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SUMMARY:Impacts of Homelessness on Youth Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:KPCC hosts Call to Mind Live: Impacts of Homelessness on Youth Mental Health\, a Well Beings Virtual Tour Event. Take Two’s A Martínez and special guests will explore the mental health effects on homeless youth and talk about the reasons why young people end up on the streets and what help is available – from finding secure housing to trauma therapy. This is an archived stream of the May 27\, 2021\, virtual livestream event and panel discussion. \n\n\n\nIf you joined us live or watch the archived stream for Call to Mind Live: Impacts of Homelessness on Youth Mental Health\, please help us improve the development of future content and events by taking this brief survey. \n\n\n\nAbout the Event\n\n\n\nAbout 5\,000 young people are currently experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County. The reasons vary from abuse or conflict at home to housing and economic insecurity experienced by families. Now\, after more than a year of a global pandemic\, many advocates worry those numbers could climb.  \n\n\n\nKPCC hosts Call to Mind Live: Impacts of Homelessness on Youth Mental Health\, a Well Beings Virtual Tour Event. Take Two’s A Martínez and special guests will explore the mental health effects on homeless youth and talk about the reasons why young people end up on the streets and what help is available – from finding secure housing to trauma therapy.  \n\n\n\nHosted by A Martínez\, Take Two is a daily magazine show that airs on KPCC 89.3 exploring news and culture through the lens of Southern California. \n\n\n\nRegistrants may be contacted by Southern California Public Radio\, Call to Mind and Well Beings about this and future events. \n\n\n\nCall to Mind is American Public Media’s initiative to foster new conversations about mental health. Call to Mind is bringing mental health conversations into the open\, increasing public knowledge and engagement\, to empower people to find the support they want and need. \n\n\n\nAbout the Host\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Martínez is the host of Take Two and an L.A. native who grew up in Koreatown\, attended Daniel Murphy High School\, and played baseball at L.A. City College before getting a journalism degree at Cal State Northridge. \n\n\n\nA is well known to sports-talk radio listeners in Los Angeles as host of 710 KSPN’s “In the Zone.” He’s done pre and post game shows for most of L.A.’s major professional and college sports teams\, and is especially known as the long-time host of “Dodger Talk” and “Laker Line.” \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Panelists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Ballin\, LCSW\, is the Director of Clinical Services at Covenant House California\, Hollywood.  As Director\, Daniel supervises a team of clinicians and provides individual and group therapy to the youth experiencing homelessness.  Daniel works with the entire Covenant House program and other community agencies to deliver comprehensive and trauma informed services to the Transitional Age Youth (TAY) population.  Prior to his work at Covenant House\, Daniel was a manager at the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Services\, Inc.\, where he oversaw programs that worked directly with youth in the juvenile justice system. Daniel was also a manager at the Weingart Center Association (WCA) in Downtown Los Angeles where he oversaw a residential treatment program for over 130 homeless parolees. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErin Casey\, LCSW\, is the director of programs at My Friend’s Place in Hollywood\, CA and has 16 years experience creating and implementing trauma informed services and programs for youth and young adults experiencing homelessness in a drop-in\, community healing setting.  Erin’s orientation to the work is based on principles of ARC (Attachment\, (Self) Regulation & Competency)\, SJYD (Social Justice Youth Development)\, harm reduction\, and object relations. In her direct youth work\, program development\, staff supervision and advocacy\, Erin centers the experience of homelessness as an issue of social\, racial and economic justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah Fay is a former foster youth who experienced homelessness. She is now a Campus Peer Navigator at Safe Place for Youth\, an organization practicing trauma-informed care for homeless youth through street outreach\, case management resources\, education and employment programs. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJennifer Myers is a former foster youth who experienced homelessness. She’s currently an advocate for foster youth and the homeless population\, and enjoys supporting those who can’t advocate for themselves. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAngela M. Sanchez is the program officer for College Success at ECMC Foundation\, a national funder dedicated to postsecondary opportunities for students. Formerly one of the thousands of homeless students living in Los Angeles\, Angela completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UCLA\, and now serves on the Board of Directors for School on Wheels\, Inc.\, a Los Angeles–based nonprofit that provides academic support to K-12 students experiencing homelessness. Angela is also the author of Scruffy and the Egg\, a children’s picture book about family homelessness and single-parenthood. Angela has participated in KPCC’s programming including Take Two and Unheard LA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDiane Tanaka\, MD is the Medical Director of the Teenage and Young Adult Health Center at the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. In addition\, Dr. Tanaka is the Medical Director of the Homeless Adolescent and Young Adult Wellness Clinic and the My Voice Adolescent Transition Program. The Homeless Adolescent and Young Adult Wellness Clinic provide medical care\, mental health services\, and case management of adolescents and young adults experiencing homelessness in the Hollywood area. The My VOICE Transition Program prepares adolescents and young adults with chronic health conditions to move from child-centered to adult-oriented health care systems.
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SUMMARY:Lowering Barriers: Race\, Income & Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:If you joined us live or watch the archived stream for Well Beings Tour: Lowering Barriers: Race\, Income & Mental Health\, please help us improve the development of future content and events by taking this brief survey. \n\n\n\nPower shapes our well-being. Race and income can have a much greater impact on our health than medicine or doctors. For young people\, that means the systems and environments that surround them affect how they will view and access mental health support systems. With inequitable and discriminatory structures in place\, finding ways to destigmatize mental health and create pathways for access can be difficult to navigate. Join PBS SoCal and KCET as we explore how we can lower these barriers on an individual\, community\, and structural level.  \n\n\n\nAbout the Hosts\n\n\n\nCara Santa Maria\, Host\, SoCal Update   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCara Santa Maria is a Los Angeles Area Emmy® and Knight Foundation Award-winning journalist\, science communicator\, television personality\, author\, and podcaster. She is the current host of PBS SoCal and KCET’s SoCal Update and former reporter/producer of KCET’s investigative news series SoCal Connected. She is the creator and host of the weekly podcast\, Talk Nerdy\, and co-host of The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. Additional correspondent/co-starring credits include National Geographic’s Brain Games and Explorer\, Netflix’s Bill Nye Saves the World\, Al Jazeera America’s TechKnow\, and Fusion’s Real Future\, among many others. She holds a B.S. in Psychology\, M.S. in Neurobiology\, M.A. in Clinical Psychology and is currently working toward a Ph.D. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAndre Tinoco\, Student Journalist \n\n\n\nAndre Tinoco is a current community college journalism student and is the Broadcast Editor for his school’s student-run digital news show\, SACATTACK TV. Andre plans to transfer to a four-year university to obtain his BA in broadcast journalism and believes education is the passport to a better future ahead. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Panelists\n\n\n\nRoshawn Davis\, Intermediate Typist Clerk/Student \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHi\, my name is Roshawn Davis. I recently entered the tricenarian decade of life. I don’t have many accomplishments that I can brag about yet; however\, I am a college student currently working towards my B.S in Psychology. A long-term educational goal of mine is to obtain my Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology.  I currently work for the county of Los Angeles as an Intermediate Typist Clerk – A long term career goal I’m striving to achieve to become an entrepreneur and consultant. In addition to my daily hustle of making something out of myself\, I am a student of life. I have a wide array of life experiences. I like to talk about difficult topics that most people find hard to discuss\, such as mental health issues\, socioeconomic barriers\, and overall well-being.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanae Oliver\, Founder\, MindfulBeautyCollaborative \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJanae Oliver is a native of Los Angeles with a passion for community engagement and an innate understanding of the intersection of race\, culture\, and health intervention. She is the founder of Mindful Beauty\, a public health intervention to address the signs and symptoms of depression in Black women. Recently\, she launched blaccinated\, a t-shirt brand and health education campaign to encourage more African Americans to get the Covid-19 vaccine. Janae started her career as an Americorps VISTA volunteer\, worked at the federal and local levels of government and is also currently a manager in the community health department of Kaiser Permanente and an adjunct professor of public health at CDU. She holds a B.A. in political science\, Master’s in Public Health\, and a Master’s in Public Administration.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jorge Partida\, PsyD\, Chief of Psychology\, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Partida is a clinical and research psychologist\, specializing in addiction and trauma. He is an author\, consultant and national speaker integrating Native Ancestral Teachings with traditional Western psychotherapy. Born in Guadalajara\, Jalisco\, Mexico\, Dr. Partida immigrated to Chicago at nine and there\, obtained his Bachelors Degree in Clinical Psychology from Loyola University and his PsyD from The Illinois School of Professional Psychology (ISPP). Dr. Partida has been a consultant on many national and international projects designing and implementing clinical programs to address addiction\, education\, health\, community building\, diversity and spirituality. He has also worked with local and national governments to coordinate services for those most impacted by poverty\, war and displacement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Manuel Pastor\, Distinguished Professor\, Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at USC; Director\, USC Equity Research Institute \n\n\n\nDr. Manuel Pastor is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He currently directs the Equity Research Institute at USC. Pastor holds an economics Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and is the inaugural holder of the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change at USC. Pastor’s research has generally focused on issues of the economic\, environmental and social conditions facing low-income urban communities – and the social movements seeking to change those realities. Previously\, he served as Director at Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine Yeom\, Executive Director\, Korean American Family Services \n\n\n\nKatherine Yeom has been with Korean American Family Services (KFAM) since 2009 and is currently the Executive Director. She is an active advocate for the needs of Korean and API communities. She currently serves on the board for Korean American United Foundation (KAUF).  Prior joining KFAM\, Katherine was a middle school and high school teacher in the Los Angeles school district and internationally at Gyeonggi International School in Paju\, South Korea. She received her BA in History and BS in Biological Sciences from UMBC and her MA in teaching from USC. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Featured Interviews\n\n\n\nThomas Insel\, M.D.\, Mental Health Czar of California; Co-Founder; Humanest Care  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Insel\, a psychiatrist and neuroscientist\, has been a national leader in mental health research\, policy\, and technology. From 2002-2015\, Dr. Insel served as Director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). More recently\, he led the Mental Health Team at Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences). In 2017 he co-founded Mindstrong Health\, a Silicon Valley start-up building tools for people with serious mental illness. In 2020\, he co-founded Humanest Care\, a therapeutic online community for recovery. Since May 2019\, he has been a special advisor to the Governor of California Governor and Chair of the Board of the Steinberg Institute. Dr. Insel is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received numerous national and international awards including honorary degrees in the U.S. and Europe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha Kumar\, Junior\, Glendora High School  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSasha is a senior at Glendora High School in Glendora\, California. Sasha’s interests include political science and history with a goal to become a lawmaker/policy maker. She is passionate about eradicating disparities in underserved communities and is committed to helping disenfranchised people access live-saving services such as mental and behavioral health. Sasha is inspired to be an advocate and leader in these efforts as she actively services in clubs on her high school campus which include The Democrats\, NAMI\, and Youth and Government\, where her team successfully led the passing of 3 bills to the youth governor. In her community\, she volunteers with her local Planned Parenthood and with her Sikh Temple preparing and delivering meals to healthcare workers and first responders.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSid Kumar\, M.D.\, Regional Chief of Psychiatry\, Southern California\, Kaiser Permanente \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOriginally\, from northern India\, after medical school there\, I moved to Australia and New Zealand\, where I obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry. Our family then moved to Chicago\, where I did my fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Northwestern University. Prior to moving to Los Angeles\, I worked at a large psychiatric hospital for many years. I worked with people with eating disorders\, teenagers with self-injury behaviors\, and kids with anxiety and social issues. I was also the medical director of an autism program. I see both adults and children in my practice\, but I enjoy working with teenagers the most. I feel that as a physician\, I have the opportunity to help them make the right choices in life and be there for them as their mentor if needed. 
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