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Newsletter | August 26, 2021
California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies

Newsletter | August 26, 2021

In This Issue

  • Highlights and Spotlights
  • News and Views
  • 2021 Fall Conference
  • Additional Learning Opportunities
  • Final Thoughts

Who We Are

CASRA is a statewide organization of private, not-for-profit, public benefit corporations that serve clients of the California public mental health system.

Member agencies provide a variety of services that are designed to enhance the quality of life and community participation of youth, adults and older adults living with challenging mental health issues.

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Contact Us

The California Association of Social Rehabilitation Agencies

Mailing Address:
3350 E. 7th Street, #509
Long Beach, CA 90804

Email: casra@casra.org

Phone: (562) 343-2621

To reach us: use our Contact Form

Member Agency Employment Opportunities and Information

Our member agencies are continually looking for new employees or volunteers to join their workforce.

To see current openings and find out additional information about CASRA's partners, please click on the agency name.

Please note that the city listed for each organization is the headquarters location. Several CASRA member agencies serve multiple service areas and sites. Check each to learn more.

  • Baker Places (PRC), San Francisco
  • Bay Area Community Services, Oakland
  • Bonita House, Oakland
  • Buckelew Programs, Novato
  • Caminar, San Mateo
  • Community Action Marin, San Rafael
  • Commuity Connections (Volunteers), Santa Cruz
  • Community Solutions, Gilroy
  • Conard House, San Francisco
  • Consumers Self-Help Center, Sacramento
  • Didi Hirsch CMHC, Culver City
  • El Hogar, Sacramento
  • Hope Cooperative (Formerly TLCS), Sacramento
  • Interim, Inc., Monterey
  • Mental Health America of Los Angeles, Long Beach
  • Mental Health Association of San Francisco, San Francisco
  • Momentum for Health, San Jose
  • NVCCS - Iversen Center, Chico
  • Pride Industries, Roseville
  • Progress Foundation, San Francisco
  • Project Return Peer Support Network, Huntington Park
  • San Fernando Valley CMHC, Van Nuys
  • Transitions - MHA, San Luis Obispo
  • Turning Point Community Programs, Sacramento
  • Turning Point of Central CA - Hope House, Madera
  • Visions Unlimited, Sacramento
  • Yolo Community Care Continuum, Woodland

CASRA Agency Trainings

A benefit of membership in CASRA is receiving 4 hours of training for your staff. Check out our list of offerings.

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Highlights and Spotlights

Join Us to Celebrate Betty Dahlquist
After 40 years at the helm of CASRA, Betty has retired from the organization but not the mission. To honor her, CASRA is hosting a retirement celebration on Friday, September 24th at 4 PM PST. This will be a virtual event and the invite with link will follow. To receive the invite, please contact Chad Costello at chad@casra.org. Looking forward to sharing stories with friends and colleagues.

Fall Conference
The deadline for Presenter Applications for the CASRA 2021 Fall Conference is Friday, September 3rd. If you or someone you know is interested in speaking, click here.

Back to School
We are focusing this issue's News and Views on the intersection of mental health, back to school, and COVID-19. We have put together a report from the Little Hoover Commission, stories, and some resources to help providers, parents, and students prepare for the new school year.

Spotlights
It's time again to shine the spotlight on five more CASRA member agencies. Please click on each and enjoy the stories from each of our partners in behavioral health. 

Community Action Marin - Our History

Commmunity Connections (Volunteers) - Our Story

Community Solutions - About Us

Conard House - Our History

Consumers Self-Help Center - Our History

More to come!

News and Views

Little Hoover Commission - COVID-19 and Children's Mental Health: Addressing the Impact

COVID has confronted California with two pandemics of public health: the viral pandemic and a pandemic of mental health that has fallen especially heavily on children and youth.

The pandemic created a perfect storm of stress, anxiety, and trauma that amplified preexisting challenges to young people’s mental health. California now faces a looming tsunami of children’s mental health needs. The pandemic will likely impact some young people’s mental well-being for years to come.

To address COVID’s impact on young people’s mental well-being and achieve lasting improvements in the children’s mental health system, the Commission recommends that California strengthen state leadership over children’s mental health and set shared outcome goals for quality of care and access to services. Read More


How Schools are Racing to Respond to a Mental Mealth Crisis

Schools are staffing up and making other preparations as they brace for an expected surge in mental health needs when students return this fall

From NJ Spotlight
PATRICK WALL, CHALKBEAT NEWARK 
August 23, 2021

It was the monotony that wore down Aisha Oyediran.

She woke up each school day, opened her laptop, stared at the screen — then eat, sleep, repeat. Add the stress of schoolwork and the loneliness of remote learning, and things started feeling bleak.

“It just kept going,” said Aisha, 17, who last year was a senior at Newark’s Central High School. “There was no end to it.” Read More


For College Students in California, the Only Common Ground is Uncertainty

From LA Times
BY CHRISTOPHER PARKER
August 25, 2021

Esteban Reyes wants to make some clay pots.

The rising senior at Cal Poly Pomona is still hoping to take a ceramics course before he graduates. His plans to take the hands-on class fell through last year because of the pandemic.

Reyes is among the more than 60 college students who responded to a recent callout from The Times and shared their hopes, concerns and expectations about the academic year ahead. Read More


Get Ready for Back To School 2021 With MHA’s Back to School Toolkit

From MHA National

Feeling safe is important. After meeting basic needs for survival like food, water, and sleep, feeling safe and secure is necessary before anyone can focus on relationships, learning or other opportunities for personal success.

A lot of kids and teens haven't been able to feel safe or stable over the last year because of the trauma caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways it has disrupted “normal” life. Some have been stuck at home in abusive environments (and may not even know that their environments are abusive), while others are dealing with the fear of themselves or their loved ones becoming sick, or financial hardships being faced by their families. The potential for being physically back in school for the 2021-2022 school year may help some students feel more secure, but for others it may bring back fears of bullying, school shootings or unfair disciplinary action.

MHA’s 2021 Back to School toolkit, “Facing Fears, Supporting Students,” aims to help students, parents, and school personnel recognize how feeling unsafe can impact mental health and school performance, and what can be done to help young people who are struggling with their mental health. Read More


SAMHSA - Back to School During COVID-19

Going back to school during a pandemic can be challenging for families and schools. These resources are designed to address mental health and resiliency in school settings. Read More

2021 Fall Conference

For more Information and the Presenter Application, click here.

Additional Learning Opportunities

‘Virtual’ Mental Health Matters Day
September 29, 2021 | 9:00am - 1:00pm Pacific Time
For the Event Flyer, Click Here


SMI/Cancer/Peer Support Study Seeking Participants

Have you experienced a cancer diagnosis, or supported someone through their cancer diagnosis and treatment as a peer supporter? If so, you might be someone we’d like to hear from. We are working to learn about how people who’ve been involved in the behavioral health system are treated by medical providers, how they get useful information about cancer, and how they get emotional support. The project has been approved by the Institutional Review Board which is responsible for human subjects research at The University of Arizona, and the actual survey is completely anonymous.

If you would like to see if you meet the criteria for this project and then answer some questions about your experience, click here: https://redcap.link/PEERS4CANCER. There will first be a single pre-screening survey question to detect if you are a real person or a computer bot. Seriously. You can also contact us by email at PEERS4CANCER@email.arizona.edu.

Final Thoughts

“In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”

Tom Bodett

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