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. **
