Putting It Together

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. 

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 counselors.

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

We speak  with Sherronda Jamerson about how to have difficult conversations around race and racism in the workplace and therapy space.

We speak with Dr. Kira Mauseth about workplace stress and trauma for those working on crisis lines.  She also offers strategies on how to manage the impact of these on your wellbeing.

In this episode, we speak Ahmad Bennett, MA, MHP, LMFTA, a former US Naval Officer about veterans issues, intersections of identity, transitioning into civilian life and how we can be most effective in supporting those who have served.

We talk with Dr. Akansha Vaswani-Bye and Sarah Fikre about their experiences, career paths thus far and what inspires and motivates them to keep pushing for a more equitable landscape in the mental health field. They also discuss how the track in the Mental Health Institute will help providers understand that by taking a Social Justice and Inclusion approach to mental health care, we can challenge these disparities and inequities in order to provide the most effective and culturally appropriate care for our patients. Listen to learn about the available sessions in the Social Justice and Inclusion Track, how Akansha and Sarah became involved in this work, and what their hopes are for the Mental Health Institute.

In this extended interview, the SPIRIT Lab team at UW share their insights about workforce needs and training supports for effectively helping people living with serious mental illness.

We speak with Ashley Stewart, PhD, MSW, LSW, about defining equity and examining actionable steps toward inclusive practices.

In this episode, we speak with Shawna Canaga, Family Support Specialist and the statewide Peer Delivered Services Trainer for Oregon Family Support Network (OFSN) about suicide prevention for LGBTQ people and their families.

We speak with Ashley Stewart, MSW, PhD, LSW, about equity, intergenerational trauma, and strategies to enhance racially equitable standards of practice.

In this episode, we speak with Elizabeth Black, MRC, LADC, about the importance of understanding how each disorder impacts the other is imperative to providing effective interventions.

In this third epsiode on the topic of Increasing Cultural Connection with Hispanic and Latinx Clients, we discuss cultural needs and treatment adaptations that can best serve the Hispanic and Latinx populations with Michelle Evans, DSW, LCSW, CADC.

In this episode we speak with Patricia Deegan, PhD, discussing the unique and unduplicated contribution of peer specialists working as members of clinical teams, in particular, issues around supervision.

In this episode, we continue our discussion with Michelle Evans, DSW, LCSW, CADC, around cultural needs and treatment adaptations that can best serve the Hispanic and Latinx populations, with a focus on how to assess the organizational environment to identify cultural adaptation needs.

We speak with Aleks Martin, social worker and LGBTQIA2S+ activist, about how supervisors of behavioral health/mental health providers can focus on the diversity of their team through the lens of race, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, class, and other "-isms" through compassion and understanding, and challenge our socially conditioned approaches to our practices not just with our clients, but with our fellow professionals.

In this episode, Maria Monroe-DeVita, Ph.D, speaks with Patricia Deegan, Ph.D, about the role of the Peer within a clinical team.

In this episode, we speak with Michelle Evans, DSW, LCSW, CADC.about establishing respectful relationships with our Hispanic and Latinx clients.

We talk with Rebekah Demirel of Trauma Integration Programs, how we can view decision-making through a trauma-informed lens and explore one's own personal history, psycho-neuro patterns, and habitual thought processes to build new decision making paths towards a more stable and dependable foundation of clarity and heart.

In this episode we speak with Raymond Daw, MA, Diné (Navajo) about the disparaties Native populations in rural areas suffer from, and cultural elements that can help improve mental health for Native people living in these rural areas.

Dr. Kira Mauseth discusses her upcoming trip to the Poland/Ukraine border to deliver train-the-trainer curriculum on disaster behavioral health response and training, and her experience in the field. 

We talk to Dr. Kira Mauseth about supports for behavioral healthcare providers in addressing grief, loss, and bereavement.