The Help Group will be hosting its first annual Mental Health Matters Breakfast honoring LACDMH’s Director, Lisa Wong with the Spirit of Hope Award in observance of National Mental Health Awareness Month. With a longstanding track record of disseminating evidence-based best practices to clinicians, The Help Group’s breakfast is designed to increase awareness and communal collaboration to address some of the key issues impacting mental health in our schools and communities.
Join us for a morning of insightful presentations led by mental health experts as we delve into strategies to foster resilience in trauma-informed care; identify, assess, and respond to early warning signs of suicide risk in adolescence; and support clinicians and educators who are impacted by trauma with strategies for self-care in order to develop psychological resilience.
When: Thursday, May 9, 2024
Where: The Help Group’s Autism Center – 13164 Burbank Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA
Cost: Free
Continuing Education: 2.5 hours of continuing education programming is available for Psychologists, LMFTs, LPCCs, LEPs and/or LCSWs, Speech-Language Pathologists and Occupational Therapists.
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. – Guest Check-In and Classic Breakfast Assortment
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. – Breakfast Program
Speakers & Program to include:
• Breakfast Program Welcome & Introductory Remarks
Dr. Susan Berman
President & CEO
The Help Group
• Culturally-Responsive, Trauma-and Healing-Informed Schools
Audra Langley, PhD, Professor, UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior
Endowed Director, UCLA TIES for Families,
Co-Director, UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
• Adolescent Suicide Assessment and Early Steps in Prevention and Intervention
Danielle Farmer, MSEd, LCSW,
Lead Community Mental Health Trainer, DMH + UCLA Public Mental Health Partnership
• A Personal Story of Resilience:
This compelling presentation highlighting The Help Group’s Full Service Partnership Program features a powerful individual and family story of resilience and hope.
• Spirit of Hope Award
Presented to Lisa Wong, PsyD,
Director, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
• Resiliency, Secondary Trauma and the Importance of Taking Care of Ourselves
Stephen P. Hydon, EdD, MSW
Professor of Social Work Practicum Education
Director, Social Work in Schools/PPSC Programs
USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Presentations will be followed by Q&A’s