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The Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar brings together experts in the field of child and family trauma to discuss important topics related to prevention science, family intervention, best practices, and cutting-edge research.

  Keywords: family, intervention, stress, trauma
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Fostering Queer Joy and Wellbeing: Supporting LGBTQ+ Youth in Today's Climate

LGBTQ+ youth and their families remain resilient and strong despite an onslaught of harmful sociopolitical attacks from the federal government and state legislators. As the first part of a three-part series on LGBTQ+ youth and family care, this Str...

 Training   |     Added on 5/8/2025   |    Space available!   |   Next available date: Wed, 6/18/2025

Behind the Curtain: How to Support a Parent During a Child Welfare Investigation

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will provide an overview of what happens when a parent is the subject of a child abuse or neglect investigation in Los Angeles County. First, this presentation will discuss the laws and policies that...

 Training   |     Added on 3/11/2025

The Use of Hip-Hop Counseling Theory in Clinical Practice

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. James P. Norris will explore the use of hip-hop counseling theory in clinical practice to bridging the gap between culture and mental health. Dr. Norris will begin with an overview of hip-hop...

 Training   |    1 hour 12 minutes   |     Added on 1/28/2025   |   Anytime session available

Leading Through Empowering Listening

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will introduce leading through empowering listening strategies. Empowering listening is a framework for effectively hearing and responding to identity-related narratives/challenges. Dr. Wadsworth wi...

 Training   |     Added on 12/17/2024

An Introduction to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in Three Exercises

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, incorporating acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) exercises into one’s clinical practice will be discussed. ACT is an evidence-based approach to therapy that has been shown to be an effecti...

 Training   |    1 hour 3 minutes   |     Added on 11/26/2024   |   Anytime session available

Mental Health for Moms: Increasing Scalability of Evidence-Based Treatment Using a Coaching Model

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Niles will showcase how Prospera leverages a unique model of mental health coaches to deliver scalable, evidence-based interventions specifically for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders. Dr....

 Training   |    55 minutes   |     Added on 10/29/2024   |   Anytime session available

Paternal Mental Health in Family Health Promotion

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will introduce participants to paternal perinatal mental health. It will highlight the ways in which family health is interconnected, and how the consideration and treatment of paternal mental health...

 Training   |    59 minutes   |     Added on 10/8/2024   |   Anytime session available

And How Are the Children? Suicidality in Adolescents and Young Adults

In the United States, suicidality is rising in all ethnic categories (CDC, 2023), but in African American communities it is rising more rapidly and reaching more alarming heights. In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Roland will...

 Training   |    1 hour 10 minutes   |     Added on 10/1/2024   |   Anytime session available

An Introduction to Culturally Responsive Services for LGBTQI+ Individuals

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar is designed to develop provider skills in delivering culturally responsive prevention and treatment services for LGBTQI+ people. The training will include an introduction to key terms and concepts (s...

 Training   |    58 minutes   |     Added on 9/10/2024   |   Anytime session available

Treatment Modalities for Youth Substance Use Disorders

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Jessica Lasater will cover various aspects of addressing substance use among youth. Dr. Lasater will begin with an overview of current trends, highlighting the increased use of substances lik...

 Training   |    57 minutes   |     Added on 8/20/2024   |   Anytime session available

Best Practices in Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Focus on Stimulants and Opioids

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will begin with a discussion of the impact of stigma on the health and wellbeing of people with a substance use disorder. The presentation will provide an overview of the impact of stimulants and opi...

 Training   |    58 minutes   |     Added on 7/16/2024   |   Anytime session available

"There's No Place Like Home": Preventing the Intergenerational Cycle of Foster Care

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Maria Griglio will discuss the reasons for and benefits of a preventative legal program for parents whose children are at risk of child welfare involvement. Griglio will provide historical contex...

 Training   |    48 minutes   |     Added on 6/18/2024   |   Anytime session available

Strategizing Biomedical HIV Prevention for Ending the HIV Epidemic: Comprehensive Overview and Implementation Considerations

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Sung-Jae Lee will offer a comprehensive overview of biomedical HIV prevention strategies geared toward ending the HIV epidemic. The focus will be on delineating two overarching frameworks for...

 Training   |    54 minutes   |     Added on 5/14/2024   |   Anytime session available

The Unhappiness of Time Poverty

Our most precious resource isn’t money — it’s time. We’re allotted just twenty-four hours a day and live in a culture that keeps us feeling rushed and like we never have enough. Having spent her career studying the interplay between time and ...

 Training   |    1 hour 1 minute   |     Added on 4/8/2024

Relational Savoring: A Brief Intervention Approach to Enhance Relationship Outcomes Among Parents and Children

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Borelli will provide an overview of relational savoring, a brief, strengths-based prevention and intervention approach that involves helping parents savor moments of close connection with the...

 Training   |    56 minutes   |     Added on 3/7/2024   |   Anytime session available

Supporting Pregnant and Parenting People Struggling With Substance Use Through Plans of Safe Care

Since the 1990s, federal legislation and state regulations have required that counties maintain 1) policies and procedures addressing the needs of infants prenatally exposed to substances, including the development of Plans of Safe Care, and 2) proce...

 Training   |    1 hour 18 minutes   |     Added on 3/14/2024   |   Anytime session available

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 ...

 Training   |    1 hour 27 minutes   |     Added on 2/8/2024   |   Anytime session available

Indigenous Wellness and Health Models, Processes, and Healing

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will consist of three components. The first part will involve the use of Indigenous epistemology as applied to models of health and wellbeing. These models incorporate Indigenous values and worldview...

 Training   |    58 minutes   |     Added on 1/26/2024   |   Anytime session available

Pervasive Penalty: The Negative Impacts of Policing Homelessness for the Unhoused and Medical/Welfare Providers

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will provide an overview of the causes and consequences of policing homelessness and alternative solutions drawn from a case study of San Francisco. This presentation will draw from a decade of ethno...

 Training   |    1 hour 8 minutes   |     Added on 12/8/2023   |   Anytime session available

The Role of Trauma in Predicting Motives for Cannabis Use and Problematic Cannabis Use in Adolescent and Emerging Adult Medical Cannabis Patients and Non-patient Cannabis Users

Despite evidence of the contribution of childhood trauma to the development of problematic cannabis use, its mediating pathways are largely unknown. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will review results from several projects derived ...

 Training   |    58 minutes   |     Added on 11/3/2023   |   Anytime session available

Implementing Assembly Bill (AB) 2085: Guidance for Mandated Reporters in Los Angeles County

Assembly Bill (AB) 2085 is a new California state law modifying the definition of reportable general neglect. This course provides Mandated Reporters in California with an overview of AB 2085 and guidance on how to implement the new law. Participant...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 10/25/2023   |   Anytime session available

MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Adults

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Alex Kelman and Dr. Jessica Jeffrey will discuss why treatment options for adults with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are limited and/or with limited efficacy. MDMA-assisted psychother...

 Training   |    57 minutes   |     Added on 9/21/2023   |   Anytime session available

Sex Ed Saves Lives: Giving Young People Tools for Lifelong Health and Safety

More Than Sex-Ed is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit delivering comprehensive, fact-based, and affirming sex education to students grades K–12. Join this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar to learn why sexuality education should happen earl...

 Training   |     Added on 9/6/2023

Supporting the Whole Child: Brain-Based Strategies to Support Emotion Regulation in Children

Strategies designed to help reduce children’s emotional and behavioral challenges are often ineffective and may worsen the problem. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar aims to shift a psychologist’s lens from one of identifying mis...

 Training   |    1 hour 28 minutes   |     Added on 7/13/2023   |   Anytime session available

Minority Stress and the Medical Professional: How Minority Stress Affects Mental Health

This training contains information on depression and suicidality. You are encouraged to take care of yourself when participating in this training to feel safe and comfortable. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar opens with a personal ...

 Training   |    1 hour 7 minutes   |     Added on 7/5/2023   |   Anytime session available

Depression Care for Diverse Individuals From Low-Income Backgrounds

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will describe the historical underpinnings of depression treatments for low-income, diverse individuals. The development and adaptation of psychotherapy interventions for various underserved populati...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 5/11/2023   |   Anytime session available

Co-designing a Mobile App to Meet the Needs of Minoritized and Under-Resourced Youth Within Schools

Mental health apps have the potential to increase care for minoritized and under-resourced youth who face mental health inequities and barriers to mental health services, especially during this pressing time of heightened youth mental health needs. H...

 Training   |    1 hour 2 minutes   |     Added on 4/11/2023   |   Anytime session available

“Sexual Healing:” Embracing a Sex-Positive Approach to Working With Youth and Families

Did you know that, like all aspects of human development, people also develop sexually? Starting in infancy, sexual development is the process of changes in physical growth, sexual knowledge, and sexual beliefs youth come to learn and display through...

 Training   |    57 minutes   |     Added on 3/14/2023   |   Anytime session available

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Skills Primer

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment for folks who struggle with emotion dysregulation. DBT is helpful for folks with high emotional sensitivity (often rapidly shifting emotions), emotional reactivity (intense emotions), ...

 Training   |    1 hour 19 minutes   |     Added on 3/1/2023   |   Anytime session available

SITREP: New Directions in Treatment for Veterans With Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy

Current evidence-based psychotherapies often provide less than satisfactory results for veterans struggling with the so-called "hidden wounds of war" (e.g., PTSD, anxiety, and depression). After 20 years of continuous warfare, veterans requ...

 Training   |    1 hour 29 minutes   |     Added on 2/11/2023   |   Anytime session available

Overcoming Awkwardness: Discussing Body Development Does Not Have to Be a Horror Show

Talking to youth about their body in an empowering and affirming way is critical for healthy development, and serves as one way to protect against sexual abuse. Effective communication about one’s own body helps youth understand how their body work...

 Training   |    58 minutes   |     Added on 1/20/2023   |   Anytime session available

Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy as a Tool on the Tool Belt to Address Population Mental Health

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Alex Kelman and Dr. Jessica Jeffrey will explain and present a high level primer on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP). Dr. Kelman and Dr. Jeffrey will be discussing the current legal p...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 11/30/2022   |   Anytime session available

Choosing to Break Free: Understanding the Impact of Internalized Oppression Upon African-Descended Persons

The most recent societal unrest in response to the increased visibility of police killings of African Americans highlights the need for a deeper understanding of the collective historical trauma experienced by the African American population. In this...

 Training   |     Added on 11/9/2022

Supporting Parents Through Pregnancy After Perinatal Loss

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Kiley Hanish will explain and present the unique challenges and mental health risks of becoming pregnant after a loss. She will be discussing specific techniques to encourage bereaved parents...

 Training   |    58 minutes   |     Added on 10/13/2022   |   Anytime session available

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Parent Coaching and Family Therapy

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, we will cover challenges and strategies related to the application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) with adolescents, young adults, and their parents. We will focus on strategies for orienti...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 9/29/2022   |   Anytime session available

Cultivating Spaces for Healing and Wellbeing for Educators

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, participants will explore restorative and wellbeing practices from a trauma and racially informed perspective, focusing on creating healing-centered spaces for educators. Participants will also e...

 Training   |    1 hour 30 minutes   |     Added on 8/31/2022   |   Anytime session available

Supporting Parents After Loss: Mental Health and Peer Support Providers

In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Kiley Hanish will be describing various types of perinatal loss along with the mental health risk factors associated with loss. Additionally, participants will learn about the parental experi...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 8/16/2022   |   Anytime session available

Protecting Youth Online: Clinical and Legal Perspectives on Social Media and Online Risk-Taking

Social media use is ubiquitous among teens, with use having increased even further during the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation will enhance participants' ability to articulate the many risks facing youth as they interact online, as well as the re...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 7/28/2022   |   Anytime session available

The Science of Handling Bullying: Lessons From the UCLA PEERS Clinic

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar is intended to provide an overview of strategies for handling direct and indirect forms of bullying from one of the only evidence-based social skills interventions for youth with autism and social ch...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 5/26/2022   |   Anytime session available

A Novel Approach to Toddler Sleep: Supporting Responsive Parenting and Helping Children to Feel Secure at Night

As a child psychologist utilizing play-based activities, Dr. Millette had an insight that similar activities done at home by parents could help children to sleep. That was almost 15 years ago and Dr. Millette, and her team of associates, have been us...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 3/24/2022   |   Anytime session available

Understanding Problematic Sexual Behavior Among Preteen Children

Preteen children with problematic sexual behavior (PSB) are increasingly coming to the attention of the general public, resulting in greater numbers of referrals for mental health services and public policy initiatives. Unfortunately, relatively litt...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 5/5/2022   |   Anytime session available

Counseling Grieving Children and Teens

This presentation will provide an overview of the most widely accepted theories which describe how children grieve at different developmental stages. Intervention strategies will be shared that have been based on over 25 years of clinical practice wi...

 Training   |    1 hour 30 minutes   |     Added on 2/5/2022   |   Anytime session available

Trauma Informed Sex Trafficking Training for Mental Health Professionals

Upon completion of this training, participants will understand the realities of human trafficking including current statistics. Participants will learn the health consequences and mental health challenges associated with sex trafficking. Participants...

 Training   |    1 hour 30 minutes   |     Added on 1/20/2022   |   Anytime session available

Structural Competency: Medicine for the Inequalities That Are Making Us Sick

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will outline structural competency, a framework to enable clinical practitioners to address the community, institutional, and policy level drivers of inequalities in health and enhance health justice...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 11/12/2021   |   Anytime session available

Chronic Pain and Stress in Youth: From Trauma to Resilience

Pediatric chronic pain has far-reaching implications on the lives of children and adolescents, disrupting school attendance and performance, social lives, emotional health, and physical functioning. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar ...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 10/26/2021   |   Anytime session available

Promoting Resilience in Families With Preschool-Aged Children: Findings From a Randomized Trial of the FOCUS for Early Childhood Program

The Families OverComing Under Stress for Early Childhood program (FOCUS-EC) is a trauma-informed, family-centered preventive intervention designed to enhance resilience in families with young children that have experienced trauma or adversity (Mogil ...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 10/1/2021   |   Anytime session available

Body Based Strategies to Support Provider Wellbeing

This experiential workshop will provide an overview of accessible body based and mindfulness techniques to support providers. Participants will learn somatic strategies to implement in their own lives to support stress management and wellness. The wo...

 Training   |    1 hour 30 minutes   |     Added on 8/25/2021   |   Anytime session available

Attending to Pediatric Medical Traumatic Stress

The National Child Traumatic Stress Network (2003) defines pediatric medical traumatic stress as “a set of psychological and physiological responses of children and their families to pain, injury, serious illness, medical procedures, and invasive o...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 8/5/2021   |   Anytime session available

LGBTQ+ Youth in Foster Care: Where Are Their Resource Families?

The disproportionate number of LGBTQ+ youth lingering in foster care is a longstanding issue in the child welfare system, both locally in Los Angeles and nationally across the country. This video will increase attendees' understanding of why resource...

 Training   |    1 hour 30 minutes   |     Added on 7/13/2021   |   Anytime session available

Anti-Racism in Autism Research and Treatment: Discussing a Way Forward

Racial disparities in autism diagnosis, research, and treatment need to be discussed in healthcare. Dr. Erin Graham describes the barriers that minorities, specifically African Americans, face in receiving care and the history behind the cultural rel...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 6/24/2021   |   Anytime session available

Afraid and Awake: The Interaction Between Trauma and Sleep in Children and Adolescents

Traumatic experiences and sleep disturbances are both common in children and adolescents. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar introduces how sleep-related issues and trauma responses share physiologic commonalities and thus interact wi...

 Training   |    1 hour 30 minutes   |     Added on 6/17/2021   |   Anytime session available

Racial Protective Factors for Black Youth: Cultivating Resilience

Black children and teens are exposed to myriad risks, particularly those that emanate from the legacy of racism in this country. Yet, despite historical deficit-oriented narratives concerning them, Black youth—and their families—have continued to...

 Training   |    57 minutes   |     Added on 6/4/2021   |   Anytime session available

Pandemics and Policing: On Racism, Adversity, and Health

This seminar explores the connections between racism, adversity, and health outcomes. Attendees will be introduced to anti-racist approaches to adversity and current policy proposals in California. Recorded on: 3/10/2021

 Training   |    59 minutes   |     Added on 4/6/2021   |   Anytime session available

Praxis of Intersectionality: Examining our Axes of Power and Oppression to Support Our Anti-Racist Work and Cultural Responsiveness

Review the theory of intersectionality, a framework to actively reflect on axes of power and oppression, and how this subsequently informs interpersonal relationships and subsequent care for others. This recording does not include the interactive di...

 Training   |    23 minutes   |     Added on 3/9/2021   |   Anytime session available

Training Health Care Professionals in Suicide Prevention: Washington State's Story

This seminar will highlight the important role of health care providers in suicide prevention. Participants will learn about Washington's effort to improve the suicide care clinical pathway and the training of health care professionals. Recorded on: ...

 Training   |    51 minutes   |     Added on 1/8/2021   |   Featuring: Jennifer Stuber, PhD   |   Anytime session available

From “Weathering” a Storm to Mandating an Evacuation: Forecasting the Racism Effect on Black Maternal and Infant Mortality

This session traces the impact of historical and present day structural racism on Black mothers and infants. It also highlights data regarding current disparities for Black women and infants in the U.S. with a selective focus on California and a few ...

 Training   |    54 minutes   |     Added on 12/8/2020   |   Featuring: Valencia P. Walker, MD, MPH   |   Anytime session available

Reducing Racial and Ethnic Bias in Child Abuse Reporting

This seminar will strengthen the child abuse reporting skills of staff members and administrators in their work with families of color. This seminar will work toward that goal through a brief history of child protective services and its role in socie...

 Training   |    1 hour 30 minutes   |     Added on 9/29/2020   |   Featuring: Lori A. Barker, PhD   |   Anytime session available

Black Male Grief Reactions to Traumatic Loss: Increasing Understanding, Healing, and Services Among Black Men in an Anti-Racist and Anti-Oppressive Way

One of the many disturbing aspects of grieving is experiencing a variety of unexpected or seemingly uncontrollable emotions and/or physical sensations. Often African American/Black men who mourn fear that they “are going crazy” or somehow “abno...

 Training   |    56 minutes   |     Added on 8/27/2020   |   Featuring: Allen E. Lipscomb, PsyD, LCSW   |   Anytime session available

Foundations of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT): Working With Adolescents and Families

This video explains Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) theory and skills and using these with adolescents and families. The biosocial model of case conceptualization, emotion dysregulation, and mindfulness skills will be covered. Recorded on: 6/17/20...

 Training   |    1 hour   |     Added on 7/11/2020   |   Featuring: Kristen Roye, PsyD   |   Anytime session available

Bi+ Affirmative Psychotherapy: Supporting Bisexual, Pansexual, and Non-Monosexual Youth

More and more youth are coming out as bisexual, pansexual, queer, or sexually fluid (AKA "bi+"). Become informed on the psychosocial concerns specific to bi+ youth and how to use concrete bi-affirmative interventions in your work. Recorded...

 Training   |    1 hour 19 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Mimi Hoang, PhD   |   Anytime session available

Understanding Gifted Children: Common Characteristics and Treatment Consideration

Gifted youth not only have advanced cognitive needs, but also unique emotional characteristics and complex social dynamics to contend with. Learn about the key issues that gifted youths often have to contend with and how you can help support their gr...

 Training   |    1 hour 25 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Vula Baliotis, PhD   |   Anytime session available

Addressing Health Disparities of Vulnerable Underserved Youth: Discovering Challenges and Strategies in Intervention Research

Social and systemic factors impact the daily lives of vulnerable populations such as youth involved in the juvenile justice system and youth impacted by HIV. Get to know concrete community-based strategies to increase the overall participation of vul...

 Training   |    52 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Susana A. Lopez, PhD & Sung-Jae Lee, PhD   |   Anytime session available

Breaking Barriers: Using Community-Engaged Approaches to Address Trauma and Mental Health Disparities in Immigrant Populations

Ethnically diverse immigrant population can experience socio-cultural, contextual-structural, and clinical-procedural barriers. Become familiar with the application of a community-based participatory research approach to prevention research with Lati...

 Training   |    54 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Diana Santacrose, PhD   |   Anytime session available

A Population Level Approach to Wellbeing: Integrating Trauma Informed Prevention Within Systems of Care

A population behavioral health approach can be implemented at a system level to improve wellbeing. Learn about how Los Angeles county is applying a trauma informed approach to various systems. Recorded on: 5/15/2019

 Training   |    56 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Patricia Lester, MD   |   Anytime session available

Addressing Racial Stress and Trauma: Promoting Resilience for Youth of Color Within the Therapeutic Setting

Racial stress and trauma can significantly affect youth of color. Gain strategies to address racial stress and trauma and promote resilience for youth of color. Recorded on: 4/17/2019

 Training   |    50 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Farzana Saleem, PhD   |   Anytime session available

Hands-On Play to Promote Executive Functioning in Young Children

Practicing executive functioning skills in 'cool' moments helps young children deploy those skills in 'hot' moments. Watch how everyday play activities can be intentionally used to build executive functioning in young children. Recorded on: 3/20/2019...

 Training   |    1 hour 19 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Jolie Delja, MS & Clare Gorospe   |   Anytime session available

The Development of Executive Functions in Early Childhood

Executive functioning is cognitive skills utilized for purposeful, future-oriented behavior, that underlie flexible adaptation to changing task demands, including regulation of attention, inhibition of inappropriate responses, and coordination of inf...

 Training   |    45 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Jennie Grammer, PhD   |   Anytime session available

Understanding the Adolescent Brain and Behavior in the Context of Foster Care/Adoption

Trauma can have a substantial impact on brain development. Learn how histories of trauma, grief, and loss can impact the therapeutic process and gain tools to work with teens in the foster care and adoption population. Recorded on: 12/11/2018

 Training   |    1 hour 18 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Martha Rios, PhD & Alycia Davis, PsyD   |   Anytime session available

An Introduction to Mindful Self Compassion

Mindful Self Compassion is a skills-based program delivering mindfulness practices that cultivate self-compassion and interconnectedness. Experience a guided Mindful Self Compassion practice. Recorded on: 10/17/2018

 Training   |    1 hour 18 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Kate Sheehan, LCSW   |   Anytime session available

Supporting Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children: Applying the Gender Affirmative Model in Everyday Clinical Practice

There are many health disparities among transgender and gender-diverse children. Learn about the existing yet limited guidelines and standards of care, and how to apply the principles of the Gender Affirmative Model in your practice.

 Training   |    49 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Elizabeth Ollen, PhD   |   Anytime session available

The Los Angeles LGBTQ+ Youth Preparedness Scan

Service providers need to be well informed and prepared to serve LGBTQ+ youth. Explore the findings of the preparedness scan to identify areas for organizational improvement with regard to policy, welcoming environments, and other aspects of improvin...

 Training   |    58 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Khushnuma Cooper, MSW, PhD   |   Anytime session available

Adolescent Substance Use: Identifying and Responding to Misuse

Addressing substance use with adolescents is challenging, specifically, if adolescents are not being transparent about their use. Learn to apply best practices for working with adolescents. Recorded on: 5/16/2018

 Training   |    1 hour 29 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Scott Hunter, MD, MHS   |   Anytime session available

Project Fatherhood: Father Involvement Is a Game-Changer

There are individual and systemic barriers that hinder father-child engagement. Get to know the theoretical and evidence-based framework to support fathers from diverse families in addressing barriers and engaging in relationships with their children...

 Training   |    58 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Alan-Michael Graves, MSPA   |   Anytime session available

Supporting Grieving Families

The grief process looks different for children and adults. Watch this video to learn best practices in supporting families experiencing grief and recognize how personal beliefs, cultural differences, and history with death influences the therapeutic ...

 Training   |    1 hour 28 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Dolly Phillips, MA, LMFT & Loren Delgado, MSW   |   Anytime session available

Beat the Odds: Social and Emotional Skill Building Delivered in a Framework of Drumming

Drumming without expectations of perfection or mastery reduces self-judgment and performance anxiety and encourages a growth mindset that is essential to learning and academic performance. Learn how to incorporate drumming into your work with childre...

 Training   |    54 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Ping Ho, MA, MPH   |   Anytime session available

How to Provide Effective, Sensitive, and Family-Centered Feedback to Parents of Young Children

Poorly received feedback can negatively impact a provider and parent/caregiver relationship. Learn tools to provide effective feedback to parents/caregivers of young children in a sensitive manner. Recorded on: 2/15/2017

 Training   |    1 hour 24 minutes   |     Added on 5/28/2020   |   Featuring: Blair Paley, PhD   |   Anytime session available

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The Impact of Trauma on the Brain and Pathways to Healing

Stress and trauma can take a significant toll on the minds and bodies of individuals and families. This course will provide an inside look at the potential impact that stress and trauma on the brain and how that affects everyday living. This course also highlights ways in which intentional healing can begin. A trauma and resilience informed lens is also described, supporting learners in ways to "focus on the wins."

 Course
  1 hour
  Added on 2/5/2022
Added on 7/8/2021   ·   Last updated on 12/22/2021
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The Wellbeing for LA Learning Center, developed by the DMH + UCLA Public Partnership for Wellbeing, provides educational trainings to enhance the professional development and wellbeing of the LA County workforce.
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