NNED Forum Call: Celebrating Mental Health in Diverse Communities Part II 7/28
Posted: July 28, 2010
NNED Network in Action Forum Call: Celebrating Mental Health in Diverse Communities Part II
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:00-4:30pm ET
Are you ready to celebrate Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month? The NNED, in partnership with several national organizations, is pleased to offer this second webinar of a two part series celebrating Minority Mental Health Awareness Month (July 2010). These two webinars will highlight the ways communities across the
country are celebrating minority mental health in honor of Bebe Moore
Campbell. To learn about this important month and see how your
community can celebrate minority mental health this year and in future
years join these two webinars! Part I took place on July 7th and focused on Latino and American Indian communities. To watch the recording of this event click here. Part II will focus on Asian American, African American, and LGBTQ communities and will take place on July 28th. To register click here.
Presentation Slides: Asian American Presentation DJ Ida (1.6MB) Kavoos Bassiri(7.0MB) African American Presentation Kathy Wright
LGBT Presentation Caitlin Ryan Speakers: DJ Ida, Executive Director, NAAPIMHA Dr. D.J. Ida has over thirty years experience working with the Asian American Pacific Islander communities and received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Colorado. She has a long history of community organization and helped establish several organizations including the Asian Pacific Development Center, a specialty mental health clinic in Denver, the National Asian American, Pacific Islander Mental Health Association, NAAPIMHA, and the National Alliance of Multi-ethnic Behavioral Health Associations.
Kavoos Bassiri, President and CEO, Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. Kavoos G. Bassiri is President & CEO of Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS), a private non-profit mental health agency in San Francisco. He is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Group Psychotherapist with over two decades of clinical and administrative experience in the field of mental health. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF School of Medicine and maintains a private psychotherapy & consultation practice.
Kathy Wright, Executive Director, New Jersey Parents' Caucus Kathy Wright’s experience as an advocate, mental health professional, educator and marketing professional has spanned over two decades. Most recently, she has been instrumental in developing and implementing programs and supportive services that empower parents, caregivers and family members who are raising children with severe mental health challenges. She Executive Director of the New Jersey Parents' Caucus (NJPC) and is the developer of NJPC’s New Jersey Model of Parent Empowerment and Collaboration & Parents Empowerment Academy and remains dedicated to working with families to become self-sufficient, overcome the stigma placed on them by society and work with dignity as collaborative partners with professionals.
Caitlin Ryan, Project Director, Family Acceptance Project Caitlin Ryan is the Director of the Family Acceptance Project.™ Caitlin is a clinical social worker who has worked on LGBT health and mental health since the 1970s, and AIDS since 1982. She received her clinical training with children and adolescents at Smith College School for Social Work in inpatient and community mental health programs, and began her social work career in school-based psychoeducational settings. Caitlin pioneered community-based AIDS services at the beginning of the epidemic; initiated the first major study to identify lesbian health needs in the early 1980s; and has worked to implement quality care for LGBT youth since the early 1990s. She developed the Family Acceptance Project™ with Rafael Diaz in 2002 to promote family support, decrease risk and improve well-being for LGBT youth.
** This webinar is offered in partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Multicultural Action Center, National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health, National Latino Behavioral Health Association, First Nations Behavioral Health Association, National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association, and the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health. **
This webinar is only open to NNED Members, to become a NNED Member free of charge click here.
Opportunity for Youth to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (posted 7/27)
Posted: July 27, 2010
The NNED's Advocacy and Community Engagement (ACE) Learning Cluster is looking to involve youth in their upcoming work. The ACE Learning Cluster is comprised of individuals from advocacy organizations who share a commitment to decreasing disparities in behavioral health care. Members of this Learning Cluster are currently working on developing:
An Adult Guide to Engaging Youth that will focus on how adults can better engage youth that are members of their group and or board.
A Policy Advocacy Guide that will serve to help communities incorporate youth voice in their policy advocacy work.
To develop these products the Learning Cluster needs to have strong youth involvement. If you are between the ages of 13-24 and and have had personal experience in or are currently receiving services as a mental health consumer and are interested in this opportunity please fill out our brief application form by clicking here. If you know a youth that might be interested in this opportunity, please send them the link to the form: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ACE_LC. Send any questions to
Applications must be filled out by August 21, 2010. The project will start in September with our first conference call on September 6th. Selected members will participate on the ACE Learning Cluster monthly calls on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of every month. if interested, selected members will also join a workgroup to work on product development of one of the two guides.
For more information watch the video below, and download the logic model that provides an overview of the NNED, the ACE Learning Cluster and how you as a youth can be involved by clicking here. In order to create effective change to system breakdowns it is important that we hear from the youth that are directly affected by the decisions that are made. Your viewpoints and opinions are very important to the NNED and a critical component in eliminating disparities.
Webinar Recording: Celebrating Mental Health in Diverse Communities Part I
Posted: July 27, 2010
Celebrating Mental Health in Diverse Communities Part I
This NNED Network in Action Forum call that took place on July 7, 2010 features efforts taking place in the Latino and American Indian/Alaska Native communities to celebrate Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Speakers provided both a national overview of the efforts taking place to enhance public awareness of mental illness and mental illness among minorities and focused on two local efforts in San Francisco, California and Portland, Oregon. To learn what other communities are doing and see how you too can celebrate this important month watch this recording of Celebrating Mental Health in Diverse Communities, click here or scroll to the bottom of the page.
Q & A: To download the answers to the questions from attendees who weren't able to ask their questions during the webinar, click here.
Speakers: Fred Sandoval, Chair, National Latino Behavioral Health Association Fred
is Director for the New Mexico State Income Support Division and
currently serves as the New Mexico Behavioral Health Collaborative Lead
on Cultural and Linguistic Competency and Consumer, Youth and Family
Involvement. He is the current President of the National Latino
Behavioral Health Association in Washington, DC and former NAMI
National First Vice President in Arlington, Virginia. He has provided
leadership on a wide range of Latino behavioral health initiatives.
Fred received his Masters in Public Administration from Northern
Arizona University and his Bachelors in University Studies from the
University of New Mexico.
Estela Garcia, Executive Director, Instituto Familiar de la Raza Dr.
Estela Garcia is a licensed clinical psychologist with 25 years
experience in the behavioral health field. She has expertise in
developing cultural competent behavioral health and social services and
has promoted integration of traditional, complimentary and conventional
methodologies in service provision throughout her career. She is the
Executive Director of Instituto Familiar De La Raza and represents the
agency in collaborative and healthcare initiatives to ensure that
native born and immigrant Latinos, including the indigenous populations
of San Francisco, have access to culturally and linguistically
competent healthcare services.
Sal Nunez, Instituto Familiar de la Raza Dr.
Sal Núñez practices as an educator, researcher, consultant and
clinician in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a tenured faculty
member at City College of San Francisco, serves as a consultant,
provider, and clinical supervisor at Instituto Familiar De La Raza, and
maintains a private practice. Over the course of a decade, Dr. Núñez
developed a therapeutic drumming approach that integrates ceremony,
drumming, indigenous and behavioral medicine, and psychological
principles. In 2004 Dr. Núñez founded the Healthy Drumming Institute®
and several years ago began training clinicians, community service
providers, and youth in traditional healing arts. Dr. Nunez offers
therapeutic drumming circles at Instituto Familiar De La Raza, City
College of San Francisco, and other San Francisco Bay Area locations. Seprieono Locario, National Indian Health Board Mr.
Seprieono Locario (Navajo/Sicilian) earned a B.A. in Public
Administration and from San Diego State University in 1999 and an M.A.
in Counseling Psychology at the California School of Professional
Psychology in 2001. Mr. Locario has dedicated 15 years of professional
development to work with American Indian youth throughout the state of
California, within multiple levels of incarceration, in community
mental health centers, higher education institutions, and reservation
communities. Mr. Locario currently works as a Behavioral Health Program
Coordinator for the National Indian Health Board in Washington, D.C.
where he focuses on identifying and developing best practices with
tribal communities and assisting in the support of education for and
with AI/AN health. Stephanie Craig, Project Director Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board Stephanie
Craig Rushing, PhD, MPH, is a Project Director at the NW Tribal
Epidemiology Center, a tribal health promotion, surveillance, and
research center affiliated with the Northwest Portland Area Indian
Health Board. Dr. Rushing directs the Board’s Meth and Suicide
Prevention Initiative, Project Red Talon (a STD/HIV prevention
project), and several other adolescent health projects. She completed
her Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy at the Hatfield School of
Government at Portland State University, focusing on Community Health
and Social Change, and her Masters of Public Health at Boston
University.
** This webinar is offered in partnership with
the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Multicultural Action
Center, National Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health,
National Latino Behavioral Health Association, First Nations Behavioral
Health Association, National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental
Health Association, and the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child
and Family Mental Health. **
Multicultural PSA Campaigns Win International Innovation Award (posted 7/22)
Posted: July 21, 2010
The Global Accelerator Award™ has been awarded to the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in collaboration with the Ad Council and the National Network to Eliminate Disparities (NNED), for culturally targeted public service announcements (PSAs) across the United States to “promote recovery from mental health problems within multicultural communities by educating and inspiring young adults to talk openly about issues of mental health.” The PSAs are part of a major multicultural outreach campaign for Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, Chinese American, and African American communities during National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. Congratulations to SAMHSA, the Ad Council and the NNED Multicultural Steering Committee!
Winners of the Global Accelerator Award are organizations or people who have helped propel into action an idea that holds the promise of dramatically improving patient care and human health throughout the world. The Accelerator Award is based on an Innovation Cell methodology that analyzes which organizations or people have put an idea or strategy into action that has generated significant positive “buzz” or “chatter” on the World Wide Web – notably, on patient-led blogs and social networking sites. The Global Accelerator Award is powered by the Health Strategy Innovation Cell based at Massey College at the University of Toronto. The Innovation Cell specializes in capturing real-time global healthcare intelligence – to understand the needs, wants and preferences of patients and caregivers around the world through their website My Health Innovation. The Cell works to listen to people online and help launch their health ideas into action.
Campaign To Raise Awareness About Mental Health in Multicultural Communities Launched (posted 7/21)
Posted: July 21, 2010
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), in collaboration with the Ad Council, launched a national public service advertising (PSA) campaign to promote recovery from mental health problems within multicultural communities by educating and inspiring young adults to talk openly about issues of mental health. The culturally targeted PSAs seek to motivate societal change toward social acceptance and decrease negative attitudes that may surround mental illness. These PSAs are part of a larger multicultural public service effort designed to reach Hispanic/Latino, American Indian, Chinese American, and African American communities during Bebe Moore Campbell National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month. The Center for Mental Health Services Office of Consumer Affairs worked with the National Network to Eliminate Disparities in Behavioral Health (NNED) to develop messages that were culturally informed, meaningful, appealing and acceptable, and utilize means of messaging that have the greatest potential to penetrate and connect with culturally, racially, and ethnically diverse communities. The NNED National Facilitation Center convened a Multicultural Steering Committee (MCSC) comprised of ethnically and racially diverse experts and consumer leaders in the field. "Raising awareness that effective treatments for mental illnesses are
available and that people recover, can encourage those in need to seek
help," said SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. "Our goal with
this campaign is to open the dialogue about supporting friends or family
members with mental health problems in a culturally relevant way."
Each targeted PSA includes a website where consumers can go to find resources and download the PSAs:
