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Click here to view the handouts from Strategies of Support for Mental Health Providers - Empowering one another during times of crisis. 

These are the handouts for the MHTTC event that took place on January 14th, 2021.

Click here to view the recording of The Importance of Resiliency During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

Click here to view the handouts of The Importance of Resiliency During the COVID-19 Pandemic. 

Click here to view the recording from Healing Returning Warrior: Assessment and Treatment; Traditional Beliefs and Healing Practices. 

Click here to view the handouts from Healing Returning Warrior: Assessment and Treatment; Traditional Beliefs and Healing Practices. 

Click here to view the recording from Healing the Returning Warrior: Healing the Healer. 

Click here to view the handouts from Healing the Returning Warrior: Healing the Healer. 

Click here to view the recording from Healing the Returning Warrior: Trauma, Historical Trauma, and PTSD. 

Click here to view the handouts from Healing the Returning Warrior: Trauma, Historical Trauma, and PTSD. 

Click here to view the recording from Introduction to Peer Support in the Era of COVID 19. 

Click here to view the handouts from Introduction to Peer Support in the Era of COVID 19. 

Click here to view the recording from The Strength of Our People: Resilience of Native Americans Part 1. 

Mexicans represent 62% of all immigrants with Latin American origins living in the United States. Mexican indigenous families often experience isolation, deportation, and numerous challenges caused by family members' migration, often diminishing mental health. This factsheet aims to create awareness of the cultural factors and what you should know about engaging Mexicans in mental health treatment.

Based on a framing that integrates social justice, diversity, and trauma-informed practices, this webinar will provide an overview of the impact of the intersection of structural inequities and the pandemic on children from zero to five years in Latin American families. Intimate partner violence will be addressed in this context, as well as its implications from the perspective of the young child, caregiver/parent, and attachment relationships. Support/intervention strategies based on relationship, development, and socio-cultural context will be discussed to promote security, stabilization, restoration of attachment relationships, and protective factors in these families. Considerations at the level of advocacy and public policy will also be discussed. A combination of teaching presentations, case vignettes, and group reflection will be used to discuss the material. Download slides here. Download the FAQ here. Speakers: Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E® (Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Mentor-Clinical), is originally from Ecuador. For over 25 years, she has provided clinical services to young children and their families in a variety of settings. She currently is the Child Trauma Clinical Services and Training Lead at Child Witness to Violence Project and the Associate Director of the Boston Site Early Trauma Treatment Network at Boston Medical Center, an NCTSN Category II center. She is a Child-Parent Psychotherapy National Trainer, an expert faculty of the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood Training (DC: 0-5) and one of the developers of the Harris Professional Development Network Diversity Informed Tenets for Work with Infants Children and Families Initiative and of the Boston Medical Center Family Preparedness Plan for Immigrant Families. She is a former co-chair of the Culture Consortium of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and has adapted and translated materials for Spanish-speaking families affected by trauma. Carmen Rosa has also contributed to the literature in infant and early childhood mental health, diversity and immigration. Wanda Vargas, Ph.D., is currently the Senior Psychologist at New York Presbyterian’s Family PEACE Trauma Treatment Center, an NCTSN Category III center, dedicates herself to improving the safety and well-being of underserved young children and caregivers who have been exposed to trauma. Dr. Vargas immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic at the young age of 3, and later earned a Ph.D. in the combined Clinical and School Psychology program at Hofstra University where she developed an interest in maternal stress and mother-child dyads. Through her leadership at Family PEACE, Dr. Vargas has been working on creating a trauma-informed approach to identifying at-risk young children and developing programming that is client-centered and culturally attuned to the needs of the community, in the hopes of fulfilling a dream of one day being able to break the intergenerational transmission of trauma for our nation’s children. Note: This session is part of the Preventing and Responding to Family Violence During COVID-19 Series, an online series brought to you by the MHTTC Network and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. For more information on the series and to access recordings and resources from previous sessions, please click here.

Distanciamiento social: manejo de los efectos emocionales de estar lejos de los demás Este seminario web examinará la diferencia entre el distanciamiento social y la desconexión social y proporcionará estrategias para lidiar con las secuelas emocionales de estar lejos de los demás entre los niños, adolescentes y cuidadores, especialmente enfocado en aquellos que se identifican como latinx.   Download Slides Here.

Parte 2: Estrategias para manejar las emociones en niños, adolescentes y cuidadores durante la pandemia de COVID-19 Este seminario web discutirá las emociones y sus manifestaciones y brindará estrategias para manejar las emociones en niños, adolescentes y cuidadores que se identifican como latinx durante la pandemia de COVID-19.   Download Slides Here.

Parte 3: Proceso de duelo: lidiar con las pérdidas durante una pandemia Este seminario web identificará los tipos de duelo y proporcionará estrategias para manejar el duelo en niños, adolescentes y cuidadores que se identifican como latinx durante la pandemia de COVID-19.   Download Slides Here.

The State of New Mexico Office of Peer Recovery and Engagement and the National Hispanic & Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center will offer a peer focused webinar that considers cultural elements of the Hispanic and Latino populations with indigenous perspectives and approaches. The goal of this virtual training is to increase the awareness and abilities of peer workers on integrating cultural factors into the diagnosis of mental health disorders and the use of culturally centered interventions.   Download Slides Here.

This one and half-hour online session will focus on culturally responsive programmatic efforts to improve access and utilization of behavioral health services among the Hispanic/Latinx community. The session will describe how these programs and strategies reduce disparities by addressing often cited barriers and promote behavioral health equity. The concept of cultural brokering and its use in across settings will be discussed and considerations and implementation of community mental health navigator programs will be described. This session will also outline lessons learned from implementation and recommendations for future work.   Download Slides Here.

Rituals are actions done in purposeful ways that symbolize something much more than the acts themselves. Every culture has rituals that provide purpose and meaning to experiences. Rituals are made up of actions that represent ideas, thoughts, myths, or beliefs about something specific. They give purpose to action and always serve to connect us to something else, generally something greater than ourselves. In difficult times, rituals provide a certain order to an existence that otherwise might be full of confusion and chaos. Given the current pandemic, loss and grief have taken a front seat. A sense of loss permeates in many of our lives, and for many clients this may be difficult to name. Furthermore, the inability to perform rituals in our habitual ways can be distressful for many. The current webinar will discuss the experience of loss and grief for Latinos during the current pandemic: including physical and symbolic losses. The presenters will discuss Latinos values and rituals as they relate to the current pandemic. The importance of the therapeutic relationship will be discussed as well as approaches and strategies that promote new rituals, new meanings, and a transformative experience. Three case studies will be included for group discussion.   Download the slides HERE.     About the presenters:    Salvador Treviño, PhD- Dr. Treviño has taught professional psychology for over 40 years and lectures extensively on the theories and practices of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, primitive mental states, and Latino behavioral health. Drawing on his scholarship of more than 43 years of clinical work with Latino immigrants and families, Dr. Treviño is active in furthering the national conversation on cultural diversity, the impact of historical trauma on Latino behavioral health, the psychology of racism, and matters of social justice from a psychoanalytic perspective. Dr. Treviño is Executive Director of GCAPS - Guadalupe Counseling & Psychological Services in Santa Barbara, CA and is adjunct faculty of the Antioch University Santa Barbara Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Treviño is licensed as a psychologist and marriage and family therapist specializing in salud mental Latina.   Darice Orobitg, PhD- Darice Orobitg is a clinical psychologist. She obtained a BA from Washington University in St. Louis and completed her PhD at Carlos Albizu University in San Juan, PR. Dr. Orobitg worked at the PR Rape Crisis Center where, she was a therapist for children, adolescents, and adult survivors of sexual violence. At the PRRCC she was also a clinical supervisor and coordinator of clinical services. She later worked at the National Hispanic and Latino ATTC as trainer and TA consultant offering training and TA to clinicians, counselors, social workers, and other professionals offering services to Hispanic and Latino populations with SUDs. Dr. Orobitg was also a clinical consultant at Proyecto Mujer- a gender-specific treatment program for Latinas with SUDs and trauma histories. Darice is currently the Training and Content Specialist for the National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. She has been in private practice since 2005.  

This presentation, Module 2: Cultural Case Formulation and Assessment Using the Dsm-5 Cultural Formulation Interview, is based on the guide developed by the National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. The goal of this training is to increase the awareness and abilities of mental health care providers in their use of cultural elements by promoting the use of culturally appropriate formulations when treating Latinx presenting with psychological and mental health disorders. This webinar is informed by current research findings on the impact of cultural factors on the assessment and treatment of mental health disorders and on the therapeutic relationship.   Download Slides Here

Considering Culture in the Diagnosis of Mental Health Disorders in Hispanic and Latino Populations. Module Goal: This module will provide training on integrating Latino cultural factors into the assessment, evaluation, and diagnosis of emotional, psychological, and mental disorders. This training is Module 3 of the Clinical Applications of Cultural Elements in Treating Hispanic and Latinos with Mental Health Disorders series and was prepared by the National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. The goal of this training is to increase the awareness and abilities of mental health care providers in their use of cultural elements by promoting the use of culturally appropriate formulations when treating Latinx presenting with psychological and mental health disorders. The information is informed by current research findings on the impact of cultural factors on the assessment and treatment of mental health disorders and on the therapeutic relationship.   Download Slides Here

Developing Culturally Centered Interventions Module Goal: This module will provide training on the integration of culturally centered interventions in mental health and substance use treatment. This training is Module 4 of the Clinical Applications of Cultural Elements in Treating Hispanics and Latinos with Mental Health Disorders and was prepared by the National Hispanic and Latino Mental Health Technology Transfer Center. The goal of this training is to increase the awareness and abilities of mental health care providers in their use of cultural elements by promoting the use of culturally appropriate formulations when treating Latinx presenting with psychological and mental health disorders. The information is informed by current research findings on the impact of cultural factors on the assessment and treatment of mental health disorders and on the therapeutic relationship.   Download Slides Here