We're moved to announce the launch of The Parents' Network, a global community for parents and caregivers impacted by online harm, created in partnership with The Archewell Foundation. CARS is proud to play a key role in this initiative by providing programming design, facilitation, and resources that support parents in bereavement, trauma recovery, and leadership development.
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Stories become fundamental to how we understand a disaster, determine what should be done about it, and carry forward our lessons learned”
- Narratives of Crisis Telling Stories of Ruin and Renewal (Seeger & Sellnow 2016)
In this moment of overwhelming uncertainty, the greatest act of resistance is our collective commitment to hold each other and hold each other up. One way we can do this is through shared meaning making, often most powerful in the practice of storytelling.
Storytelling reconnects us to our shared humanity and supports our ability to access renewal by helping our individual and collective nervous systems build coherent narratives, making meaning of rupture around us, within us, and from us, ultimately supporting us moving from crisis to cohesion.
Join us for our fifth annual Winer Institute for Educator Healing, themed “Together We Weave: Collective Storytelling as a Source of Healing in Our School Communities.” Through a powerful keynote and an interactive workshop, we gather together through the powerful practice of storytelling, leaning into the stories newly emerging or yet unknown that guide our healing..
Join us.
Your story matters. Your healing matters.
Register here: bit.ly/SCRR_TogetherWeWeave
#schoolcrisishealing #educatorhealing #freeprofessionaldevelopment
Join us on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, from 4:30 to 6:30 PM.
Radiant Health Centers will host an empowering workshop to help you build your confidence. Whether you want to feel better about yourself, overcome doubts, or simply feel more powerful, this workshop is for you!
Radiant Health Centers Boutique will give away shoes on a first-come, first-served basis
Health Resources: Connect with us for PrEP/PEP, Rapid ART, STI testing, & primary care.
To learn more about this event, please visit bit.ly/EmbraceYourInnerConfidence.
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New! Three-Part Series: Strengthening Collaborations Between Youth & Parent Peer Support Providers
Enhance your practice and foster positive outcomes for youth and families! This series focuses on collaborative strategies for Youth Peer Support Providers (YPSP) and Parent Peer Support Providers (PPSP) working with the same families.
🗓️ January 29, February 13 & March 12, 2025 | 1 p.m. ET / 10 a.m. PT
What You'll Learn:
- Establishing role clarity for effective teamwork
- Navigating conflicting priorities and disagreements
- Engaging in collaborative planning and modeling best practices
Through shared experiences, case studies, and practical exercises, you'll explore best practices and gain valuable tools to implement a team approach for family empowerment. This series is designed for both new and experienced peer support specialists.
Register now: bit.ly/nttac-peer-support-series
Trainers:
- Arc Telos (Tay) Saint Amour (they/them), Executive Director of Youth MOVE National & Core Trainer at the Transgender Training Institute
- Millie Sweeney (she/her), Director of Learning and Workforce Development at Family-Run Executive Director Leadership Association (FREDLA )
- Cristy Corbin (she/her), Owner/Operator & Certified Peer Recovery Specialist
- Kathryn Shackleford (she/her), Youth Support Partner
#PeerSupport #MentalHealth #FamilyEngagement #Collaboration #Training #ProfessionalDevelopment #YouthSupport #ParentSupport
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"I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear." As Dr. King expressed, love is a revolutionary act, a powerful form of resistance to the injustices we face. This #MLKDay, let's choose love as our guiding light and source of enduring strength.
What does love as resistance mean to you? Share your thoughts and experiences! #MLKDay #Black365 #LoveAsResistance #Empowerment #BlackStrength #Resist
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Right now, from the Palisades to Altadena, the Los Angeles (CA) community is in it, hoping and fearing. Many of our network members have lost homes, are evacuated, or watching and waiting for their turn. Many of our network members’ schools (indoors or outdoors) are damaged, gone, or unsafe to hold community together.
Whether you at the epicenter or watching from afar, we are all impacted because we are all connected. You might be grief-activated from your own wildfire lived experience. You might be trauma-activated because of future ideation for climate injustices and what is coming your way. You might have a feeling of ambiguous loss, unable to place or name but feeling it deeply.
Wherever you are, we (SCRR) are offering a pop up space TODAY
Wednesday, 1/15/25 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. PT/ 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. CT/ 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. ET
This is a no-cost, virtual event.
Register at: bit.ly/SCRR_Jan1525
#schoolcrisishealing #educatorhealing
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Welcome back to school, students! We hope your winter break was refreshing and rejuvenating. Remember, your mental health and wellness are key to a successful semester.
If you ever need help connecting to or accessing mental health and wellness resources, please visit www.cccstudentmentalhealth.org
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Join Us for This Month’s Self-Attuning Workshop with Guest-Faculty Maurice Byrd, LMFT on 1/14/25
We are honored to welcome Maurice Byrd, Clinical Training Director of the Harm Reduction Therapy Center, for a transformative session in which we attune to our biases and beliefs around the intersections of substance use, abstinence, safety, and control in the recovery process.
This session offers an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the complexities involved in recovery work—both for ourselves and those we serve—helping us grow as therapists and as people.
Find out more and register here: bit.ly/SCRR_Attuning2425
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✨ Transforming lives and systems! ✨ The System of Care Summit Awards are back to honor those making a real difference in youth and family mental health.
We're celebrating advocates, innovators, and organizations in 5 key categories:
😎 Youth & Young Adult Champion
👨👩👦 Family Champion
🌈 Equity Champion
⚡ System of Care Innovator
🌠 Star Organization
Who inspires you? Nominate them today!
Find all eligibility criteria & nominate here: bit.ly/summit-awards-2025.
#SystemofCare #MentalHealthLeadership #CommunityImpact #Innovation
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Acknowledging Our Humanity
Reimagining A Professional Development Plan that Supports Educator Emotional Wellness, Too
January 21, February 6, 13, 20 and 27, 2025
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. PT / 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. CT/ 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. ET
Professional development (PD) spaces – whether an hour weekly or a couple of days every semester – have the opportunity to be experiences that are wellness-oriented and sensitive to the needs of the staff and team members. Often amid a crisis or the months or years of recovery after a big thing happens, we go “back to business as usual”. We might feel challenged with how to incorporate this big experience into our regular PDs.
In this community of practice, we acknowledge that a precursor to creating a trauma-informed and healing-centered school space is ensuring that the adults in the space have the emotional, cognitive, and relational capacity to address the shifting dynamics of each day.
Join this five-week community of practice to explore the power and potential of expanding our healing-centered engagement to include the way we approach professional development.
Find out more and register here: bit.ly/SCRR_AOH_25
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