This FREE one day mental health conference is open to the community and designed to introduce useful tools to implement the innovative concepts of wellness and recovery. This year’s conference theme is “Empowerment, Voice & Choice: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Person-Centered Recovery”
Date: Tuesday, October 3rd, 2017
Time: 8:30 AM-4:30 PM
Address: Sherwood Hall, 940 North Main Street, Salinas
Cost: FREE
Food: Light Breakfast and Lunch Included
Emcee: Savannah Alvarez
2017 Keynote Speaker:
Gabriella Grant, M.A.
California Center of Excellence for Trauma Informed Care
“Trauma Informed Foundations”
Gabriella Grant, MA, is the director of the California Center of Excellence for Trauma Informed Care, overseeing the Center’s research, program and professional development as well as policy analysis activities. Through this work she has also gained an understanding of how program design, policies and procedures can positively affect the people being served. As a trained policy analyst, Ms. Grant looks at how understanding the neurobiological effects of trauma, safety and coping can be adapted for effective programming, staff training and policies and procedures to create a therapeutically beneficial milieu for a variety of treatment outcomes.
For more information or to register, please call the Pajaro Street Wellness Center at (831) 800-7530 ext. 400. CEU’s will be provided.
Online registration is encouraged. See link below…
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Download the Conference Flyer!
The Wellness and Recovery Conference is funded by Interim, Inc. with grants and donations, and through the Mental Health Services Act funds (Prop. 63) from a contract with the County of Monterey Health Department, Behavioral Health Bureau.
