Announcements
NEC Response to COVID-19
Email [email protected] if you want to participate in these Emotional CPR offerings and check www.emotional-cpr.org for updates.
Webinar Recording Now Available: Creating Space for Myself
Presenters: Sean Perry and Miranda Todt
Webinar Description:
We R H.O.P.E. is a nonprofit organization that brings anxiety education, coaching, trauma-informed services, suicide prevention, collaborative problem-solving, and Emotional CPR/ Youth Emotional CPR to schools, families, and youth. The organization supports youth who are struggling through educational programs and helps to develop peer support groups in schools. This webinar will discuss We R H.O.P.E.’s approach to building leadership among youth, with a specific focus on the importance of self-care for youth leaders. Sean Perry and Miranda Todt will describe how youth leaders can be encouraged to create space for themselves, thereby building resilience and connection.
Click here for the webinar recording, and here for the PowerPoint slides.
New Resource: The Advocates’ Guide 2020
The Advocates’ Guide: An Educational Primer on Federal Programs and Resources Related to Affordable Housing andCommunity Development is, as the title suggests, a guide to affordable housing. But on many levels it is much more than that. The guide comprises hundreds of pages of useful resources and practical knowhow, written by leading experts in the affordable housing and community development field with a common purpose: to educate advocates and affordable housing providers of all kinds about the programs and policies that make housing affordable and accessible to low-income people across America.
Click here for the guidebook.
NEC’s Oryx Cohen Featured on Break Down Wake Up Podcast
In this episode, Oryx Cohen shares his story of traveling to far away places via his psyche to find his own answers and insights.
The episode explores the value that extreme states of consciousness have in processing unresolved trauma, how we can ground ourselves when we are feeling disconnected through physical touch and present attention, and how feeling connected to people and things influence our care and investment in them.
Click here to listen.
Recording Now Available: Youth MOVE’s Approach to Developing Youth Leadership
Presenters: Madeline Zielinski and Jasmine Boatright
Webinar Description:
Click here to view the recording. Click here for the PowerPoint slides.
Recent Work
Webinar: Emotional CPR Brings Hope, Life and Community to a Sad World
British Columbia Psychosocial Rehabilitation | Advanced Practice is very pleased to announce a webinar with Dr. Daniel Fisher CEO of The National Empowerment Center, and Shontelle Prokipcak from Mental Health and Addiction Services of Ottawa! Click here for the webinar overview
Recent Interview with NEC’s Dan Fisher on Polish Radio Station
Daniel Fisher was recently interviewed in Katowice,Poland by a TV station. There is an introduction in Polish, but rest of interview is in English with translation into Polish. See below for the interview.
Updated Hearing Voices Curriculum Now Available!
Originally developed by Dr. Pat Deegan, the NEC Hearing Voices Curriculum now includes updates developed by Dr. Dan Fisher, Oryx Cohen, and Digital Eyes Film. In addition to the original simulation exercises, the updates include a new DVD featuring one of the co-founders of the Hearing Voices Network, Dr. Marius Romme, as well as testimony from voice hearers themselves. The updated curriculum includes new discussion questions that will help participants better understand how they can support voice hearers after the training.
For more information about the curriculum click here.
Learn more about the updated Hearing Voices Curriculum in the video below.
Resource of the Week
Measuring the Promise: A Compendium of Recovery Measures
One of a series of materials produced by the Evaluation [email protected] This compendium provides a resource of current recovery and recovery-related instruments for adult mental health system stakeholders to use in research and evaluation particularly towards the end of identifying evidence-based practices. [Click to view Measuring the Promise (PDF – 7,917KB, 254 pages)]
Daniel B. Fisher is co-author of Psychiatry Online article on Virtual Support for Recovery
Enhancing Standards and Principles in Digital Mental Health With Recovery-Focused Guidelines for Mobile, Online, and Remote Monitoring Technologies (PDF, 2 pages, 434KB)
NEC Now Hosting Empower! Radio Show
Dan Fisher and Oryx Cohen are now hosting a monthly radio show on Unity Radio, WUTY 102.9 FM, Worcester’s Community Connection! Be sure to check out the latest episode!