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NEC – National Empowerment Center – Youth Leadership Webinar Series – Emotional CPR by and for Youth – Wednesday

When:
December 28, 2022 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
2022-12-28T11:00:00-08:00
2022-12-28T12:30:00-08:00
Where:
Online Via Goto Meeting
Cost:
Free
Contact:
National Empowerment Center-NEC
(800) 769-3728

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Emotional CPR by and for Youth

Presenters: Briza Gavidia, Felicity Therese Krueger, and Shira Collings

Wednesday, May 19th, 11:00am – 12:30pm PST

Emotional CPR (eCPR) is a program designed by people with lived experience to teach people how to connect with and support those in distress, drawing from the principles of trauma-informed care and mental health recovery. Recently, eCPR was adapted to meet the needs of youth in a collaborative process with young people and those who work with them. In this webinar, the presenters will share their experience taking leadership roles with developing the eCPR for Youth curriculum and tailoring this program to meet the unique needs of young people. Presenters will also share their own personal experiences of engaging in eCPR as youth and training other youth peers in this approach. Participants will gain an understanding of the leadership roles youth can play in mental health education and training.

Register Here.

Finding Our Voice
 
Would you like to participate in advocacy but don’t know where to begin? Experiences of trauma and treatment often stifle our voice. Join this webinar to learn how we can transform our anger to our passionate voice!
Presented By:
Joana Arcangel 
 
Joana Arcangel (she/hers) is a writer, artist, advocate, and mother of an amazing child. Joana moved to the United States at the age of eight, and is a trauma survivor who spent years as a consumer of mental health services. She shares both her professional and personal lived experience with the hope of increasing empathy and connectedness, and decreasing the stigma and shame around mental health challenges.
Joana’s journey includes her time spent in service leading and managing a peer-run respite home in California. She is a Master Facilitator of Core Gift Discovery and Master Trainer of Honest, Open, Proud. She currently works as a direct service provider in a transitional age youth program for a mental health nonprofit organization.
Richard Krzyzanowski
Richard Krzyzanowski is an editor, writer and trainer who has worked for more than 20 years in mental health/disabilities as a professional advocate, organizer and educator focused on opposing discrimination and promoting rights.
Richard is Public Policy Chair for the California Association of Mental Health Peer-Run Organizations and serves on the Board of Directors and is Legislation Committee chair of the California Association of Mental Health Patients’ Rights Advocates. He is a longtime member of the Client and Family Leadership Committee of California’s Mental Health Services Oversight and Accountability Commission and the Patients’ Rights Committee of the California Behavioral Health Planning Council. He also is editor of the RollerCoaster Times, a quarterly publication of the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance.
Daniel Fisher
Dan’s life purpose comes from his lived experience of recovery from schizophrenia, which inspired him to dedicate himself to helping others find their voice and recover. He earned an MD, and completed his residency in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and has practiced as a board-certified, community psychiatrist for 30 years. In 1992, he co-founded the federally-funded National Empowerment Center and serves as its executive director. He was a commissioner on the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health, 2002-03.

  

Shira Collings
Shira Collings, M.S. is NEC’s Youth Coordinator. As a young person with lived experience of mental health challenges, trauma, and recovery, Shira is passionate about advocating for peer-led services developed by and for youth. They have played a key role in developing and implementing Youth Emotional CPR trainings as well as webinars on approaches to youth leadership within mental health services. Shira received their M.S. in Counseling and Psychology from Troy University and their B.A. in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania. They currently reside in the Philadelphia Area.