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Advancing Mental Health & Wellbeing in LA County

The UCLA Prevention Center of Excellence (COE) provides evidence-based training, consultation, and coaching to enhance community mental health and wellbeing. This selection of resources for educators, providers, and community members focuses on practical ways to build resilience, reduce stigma, and support the rich diversity of LA County. Mental health providers, educators and other professionals can access more resources and receive continuing education credit by creating an account on the Wellbeing for LA Learning Center.

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Wellbeing Practice Course Previews

This video demonstrates the orienting practice—looking around, turning, and naming elements in your environment to anchor attention in the present moment. The orienting practice integrates the body and mind, and it soothes the nervous system. Orienting is one of five body-based strategies explored in the Somatic Series: Widening Our Window of Tolerance, a learning pathway that offers concrete wellbeing practices to support yourself and your community.

 

Practicing Trauma-Sensitive Communication in Schools is a learning pathway designed to help school staff understand how stress and trauma affect interpersonal communication. Through narrative storytelling and generative artificial intelligence, it equips learners with trauma-sensitive communication strategies and provides an interactive simulation to practice them in real time.

 

Assess, Recover, Mitigate, Strengthen (ARMS): A Wellbeing Regimen for Professionals is one of our most popular courses with over two thousand registrations to date. It covers concepts and tools to prevent and recover from occupational moral distress, moral injury, and burnout. It is appropriate for all human service professionals, including those in health care, social services, education, crisis response, and any other role requiring compassionate service to others.

 

Videos to Support Your Wellbeing

A Guided Meditation Exercise for Relaxation During Times of Stress

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How to Regulate Our Emotions to Grow Our Resilience

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Breaking Mental Health Myths

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Printable Tools to Support Your Wellbeing

Butterfly Breath

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Compassion Fatigue and Self-Care

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My Toolbox

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Other Resources

Enhancing Professional Wellbeing

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Serving LGBTQ+ Communities

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Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing in School-Age (6–12 Year Old) Youth: A Training for School Staff

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Welcome to the DMH + UCLA Wellbeing for LA Learning Center! Our open catalog has a selection of topics, videos, downloadable resources, and articles focused on community wellbeing and resilience.

The Wellbeing for LA Learning Center, developed by the DMH + UCLA Public Partnership for Wellbeing, provides educational training and a variety of resources aimed at supporting trauma and resilience informed prevention efforts within LA County and beyond.

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