Client Culture

Workshop Date(s): 
12/10/2019 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Learning Partnership Training Center
Address: 
1075 E. Santa Clara St., 2nd Floor
95116 San Jose , CA
Contact Person: 
Chiaki Nomoto
Phone Number: 
(408) 792-3944
Email: 
Chiaki.Nomoto@hhs.sccgov.org
CEU Hours Qualifies for: 
3 hours (CEU hours qualifies for annual CE requirements)
IFECMH Total: 
0 hours
No seat limit.
Course Description: 

Client Culture

This course will provide participants with a deeper understanding of how the participant's mental health, their experience with the mental health system, and the stigma of mental illness has impacted them.  Client Culture training covers the personal experiences of a client, children, adolescents, family members, parents and caregivers. In this training the presenter will provide a formal presentation and lead a panel discussion to explore issues related to client culture. The panel will engage and address participants on culturally sensitive and diverse topics with respect to portrayal of portrayal of persons with mental challenges.

By the end of this training, participants will:
•  Demonstrate a higher level of awareness and understanding of client culture.
•  Identify the significance of the multilayered complex challenges that clients’ experience,
   through the shared lived experiences.
•  Demonstrate better understanding that people with mental health concerns can and do recover
   and live fulfilling and meaningful productive lives.
•  Prepare participants to promote hope to their clients that wellness and recovery is possible.
   This course will provide participants with a deeper understanding of how the client's mental   
   health, their experience with the mental health system, and the stigma of mental illness has   
   impacted them. Clients bring a set of values, beliefs, and lifestyle as a result of their personal
   experiences, their mental health challenges, the mental health system, and their own ethnic culture. 

Register online at: www.sccgov.org/scclearn 

CEU Hours Qualifies for: 
3 hours
Additional Information: 

Target audience: Santa Clara County Behavioral Health Services staff and all interested partners

To register, please see attached registration instructions

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