Products and Resources Catalog

Practicing one's culture promotes well-being. In this series, we explore how Latinx and Native people use cultural elements such as community pride, family, spirituality, and resiliency to live safe, happy, and healthy lives.  

On May 13th, we held a webinar led by Tony Cunningham, Ph.D., a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Boston College. This webinar highlighted the importance of prioritizing sleep to help combat the spread of COVID19, the role of sleep in helping to maintain mental and physical health under current social restrictions, and the logistics of continuing sleep research during a pandemic.   To download the slides, click here.    To access the survey mentioned during the webinar, please go to: https://bit.ly/BC-COVID-Study-Online.    To view the Q&A we didn't get a chance to cover in the live event, click here. 

Practicing one's culture promotes well-being. In this series, we explore how Latinx and Native people use cultural elements such as community pride, family, spirituality, and resiliency to live safe, happy, and healthy lives.  

The Pacific Southwest MHTTC curated a series of topical resource sheets to help you find high-quality tools and information on caring for yourself, your families, and the communities you serve. This resource sheet focuses on trainings and guidance for health care providers, mental health practitioners, and social workers. It also includes resources on the topics of telehealth, grief, COVID-19 communications, and supporting older adults. Click the "View Resource" link above to download, or view all available resource sheet topics.

"Citizenship is for all, but our citizenship work has focused on the needs and aspirations of people with experiences of psychiatric illness. This guide also contains references to substance abuse, homelessness, and incarceration. People confronting these issues along with a psychiatric illness may have a higher risk of social isolation than others, and often lack opportunities to engage in valued roles in their communities. Our longest-running citizenship project has served people with psychiatric illness and histories of incarceration. Still, most of the material in this guide applies to anyone with a psychiatric disability who wants to do ‘citizenship work’."

  Each Friday between March 20-May 8, we hosted a hour of gentle, relaxing yoga to reduce stress and increase happiness. To access all recorded Yoga sessions, click below.    Session Schedule 3/20    Session I: Rooted in Self-Love This session focuses on getting back to our roots and finding a source of love from within. 3/27    Session II: Sacred Pleasure This session focuses on finding moments of pleasure in the present moment. 4/3      Session III: Solar Strength This session focuses on building power in the core while developing inner strength. 4/10    Session IV: Heart-Powered             This session focuses on projecting the love we’ve cultivated for ourselves onto others to strengthen our compassion. 4/17    Session V: Speaking Truth             This session focuses on spreading love and truth intentionally by cultivating the courage to find our voice. 4/24    Session VI: Seeing Clearly             This session focuses on freeing the mind to better connect with others. 5/1      Session VII: Letting Go             This session focuses on surrendering to allow more room for love, connection, and kindness in our lives. 5/8      Session VIII: Building Community             This session brings together all of the tools from the past seven weeks and combines them to give us all a stronger sense of belonging in this and other communities.  

This one-hour online session will provide information on how to address the impact of COVID-19 prevention efforts, shelter in place practices, and isolation for individuals who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) in Latino/Hispanic communities. The presenter will describe socio-cultural Latino traditions and the impact of COVID-19 shelter in place practices that may increase IPV incidents, recognize the mental health consequences of unemployment, economic hardships, the closing of schools, and general uncertainty that may result in more family conflicts and violence. Furthermore, Dr. Lopez, will provide information about the identification of cultural resilience and coping strategies to address the impact of the pandemic in Latino families and ways to reduce stress and IPV. The presenter will review Spanish bilingual and culturally adapted domestic violence prevention resources available through the internet, online technology, local and national hotlines.

On May 6th, we held an online discussion session led by Ian Lang, MBA, Executive Director of the Brookline Center for Community Mental Health, Former Executive Director Continuum Behavioral Health in Rhode Island.   To download the slides, click here. 

Newsletter published May 5, 2020.

On April 29th, we held an online discussion session led by Melissa Rowan, MSW, MBA, the Executive Vice President of Policy Implementation at the Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute.  To download the slides, click here.  To access the Payment Strategies for Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) report mentioned in the presentation, click here. 

We have created state-by-state resources for people in recovery and those struggling with mental health challenges. We encourage you to take advantage of these resources and share them far and wide!

We have created state-by-state resources for people in recovery and those struggling with mental health challenges. We encourage you to take advantage of these resources and share them far and wide!

We have created state-by-state resources for people in recovery and those struggling with mental health challenges. We encourage you to take advantage of these resources and share them far and wide!

We have created state-by-state resources for people in recovery and those struggling with mental health challenges. We encourage you to take advantage of these resources and share them far and wide!

We have created state-by-state resources for people in recovery and those struggling with mental health challenges. We encourage you to take advantage of these resources and share them far and wide!

We have created state-by-state resources for people in recovery and those struggling with mental health challenges. We encourage you to take advantage of these resources and share them far and wide!

  Michael Rowe, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Citizens Community Collaborative (CCC) at Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), discusses the concept of Citizenship, which is “an applied theoretical framework for the social inclusion and participation of people with mental illnesses.” In this video, he introduces the story of Jim, a man dealing with mental illness who led to the inception of the Citizenship program.

Michael Rowe, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Citizens Community Collaborative (CCC) at Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH), discusses the concept of Citizenship, which is “an applied theoretical framework for the social inclusion and participation of people with mental illnesses.” He introduces the concept of 5 Rs of Citizenship and Belonging - rights, responsibilities, roles, resources, and relationships “that society offers its recognized members, along with a sense of belonging that is validated by others”

Educar a los proveedores de servicios y organizaciones sobre la necesidad de atención para evitar la fatiga de la compasión. Objetivos: •Discutir la definición de Fatiga por Compasión (FC) y términos relacionados •Concienciación sobre los riesgos de desarrollar FC •Exponer la señales y/o síntomas de la fatiga por compasión •Discutir estrategias para protegernos y/o lidiar con la fatiga por compasión a nivel personal y organizacional.

La situación económica, la aculturación, el discriminen, el ser deportado, el estatus migratorio y la inequidad en la provisión de servicios de salud mental son factores que frecuentemente afectan la salud de nuestras comunidades latinas que viven en los Estados Unidos. Este seminario web identificará y presentará estrategias de manejo de factores estresantes que pueden exacerbarse durante la cuarentena como resultado de brotes de enfermedades infecciosas. Además, proveerá enlaces a recursos para agencias, clientes y proveedores que ofrecen servicios de salud mental a los hispanos y latinos durante la pandemia. También se brindarán consideraciones especiales para atender la salud mental de los niños y jóvenes latinos.   Objetivos: 1. Identificar los factores estresantes particulares a la población hispana y latina. 2. Describir las destrezas de manejo del estrés, incluidas las habilidades de afrontamiento en persona y a larga distancia. 3. Explicar las consideraciones especiales con respecto a la telepsicología. 4. Listar las consideraciones que se deben tener para atender la salud mental de los jóvenes durante una pandemia.

This issue of the Southeast MHTTC quarterly newsletter is focused on the COVID-19 Pandemic. In this issue, we offer helpful resources, weblinks, and webinars that are meant to provide support to clinicians and agencies during this challenging time.

A virtual resource from the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Center's Childhood-Trauma Learning Collaborative (C-TLC) designed to help families and schools cultivate mindful habits to reduce stress and anxiety and increase happiness and connection.

On April 15th, Ken Kraybill from C4 Innovations discussed the stress and anxiety we are feeling during this pandemic, and explored different ways we can stay healthy, establish a routine of self-care, and maintain gentleness and compassion for self and others.  To download the slides, click here. 

On April 15th, we held a consultation line with Dr. Matcheri Keshavan and Dr. James Feldman, where they addressed specific clozapine-related psychopharmacology questions.    To download the slides, click here.