As part of the Nationwide Alliance of Psychological Sickness Yolo County’s First Wednesday Gatherings, choose audio system from the Yolo County Workplace of Training might be offering an replace on their Okay-12 College Partnership Program.
The presentation might be Wednesday evening from 6 to 7 p.m. and can embrace Tony Kildare, Scientific Supervisor of the Baby, Youth, and Household Department of Yolo County Well being and Human Companies Company and Garth Lewis, County Superintendent.
This system goals to develop psychological well being companies all through the county, enhance outcomes for Yolo County youth, and promote consciousness relating to psychological well being points.
Since 2017, the county has elevated Psychological Well being Companies Act funding by 53 p.c to straight help psychological well being in colleges. The MHSA was permitted by California voters in 2004 and applied a one p.c revenue tax to help psychological well being companies. As well as, the state’s 2019 finances allotted $40 million in one-time funding for school-county psychological well being partnerships via the Psychological Well being Scholar Companies Act.
In October 2020, Yolo County was awarded $4 million via this aggressive grant course of to implement and develop the Okay-12 College Partnership Program.
The occasion is free and open to folks, healthcare suppliers, educators, and different group members within the psychological well being of our kids and youth.
Register at www.namiyolo.org/fwg2022.
That is a part of the First Wednesday Gathering sequence by NAMI Yolo County. Upcoming subjects are:
- April 6: Stress Discount Strategies with Nicole Carter, LCSW
- Could 4: When a Decide Has a Psychological Sickness—Generalized Anxiousness Dysfunction and Serving
Efficiently on the Bench with Hon. Timothy Fall, Yolo County Superior Court docket Decide - June 1: Housing & Homelessness in Yolo County with Julie Freitas and Nadia Agnoli, Yolo
County Homeless and SUD Companies
NAMI Yolo County’s First Wednesday Gatherings are part of an ongoing dedication to grassroots group schooling. These occasions are alternatives to extend collaboration within the psychological well being group, enhance outreach to various populations, and guarantee attendees keep updated and knowledgeable about points essential to the psychological well being group. All First Wednesday Gatherings are free to attend.
Particulars are at www.namiyolo.org/fwg2022.
NAMI Yolo County offers advocacy, help, schooling, and public consciousness so that each one people and households who’re affected by psychological sickness can construct higher lives. We envision a stigma-free future the place all folks affected by a psychological well being situation expertise resiliency and restoration with protected, inexpensive housing, significant actions, supportive relationships, and hope. Help teams, courses, and different sources are at www.namiyolo.org.