youth and Family Empowerment Program, is working on an approach he hopes will prevent kids from needing emergency treatment. He said he is “teaching kids about their culture. I think it's important to know your history, where you came from…we don't know our culture. We're picking up other types of culture, and sometimes that may be gang culture. So getting to our kids younger is good, and then working with the families. Having as much support as we can provide to our tribal families.” Ray has offered talking circles in schools, and has a whole program called Boys with Braids, to teach kids about the cultural significance of long hair, and to discourage bullying. The Pinoleville Pomo Nation is the owner of New Life Clinic, an outpatient medication assisted treatment program that's been in Ukiah for about a year. Physician Assistant Noah Schutz gave an overview of the program, which includes three medications: Suboxone, which is widely available as an outpatient treatment; the traditional Methadone; and Naltrexone, what Schutz calls “a full antagonist.” He said many of the clinic's approximately 155 patients have found out about the clinic's services by word of mouth, but also through referrals from the hospital, probation, parole, and jail. “Basically, it's giving our facility a call, and just saying, we're interested in treatment, and we set up a time, ideally that day, if not the day after, to get people some care,” he concluded. Jill Ells is the manager of the county's Substance Use Disorder Treatment program. She has been in the field for 23 years, and said, “I've never seen the likes of what is happening with our county right now. With the nation.” She explained that residential treatment is available, but some patients, especially kids, have to travel a long way to get it. The Ukiah Recovery Center offers residential treatment locally, and people with insurance through Partnership Health Plan can take advantage of services in seven counties, including Mendocino, that are part of a regional model. “So if we can't get you in a program here in Mendocino County, we absolutely can get you in a program in one of the other six counties that's a part of this regional model,” she declared. But Els has sent young patients for treatment as far away as Los Angeles. “Our adolescents are the concern,” she acknowledged. “Sending them clear to LA to me is not the solution. It is one of our county problems, yes.”

Many will tell you that the social experience of school made as big an impact on their lives as the academic one. Jordana, was that the case for you? Yes, and some of my closest friends to this day are still the friends I made in Kindergarten.You know what? That's true for me too. And a tremendous blessing in my life. But we know this is not always the case.On today's episode, we speak with renowned psychologist Aliza Pressman of the podcast Raising Good Humans all about fitting-in or feeling left-out, the good influences and the not-so good, and the role of the parent to support their kids in this deeply personal journey.More on Dr. Aliza Pressman:Dr. Aliza Pressman is a developmental psychologist with over 15 years of experience working with families. After co-founding SeedlingsGroup and the Mount Sinai Parenting Center, she began the Raising Good Humans Podcast to bring the latest research on child development directly to parents. She brings her expertise and background to listeners every week and is establishing a new community around evidence based parenting practices. Dr. Aliza holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MA in Risk, Resilience and Prevention from Teacher's College and her PhD in developmental psychology from Columbia University. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital where she is co-founding director of The Mount Sinai Parenting Center.Resources:www.nosillyquestionspodcast.comhttps://www.instagram.com/nosillyquestionspodcast/https://www.instagram.com/raisinggoodhumanspodcast/

Edmund Kekupua'enohopono'ike'ohia Nourrie Jr. is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Cultural Educator. He graduated from Chaminade University in 2018 with his Masters in Counseling Psychology, and has been working in a clinical setting for over four years at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center (WCCHC) as a member of the Behavioral Health Department, as well as a Clinical Therapist with Imua Health Group. Kupu also serves the community as a Cultural Educator for Malama Recovery Services and Malama Ku Ola, both of which are located on WCCHC campus. His clinical focus lies in grief and existential therapy, and his cultural focus is in plant medicine (la'au lapa'au). Additional professional interests include existential philosophy, music/art therapy, dream analysis, oli, ho'oponopono, and pain management. Kupu is a veteran of the United States Air Force, and was honorably discharged as a result of a debilitating injury sustained overseas during the Occupation of Iraq in 2006. In his personal time, he is a musician, plant enthusiast, and amateur craftsman. National Suicide Prevention Hotline- 800.273.8255 Hawaii Crisis Line - 808.832.3100 or text ALOHA to 741 741 Resources for deaf, hard of hearing, & blind- https://www.csc-hawaii.org/ Junior Nourrie MSCP, Cultural Educator Malama Recovery Services | Malama Ku Ola | Ha Ola Village Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center 697-3722|697-3225|697-3720 enourrie@wcchc.com | wcchc.com To Learn more about Culturised visit: https://www.culturised.com/ Culturised is a https://www.wikiocast.com/ production. #mentalhealth #clinical #therapy

In our weekly conversation with our friends from OSF Healthcare, we spoke with Samantha Rux and Stephanie Eddins from the Behavioral Health Department at OSF Saint Clare Medical Center. Stephanie was on hand specifically to discuss behavioral health services for Seniors. OSF Saint Clare has support groups, therapy, and other services to aid Seniors in need of grief counseling, anxiety, depression or other behavioral health needs. Check out this conversation with Stephanie Eddins on Behavioral Health, plus important announcements from our weekly guest, Samantha Rux, from today's edition of Wake Up Tri-Counties.

May 4, 2022 — Two Measure B-funded facilities opened last week. The Regional Behavioral Health Training Center on East Road in Redwood Valley opened on Tuesday, after being remodeled. Some pieces of equipment, like a media cabinet for hybrid meetings, a virtual reality training program, and gun lockers, are expected to arrive soon. The Critical Residential Treatment Center on Orchard Street in Ukiah is now fully licensed and opened last Monday, serving three clients. The facility has eight beds that will be available for 30 to 90 days by adults who are in a mental health crisis but have not received a 5150, the designation that would lead to an involuntary 72-hour hold. Sarah Livingston, the crisis program director for Redwood Community Services, which is operating the CRT, said the facility fits smoothly with respite care. She said the facility will include peer support, case managers and rehab specialists, many of whom come from the RCS Madrone House, which is a respite center. “A respite house is set up to be immediate respite for someone who is just on the other side of a 5150,” she explained. “And so that's been used for immediate stabilization, ideally for up to seven days. The CRT is where we take it one step significantly further. That 30, 60, 90-day model where we're doing significant psycho education and other programming and allowing people to really get back on their feet as they stabilize.” Livingston said clients will be encouraged to take part in daily life outside the facility. “I think there's this misunderstanding by quite a bit of the community, where they thought it was a locked facility,” she noted. “It is not a locked facility. Ultimately we want people to choose to be there, and they do have 24/7 support.” Livingston added that there will also be therapists available, though not always on site. “We can get folks into a pretty quick psychiatric appointment,” she added. She expects the facility to be fully staffed in another thirty days. “And I am certain we will fill those eight beds very, very quickly,” she predicted. Once it is fully staffed, RCS plans to contract with Lake County to offer a bed to one of its crisis patients. The CRT was designed and built by architecture firm Nacht and Lewis for $2.6 million, a combination of Measure B funds and a $500,000 grant from the California Health Facilities Financing Authority. The training center in Redwood Valley, formerly the location of the Jehovah's Witness Church, was the first facility purchased with Measure B funds. The purchase price was $389,000, a third of which was covered by the sheriff's office. A small building and a garage have been dedicated as a sheriff's substation. Sheriff Matt Kendall said he is waiting for the floor and drywall to be repaired after water damage caused by a broken pipe. But when he is able to use the building, he'd like to use it as a terminal for a dual response team with a deputy and a mental health specialist. Dr. Jenine Miller, head of the county's Behavioral Health Department, was on hand for the ribbon-cutting and a tour. She expects that the new training center will allow county departments to send more staff to more trainings nearby, rather than sending a limited number of people to be trained outside the county. As far as how sustainable the center will be, Miller said, “this really is the first year to look at how does the facility sustain itself, how much are we getting from the trainings versus how much are the costs to maintain the facility.” She plans to work with the General Services Department to present a plan to the Board of Supervisors, detailing the ultimate yearly costs of all the county's Measure B-funded facilities, including the CRT and the Psychiatric Health Facility, which the Board decided to build at 131 Whitmore Lane in Ukiah. Retired Sheriff Tom Allman, an original Measure B Committee member who remains the sheriff's representative on the committee, said he hopes a $100,000 piece of virtual reality training equipment, paid for by the state, will be available by the end of June. He is looking forward to using the venue for trainings that he hopes will raise the standard of local law enforcement officers. The Measure B sales tax will drop from a half-cent to an eighth-cent next year. “That money can be used for training and improved mental health services,” Allman said. “But there will still be costs to the departments.” One of the three-day trainings cost $12,000, but Allman said, “We want to spend that money. So we can have the best-trained first responders out on the street.”

Guest Aliza Pressman went to college wanting to develop a side of herself beyond her natural artistic side. Although she did have a range of experiences while there, she ended up combining her interests in art history, English literature, and drama and exploring the human condition throughout it all. Not wanting the experience to end with graduation, she and some friends started a theater company in New York. After a few years, when she saw that other people had deeper drive and talent than she was mustering, she found other ways to make connection, namely working with kids in theater arts. But when someone mentioned a psychology program to her, things changed.She eventually found another route to answering the question of what makes us who we are: Developmental psychology. Initially drawn to teens and adolescence, she made a turn to infants and ultimately realized that so much of the environment of a child's development has to do with parenting. She then made it her mission to translate the academic research on parenting and human development to the people who need it the most: Parents.In this episode, find out from Aliza how taking on a role and having the tools to embody it can be two different things…on today's Roads Taken with me, Leslie Jennings Rowley. About This Episode's GuestAliza Pressman, known nationally as Dr. Aliza, is a developmental psychologist with decades' experience working with families. She received a masters in Risk, Resilience and Prevention from the Department of Human Development at Teacher's College and her PhD in developmental psychology from Columbia and is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Behavioral Health Department of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. After co-founding SeedlingsGroup and the Mount Sinai Parenting Center (the former with fellow classmate Blair Seidler Hammond) she began the Raising Good Humans Podcast. Featuring other psychologists and national parenting authorities, as well as such notable parents as Drew Barrymore, Jessica Alba, and Jennifer Garner, her podcast conversations sprinkle in the latest academic research on child development and deliver it directly to parents.  Executive Producer/Host: Leslie Jennings RowleyMusic: Brian Burrows Find more episodes at https://roadstakenshow.com Email the show at RoadsTakenShow@gmail.com

— True healing takes place when all three areas; mind, body, and spirit become healed and integrated. Integration may mean accepting what is; it does not mean all our physical issues will go away or we will no longer have problems to deal with. What happens is that even with these issues and problems, we now respond differently. We have an expanded view of interconnectedness. We want to grow to a place where we can serve others and move beyond taking care of only what is in front of us. This philosophy or way of believing may not be for everyone. But those who feel called to serve will understand the feeling when it comes knocking. The question is: will we answer?   Laurie Teixeira believes everyone should love who they are and live a happy life—a life not stopped or impeded by a trauma they have experienced. When we undergo one trauma a piece inside of us can break and multiple traumas can leave us feeling broken, unhappy, anxious, depressed, unworthy, and disconnected.    Healing can bring back wholeness. From a place of wholeness, we can show up differently in the world. We can be happier and healthier within ourselves. We can have better relationships with our family and others. The ripple effect of us changing can expand not only into our families, but our neighborhoods, communities, workplaces, and the larger world. When we are whole, we are not in competition but community. We can build each other up instead of tearing each other down for our differences. We can create a better world for the next generations.     Valeria Teles interviews Laurie Teixeira  — the author of “ Claiming My Light: In Search of Meaning—Healing Trauma Through Conversations, Connections and Spirituality.”   Laurie Teixeira is a licensed clinical social work therapist specializing in treating PTSD, anxiety, phobias, and depressive disorders. Her practice provides effective and simple techniques for working through distressing emotions and cognitive blocks brought on by trauma that are interfering with life, health, and relationships.   She graduated from Boston University in 1987, and has worked for 30 years in private and clinical practices. From 2007 to 2011, she worked in the military's Behavioral Health Department located on a base that serves some 5,000 soldiers and their families. She is trained in sensory-based psychotherapies that have proven to be successful in treating both military deployment-related traumas and other traumatic events.   Her series, "In Search of Meaning: Healing Trauma through Conversations, Connections and Spirituality," documents her experiences, observations, and personal transformations surrounding some of her more challenging work that inspires her life. She lives with her family in Georgia.   Meet Laurie at healwithlaurie.com

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Welcome to episode 17, Mental & Physical Health - Why They Matter. Did you know that our mental health is connected to our physical health, and is just as important? Listen to our conversation today with Dr. George Burnett, Medical Director for Behavioral Health at Independent Health as we discuss mental health during the holidays and winter season, the COVID-19 pandemic and throughout the journey of a medical diagnosis such as lung cancer or IPF. Have you or a loved one been diagnosed with lung cancer? Consider joining one of the American Lung Association's online support groups or finding one in your area! To learn more about Mental Health resources and services through Independent Health, head to the Mental Health & Substance Use section of their website. To speak with a representative and learn more about their Behavioral Health Department, you can call (716) 529-3945. If you or somebody you know is going through a mental health crisis now or any time throughout the year, please use the references below to seek help, and always remember to call 911 with an emergency: 24-hour Crisis Hotline for Erie County: (716) 834-3131 24-hour Crisis Hotline for Niagara County: (716) 285-3515 24-hour Addiction Hotline: (716) 831-7007 Kids' Helpline: (716) 834-1144 24-hour Crisis Text Line: Text “HELLO” to 741741 24-hour Crisis Text Line for Frontline Workers: Text “FRONTLINENY” to 741741 TTY: 711 If you would like to reach us regarding Community Conversations episodes or would like to learn more about our services in WNY, you can contact Kaelyn.Gates@lung.org. Make sure to follow our social media accounts at Fight For Air Climb Buffalo, LUNG FORCE Walk Buffalo and Fight For Air Climb Rochester!

December 16, 2021 — The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors approved the contract, including a $3 million increase, with the medical provider for inmates at the county jail this week, with the proviso that the contract be amended to include a mental health clinician. Dr Jenine Miller, the head of the county's Behavioral Health Department, agreed to work with NaphCare, the provider, on those amendments, and report back to the board in 60 days. Supervisor Ted Williams asked Miller for her assessment of the mental healthcare in the current contract. “Are we completely in compliance, in providing a level of care that meets standards?” he asked. “Without a mental health clinician and expanding mental health services in the jail, no, we're not,” she replied. “If we approve this contract, with adding the clinician, we'll be closer to where we need to be, mental health-wise.” She added that there is a number of ways in which the matter can be investigated, if a patient inmate claims they did not receive services. However, there has been at least one instance of a former inmate who complained about requesting a mental health assessment and not receiving it. Williams said some of his constituents have told him that they fear retribution if they report problems in the jail. Miller said that, in addition to a mental health clinician, she would need to take a much closer look at the details of the treatment. “I have made it clear with NaphCare and the jail, for me to really get on board with their contract, we need to do audits,” she insisted. “NaphCare and the jail have agreed, they would be fine with Behavioral Health doing a quarterly audit.” Dr Jeff Alvarez, the Chief Medical Officer at NaphCare, added that the National Commision on Correctional Healthcare does conduct an independent audit every three years and would be back onsite this year. The mental healthcare portion comprises 17%, or less than a fifth, of NaphCare's contract. Another 17% is the jail-based competency treatment program, which is funded by the Department of State Hospitals. A significant percentage of the inmates are receiving some form of mental healthcare. Dr. Amber Simpler, NaphCare's Chief Psychologist, broke down the numbers as of Tuesday morning: out of 305 patients, 120 were on antidepressants; 111 had had an evaluation outside of the initial intake process; “and we know about 58 of those individuals were on anti-psychotic medication,” which is the first course of treatment for schizophrenia spectrum disorders. About 46% of the people who had been in isolation also had mental health issues, she reported. Williams pressed to find out how many mentally ill inmates are isolated, often without medication. Simpler said deciding who ends up in what kind of housing is beyond the scope of NaphCare's responsibilities, but they do inform jail staff if isolation is contra-indicated. Lt. John Bednar, who works in the jail, did not have statistics on how many people have been placed in isolated housing this year, but that their predicament is discussed at regular meetings. “No one is placed on administrative separation for being mentally ill,” he said, adding that inmates are isolated if they are violent or “because they have been, or potentially could be, victimized in the general population setting.” With the contract expiring at the end of the year, not approving it wasn't really an option. Williams moved approval of the amended contract through the end of 2022, “and direct Dr. Miller to coordinate an amendment to provide mental health services at an appropriate level of care and review mental health patient statistics and report back to the board within 60 days,” he specified. The motion passed unanimously.

Imo Momoh is currently the Deputy Director for the Alameda County Behavioral Health Department, located in Oakland, California. Imo has a well-established career in the behavioral health sector of healthcare, having spent a majority of his career in the public service arena. Imo holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Computer Information Systems and a Master's degree in Public Administration with a concentration in Public Management from California State University.

This is 100% true! My 22-year-old son was missing for 11 days after landing in O'Hare Airport in Chicago.  The relief of finding him was short lived when I couldn't see him and could barely talk to him because he was checked into the Behavioral Health Department of Roseland Community Hospital on Chicago's south side and no one could tell me why. This my real life account of what happened.

April Bolton is the Associate Director at Lutheran Social Services of South Dakota in the Behavioral Health Department. April has been a counselor for 11 years and a Licensed Professional Counselor – Mental Health. She got her bachelor's degree at Augustana College (University) and master's degree from University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.She has done specialized training particularly in EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) which helps people reprocess past trauma and negative beliefs about themselves. April also loves to work with couples using Gottman Couples counseling.In her years at LSS, she has helped develop the school based mental health program called PATH, which brings mental health counselors to around 40 area schools. Non-professionally, she is a long distance runner and  a member of the board for Sioux Falls Women Run, a local running group for women that also provides scholarships for young women runners going into college. April is the mother of a lovely 8 year old daughter and the wife to an amazing husband.

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