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Self Help and the Holidays

Friday, December 18, 2020

Join Dr. Heliana Ramirez to discuss how to work with clients to create safety plans that are culturally responsive, strengths-based, and accessible in a COVID-19 world of social distancing and sheltering-in-place orders.

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Meet the Trainer

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Dr. Heliana Ramirez

Heliana Ramirez, PhD, LISW, is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years of experience. Dr. Ramirez has addressed a variety of clinical issues through individual and group interventions including suicide prevention and postvention, Veteran post-deployment health, psychosocial rehabilitation, LGBTQ minority stress and resilience, trauma-informed care with combat Veterans and survivors of sexual assault, HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C prevention, and substance abuse harm reduction efforts. Dr. Ramirez’s suicide prevention work with clients includes suicide assessments, developing Safety Plans, crisis intervention, and processing the impacts of suicide attempts through suicide post-ventions following hospitalization. Dr. Ramirez organized the nation’s first multi-state LGBT Veteran Suicide Prevention Conference and produced a documentary about trauma and recovery among LGBT Veterans that addresses suicide from a strengths based and culturally-specific perspective (www.camouflagecloset.com).