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”
