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Community Engagement: How to use prevention activities with self-care practices (cultural)
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This is a 2.0 hour session.
COVID-19 has impacted numerous New Mexico communities. This facilitated led group activity will include: 1) discuss the meaning of community engagement in tribal and urban behavioral health settings using prevention activities, 2) how to maintain community engagement during a pandemic, and 3) identify self-care practices to ensure behavioral health teams are incorporating wellness practices into their programs.
Presented by:
Jennifer S. Nanez, MSW, LMSW, currently serves as a Training and Technical Assistance Coordinator with the SAMHSA Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Center under Tribal Tech LLC. Ms. Nanez is an enrolled tribal member of the Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico. Ms. Nanez has been in the social work and education fields for over 20 years with an emphasis in serving the American Indian population, and promoting effective community engagement and clinical work in the American Indian community.
Charlene Poola is a PhD candidate at Arizona State University School of Social Work. As a clinical social worker, she has provided counseling, suicide, and substance abuse prevention services to American Indian communities in the southwest for twenty years. Her practice experience informs her dissertation that explores how American Indian Behavioral Health organizations adapt evidence-based treatments. This research aims to ensure culturally appropriate treatment is provided to Indigenous populations. Charlene has taught courses on Evaluative Research Methods to MSW students. She provides clinical supervision to social work students seeking licensure and has been a field practicum consultant. Her focus is on enhancing behavioral health systems that serve Indigenous communities based on her years of clinical experience.
Lena Gachupin, (Zia-Jemez Pueblo, Sun Clan). Upon completion of a Masters’ degree in Administrative and Clinical Social Work from the University of Utah, Lena began as a Social Worker providing Child Protective services with BIA. Much of her professional career has been practicing as a Substance Abuse Specialist, Mental Health Specialist and Behavioral Health Specialist with the Indian Health Service. She retired with 31 years working with the federal system. She also completed post graduate training at the University of New Mexico in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Since retirement she has worked with the Pueblos of San Felipe as a therapist, a supervisor and with the Pueblo of Jemez as a BH Program Manager. She has also worked with 4Winds Behavioral Health providing individual and group therapy to clients with addictions. In addition to her career as a therapist/supervisor, Lena served for a number of years as President and now as Acting President with the Albuquerque Area Inter-tribal BH Council (AAITC) representing all tribal BH programs in NM, CO and parts of Navajo. AAITC is a consortium of tribal BH directors coming together to be apprised of tribal, state and federal information affecting tribal communities. Lena has been on the Advisory Council for the National American Indian and Alaska Native ATTC for about 7 years. The National Center provides education and training opportunities for tribes. ATTC also provides a Mental Health and Prevention ATTC and have most recently hosted webinars with the Hispanic ATTC. Lena is also a trainer with ATTC specific to culturally appropriate addiction treatment/recovery services. An advocate and voice for our Native people.
Ms. O’Marra earned her Masters of Social Work from the University of California, Los Angeles, and (UCLA) and has worked to promote individual and community wellness for over 28 years. Her experience includes providing individual clinical interventions to women, children, and families and helping Native American communities organize efforts that strengthen and increase cultural protective factors. Ms. O’Marra has had extensive experience delivering wellness workshops and trainings to individuals and groups, as well as helping to organize youth leadership activities. Her most recent experience includes coordinating activities for Native Connections and SAMHSA’s Tribal Training and Technical Assistance Centers, which provides services to tribes and urban organizations. Ms. O’Marra has been a Mental Health First Aid trainer for the past 4 years and has conducted many trainings in AI/AN communities. The focus of Ms. O’Marra’s work in the past few years has been providing support for Native American families and communities to resolve historical trauma and oppression utilizing individual and community resilience. In conjunction with other Native American consultants, Ms. O’Marra provides workshops and consultation that promote ongoing wellness, and improved systems of care in Native communities. The focus of her work continues to be strengthening AI/AN communities and families by encouraging trauma mastery, self-care and community healing. Along with her Irish roots, Ms. O’Marra is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. She currently lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Dr. Rachell Tenorio is an enrolled member of Santo Domingo Pueblo (Kewa), New Mexico and a proud mother of two wonderful boys, Nathaniel and Dominic. Dr. Tenorio received a Master`s degree in Social Work from New Mexico Highlands University with a concentration in government non-profit management in 2012. Thereafter, in 2018, she obtained a PhD in Justice Studies from Arizona State University focused on Deconstructing Trauma in Pueblo communities. Dr. Tenorio is currently employed at the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board as a Native American Research Center for Health Program Manager and a Program Director to address and prevent suicide and underage drinking in Native communities.
2.0 Cultural CEU's
NASW Member- $40
Non-Member- $60