General Meetings
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May 27, 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmOur Next General Meeting! Zoom In!
Topic: Getting to Calm, A Personal Story of Health and Healing from Depression Facilitator: Carrie Du Bois, NAMI SMC Board Member Speaker: INGRID PETERSON – BIO Ingrid Peterson is from Kailu...
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February 25, 2021
The role that family members can take to support a loved one with Mental Health Challenges, facilitated by Carrie Du Bois, NAMI SMC Board Member
- Rick Cicinelli is a psychiatrist in private practice in Redwood City. He serves as a staff psychiatrist with Bay Area Community Services and works with The Meadows of Arizona that recently opened an intensive outpatient program in Sunnyvale, and is the Medical Director of Embodied Recovery in Los Gatos.
- Dr. Jennifer Harrison is a Board Certified Licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Board Certified Art Therapist. She holds diplomate distinction at the National Center for Crisis Management and with the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.
- Connie Swanson, MA, MFT, is an associate at the Menlo Park Addictions Institute and a therapist in private practice. Connie is passionate about treatment of addiction and trauma. As a relationship builder she works with individuals, couples and families to advocate for recovery of family life.
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November 18, 2020
Crisis Intervention Team in San Mateo County
Our panel of mental health professionals from local crisis support teams discussed how they collaborate with law enforcement in San Mateo County to support those experiencing a behavioral health crisis through intervention and prevention.
PANEL: Armando Sandoval, Ian Adamson, Jessica Zamora and Erik Rueppel
Panel Bios
911 Checklist
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September 23, 2020
Parents of Youth with Challenges of Mental Health
Our panel shares some of their lived experiences with issues that parents face raising youth and young adults with mental illnesses with emphasis on suicide awareness.
Presented by Mary & Victor Ojakian and NAMI Parents of Youth Support Group Leaders Ginny Traub & Florian Davos