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Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Thu March 13th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
March 14th is Holi Celebrations, the vibrant Festival of Colors, celebrating the arrival of spring, the triumph of good over evil, and the joy of new beginnings! To learn how you can participate in no-cost wellness events happening throughout Orange County, please visit www.ocmentalhealthevents.org
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Mon March 10th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
March is Social Work Month, a time to recognize and celebrate the vital contributions social workers make in improving lives and strengthening communities. To learn how you can participate in no-cost wellness events happening throughout Orange County, please visit www.ocmentalhealthevents.org
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Fri March 7th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Ramadan Mubarak! Wishing all who celebrate a peaceful and blessed #Ramadan2025. May this month bring you reflection, connection, and renewal. To learn how you can participate in no-cost wellness events happening throughout Orange County, please visit www.ocmentalhealthevents.org
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Wed March 5th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
March is Women’s History Month! This month, we honor the trailblazers, advocates, and leaders who have shaped history and continue to inspire change. To learn how you can participate in no-cost wellness events happening throughout Orange County, please visit www.ocmentalhealthevents.org #WomensHistoryMonth #HerStory
NTTAC
Tue February 25th
NTTAC
Family Leaders: Enhance Your Skills in Fostering Family Engagement Please join us on February 26 for an interactive discussion on Supporting Families in Policy Work! This will be an open, interactive discussion about what are the core principles for meaningfully engaging families as partners and valuing those partnerships for achieving policy goals. We will discuss methods for recruiting, supporting and retaining family experience on governance and policy bodies. Facilitated by experienced family leader Lori Cerar. Register Today: bit.ly/NTTACFamilyExchange #FamilyEngagement #PeerNetworking #FamilySupport #PolicyDevelopment #CommunityServices #LeadershipDevelopment #MentalHealth
School Crisis Healing
Mon February 24th
School Crisis Healing
What is a crisis? Crises are events, yes. They are also experiences that sharply surface whose lives are validated by society and culture who’s deaths pierce our collective hearts. Jocelynn Rojo’s life mattered and matters, and her death pierces our hearts. Jocelynn, a 11-year-old girl, who lived in Gainesville Texas, loved dancing, singing, playing the French horn, swimming, and getting her nails done with her grandmother. According to several sources, Jocelynn was bullied at school for her family’s immigration status. In distress, she ended her life. Our SCRR community - you - is made of beautiful and brilliant educators, leaders, and community members who are witnessing this story, this life, and this crisis with personal and professional grief. SCRR Field Coach Oriana Ides teaches us that metabolizing grief is necessary for us as educators, and for our recovery and renewal. We can give ourselves and each other permission to feel, process, and make meaning when we witness experiences that have become normal when they are deeply not. Join us this Thursday, February 27, 2025, from 3-4 pm PT / 6-7 pm ET to come together and create a container for processing Jocelynn’s death, anti-immigrant violence, our hostile political climate, and its devastating impact on our students, staff and communities. Let’s support each other so that we can support our students. Find out more and register at: https://bit.ly/SCRR_LALT_JR This is a no-cost, virtual opportunity.
School Crisis Healing
Thu February 20th
School Crisis Healing
SCRR After May 2025: Imagining the Possibilities 🗓️ February 28th, 2025 ⏰ 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 The grant that funds SCRR (a National Traumatic Stress Network Category II grant via SAMHSA) ends May 30, 2025 with no current option for rebid. Join us for our “SCRR After May 2025” Town Hall on February 28th where we’ll share more information about our project’s sunset and get to generate ideas for how the programming, content, and vision of SCRR can live beyond this current grant cycle and format. We need your ideas! Imaginations! Inquiries! Insights! Hosted by Leora Wolf-Prusan (SCRR Project Director) and SCRR staff, we are eager to hear you, learn with you, and ideate possibilities. Register at: https://bit.ly/SCRR_AfterMay #schoolcrisishealing #educatorhealing #schoolcrisisrecovery #schoolcrisisrenewal
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Wed February 19th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Exploring the 8 Dimensions of Wellness Join us for an interactive session on the 8 dimensions of wellness—intellectual, emotional, financial, social, physical, spiritual, environmental, and vocational. Discover ways to cultivate balance and well-being in all aspects of your life. Wednesday, February 19, 2025 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Second Baptist Church, 4300 Westminster Ave, Santa Ana, CA 92703 Learn more about this event by visiting: bit.ly/OCWellnessWednesday We look forward to seeing you there!
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Thu February 13th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH! We want to take this time to celebrate the amazing and wonderfully diverse community we are in. During this time, lets highlight the wonderful achievements and the future work that still needs to be done. Here are some highlighted quotes from Black icons and leaders from our past, both big and small, to honor this month’s celebration. To learn how you can participate in no-cost mental health and wellness events happening in Orange County, please visit us at www.ocmentalhealthevents.org