Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS)

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Welcome to the Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS)!

We are a California-based nonprofit dedicated to enriching the behavioral and public health field by promoting evidence-based practice and workforce development. We provide training, consultation, and coaching to individuals, organizations, and initiatives. In all our work, our mission is to foster safe, healthy, and engaged persons and communities.

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Coaching & Consulting Coaching & Consulting
Product & Resource Development Product & Resource Development
Evaluation Evaluation
Workshops & Trainings Workshops & Trainings
Event Planning & Cultivation Event Planning & Cultivation
Project Management Project Management
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Topics of Expertise

Behavioral & Mental Health Promotion for Children, Youth, & Families
Substance Use Prevention & Recovery
School Climate & School Mental Health
Crisis Continuum of Care: Response, Recovery & Renewal
Prevention, Intervention & Postvention
Behavioral Health Equity & Cultural Responsiveness
Community Health, Resilience, and Healing
Workplace Culture & Organizational Leadership
Staff & Provider Wellness
Trauma Informed & Grief Sensitive Practices & Policies
Adult Learning, Training, and Facilitation
Cross-sectoral Partnerships & Systems of Care
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What’s Happening with CARS Projects?

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School Crisis Healing
Thu May 8th
School Crisis Healing
A note from our Project Director: In the weeks leading to our closing, we’ll be sending weekly reflections from our staff with compilations of themed work to download and save. This week, we highlight our two “train the trainer” // self-directed resources for you: 1) SCRR Foundational Modules - Recordings, Slides & Materials 2) Trauma Informed School Systems (TISS) for School Crisis Recovery & Renewal - Workshop Slides with Annotated Facilitator Notes, and more We close with parting words from Bri who has been teaching the TISS workshop for 3+ years, having trained over 640 educators, providers, youth advocates, and school leaders. Take our work and make it yours! -Leora Access these trainings below: Foundational Modules: https://bit.ly/SCRR_Foundations TISS: https://bit.ly/SCRR_TISS #traumainformedschoolsystems #schoolcrisis #schoolcrisisleadership #schoolcrisisrecovery #schoolcrisisrenewal
NTTAC
Thu May 8th
NTTAC
#ChildrensMentalHealthAwarenessDay: Positive mental health is essential for kids—it means reaching milestones, learning healthy social skills & coping when there are problems. Lets bring awareness about the needs of childrens mental health! samhsa.gov/observances/national-childrens-mental-health-awareness-day #AwarenessDay Alt-text: Kids hands in colorful paint. Text reads “Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day” #bringawareness #mentalhealthawareness #children #mentalhealth
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Tue May 6th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Learn how you can participate in no-cost events happening throughout Orange County this month by visiting www.ocmentalhealthevents.org
NTTAC
Fri May 2nd
NTTAC
💚 Children’s Mental Health Action Week is almost here! NTTAC is proud to join the National Federation of Families in uplifting children’s mental health through a month-long focus on Wellness, Resilience, Action, and Purpose. Let’s support the young people in our lives and communities by taking intentional steps toward healing and hope. 🟢 Visit the 2025 CMHAW page to find ways you can take action: https://ow.ly/hb7P50VB5K9 #CMHAW2025 #ChildrensMentalHealth #NTTAC #FamilyDrivenCare #MentalHealthAwareness
School Crisis Healing
Thu May 1st
School Crisis Healing
A note from our Project Director: As we shared in our previous message, SCRR’s funding ends May 30th. In the weeks leading to our closing, we’ll be sending weekly reflections from our staff with compilations of themed work to download and save. This week, we highlight our “Mending Our Wounds” programming. Envisioned by Oriana at the onset of our project, Mending Our Wounds invites (or warmly demands?) us to not only do the work for others, about others, and to others…but for ourselves, about ourselves, and to ourselves. We are the other half in the relationship with students and with our clients. Here, we highlight Oriana’s newest blog piece, “Doorways Towards Healing: Mending Our Wounds” that offers her facilitator reflections on two of her signature Mending Our Wounds programs she created for us. We also include video recordings of self-attuning practices we’ve offered at our Summer and Winter Institutes for Educator Healing over the past 5 years. Find these items at the links below! Blog: https://bit.ly/SCRR_Doorways Videos: https://bit.ly/SCRR_Mending #educatorhealing #schoolcrisishealing #mendingourwounds #selfattuning #artbasedtherapeutics #schoolcrisisleadership
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Mon April 28th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Roosevelt-Walker Community Center Hosts: Hope, Health & Harmony May 16, 2025 | 5–8 PM Roosevelt-Walker Community Center, Santa Ana Celebrate cultural diversity, wellness, and connection! Enjoy mindfulness, nutrition demos, wellness activities & a free community picnic. All are welcome—veterans, LGBTQ+, and diverse communities. Free Shuttle to Hope, Health & Harmony! Reserve by May 10, 2025. Register via QR code, our website, or your community agency: bit.ly/HHH_Transportation2025 Hosted by OC HCA & partners. ✨ Free & open to all. Join us!Hope, Health & Harmony To learn more about this event, please visit us at https://bit.ly/HopeHealthHarmony.
School Crisis Healing
Thu April 24th
School Crisis Healing
When we launched in 2020, we held a series of “open houses” to introduce us to you, to welcome you into our collective living room (so to speak). Many folks we met all those years ago are vibrant members of our network today! We want to close how we opened, and on May 8th, we’ll be hosting “close houses” (well that’s not a thing, but it should be). Join us for a joyful and nourishing gathering (at one of the two times below) designed to celebrate our renewal journey together and nurture all the possibilities surrounding what comes of this invaluable heart-work, next. This informal closing community “mixer” is a chance to reconnect, reflect, commit and recommit—to ourselves, to each other, and to the ongoing practice of renewal beyond SCRR’s program. Together, we’ll witness stories of growth, share moving practices, and imagine bold possibilities for how the essence of renewal work continues to live in our lives and communities—well beyond May 2025. Come as you are. Bring your brilliance, your wonder, your heart. Let’s celebrate all that we’ve moved through together, collaboratively. Join us: https://bit.ly/SCRR_ClosingMixers #schoolcrisisrecovery #schoolcrisishealing #schoolcrisisrenewal #schoolcrisisleadership #educatorhealing #educatorgrief #scrr
School Crisis Healing
Thu April 24th
School Crisis Healing
A note from our Project Director: As we shared in our previous message, SCRR’s funding ends May 30th. In the weeks leading to our closing, we’ll be sending weekly reflections from our staff with compilations of themed work to download and save. This week, we highlight our value of collaboration: when we launched SCRR, we imagined a project where the work is co-constructed by students, alumni, educators, providers, and school leaders. You. Grief, trauma, and crises happen to us. Recovery and renewal happen within and with us, by us, for us, because of us. In reclaiming agency, we reclaim our dignity and humanity. What’s in the highlight this week? Content we (as in you and your peers) have created collaboratively Check them out at the links below: https://schoolcrisishealing.org/scrr-our-resources/ https://schoolcrisishealing.org/blog/ #schoolcrisishealing #educatorhealing #schoolcrisisleadership #schoolcrisisrecovery #schoolcrisisrenewal #educatorgrief #schoolsuicideprevention #wildfirerecovery
School Crisis Healing
Tue April 22nd
School Crisis Healing
Dear SCRR Community, As we look toward the end of April and toward the end of our project here at the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project - we are reminded that school crises happen. They have happened (this last Sunday was 26 years since Columbine). They are happening (not even one week since the FSU shooting). And we lovingly, brokenheartedly remind each other: crises will happen. How we handle them and how we hold each other in the aftermath is the work. We know that school crisis leadership in the aftermath can be isolating, hard, overwhelming, and often dehumanizing, but we lead, and cultivate school crisis leadership that is attuned, aware and adaptable is critical in our journey toward recovery and renewal. This Thursday, gather to celebrate and learn from the 2024-2025 SCRR Leadership Fellows through their capstone projects, a demonstration of the SCRR Fellow’s vision of recovery and renewal to fill a need in their community or to the broader field and to reflect on the question: What does school crisis recovery & renewal leadership look like, sound like, and feel like in real life? Register at: https://bit.ly/SCRR_Capstones25 #schoolcrisishealing #educatorhealing #scrrfellows #schoolcrisisrecovery #schoolcrisisrenewal #schoolcrisisleadership