Upcoming Trainings

Seeking Safety Training

Wednesday, December 9, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

Seeking Safety is an evidence-based counseling model used to help individuals work through challenges related to trauma and/or substance use. Seeking Safety is a highly flexible model, and it can be used across several populations at any level of care. This presentation will provide an overview of the model’s key principles, interventions, and safe coping skills. All are welcome, and this event is geared in particular toward mental health providers and systems serving populations who are justice-involved, utilizing services across the crisis care continuum, or engaged in outpatient therapy programs.

Meet the Trainer

Gloria B. Osborne, LCSW, is a bilingual and bicultural Spanish-speaking mental health clinician with more than 10 years of experience providing direct care in both inpatient and outpatient mental health settings. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Spanish from Loyola Marymount University and earned a Master of Social Work from the University of Southern California. She currently works as a Psychiatric Social Worker for Kaiser Permanente while also running a virtual private practice called Glow In Therapy.  Before joining Kaiser and starting a private practice, she worked for many years in directly operated and County-contracted facilities within Los Angeles County. She is certified in a variety of evidenced based practices, including Seeking Safety, TF-CBT, MAP, IPT, CPP, and she has received national certification in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy from the Academy of Cognitive Therapy.  Her professional interests include destigmatizing mental health care, working with the Latinx community, relationships, depression, anxiety, trauma, life transitions, and substance use recovery. 

Registration is open for two events in December hosted by CAREProject Director Heliana Ramirez

Skills Training: Suicide Prevention Safety Planning

Friday, December 11, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

This training provides skill building in the evidence-based practice of Suicide Prevention Safety Planning in alignment with the MHSAOC’s Suicide Prevention Strategic plan for California, Striving for Zero: California’s Strategic Plan for Suicide Prevention 2020 to 2025.

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.

Self-help and the 2020 Holidays: Managing Stress During the Winter Season in Pandemic Times

Friday, December 18, 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

This training covers evidence-based self-help strategies to regulate difficult emotions that are common during the holidays and exacerbated for many during 2020’s pandemic-related grief and social distancing. Participants will learn about virtual support groups, apps to aid in self-regulation, emotion regulation skills from Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and a variety of local and national crisis and warm lines. The goal of this training is to disseminate self-help skills and resources that Californians can use to minimize the development of mental health crises.

Meet the Trainer

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).