2022 UCLA Cultural North Star Award Winner
The Prevention Center of Excellence was recognized by the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine as a 2022 UCLA Cultural North Star Award winning program.
About
The DMH + UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence (COE) is committed to improving the wellbeing of Los Angeles County by creating a robust continuum of workforce development programs. Its offerings aim to support the development and sustainment of prevention networks that are both trauma and resilience informed. The COE capitalizes on DMH’s service delivery experience and footprint alongside UCLA’s interdisciplinary expertise in mental health prevention training, education, and implementation support to improve both the provision of care and wellbeing in the workplace. The COE’s goal is to optimize and sustain trauma and resilience informed programs that leverage community platforms to create a robust continuum of workforce development programs. Its offerings aim to support the development and sustainment of prevention networks that are both trauma and resilience informed.
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The Ethics and Practice of Applying Radical Healing
In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, participants will be provided with a deep dive into the psychological framework of radical healing (French et al., 2020). This framework is centered on healing from racial trauma and builds from elements of liberation psychology, Black psychology, ethnopolitical psychology, and intersectionality theory. In this training, participants will learn how to apply the model in practice with Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities (Adames et al., 2022), and deepen their understanding ... View more
Training Calendar
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