Webinar/Virtual Training
ABOUT THIS EVENT
This webinar is designed for direct service providers and staff who work with clients and community members. Learn what contributes to emotionally escalated interactions, ways to assess the situation, and practical strategies to defuse and de-escalate to support the health and safety of everyone involved. Offered in partnership with NAMI Seattle.
FACILITATOR
Paul Getzel, Executive Director
Paul joined the NAMI Seattle team in 2022. His prior history includes work in community health, food security, HIV/AIDS, and health equity advocacy. Paul is compelled in this work by the strong belief in the power of peer-to-peer models in reducing racial and social disparities, facilitating access to mental health services, reducing stigma, and building enduring support for individuals and families pursuing their best possible mental health.
Webinar/Virtual Training
This 90-minute webinar features presenters sharing their lived experience with mental health conditions to combat stigma and provide further information and resources.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
The Northwest MHTTC is proud to partner with National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Seattle to present "In Our Own Voice."
NAMI In Our Own Voice presentations change attitudes, assumptions and stereotypes about people with mental health conditions. This 90-minute presentation will provide a personal perspective of mental illness, as presenters with lived experience talk openly about what it's like to live with a mental health condition. Their trained presenters humanize the misunderstood, highly stigmatized topic of mental illness by showing that it’s possible—and common—to live well with a mental health condition.
This presentation also provides:
a chance to ask presenters questions, allowing for a deeper understanding of mental health conditions and dispelling of stereotypes and misconceptions
the understanding that every person with a mental health condition can hope for a brighter future
information on how to learn more about mental health and get involved with the mental health community.
SPEAKERS
Abhishek Kulkarni (he/him)
Greg Barber (he/him)
Webinar/Virtual Training
ABOUT THIS EVENT
The Northwest MHTTC is excited to collaborate with the Mountain West AIDS Education & Training Center Program (AETC) on this webinar series related to sexual health.
People often think about sex as something that happens in our bodies, but much of our sex life occurs in our brains. It is critical to understand that for all genders our feelings and thoughts play a significant role in our sexual health. Anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, depression, and psychosis all include symptoms that affect sexual life, such as decreased arousal, desire, or sexual satisfaction. Living with a mental illness can harm a person's self-esteem and make them feel undeserving of sexual attention or a healthy relationship. Medications to treat mental disorders can cause or exacerbate sexual dysfunction.
Behavioral health providers play a unique role in their clients’ lives, and treatment relationships provide opportunities to support client sexual health. Session 1 of the series will provide the rationale for integrating sexual health and behavioral health care, and an overview of the research highlighting the importance of this issue.
Part 1 of the Sexual Health Series (click to view all sessions in this series).
FACILITATORS
Lydia Chwastiak, MD, MPH
Dr. Chwastiak received her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania, completed residencies in both internal medicine and psychiatry, and obtained research training through an NRSA-funded fellowship in psychiatry and primary care at UW. Over the past eighteen years, her research has focused on improving the medical care and medical outcomes among individuals with schizophrenia and other serious mental illnesses. She has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications related to epidemiology and treatment of cardiovascular risk factors among patients with serious mental illness. She has been the Principal Investigator or a co-I on numerous (federally- and non-federally) funded research projects to develop and implement interventions to improve cardiovascular and mental health outcomes among complex patients in low resource settings in the US and in India and Nepal. Dr. Chwastiak is the Principal Investigator and co-Director of the SAMHSA-funded Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (NW-MHTTC), which aims to support the implementation of evidence-based practices for patients with serious mental illness across a variety of settings in HHS Region 10.
Christina Clayton, MSW, LICSW, SUDP
Christina Clayton has been in the behavioral health field since 1993, primarily serving adults who live with severe mental health issues, substance use, experience chronic homelessness, suffer from poor physical health, trauma and any number of co-occurring issues. Christina has education and licenses/credentials in clinical social work, mental health and substance use, and highly values her direct service experience. Prior to joining the MHTTC in 2018, she spent 25 years working in and managing numerous clinical programs. She has provided licensure supervision, training and consultation, and has been a SW Field Instructor since 2000 She is Co-Director for the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and Interim Assistant Dean & Director of Field Education for the UW School of Social Work.
Victor Ramirez, MSPH
Mountain West AETC, Washington State Training Coordinator
Mountain West AETC Local Partner University of Washington, Washington State Training Coordinator
Laurie Sylla MHSA, BSW
Laurie Sylla has been involved with AIDS since the early 1980s, as an agency director, program director, direct service provider, advocate, researcher, coalition leader, and an educator. She co-founded the AIDS Council of Northeastern New York, one of the oldest AIDS service organizations in the US, and the Community Research Initiative of New England (CRI), an early effort to bring clinical trials to the primary care setting. She is currently the Director of the Mountain West AIDS Education & Training Center at the University of Washington, and serves on community advisory boards for defeatHIV, the NIH Martin Delaney Collaboratories Towards an HIV Cure Initiative, and the Seattle AIDS Clinical Trials Unit. She was part of a training team that helped Ukraine roll out integrated suboxone/HIV/HCV/TB treatment and assisted Malaysia with piloting a pre-release HIV/MOUD program for prisoners with HIV. Providing trainings/workshops is one of her favorite things to do.
