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Home / Cohort Coaching – Maximizing Equitable Health Outcomes for LGBTQ People and BIPOC Accessing Crisis Care

Cohort Coaching – Maximizing Equitable Health Outcomes for LGBTQ People and BIPOC Accessing Crisis Care

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Overview

This dynamic 8-part series will focus on access to crisis care for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. Presentations will include an overview of the current state of crisis response in communities and unpack the intersection of mental health issues and criminalization for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities. Participants will learn about identified approaches to mental health crises and justice diversion, practical tools for responding to mental health crises, and engage in collaborative planning to develop crisis response plans implementing the tools and resources obtained throughout this series.


Complete Series Topics/Dates

  • Building our Learning Community
    March 2, 2022 • 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT
  • Understanding the Criminalization of Mental Health
    March 16, 2022 • 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT
  • The Brain in Crisis
    March 30, 2022 • 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT
  • Intersectional Crisis Assessment for Gender Diverse Populations
    April 13, 2022 • 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT
  • Building your Crisis Toolbox, EMDR and DBT Skills
    April 27, 2022 • 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT
  • Building your Crisis Toolbox, Crisis Response in Practice
    May 4, 2022 • 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT
  • Safety Planning
    May 11, 2022 • 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT
  • Building Bridges
    May 18, 2022 • 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT
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Meet the Presenters

Bella Restrepo

Isabella Restrepo, M.A. (she/they) is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara where her research explores the criminalization of California’s Latina girls in foster care. Restrepo’s work unpacks the relationship between mental health services and the carceral state to decouple criminalization from care; their work engages with feminist based approaches to mental health to argue that the foster care system and other programs meant to help youth extend the reaches of the carceral state in the lives of Latina foster girls.


Ali Guajardo

Ali Guajardo, LCSW (he/him) is a behavioral health consultant and clinician at the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics where he specializes in transgender behavioral healthcare. With over six years experience serving Santa Barbara’s BIPOC communities and as a former foster youth, Ali weaves experiential knowledge with clinical expertise to offer intersectional approaches to his practice. Ali is trained in DBT and EMDR and utilizes an eclectic, trauma informed approach in working with diverse communities.


Continuing Education Credits

Up to 6 total hours of Continuing Education Credits are available per session for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, ASW, PPS, MFC and/or LEPs as required by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT). Credit also available for RNs, CADC-CAS, CADC I’s, CADC II’s, CCS, CA CCS, CCJP, CCDP, CRPM, LAADAC, and CCPS. CARS is an approved provider for: CCAPP #4N-08-923-0718, CA Board of Registered Nurses #16303, and CAMFT #131736. Certificates will be issued via email 2-3 weeks after the event.

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