Our seminar curriculum blends historical context, clinical skill-building, and systems-level thinking to prepare fellows for leadership in public behavioral health:
Historical Foundations of Public Mental Health in Los Angeles/California
Engagement and Recovery-Oriented Practices
Cultural Formulation, Health Equity, and Structural Competency
Disaster Trauma and Trauma-Informed Care
Severe Mental Illness, Substance Use, Harm Reduction
Homelessness and Field-Based Care
Incarceration and the Criminal Justice System
Program Development in Public Behavioral Health Systems
Integrated Care Models
Administration and Financing
Evaluation Methods and Systems Analysis
Professional Ethics and Advocacy
Leadership Development
Reflection Practices and Narrative Medicine
Examples of lectures have included The Landscape of LA County Behavioral Health, History of LAC DMH, Cultural Formulation, The Hearing Voices Movement, Public Financing in California, Fountain House and the Clubhouse Movement, Assertive Community Treatment Models, Transforming Mental Health Systems and Programs, Journal Club on “The Manufacture of the Recovery”