Resilient & Real Summit: 2025 May Mental Health Awareness Month

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Miranda Canseco (00:00):
My name is Miranda Canseco and it is my
pleasure to be the emcee andthen the facilitator for today's
live podcast.
Thank you so much for beinghere.
I hope you got some breakfast,some coffee, and are ready for a
very insightful conversation.
It is my pleasure to welcomeyou to the Resilient and Real
Summit.
Today promises to be aninspiring and engaging day,

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filled with thoughtfuldiscussion, expert insights and
invaluable takeaways.
We are honored to have suchesteemed gathering of
professionals and thoughtleaders with us.
Our expert panelists are readyto share their wisdom and
experiences, and I have no doubtthat their contributions will
be both enlightening andthought-provoking.

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But their contributions will beboth enlightening and
thought-provoking.
One of the highlights of today'ssummit is that it is a live
podcast.
This format allows for adynamic interaction and also for
all of you to participate intoday's conversation.
This is a platform for voicesto be heard and ideas to be
exchanged.
Before we dive into today'sactivities, I'd like to

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recognize some of our behavioralhealth commissioners that are
in the audience with us today.
If you can, please stand to berecognized Today's conversation.
You'll see a QR code that comesup onto the screen.
That is an opportunity, as wellas on each of your tables, an
opportunity for you to submitToday's conversation.
You'll see a QR code that comesup onto the screen.

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That is an opportunity, as wellas on each of your tables, an
opportunity for you to submityour questions.
So, throughout today's program,while we're having our panel
discussion, if a thought comesinto mind, please submit your
questions and then at the end ofthe program, we will have an
opportunity to engage with allof you.
I'd also like to highlight thattoday's conversation might stir

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up some feelings, some emotions,and so we do have our community
crisis response teams in theaudience and they are available
to talk, as well as we have aprivacy room that is available
for anyone.
Once again, welcome to theResilient and Real Summit.
You are all in for a treat, andit is my pleasure to introduce

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our first opening remarksspeaker, diane Rundles.
So Diane Rundles serves as ourSan Bernardino County Assistant
Executive Officer, with over 16years of experience in human
resources and 24 years workingin various government
organizations.
Her drive towards continuousimprovement, nimble
problem-solving skills and herpassion for making a difference

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make her a very effective changeagent.
So please welcome Diane Rendles.

Diane Rundles (02:34):
Thank you, Miranda, and good morning
everybody.
Welcome.
What a beautiful event.
So far right, at least thedecorations and the environment
is just beautiful.
It's an honor to welcome youall to this important podcast
summit, which celebrates mentalhealth awareness and encourages
us all today to explore our ownpersonal well-being.

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Today's an exciting day to diveinto both our personal mental
health and community mentalhealth and to focus on
resiliency and its importance inour community.
Mental health is a cornerstoneto our well-being.
It affects how we think, how wefeel, act, plays a vital role
in how much we can handle in theway of stress, how we relate to

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others and our ownself-efficacy to achieve our own
personal dreams.
I always tell my kids youcannot fill a cup with an empty
jug.
We must take care of ourselvesbefore we can take care of
others, and we often neglectthat.
It's something we have toremind ourselves of.

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But when you're driving in yourcar and the engine light goes
on, what do you do?
Hopefully, not ignore it.
You take it in to be servicedbecause it needs attention,
because it's your vehicle to getthrough life right.
Well, our own personal mentalhealth is our own vehicle to get
through life, to navigatelife's challenges to be
resilient, and if we don't takecare of ourselves first, we

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really can't effectively takecare of others.
So it's so important that wepay attention to this and that
we focus on May Mental HealthMonth, and have really great
events like this where we canexplore those topics.
An indicator of a resilientcommunity is one that relies on
the strength of communitymembers and leaders to solve
challenging problems, bringprograms and opportunities for

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communities to gather andfellowship to create a broader
sense of home and inclusivity.
Today, we can hear from greatexperts.
This summit is a platform toexplore new ideas, strategies
and solutions that can help usbuild stronger, healthier and
more resilient individuals andcommunities.
I would like to extend mygratitude to all the speakers,

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panelists and participants fortheir dedication and commitment
to mental health.
As we embark on this journeytoday, remember that mental
health and community resilienceare interconnected.
By supporting mental health, westrengthen our communities.
By fostering resilientcommunities, we enhance the
well-being of our individualswithin the community.
Resilient communities weenhance the well-being of our

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individuals within the community.
Thank you for being here and Ilook forward to meaningful
discussions today andcollaborations that will take
place.

It is now my pleasure to introduce our next
speaker and esteemed dignitaryin our audience our Board of
Supervisor, Chair Dawn Rowe.
So Dawn Rowe is our SanBernardino County Third District
Supervisor and has served onthe board since December of 2018
and is currently serving as ourchairman.
As county supervisor, ChairRowe has championed public

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safety for our communities.
She currently serves on 22boards and commissions and is
the past president chair of boththe San Bernardino County
Transportation Authority and theInland Empire Health Plan.
Please welcome, Chair Rowe.

Dawn Rowe (05:50):
Thank you very much, miranda.
It's an honor to be here withyou today.
So, as she mentioned, I am thecurrent chairman of the board
and I have the honor of workingwith the other four supervisors
to prioritize things such asmental health and our Department
of Behavioral Health.
Today, as we gather on thiscritical topic that affects us
all and we discuss mental health, I really wanted to let you

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know that I'm incredibly honoredto be here and proud of all of
you for prioritizing such animportant subject.
Mental health is a vital part ofour overall well-being and it
affects every aspect of ourlives.
It affects our relationships,our work performance, our
physical health, our overallquality of life.
As a county, we are committedto supporting our residents'

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mental health and well-being.
Our vision is to create a safe,healthy and thriving community
where everybody has access toresources that they need.
This vision is ours in SanBernardino County and it's a
part of our strategic plan,which prioritizes mental health
and wellness as a key focus area.

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So what does it mean?
To build bridges for resiliencyand wellness?
It means creating connectionsbetween our community members,
our services and our resources.
It means providing support andopportunities for people to
build strong relationships, todevelop coping skills to access
quality care, especially whenand where they need it.
It means working together tobreak down barriers and reduce
stigma around mental health.

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Supporting our Department ofBehavioral Health is crucial to
achieving this vision.
This department plays a pivotalrole in providing comprehensive
mental health services to ourcommunity.
They offer a range of programsthat include crisis intervention
, counseling and preventiveservices tailored to meet the
diverse needs of our residents.
By empowering this department,we ensure that individuals and

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families receive timely andeffective support, which can
prevent mental health challengesfrom escalating to more serious
conditions.
The Board of Supervisorsrecognizes that mental health is
not just an individual concern,but a collective responsibility
.
Investing in our Department ofBehavioral Health not only aids
those in immediate need, but italso contributes to the overall

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socioeconomic growth of ourcounty.
Healthy individuals drive aproductive workforce, it lowers
health care costs, it fosterssafer neighborhoods and,
moreover, destigmatizing mentalhealth and promoting well-being
encourages a more inclusive andcompassionate society, which
aligns with our broader goals ofequity and justice.

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As we move forward, I urge eachof you to join in building
bridges of resiliency andwellness.
Let's work together to create aculture of understanding,
support and inclusivity.
Let's provide the resources andservices that meet the needs of
our community members, andlet's prioritize mental health
and wellness in everything we do.
Thank you.

So now to kick off our program, we do have a
keynote speaker, and it is mypleasure to introduce .
Dr.
Deloach is an educator, scholarand practicing psychologist
practice dedicated to providingintersectional, interpersonal

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work that honorsintergenerational legacies of
trauma and resilience, whilefostering generative healing for
individuals and communities.
You are all definitely in for atreat.

Dr. Chanté D. DeLoach (09:30):
It's such a great honor and treat to be
back here and to be here forsuch an important conversation,
an important topic, and specialthank you to Eden and the entire
DBH PR and community-based teamfor all of the love and labor
poured into making this eventpossible.
In the brief time that I havethis morning, I want to start by

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inviting you, us, to firstcenter ourselves.
Notice what you feel when youslow down enough to attune to
the body and to the breath.
Attuned to the body and to thebreath, notice what parts of you
might feel tense, might stillfeel frantic from the morning

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rush just trying to get here,but I invite you to honor the
things that will still be therewaiting for you when we leave
here all the emails, all themessages and to just center for
a few minutes and focus on ourwell-being, something that we
don't often do enough.
In the few minutes that I have,I want to talk about drawing

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from our well to promote ourwell-being, drawing from our
well to promote our well-being,drawing from our well to promote
our well-being.
We often reference wells as ametaphor to imagine reaching
within ourselves, to access whatwe need to navigate life's

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challenges, much like thosebefore us or those who still
rely upon wells, draw upon wellsfor water.
I often think about my own well, which, admittedly, is often
not quite as full as I want itto be.
Now there's a story about awell in my family that has been

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passed down to me.
Now, while time won't allow forme to tell this story in the
fullness that it deserves, itserves as a backdrop for how and
why I think about my own wellso often, and just as a care
warning, there is some violencethat I reference in this brief

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story my great-grandmother,julia Mae Deloach, a biracial
black woman born to a formerlyenslaved mother, who birthed the
child of her slave master whenshe was an infant.
In Louisiana, a group of whitevigilantes, sometimes referred

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to as night riders, came throughthe area, surrounded our
family's home and set it on fire.
Unfortunately, it burned down,with most of the family in it,
but one of Julia May's olderbrothers was somehow able to

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escape the burning house withbaby Julia May and threw her in
an abandoned well in prayers andhopes of protecting her from
harm.
As he rode off and fought todefend the remaining family and
our land, that night, herbrother, whose name I don't know

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and that well saved her life.
She survived to tell the storyof that night and the brother
she never saw again.
That's a true story.
Y'all Now that might sound likea tragic and violent story to

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start the morning, but her story, my story, like so many of
yours, is not a tragic story.
It's a story of survival andresilience.
I often think of my greatgrandmother as the baby in the
well and everything she survived.

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Thankfully, most of us are notrunning from Knight Riders or at
least not the same kind to saveour lives.
Yet I wanna talk about thepurpose of a well and fostering
resilience and what we need inour well today to not just

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survive but to thrive in timessuch as this.
And so, as we think about wells, I invite you to pause and
reflect on the question, andreflect on the question what is
in my well?
Next slide, please let's startwith resilience.
We've mentioned this alreadyand just what we understand it

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to mean.
There's so many differentdefinitions of resilience.
In short, it refers to theprocess of adapting well or
overcoming serious challenges.
There are likely people whoinstantly come to mind when you
think of resilience.
Perhaps you think of yourself,perhaps you think of your own

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circumstances.
I instantly think of mydaughter, who you see here with
her permission, by the way whowas born three months early with
her permission, by the way whowas born three months early,
weighing a meager two pounds andfour ounces, who was
hospitalized for more than twomonths, endured multiple medical
procedures, who, every time adoctor thought she wasn't quite

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ready to do something, or whotold me that I needed to prepare
for what might come.
She would show them and theworld that she was always up for
the challenge.
This little one who stillstruggles with severe asthma,
yet plays sports every day andI'm so proud to say she just won
her first USTA tennis trophy.

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That's resilience y'all.
So often, when we think ofresilience, we think of dramatic
stories like mygreat-grandmothers, like my
daughters or others who haveoften survived more than us.

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Yet resilience is not the samething as survival, although we
must be resilient to survive.
Today, you can go to the nextslide, please.
Today, I want us to reflect thehow of resilience.

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I want us to identify whatwe're already doing well because
so many of us are doing so manythings well and what areas we
need to strengthen in order topersevere, to bounce back,
particularly during a time whenmany people are tired, weary and
may not feel optimistic orhopeful about the life, about

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our lives, about the worldaround us Indeed in so many
spaces and relationships.
Some of us are in a state ofweary survival.
Many of us may no longer beleading with a strengths-based
mindset of bouncing back.
Instead, we might feel likewe're dragging ourselves across
the finish line.
Some of you may have felt likeit took everything in you just

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to get here today.
Yet most of us in this roomhave overcome a range of
different types of adversityjust to be here in this moment.
Next slide, please.
Next slide, please.
Psychologists describeresilience not as a fixed trait,

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something you either have orlack, but as a dynamic living
system, a metaphorical well thatneeds continual inputs, rest,
emotional connection, small winsor times when we feel capable.
So let's talk about some wayswe can strengthen our own

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resilience and fill up that well, or how we can help to
cultivate it in others around us, from our children and our
loved ones to our clients, ourwork teams, our direct reports.
The four Cs care, connection,culture and change are some of

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the concrete ways we cancultivate resilience and
well-being and pour into ourwell, the first C is care.
You can go to the next slide.
What and who do you care about?
Do you show as much care foryourself as you do for others?

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Now I'm going to admit here,just in this small, intimate
group of 200, plus our podcastlisteners, that I am a constant
caregiver, always giving,showing up as a parent, as an
aunt, as a daughter when my momwas alive, as a sibling to
someone with severe mentalillness, as a professor for my

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students, as a department chair,as a therapist for my clients.
Many of us can't even count thenumber of ways we are
caregiving.
Many of us can't even count thenumber of ways we are
caregiving If we consider careas a form of emotional or
energetic currency.
We must evaluate how much weare giving and whether that is

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balanced by the care we receivefrom others.
Often, caregivers do notreceive or even allow themselves
to accept care from thosearound them.
Many of us take better care ofothers than we do of ourselves.

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Now I'm going to say that againMany of us take better care of
others than we do for ourselves.
I know I'm not alone in that.
In recent years, self-care hasreceived much needed increased
attention.
However, our understanding ofself-care often gets limited to

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activities like spa days,vacations and naps.
I would pay good money for anap right now.
Yet we tend to marginalizeself-care as something reserved
for weekends or as a reward forenduring the work week, for

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getting through the school year,for making it through a
conference, a task of some type.
But are we truly practicingself-care every day?
Do we engage in self-compassionand extend ourselves grace
during life's difficult momentsas a reflection of self-love and

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care?
One of the most importantquestions we can ask ourselves
is how have I designed my dailylife to take care of myself?
Do I make time and space to eathealthy meals, move my body,
get enough sleep, connect withpeople who matter to me, laugh

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and breathe deeply?
While these small dailypractices may not be the same as
a massage or a spa day, theresearch tells us that they help
to cultivate that resilienceand well-being that can
transform how we experience eachday and navigate the world.
Those small practices mightprevent us from saying some

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things that perhaps we might notwant to say.
Perhaps we don't need to unsendquite a few so many messages.
This is especially importantfor caregivers and for care
workers Collective care we'reseeing more attention around.

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We've moved beyond justattention to self-care.
When we talk about collectivecare, we're referring to seeing
one another's well-being,particularly their emotional
health, as a sharedresponsibility of the group
rather than as the soleresponsibility of one person.
And, as an aside, that oneperson is often the

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quote-unquote strong one, thatstrong person in a family, that
strong person in a friend group,anybody the strong one.
You're tired, aren't you?
Me too, I'm with you, aren'tyou?
Me too, I'm with you.

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But when we talk aboutcollective care, there are great
examples of these Meal trainsfor someone who's ill or just
had a baby or a loss in theirfamily, creating a shared care
plan for a friend who needssupport or is isolated in some
way.
And we've learned so much fromqueer and disabled communities
who have used collective caremodels for decades.

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Mia Birdsong has written a bookand described so many examples
in her book.
How we Show Up Now.
The next C, next slide, please,is connection as we Now.
The next C, next slide, please,is connection as we see, with
collective care.
Research shows us thatresilience is not just about our

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individual strengths, but it'ssocial support that may matter
the most, feeling connected andcultivating positive social
relationships.
That's essential to resilienceand filling up our well.
This sense of connection isn'tjust about how much time we
spend with friends or loved ones, but by the quality and the

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meaning of those interactions.
So, for example, keeping agroup chat with trusted friends
or colleagues can offer ajudgment-free space to connect
whenever needed.
Many of us have a work bestiewho makes each day bearable, or
friends we may rarely see butstill still feel deeply

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connected to.
Now I often joke about myoveractive group chats and how I
have to mute them just to beable to get anything done every
day.
Yet those same folks who I chatwith in a group I joke with
vent to.
These are the same people whoshowed up for me when I lost my

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parents.
These are the people who showup when I need them most across
time zones.
So it's important not tominimize the value of virtual
connections, especially whenthey show up as a lifeline in
those difficult moments.
Research supports what ourhearts have already told us that

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good social support helps usmanage stress during difficult
times.
It benefits both our mental andour physical health.
Most of us know fight or flightis a key stress response, but
tend and befriend is also astress response Coined by UCLA
psychologist Shelley Taylor.
This refers to a stressresponse we often see in women,

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who respond to stress byreleasing oxytocin and beginning
to tend to our children, to ouryoung ones, and by seeking
connections or befriending oneanother, seeking connection
during times of stress.
Those social interactions arecomforting and our stress levels

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decrease.
So if you're someone who tendsto isolate and people have to
come looking for you duringtimes of stress, right.
If we're able to push backagainst that tendency and
connect with others, we're muchmore likely to reduce the stress
and feel supported.
Now, as a therapist, assessingsocial support is critical to my

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work.
We all recognize that allfriendships are not the same.
Some of us learn the hard way,right.
But I inquire not just aboutthe availability and quality of
social relationships, but alsoabout how effectively
individuals use social supports,and this serves as a reminder

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for all of us in the room, eventhose of us who are clinicians.
The people around us cannotshow up for us, they cannot
support us if they don't know weneed help.
It takes strength to bevulnerable enough to ask for
help and to say we're not okayand no, I don't have it.

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Next slide.
The third C is culture.
To some extent, resiliencydepends on culture.
What is important forresiliency in one culture may be
less important in anotherculture.
We have familial and culturalteachings of strength, survival
and culture that are passed downintergenerationally, that shape

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how we think of ourselves, likemy Aunt Joyce keeping my
great-grandmother's story aliveso that four generations later,
my daughter knows the stories ofher ancestors.
In addition, research has shownthat in more collectivist
culture, where the well-being ofone's group is valued more than

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the individual's social supportbeing flexible, these things
are more protective and may helpus to foster resilience.
In dominant American culture,there appears to be a need for
both of these, a combination ofindependence and interdependence
.
We focus a lot on generationaltrauma in a lot of conversations

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today, as we should, becausewe're working to better
understand what we carry.
It is equally, if not more,important to honor the
intergenerational resiliencethat we carry, because those
stories are also a part of ourlegacy.
It's also important to thinkabout the culture around us

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socially, at work, in the homeand the effect it has on our
resilience.
Creating a culture ofresilience requires many of the
characteristics I've alreadynamed Community connection,
communication and trust.
Many of us have been in worksettings and relationships,
neighborhoods where these arelacking, and it can lead to

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feeling unseen, a lack ofsupport.
And it can lead to feelingunseen, a lack of support, toxic
environments, and can result inburnout and turnover,
especially in care workprofessions that are already
burdensome.
And then the last C is change.
How many of you know thatchange is hard for you?

Carol McDonald (28:24):
How many of you know that change is hard for you
, mm-hmm.

Change is difficult for many of us.
It's important to disentanglechange from control.
For many of us, feeling out ofcontrol can be triggering,
activating for us, especiallythose of us who have trauma
histories.
Yet change is inevitable.
When we embrace change, we canfocus on what is within our
circle of influence and control.

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There's so many things outsideof our control even in this
moment Things like weather,politics, climate change, you
name it.
There's a laundry list ofthings the news reminds us
affect us but are outside of ourcontrol.
And then there are things thatwe can't control but we can
influence Our relationships withothers, our children's behavior

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, how we are seen andexperienced by others.
And then there's this smallinternal circle of things we can
control the way we take care ofourselves, what and who we
prioritize.
We take care of ourselves, whatand who we prioritize, our own
boundaries and our individualbehaviors.
When we choose, with intention,to focus and prioritize what is

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within our influence andcontrol, we're better able to
accept change because we canchange our internal narrative.
We can change our internalnarrative, and changing our own
narrative matters right.
What we tell ourselves mattersabout how we feel and how we see
ourselves and the world.

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There are a few key takeaways Iwant to leave you with One
resilience is not a fixed trait.
We can build and strengthen it.
I am glad that we are not onlywhat we were born with.

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We are not only ourcircumstances.
We must show care to ourselvesand allow others to show up for
us.
Positive connections withothers help to strengthen our
resilience, especially whenwe're weary or burned out.
We've got to work withintentionality to create and

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nurture cultures of resilience.
We're focusing more on what iswithin our circle of influence
and control in order to buildand pour into our well.
Every deep breath we take, inevery small step forward, we're
filling our wells from which wedraw to promote our own

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resilience and well-being.
Thank you.

Let's hear it one more time for Dr Deloach.
Thank you so much.
Transitioning over to our paneldiscussion, so I'd like to
bring them up one by one andgive them a great introduction.
So I think Dr Deloach needs nofurther introduction.
Please welcome Dr Deloach backup to the stage for our panel.

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Next to our panel, we have ourvery own Department of
Behavioral Health Director, drGeorgina Yoshioka.
So Dr Yoshioka has over 27years of experience in social
work and behavioral healthservices, focusing her career on
improving care for diversepopulations, especially within
the criminal justice, healthcareand child welfare systems.
Dr Yoshioka is dedicated todestigmatizing behavioral health

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issues, advocating for earlyintervention and enhancing
quality care.
Please welcome Dr Yoshioka.
And last but not least,definitely we have for our final
member of our panel discussion,terrence Stone.

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So Terrence Stone is aninspirational leader who
dedicated his life to empoweringyoung people and helping them
discover their true purpose.
In 2001, he founded and is theCEO of Young Visionaries Youth
Leadership Academy, president ofTerrence Stone School and
Community Consulting and thepresident of the Southern

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California Black Chamber ofCommerce for the High Desert
Chapter.
We will get into all of theamazing things that Terrence is
doing in our community, butplease welcome Terrence Stone.
All right, this is your panel.
We assembled this panel becauseyou will see, as we have
discussion of just the vastexperience lived experience that

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they have and then the amazingwork that they're doing in our
communities.
So to start us off, especiallybecause we got to know Dr
Deloach a little bit tointroduce Dr Yoshioka and
Terrence, I'm going to start usoff with Dr Yoshioka, if you can
start off.
We often hear the phraseresilient and real, and that's
obviously the name of ourpodcast.
But how do you defineresilience in the work you do

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and what does it mean to youpersonally?

Dr. Georgina Yoshioka (33:31):
Thank you , miranda, and thank you
everyone for having us heretoday and being on this panel.
For me, resilience, you know,again when I reflect in my life
and I was having an opportunityduring Dr Lodge's presentation
and the reference to a well, itreally just reminded me of
myself and entering into theworld that I felt that I had an

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armor of resilience placed on meand, again, not by choice, it
was something that I felt when Ireflect back about the
importance of how it came to meand in regards to, like my
mother, being able to manage hermental illness at a young age
with two older brothers andmyself, and having to make a
life decision for a parent thatI believe no parent would want

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to make is being able to turnyour child over to a law
enforcement officer to say,please take care of my children
as I need to take care of myself.
So that form of resilience, inthe sense of my mother doing
that, just demonstrates herstrength and at the time and her
courage to do that in honor ofher being a responsible but yet

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loving mother to me and mybrothers.
So I think when I again, as Ilook at it and I thought about
it as I was thinking.
I do a lot of thinking, believeit or not, but the idea is just
realizing of how much in mylife, of how much I've overcome.
I was writing down some notesfor myself, realizing that it's
taken me a lot of years of mylife to be able to say that I'm

(34:58):
a survivor.
It was never that I haveidentified as a victim, but I
hid behind so much of whathappened because I didn't want
individuals to see me in adifferent light, other than
being someone who was normal.
And I think when you realize ofbeing, you know in the foster
care system for a majority ofyour you know 14 years of your
life, also knowing that you grewup in a family where there was

(35:21):
alcoholism, there was dealingwith mental health, but also
just also knowing that you'velost a sense of identity.
So I feel, between where I wasand where I am today, it's just
been a continual process, butalso recognizing that I am
resilient and through that I ama survivor and that's something
that I feel that, again, we tendto push aside.

(35:42):
But I've been able to be moreopen about my story.
So it's been more recent,believe it or not, than it has
been in the past and again, ittakes a lot of courage to do
that.
So I acknowledge folks that areable to tell their story way
further sooner than I have been,so I'm here today to be able to
do that.
But that's where I look at theimportance of resilience.

Thank you.
And even in our discussion ofwhen we were kind of introducing
our panel, that was a lot ofour conversation as we'll get
into each of your backgroundsbut of how we've been able to
channel some of that pain intopassion and then how it's made
us so resilient and getting intothat space of thriving.
So thank you, dr Yoshioka.

(36:25):
Transitioning over to you,terrence, so what inspired you
to start Young Visionaries andhow has your vision evolved
since its early days?

Terrance Stone (36:35):
Thank you, good morning y'all.
Y'all just looking up here atus.
You know what Young VisionariesI started almost 25 years ago
and really it was mytrauma-informed care activity
for myself.
If you know my background, youknow that I was the second

(36:58):
generation gang member and andgoing through the trauma of that
and from my household, I had tofigure out a way that I can
work with young people and letthem know that it doesn't matter
the community that you comefrom, the household that you
grew up in, that you can do andbe whatever that you want to do
and be in life.

(37:19):
So I didn't think that it wouldget super large or have a whole
bunch of staff and things likethat.
I just wanted to go and justwork with young people,
basically.
And so we've been doing thatfor quite some time now and it
just evolved.
It evolved, I think, because ofthe needs in the community.
We started off with just doinggang intervention and prevention

(37:40):
.
That was our sole program.
And then we moved to teenpregnancy prevention and
prevention.
That was our sole program.
And then we moved to teenpregnancy prevention, I remember
.
And then our largest programright now is our mental health
program, which is doingfantastic in the communities and
in the schools and things likethat as well, though, too.
So that's just my story, that Igo out and I let young people
know that you can just like youcan make it, basically, and it's

(38:04):
just about finding thatresilience inside of you.
And growing up in my household,in my community, like nobody
went to therapy.
The only Thera in my house isprobably Theraflu.
That's all we had in thehousehold.
That was it right.
So, then, but just lettingyoung people, just people in

(38:25):
general, know that therapy isokay too.
It's good to have somebody totalk to and ain't going to tell
your business in theneighborhood later on, things
like that as well.

Very good, thank you.
And there's many benefits toattending, of course, our
in-person Resilient and RealSummit, and then those that
listening you get to hear thestories.
But one thing that you aremissing if you're not here in
person is just seeing Terrence'samazing shoes that he has on.
He has some really fly shoesthat only the ones that are in

(38:59):
our audience can see.
Those Love it, Thank you.
Can see those Love it, thankyou.
So we want to talk aboutrecognizing the barriers, how we
can challenge them, the systemsthat maybe suppress it, and
then the community that canrebuild.
So I pose this to any of ourpanelists who want to kick us

(39:20):
off what are some of the mostcommon misconceptions about
mental health in our communityand how can we challenge them
effectively?

I'll start.
I think one is just themisconception or the
misunderstanding of mentalhealth.
Like I said, just growing up inmy community, like we never
heard of, I've never heard ofmental health.
I never heard of depression,anxiety, like, if you felt like

(39:55):
that in my household, you bettergo get some ginger ale or
something.
Go drink some ginger ale.
Some of my people know whatwe're talking about.
Go drink some ginger ale andyou'll be all right.
I don't even know if that havemedical stuff to it, but that
ginger ale.
I still have ginger ale in myhouse to this day, right, but I

(40:17):
think just to you know, becausereally now our kids are super in
tune with their mental healthand um, and I don't know how and
I don't know why, but they'lltell you.
Mama, emotion of my mentalhealth is not you.
I'm like, okay, let's see whatwe can do.
But, um, but just growing up,like we never had that.

(40:40):
Basically, like I know in mycommunity, if you seem like you
had some type of mental healthissues or whatever it could be,
it's the pastor is up the street, right, he gonna lay hands on
you and and pray it out, you andthings like that.
So but I think thatunderstanding that we need to

(41:05):
have therapeutic services whenwe need to see a psychologist or
a therapist and things likethat, but just to know that it's
okay Because you know, we grewup with that.
You know, especially our men.
Help me out, men, don't leaveme by myself.
I got on my shoes today.
Right man, don't leave me bymyself.

(41:27):
I got on my shoes today, right,but you know it's just the just
trying to be macho Is that theword you know?
Like we don't do that.
Basically, we have to tough itout and we have to figure it out
.
I don't care if you'redepressed or your anxiety is
high and things like that.
We just had to figure it outand just go on with daily life
and I think I grew up just inthat mentality Okay, I'm

(41:47):
depressed, but it's notdepression, and we drink some
ginger ale and figure it out andget my day going and things
like that.
So I think, just breaking downthose walls of if you feel like
something is not right, thatcheck engine light, come on.
Someone mentioned that let'sstop and figure out how we can
get it fixed.

I was thinking castor oil, but I don't
know where you got the gingerale either, that I'm drastically
to aging myself right now.
I think a couple things I thinkfor me when I think about the
misconceptions is one is willyou hear people?
Language is powerful, and Ithink a couple things I think
for me when I think about themisconceptions is one is will
you hear people?
Language is powerful, and Ithink really that's where it's
important.
Some of the things that aresaid comments I can't say in a

(42:34):
day in my work or outside of mywork that I hear someone say
something and it makes me cringe.
I try to reframe.
That's a clinician in me, so Itry to reframe the statement to
try to not say, hey, you said itwrong, but I'm going to reframe
it.
So this way you hear andhopefully the next time you say
it you'll be able to convey itthat way.
Not always the case, I think,for me.

(42:55):
One is growing up.
A lot of it is about childrenare resilient and the idea of
the wonder is where do peopleget that idea?
I think as a child, what I findmyself to be was I was smart.
I was smart in a way because Iwas street smart, I didn't have
books, I was observant and whatI realized is how do I create
myself in a way that I looknormal?

(43:16):
Something as simple as gettingfree lunch, I mean back in the
day, right Back in the day, freelunch was stigmatizing.
So what I did is I brought myown dishes so I could create,
move my food to dishes thatdidn't present as they were free
lunch.
Hey, that's smart, right, Ithink.
Also, as I got older, I alsorealized for myself of hearing
different statements thatperson's crazy, that person's an

(43:37):
addict.
You know they're.
They're just use drugs, theydon't care about life, they
don't care about people, aperson with mental illness.
You know that, you know.
Oh, it's unfortunate, they wereborn that way.
You know it's something.
Why can't they just tapthemselves?
Why can't they change?
And it's things that you hearso often and so you try to
reframe that.
I remember as a young adult andI at the time became a parent,

(44:00):
at a time in which I shared thestory of growing up in foster
care on a case-by-case scenario.
I always remember one statementthat was repeatedly said to me
as a young mom so because yougrew up in foster care, does
that mean that you're going toabuse your child and you realize
that as a young adult, it wasalmost to a point where I
thought to myself.

(44:21):
It made me question myself ofbeing a parent.
Where I thought to myself, itmade me question myself of being
a parent.
Maybe I shouldn't be a parent,maybe because I didn't have a
mother or a father in my lifeconsistently, as my counterparts
in different settings, that Iencountered folks that were
parents, but maybe the fact thatI didn't have a relation with
my mother that maybe I couldn'tbe a mother.
So here we go back to thestreet.

(44:42):
The smart, the idea is learningby watching people who are
parents themselves, but itreally empowered me to know that
I am a good parent.
I was a good mother Againbecause I was observant, I
learned, but it goes back to.
That is something that hasalways resonated with me for
many times in my life.

(45:03):
And again, as we all know, howmany of you have parents in here
?
Are we perfect?
No, right.
We know that we might make adecision, not the best decision.
You know we're looking for thebest, but I think, ultimately,
when you have that and thatstigmatizing type of approach,
of language or statement said toyou.
It's something that stays withyou and so it takes the most out

(45:23):
of you to be able to overcomethat misconception.
So I say to anybody is toacknowledge that everybody wants
to be a parent, everyone wantsto be a caregiver, as you
mentioned.
We're all caregivers.
We do the best that we can.
So I think that's really abouthow misconceptions can present
today.

I think it kind of segues our conversation of
kind of the cultural upbringingthat plays a role into the
stigma of mental health andgetting the care.
So when you were saying thecastor oil, the ginger ale, like
, the vapor rub, like there wasso many that was like the go-to

(46:05):
and how it's kind of ingrainedin us and our upbringing and how
then it just kind of leads on.
I mean, my grandparents saidthat to my parents and then my
parents said this to me.
So how can we engage thesediverse communities with the
understanding that culture isimportant but there are certain
things that we need to break inorder so that way we can rebuild

(46:28):
and grow.

I think that's such an important
question, one I think it isreally important for those of us
who are engaging in theseconversations to know how
different communities talk aboutand think about mental health,
and from a holistic perspective.
So if you need to know thatvapor, rub, ginger, ale,

(46:56):
robitussin, whatever theteachings were in the household,
you got to be able to addressthat as part of the
conversations.
Right, that, it's okay, thatthose are the messages that you
may have heard.
But let's talk about some otherunderstandings of what might be
influencing your mental health.

(47:16):
And when we are authentic and webring all of our identities to
these relationships, we gaincredibility, we're trusted, and
so our clients want to know thatthey can trust us, that we can
hold whatever it is that theyhave to say, that even if we
have lived something different,that we can hold their truths,

(47:40):
we can hold the complexities oftheir family dynamics and I call
it complexities right, like wehave a lot of stuff in our
families, in our neighborhoods,in our communities, and can I
follow it?
Can I follow the thread of thefamily that you're not blood
related to and who's in and outof the household and you know

(48:00):
these kinds of things withoutjudgment right.
And when we gain that trust,that's when we are really able
to delve more deeply into theirpain, to be in the suffering
with them and to help facilitatetheir movement through that,
into a different way ofunderstanding how they can be

(48:24):
better, how they can be, livethe lives that they want to live
, even when that is differentfrom, perhaps, those around them
.
Different pathways forward arestill possible, but I think it
has to start with authenticity.
It has to start with honoringwhatever the truths are that
they're from.
The other part isrepresentation matters right.

(48:47):
Who they see on this stagetoday matters right.
Our stories matters, and so Ithink that's really important
for all of us to remember whoare engaging in this work.

And to follow up on that.
Then what does that look likein action?
So I know we have clinicians,but I mean, you don't have to be
a clinician for this to be putinto practice, like this is our
everyday life.
So what does that look like?
Successfully and to whateverscale?

I think that can look a lot of different
ways.
I think one of the things thatjust happened this morning today
Terrence I'll use as an examplehe tells his own story, his
journey so beautifully and beingable to learn and connect with
that.
When we had a Zoom call just tointroduce ourselves, we all
told very vulnerable parts ofour backgrounds and we were able

(49:45):
to connect parts of ourbackgrounds and we were able to
connect.
And so I think with clinicians,we're taught in our training oh
, we're this blank slate and I'mthe one with the pen and paper
and credentials to match and soI'm not supposed to tell
anything about myself.
One of the questions I alwaysask clients at the end of an
initial session or at some pointin the initial session is what

(50:07):
do you need to know about me totrust me?
I think it's such an importantquestion and I have never had a
client ask me in 25 years ofpracticing.
I've never had anybody ask mesomething that I was
uncomfortable responding to insome way, but being able to
honor that.

(50:27):
This is a relationship.
It doesn't mean that I have totell all of my personal business
to my clients, but it does meanI need to honor that they may
need to know something about mein order to trust me, and so
part of that is vulnerability.
It's modeling authenticity,sharing what we feel safe and

(50:51):
comfortable disclosing.
It also means being trainedright.
Some of us are not trained orfeel comfortable working across
a variety of identities, and sowe need to be trained.
It's not our client's jobs toeducate us about all aspects of

(51:12):
their backgrounds.
It's okay to ask questions andlead with curiosity, of course,
but checking our own assumptions, because part of that training
in that work, our own personalwork, is making sure that I'm
not going in with assumptionsabout, as Dr Yoshioka mentioned,
assumptions about what it meansto have lived and grown up

(51:33):
within a foster care system.
You know, making sure that I'mnot coming in with negative
assumptions if I'm working withTerrence about what it means to
be a second generation gangmember, rather to lead with
curiosity and to know that theirstory is still being written
and allow them to be authors ofthat and for me to be along with

(51:59):
that ride.

Just to expand on that.
I know for us we do a lot ofwork now in the field, a lot of
field work, right, and I thinkwhen we think about that and I
was just talking to CommissionerDr Samuel about it about, I've
had an opportunity to go out anddo the point-in-time count for
the past three years and it'sprovided me an opportunity to go
into the homes of individualswhich are again identified as

(52:25):
unhoused, homeless Again, thesewords that are attached to the
presence because they don't havefour walls, a door and a roof
over their head, but to themthat's a culture for them.
And when we enter a pond, intothe section of area that we're
going, it's interesting.
I was sharing.
I take when I've gone and DrBelford has been my sidekick on

(52:48):
these outreach efforts but Itake actually dog toys.
I buy them myself and I get dogfood and it's my way to when I
go and encounter a person.
I have that because most ofthem have pets.
By the way, just so you know,they don't have cats, so I'm not
going to buy cat food next year.
But I learned a lot.
I thought they did, but theytold me very kindly, no.

(53:10):
So but with that it learns that.
You know that when we think ofthe word culture, we think about
what's presented before theperson and really it extends
beyond that, as you mentionedthat.
The fact is that you know,going to a home setting, I know
the importance of where we're attoday and the focus on
encampments and areas and beingable to clear and get
individuals linked to housingVery, very important.

(53:33):
But it does take a number ofengagements back to the trust,
the vulnerability.
They see you there.
It's a conversation, I have tosay, with Dr Belford.
She does a great job when she'sout there and she's engaging
folks, but the idea is beingable to hear their story and I
think it goes back to that.
What's the circumstances whythey're there?
But really about it's not aboutlet's get you up and get you in
a place where we could put youwith that roof and four walls,

(53:55):
but how are we going to be ableto do that and make it a
successful transition for youfor the long run?
And really many of them and I,you know we hear things of oh I
you know they don't want help.
They do want help it, just theywant it in a way that they can
build it based on trust,understanding and realizing that
you are understanding wherethey were and where they are and
where they do want to be.

(54:16):
But part of that is thatcultural understanding them from
their lens and not from ourperspective.

So I just want to add that piece and if I could
just do a follow-up too to that, dr Yerushaoka, I think that's
like putting it in practice inthe community.
But I've also been able to likewe've worked together just on
like a professional setting ofwhat that looks like to share
yourself.
So what has that been like?
And I know you started off yoursegment of sharing how there

(54:44):
was some kind of hesitation, butwhat's been your experience
with that?

That's a great question, I think, for me.
Again, I've teetered on sharingvery much in the past, but I
always felt that it was neverthe right time or the right
place and I think it's taken meto be vulnerable to be able to
share, and I appreciate theresponse and I have individuals
that have reached back out.

(55:12):
I've had a few folks approachme here and I appreciate that
more than you may have felt, butI'm going to say to you it's
just rather comforting for mebecause, again, it's lived
experience, it's a story thatmust be told and the reality is
think, when we are in positionsin which we are in making
decisions, it's not just aboutfrom the mind and the thinking,

(55:33):
it's from the heart, because itreally is the goal for me as
long as I've been in social workis I've been boots on the
ground and with the boots on theground, I've been able to see
and experience what it is andwhat it is to receive services.
I've been able to see andexperience what it is and what
it is to receive services, but Ialso now have the opportunity
to work with a great team in thetime in which I'm able to work,
to build programs and notprograms by myself.

(55:53):
It takes a village.
So anytime something comes up,it's not about me like I have
this idea and I want you to dothis.
It may sound that way but it'snot.
It takes many people who arecoming together, who have the
mind but also have the heart andhave lived experience that may
not have shared their story todate, but hopefully, as we all
sit here today, it gives you thecourage to know that it's

(56:14):
really important to know why youdo what you do and how
dedicated you are, but to knowthat it's okay, we all have a
story.
It's a strength, it's not aweakness, to be able to tell
that.

And then Terrence going to you.
That's really what you've built, young Visionaries.
So what has been thatexperience of sharing, kind of
your upbringing, your story andthen seeing the impact with our
youth in the community?

I feel like a Zoom you ever started.
Zoom on, mute, unmute yourself.

I feel like a Zoom.
You ever start a Zoom on mute,unmute yourself.

But I think that is very important.
I think, because it looks likemost of us adults in here and
professionals, and when you'reencountering, we'll say, young
people, they see you like whereyou are now right.
They see you and they thinkyou're like man, you look like
you just always had it togetherand that you always just make

(57:09):
stuff happen.
But I don't know about y'all,but for me that's not the case,
and so I love sharing my story.
I don't tell them everything.
When they start asking too manyquestions, I'll be like, stay
out of my business, but I likegiving them my background to let
them know that I've beenthrough trauma and I've been

(57:29):
through things, and hopefully,with me sharing this, you can
get through yours as well,though, too, Because a lot of
times we do stuff early.
We talked about tradition andthings like that.
You guys heard about the family, and they cut the ends off the
pot roast.
Let me tell you that.
All right, so just talkingabout asking questions and

(57:49):
traditions.
So there was a family, and theypassed a recipe down for years
on cooking a pot roast.
So every year, they would cutthe ends off the pot roast, and
so, finally, someone calledgreat grandma and they said well
, grandma, great grandma, why doyou cut the ends off the pot
roast?
Because she had a little oven.

(58:11):
So in order to fit the potroast in the oven, she had to
cut the ends off the pot roast.
So for years and generations,without asking questions, they
would cut the ends off the potroast and they got giant ovens
right, but without askingquestions and understanding, oh

(58:32):
great, grandma had a littlebitty oven right.
They would have known that youcan keep those ends on that pot
roast.
The ends on the pot roast aredelicious, right.
So it's just asking thosequestions.
So with young people, which weprimarily work with, we try to
be as transparent as we can.
We allow them to ask questionsso that they can understand.

(58:54):
This is why I did things thisway, and so you're probably
doing things that way, becauseyou've seen people that were
older than you do things thatway as well, though, too.
So you have to help them to getin perspective and let them
know also that it's okay to askquestions not too many questions

(59:14):
, but ask some questions, youknow, so that they can
understand that.
You know that we all haveobstacles in our way to get into
where we want to be.
But the thing is figuring out,how do you get through those
obstacles, and then we let themknow too.
When you get through it, makesure you tell somebody else how
to get through it, becausethey'll have those same
obstacles as well growing up.

Yeah, and so we've talked about kind of some
of the barriers that are insociety and that we've
encountered.
So, going over to then, how canwe which was a perfect
transition of how can we thencultivate that resilience during
challenging times, whichthey're bound, they're on a
daily?
So how can we build andmaintain resilience during times

(01:00:03):
of personal and then collectivecrisis?

Terrance Stone (01:00:09):
Go ahead, we're looking at you.

Dr. Chanté D. DeLoach (01:00:14):
I can start.
Obviously, I named some thingsin the talk earlier, but the
first thing that's coming tomind for me now is something I
think that we've each shared indifferent ways, which is talking
, saying the things out loud.
I think the more we talk aboutmental health in the good times

(01:00:35):
and the bad, the more we givepermission to others around us
to normalize it, and so I amvery intentional about talking
about what I do for my mentalhealth.
I try to model that for mydaughter, for the people around
me.
This is what mommy is doingtoday for my mental health.
I'm about to close this door.

(01:00:56):
I need a break, but I think themore we talk about it, and not
just when we're struggling themore it becomes part of everyday
conversation.
We remove stigma.
Terrence talked about how theyounger generations I'm so happy

(01:01:18):
to see younger generationstalking about mental health more
, and you know they will often,you know, just say oh, I got to
protect my mental, as they oftencall it, or at least that's
what my students say and we'lltalk about what it is that
they're doing with.
You know, social media.
That comes with the good andthe bad.

(01:01:39):
There's a lot of positiveinformation about therapy about
psychological health issues onsocial media.
Now we also know social mediacan be the cause of or
contribute to some mental healthissues.
But I would just say that oneof the best and easiest, most

(01:01:59):
consistent things we can do istalk out loud and name what
we're doing for our mentalhealth and if we're having
struggles, if we're havingchallenges, to not be ashamed to
talk about that.

Dr. Georgina Yoshioka (01:02:19):
When you mentioned social media, I was
sitting here I was thinkingabout how, again back in time,
we didn't have a telephone, wehad a telephone ring.
You know, again back in time,you know, we didn't have
telephone, we had telephone ring, push button, three-way call.
I can go on and on.
I mean ways that we thought wewere very advanced in technology
, only to find out we weren't.
But I thought about twoscenarios about social media and

(01:02:43):
how.
You know, again, wellness isabout right, being able to take
care of yourself, lead byexample.
I'm not the best, so I'm nevergoing to say anybody, follow my
lead, just know I'm trying mybest.
The well was an example.
I've been trying to drink water.
That's where I went right away.
I went and filled it up.
It's over there.
It's not doing anything for meright now, but it'll be there

(01:03:08):
later.
But with that social media.
So two scenarios.
I learned about social media,about the impact, about one's
wellness.
I had a hairdresser.
I say I had because in the timewith my hairdresser, I would
see her once a month.
She did a fabulous job on myhair and, with that though, one
day I was there and I said, hey,great trip, you went on, it was
beautiful.
You went out to San Jose andshe said, oh, you saw that.
And I was like, well, yeah.

(01:03:29):
I said, oh, my gosh, you hadgreat pictures.
It looked someday I'd like togo up there.
It was like really great.
She said, but you didn't likeit.
And I said, oh, and I was like,oh, so you know, moment, I'm
vulnerable, she's doing my hair.
So I said, gosh, I will makesure to like your picture.
She said, well, you know, ifyou're going to look at it, you

(01:03:50):
should like it.
And I was like, got it Noted,noted.
So every time I went onFacebook and I saw it, I just
liked it.
I didn't even look at it, Ijust liked it Because I thought
I'm in her hands.
Every month, eventually, Ifound a new hairdresser.

(01:04:11):
No focus on social media, allgood.
On the other side, I've beenvery open about my loss and I
think, when it goes back, whenwe talk about resiliency, I made
a note on my paper about lossof identity and I think for
myself as a widow and actuallyJune 18th will be 11 years since
I lost my late husband, so wecan see it's still impactful it

(01:04:33):
seems like people will say, oh,11 years.
That's a long time.
It's not Every day.
Every year is a everything, theoccurrence of the events, and

(01:04:55):
everyone will say I'll be there.
Call me things, I get it.
People's lives move on.
In the three months that I wasby myself, I realized that when
I went to social media, I becamevery angry.
And I was angry because I felthow could everybody else keep
living when I'm not living?
I'm here but I'm not livingbecause I've lost half of my

(01:05:18):
identity.
And so in that time I realizedhow impactful social media can
be and realizing that again, Ihad to shut it off and I had to
re-ground myself to know that itwas nobody else's fault,
because there was times where Ithought even family, anything
like that.
So it was a time where it wasreally a bad time for me, very

(01:05:39):
depressed about it, and realizedlike, okay, put it aside, now I
need to rebuild my identity.
So when you think aboutexperiences of loss and loss
comes in different ways andshapes and forms, and how
everyone, how one can experienceit, it's something that I
always keep in mind when I hearsomeone that mentions something
that's associated to a loss.

(01:06:00):
So with that, I think you know,with social media it is.
It can be very impactful, butit's it's a good way, because
you do get to.
You know, see what people aredoing.
My hairdresser, for one, was anexample.
But ultimately it's somethingthat I think we need to and
again, I'm not lead by exampleis to try to put down your
phones, try to be engaged inconversation, do more outings,

(01:06:21):
do things where you can do moresocialization, because that
inner interaction is important.
That's really about your healthas well, your wellness, and I
think it's something that youknow we get caught up in, and I
think that's what we need tofocus.
And I just want to go on theflip side for the Department of
Behavioral Health, we startedwith Miranda and then also

(01:06:42):
Raquel, with doing wellnessretreats, and I just want you to
know that it's coming this year.
So if you didn't think it was,it's coming.
So yes, yes thank you, andthey've been great, and we
appreciate the participation,because we do honor and
appreciate the work that's beingdone every day by every person
in the department.
No one has a more important jobthan anybody else.

(01:07:05):
All of us have important jobsbecause we work together.
We're a village, we're a team.
We are here to serveindividuals who are needing our
assistance, our guidance, fortheir wellness, and so we want
to make sure that your wellnessis met as well.
So do your best to practice it,and again, it takes work.
It does take work, but knowthat we're here, too, to also

(01:07:26):
support that.

Awesome, I like the.
So how many have social media?
How many got Facebook?
I'm seeing none of the youngpeople raise their hand, but
just, I have multiple socialmedia pages and just the anxiety
, right, like my birthday waslast Friday, I think so last
Friday.
Saturday was Saturday.

(01:07:50):
Give me a happy birthday, yeah,but having multiple social
media pages and, like you said,when people are saying wishing
you happy birthday, and just theanxiety of just trying to like
all the comments because theyknow they'd be like you didn't
like my comment.
I'd be like, look man, I hadlike 20,000 friends on there and

(01:08:13):
I don't even really know youlike that but um, but but that
social?
But just think as adults, though, who have more than one like
social media platform, likeInstagram, facebook, put your
hands up.
Don't mean you got the half ahand trying to hide it.
Linkedin, linkedin, the wordsfor me, because that's my
biggest population on there,right, and they aggressive, like

(01:08:35):
aggressive panhandlers onLinkedIn.
They'd be like how you doingbuy my product?
I'd be like man, I don't evenknow you, um, but just think as
adults, right, and, and we're onsocial media and we're
monitoring and we're making surethat if we post, you like,
right, and.
But just think as our youngpeople as well, though, too,

(01:08:57):
because they're much, much morevulnerable and this is really
their social media is reallytheir world.
Like my I havekids.
They be touching my flat screenTV like it's an iPad.
I be like, get your stankyhands off my TV today, got the
fingerprints all on there.
But because they were born intotechnology, I remember when we

(01:09:20):
got our first computer in thehouse, some of y'all was born
with a computer in the house.
It was strange.
I grew up with typewriters,right, but the first computer
was just, you know, it was.
It was weird, but you knowmyspace, who are myspace people
at?
That's what I'm talking about,right, there, right, but just
the anxiety of young people and,too, we were.

(01:09:42):
We were speaking earlier.
You can't run away from socialmedia, right, because it follows
you.
Usually if someone is pickingon you at school or you have a
bully at school, now they canhave a whole army of people that
don't even know you sideconversations and what happened,

(01:10:02):
and they wasn't even there.
I'm like you live in Utah, youwasn't even there, you talking
about the situation, and so,just so, with our kids, just the
anxiety and the depression thatcomes with just having that
social media, because it's onlike all the time.
I allegedly be driving lookingat stuff, right, I look up.

(01:10:24):
I was driving so long allegedlyallegedly looking at social
media, and I'm just looking atthe car in front of me.
When I looked up, I was in aparking lot.
I was like what the heck?
I'm going to follow this personhome trying to check my
Instagram, looking up.
But you can't like get awayfrom it as a young person.
Basically, because, even if youturn your social media off,

(01:10:48):
someone will come and show youwhat happened and what they're
saying on social media,basically.
So also, too, on the flip sideas well, it can be a great tool
to use.
You know, to get positivemessages out as well, though,
too, on social media.
So we try to do that like a lot.
We have a great staff and agreat team that is constantly

(01:11:10):
putting out videos and greatposts and things like that, so
we try to just keep those thingsout and things like that.
So whoever who take a picturebefore for social media, can
somebody take your picture andyou're like, let me look at it
before you post it?
My wife do that.
She's like, let me see it.

(01:11:31):
I got to post it right now,leave me alone.
But because she's worryingabout, immediately, what
somebody else might say abouther picture, right, she'll put
all kind of what's those thingswhen you fix the face, oh my God
, she'll filter that picture upand then post it, right, I used
to do that too.

(01:11:51):
She used to call me baby Yodabecause I put my face so smooth.
But the anxiety of it, though,right, the anxiety of it.
You do not want to postsomething that someone's going
to say something negative.
You want some likes, and I'llbe looking at my likes too, dr G
.
I'll be like, oh, they ain'tgoing to like my picture.
Oh gosh, this is a good picture, this is a good picture.

(01:12:13):
But the anxiety of it, though,as well, though, too, you know.
But in our kids, though, asadults, just think our young
people how impressionable theyare, right, and then they have
that social media.
So they're, you know, puttingthe filters on and and things
like that.
I work with a group of kids andthey got social media, and I
see their social media like Idon't recognize none of y'all,

(01:12:35):
because y'all filters just goteverybody looking different in
the classroom.
So it was good to see y'all.
Good to see y'all, anyway.
Good to see the real you today.
Come on now.
Right, but we have to realizethat the social media is really
like one of their main things,because this is like their world
, basically, like I didn't growup.

(01:12:55):
I'm 55.
I grew up with no social media.
Come on now with the 50s.
That's what I'm talking about.
I grew up, you had to go talkto somebody right and the phone.
If you want privacy, you takethat long cord and you had to go
talk to somebody right in thephone.
If you want privacy, you takethat long cord and you wrap that
thing down to the bedroom soyou can go have a private
conversation, but everybody knowwhere you at, because the phone
in the bathroom, the long cordyou can't even hide, no more.

(01:13:18):
Basically.
So just you know, just keep inmind just that, the social media
and ask your kids about theirsocial media as well, though,
too, you know, because sometimesthey, you know they have things
on there or they are concernedabout things on there that they
really don't want to talk aboutin front of everyone else.
So I always try to ask them,you know, is that Instagram

(01:13:41):
popping what your TikTok looklike today, yeah, things like
that, so that you know, just toconnect with them.
I probably I don't even knowwhat I'm talking about.

No, no, add one thing.
So you know, I just wanted toshare one thing.
Aging myself here back in theday I don't know if anyone knows
we we used to have what we calla slam book.
It was a slam book.
Who knows it?
Who knew it?
Okay, so, very so, this was abook that was created out of a
notebook and basically you wouldthen number all the way down,
one to 50, whatever you wantedto do, and you'd create

(01:14:11):
different questions and then youwould pass it around.
So if I was number two, I putnumber two and I would go
through every question and Iwould answer.
So if there was ever say, whodo you like, who do you think is
cute, I'd put the name and Iput number two.
Right.
But talk about anxiety, becausewhen that book came back you
were like flipping through tosee where it was.
So anxiety existed way back inthe day, but today it was a

(01:14:34):
little bit more contained.
But I just wanted to share thatwith the slam book because I
remember that, yeah, I was likewhew, yeah.

Let's get some ginger ale.

Miranda Canseco (01:14:44):
And I think the social media discussion is a
larger discussion in itself.
It is a double-edged sword, butfrom my perspective and I'd
love to hear from our panelistsI feel like it's all in a search
for connection.
And that's what, Dr Zaloch, youtalked about of that building
of resilience is that search forconnection and authenticity.

(01:15:07):
So how can, when we have greatplatforms, that can be and we
saw that when the pandemic washappening that social media?
Because we had to socialdistance, the social media was
the only way that you couldcommunicate with people.
But it was the good and the bad, it provoked a lot of anxiety,
a lot of just seeing, because itwas right, it surrounded you,

(01:15:31):
it was your everyday, because wecouldn't go anywhere.
So what can be some otheravenues that we can point our
youth to?
One, and then even forourselves, of searching for that
authenticity, searching forthat connection, of searching
for that authenticity searchingfor that connection.

I just want to echo something that Dr
Yoshioka said, which isin-person human connections.
And with our youth.
They're in school every day,and so it's fertile ground for
cultivating relationships amongpeers, with teachers, with staff
, with coaches, and so I reallyunderscore the value of those

(01:16:19):
spaces.
And we know that schoolshistorically have been really
important spaces for not justeducation but social learning,
and I really encourage us tothink about how we can use those
as opportunities.
Many of our youth are in sportsor in other social settings

(01:16:41):
where there's sports, religiousor spiritual communities and
those kind of mentoring programs, other kinds of things where
there are opportunities for themto engage, and I invite them to
.
And a lot of schools are movingto cell phone free policies,
which is great because it forcesstudents to learn how to be

(01:17:02):
present.
Many of our children don't knowhow, because they've grown up
with technology.
They've grown up multitasking.
Many of us in this room may behaving a difficult time just
remaining present and not beingon our phones, and so our youth
learn from us.
We model that for them.
And so having meals where, okay, we're not live streaming our

(01:17:26):
meal, we're not going to tweet,we're not going to post about
the meal.
Today we're going to actuallyconnect and have some
conversation, and so I thinkabout every opportunity as an
opportunity to engage andconnect, and especially with
youth, when they're at timeswhen they may not be talking as
much.
It's an opportunity to ask,when they don't have another

(01:17:47):
outlet, like asking about what'sgoing on, asking about what
they are scared of, what they'reafraid of, what are they
excited about, what are youcurious about?
And just connecting, engaging.
But it requires us to bewilling to do that as well.

It just reminds me when I go in
restaurants and I see again whenfamilies are together in a
restaurant setting and the childis holding a phone, I see now
they actually have apparatuswhere they actually create so
they can set the phone andthings like that.
So I've seen a lot ofadvancement to that and I think
as we get our kids, they're verymuch in tune to that.

(01:18:26):
And then I've seen where folksare sitting and they're not even
conversating with their phonesin hand.
So I think, with that but Iwant to add, on top of the great
points that you made, is thatalso to add that we, in our
positions and the work that wedo, is we, we need to validate
the resources that we'rerecommending on social media.

(01:18:46):
And the reason I say that isbecause it's so important is
that if you encourage a child to, maybe if they have an interest
in chess, right playing chess,and you say there's probably a
great forum, you could probablyjoin, there's probably other
kids and very similar.
But walk the walk with them toknow because, again, you don't
know what they may encounter.
And therefore I think there arereally good resources, maybe

(01:19:08):
some in person, but it's virtual, but yet knowing what that
resource is, empowering parentsalso to be part of that again,
kind of creating opportunitythrough virtual settings of some
type of I don't know, I'm a bigorigami, I say that, but I
haven't built anything latelyprobably for a while, but I have
the paper and I have the books.
But I haven't built anythinglately probably for a while, but
I have the paper and I have thebooks, but I do enjoy it.

(01:19:28):
It's actually very peaceful.
You can get frustrated if thewings aren't right, but at the
end of the day, if you go online, you can engage and do
something like that.
So I'm just trying to say, like, most important is what we do
is there really are goodresources.
Just know what they are,research them before you
recommend them, because thatreally can be impactful and very
, you know, positive for thechild, especially for again.

(01:19:50):
And then I always go to thefact is, we never what's know
what's going on in the home.
What I mean by that is that ifa parents are working and
there's a caregiver, that maybethe child then has access and
the parent knows and the parentknows about it and they can
check the use.
I mean, I can go on and on,right, but I find more and more
that I hear is that parents aredisengaged or caregivers and I
think we need to be moreprominent in promoting that they

(01:20:11):
are engaged in doing thatresearch.

I think, with what we got really great at as
an organization is puttingtogether like super fun youth
conferences for kids, like wecall them.
Secure the bag and back standsfor behavior, attendance and
grades, right, so we take theseinto the schools and and they're
so interactive, right there.

(01:20:35):
You know the kids areconstantly doing like they don't
have time to like if they sitthere trying to take picture
they're gonna miss something,right, because you know our team
is up there and they're just,you know, giving out prizes and
you know, then we have thespeakers come out and do stuff
and entertainment and just likeback to back.
You like it's just superstimulating for them, mentally,
for our young people.

(01:20:55):
So we try to do those and aswell too.
I don't know who's been to thewellness conference.
Oh, y'all, y'all lying, y'allbeen to the wellness conference.
You, you better go, you betterget a ticket.
But the wellness conference isso interactive when you're all
together and you're in a largeaudience that you really don't
have time because you alwayshave someone, an emcee, up there

(01:21:15):
that is just keeping it goingand keeping you on your toes and
get up and let's play giantrock paper scissors.
It's just different things Alsojust both of those events like
that, just having kids get moreactive together so they're doing
stuff besides posting andthings like that.

(01:21:36):
They still get their posting orthey'll take pictures, but
still they're doing moreinteractions with each other
than interactions on their phoneas well, though, too, with each
other than interactions ontheir phone as well.

though, too, and Miranda, can you share
about the extravaganza event wehad last year, the wellness
extravaganza Because I thinkagain bringing that to the
community, we had 2,000 folks,correct?

Yeah, yeah.
So I think that's one of theinitiatives that the Department
of Behavioral Health is reallytaking on with collaborative
partners of really focusing oncreating those moments for the
community.
So our wellness extravaganza isbringing together multiple
generations in carnival games,in music, in food, and it's

(01:22:22):
really just a time that you canexperience.
Of course, it's just a freeevent is one thing, but just fun
and just being able to not,there isn't really any
technology, there isn't any ofthose activities, it's really
just large board games anddancing, and so I think that's

(01:22:43):
something that we're focusing onfor just overall wellness.
That's coming in October,coming in October, yes.

And I remember the one story of a
family who approached a team andshared that this was the only
meal they were going to have forthe day and that it was free.
And it was just.
They had dessert, the main meal, the drink, I mean it was, but
it was so touching just knowingthat this is one out of 2,000
individuals, but can you imaginehow many may have been there
and that would have may havebeen their only meal.

(01:23:10):
So again, it's about being ableto create that atmosphere, that
open opportunity, thatin-person and I agree with
Miranda, no technology.
It was just great to see peopledancing and just having so much
fun and seeing the families.
So it was a great event.
So hopefully you all can makeit out for October.
More information to come.

Thank you.
Thank you.
So we talked a little bit aboutbuilding personal resilience,
so it's an interesting kind offor this panel to discuss, of an
interesting way of how can wego about it as an overall
community at like, a largerscale of those that are seeking
connection, but as a society,and I think each generation

(01:23:55):
might have its own approach, butmaybe it's involved in the work
that you guys are doing too.

I think I just finished a book called how to
Move in a Roomful of Vultures.
I've been working on it forquite some time, but it's really
just about how to navigate inadverse communities and
situations and things like thatFrom my childhood to growing up

(01:24:25):
and to adulthood as well, though, too.
And how do you move and buildresilience and be resilient in
an environment like that right,where it doesn't even have to be
hostile, but it's just that youhave so much baggage that you
feel like that is holding youback and holding you down, and

(01:24:46):
how do you release some of thatbaggage and and let some of that
baggage go, and or some of uswill just find a way to carry it
comfortably, right?
I know my, my wife.
When we leave out the grocerystore and they say you want bags
, I'm always like, yes, we wantbags, right, but she'll figure
out a way how to carry all thatstuff to the car without bags.

(01:25:09):
I'm like you better get somebags.
But just figuring out how doyou either carry it or let it go
.
It's better to let it go, butsometimes it's harder trying to
figure out how do you let it goand how do you move forward and
and how do you, um, maintain alot of us, um, come to work and,

(01:25:34):
and we're all in the field ofhelping other people, right,
that care, like we're alwayscaring for other people, and so,
and, but the people that we'recaring for, like, we don't
release our problems onto them.
We have to let our problems go,somehow, leave them at the door

(01:25:55):
and still be able to helpsomeone else, um, that day, and
so, um, and, and how do we dothat?
And that's resiliency withinitself.
Like, how do you do that?
Like, how do you leave all ofyour problems at the door to
help someone else get throughtheir problems?
Right, and that's a skillwithin itself, right?

(01:26:18):
So that self-care is veryimportant because we're always
going through that.
I think I do that every day.
Important because, when we'reall, because we're always going
through that, I think I do thatevery day.
I have a staff, a team ofpeople that I know that they do
that every day, because our jobsis to work with young people.
So how do you build that up?
I don't know, but I know that Ido it, right, I know that I

(01:26:43):
have to get up and whatever I'mgoing through, I have to leave
it at the door right.
I go into um, the rise program,san Bernardino County probation
and I'm working with those kidsevery Friday is, and and I do
that for one of those kids keepme grounded, like they cracking
jokes on me all day in the inthe classroom, and so but two, I
feel like they have to see mebuild and build resilience and

(01:27:08):
go through things and make ithappen.
As I'm working on them as well,though, too, because a good
friend of mine passed away, drReggie Webb.
He said Terrence, you can't hita target that you can't see,
and so for those kids that aregoing through things they're
incarcerated, they're second andthird-generation gang members I

(01:27:29):
have to be that target thatthey're shooting for.
Like you can make it happen,but you have to figure out a way
to let go of that baggage orcarry it comfortably, however.
You want to do it, but we haveto figure out how to move you
forward.
Basically and I think it's justbeing consistent that

(01:27:51):
consistency kind of builds upresilience and things like that
in you so that you'll be able tomove forward.
I like to lift weights sometime.
Occasionally.
When I lift weights in a while,but still when I do, do I
usually start light and then goheavy, because I feel like that

(01:28:11):
builds up my resiliency and soin my mentality as well.
Though too, you know, I, I tryto.
You know, if it's light, by theend of the day it's already
heavy, but I condition myselfmentally and emotionally to
handle that by the end of theday.

But then you have to find a way to
release that as well, though,too.
Yeah, I think I want to justadd that I'm fortunate to have
worked or work with folks whoare most vulnerable and are on
their second, third, fourth,fifth chance in life, but I also
work with a lot of folks that Idescribe as pillars in my

(01:28:56):
practice Folks who are holdingup everybody else, the people
who are raising their siblings,people who are supporting
multiple households, people whoare the folks whose phones ring
in the middle of the night andwho answer every time and

(01:29:17):
because on the outside we lookgood, we may have credentials,
we may have graduated, whatever.
Many times people don't ask ushow are you doing, what do you
need?
And even when they do, we areoften ill-prepared to answer or

(01:29:37):
we don't feel that we havepermission to say we need help,
because we know folks who arefar more needy, far more
vulnerable or far less resourcedthan we are.
And so I constantly think aboutthe strong ones, because lifting
those heavy weights, carryingall those bags for other people

(01:30:01):
is a reminder that that stuff isheavy.
I think about all the bags Igive my husband to physically
carry, and when he tells me no,I don't want to go camping
because I don't want to carrythat you know what.
But I think of that as ananalogy for life, right, that we

(01:30:21):
need to remember that we're allvulnerable in different ways
and that many of us are carryingour own stuff as well as the
stuff of those around us.
And it's up to us thatcollective care to check on Dr G
right To those of us who are inpositions of leadership, who

(01:30:43):
have a mic, who have cameras onus all the time, leadership who
have a mic, who have cameras onus all the time, it's up to us
to take care of one another andto remember that, yeah, show up
for us as well for one another.

I was thinking about the baggage and
I'm just going to shouteverybody right now I am the
worst packer.
So when I go on a one-day trip,I have a big bag, and then I
have my bag with the computer,an extra screen, all the hookups
, and I get a lot of commentsfrom people and all I say is
stay in your lane.
That's all I can say and itmakes me feel better.
But with that and I probablypeople will say when I come to

(01:31:23):
work I am a bag lady, so I dohave multiple bags and probably
that's why I have a bad back,but not to go there right now,
let me just say I think for me,what I think about is for the
county department of behavioralhealth.
We have about 1,200 employeesemployed through the department
of behavioral health.
We're the size of two statesfor a county.
I think what we think about ishow do we reach out to

(01:31:44):
communities, and the importanceis that every community is
diverse, right, we think abouteven where we live and how the
differences of living in a cityand how it's so different when
we drive through certain partsof it.
But I think the most importantwhat we need is advocacy.
We need awareness, we need tobe able to know what the
resources are.
I think what it is is that whenpeople, when it comes to time
for resources, is when peopleare at a point of need or in
crisis, and that's not the timein which we need to do education

(01:32:07):
on the resources.
We need to get people wherethey need to go.
One of the things for us iswhat we have under our public
relations, outreach and servicesis that we're everywhere in the
community because we want toraise awareness.
I myself I've done it.
I've been on Ontario Airportdoing the 5K run.
I'm there at the table.
I see my team working reallyhard, doing Narcan training,
bringing awareness, bringing ourservices, talking about

(01:32:28):
employment opportunities.
But it's always about the factis that we have to be the voice
and I think we have to beembedded in our communities and
we have to also acknowledge that.
Department of Behavioral Health,we don't do it all.
We do not.
We are just a small piece of it.
Half of our budget goes tocontracting services to our
diverse providers and it reallyisn't for our providers.
We could not reach everybodythat we need to reach.

(01:32:51):
So with our providers, it'sreally important because a
provider creates an office orestablishes a service in a
community, those that areworking there are going to be
aligned to that community.
So that's why it's so importantthat we work hand in hand.
It's a collaboration, it's apartnership.
Again, when we know a Terrence,we can't do it alone.
We work with Terrence.
You take it out to the kids,you take it out to the different

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communities.
We can't do all of that andthat's why we're so appreciative
of that.
But when we talk about how do weget this to the community, we
have to walk it into thecommunity, we need to put it
into action and we need to givenotification of what's there
before a person needs it.
If they take it home and it'ssitting on their counter, it's
better than sitting in ouroffice.
So we really want to be able tosay we need the ambassadors, we

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need it.
So all of you that are workingwith your clients at the end of
the day, even when they'rewalking out, give them a
document about crisis services.
Why?
It's not to say that they'regoing to be in crisis, but if
they ever are, that document iswith them, it's in their home,
it's there available if theyneed it.
A neighbor, a friend, someonecalls them.
Hey, guess what?
I have this information.
We have a website.

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I'm sure we can say toeverybody go to the website.
Media, social media, right, butthe idea is ultimately I'm
still old school, everybodyknows if you go to my office, I
got stacks of paper.
Don't ask me what's on them,but probably gotta throw it away
.
But it really is a time wheresomeone asked me something, I'll
be like, oh, hold on one second, I have that right here, and so
, again, I think it's reallyimportant that we we get this

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messaging in the community, andit's it's an everyday job, it's
not something that's a one anddone, so we just really need to
be able to do that, for for.

Thank you, and I think you kind of summed up
some of our conversation of itis a collective effort like that
.
You said that where theDepartment of Behavioral Health
is only one piece and it takesall of us to have that
understanding but then also beable to be advocates to walk the
walk.
There's so many resources andcomponents.

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I want to just highlight,before I forget, just Dr
Deloach's moment of meditation.
When is the last time that anyof us took just a brief moment?
And then how can we take thatmoment into our communities,
into our networks?
You don't need to be a directservice provider to have an
impact.

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So, thank you, thank you to allof our panelists this is not
the last that you'll see of theminto our networks.
You don't need to be a directservice provider to have an
impact.
So, thank you, thank you to allof our panelists.
This is not the last thatyou'll see of them.
We are going to take a briefbreak and then, if you have not
submitted your questions, we'llcome back and then see what the
audience has to ask for each ofyou.

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So, thank you.
All right, welcome backeveryone.
Welcome back, welcome back.
Thank you to everyone thatsubmitted your questions.
We do have quite a few from theaudience for our wonderful
panelists.
So the format for this sectionis I will read out some of the
questions that were submittedand then we will have some rapid
fire to end us out.

(01:35:46):
Sound good, rapid fire.
It's not too rapid, it's likeJeopardy, no buzzers or anything
.
And these ones, any of ourpanelists, you're more than
welcome to jump in.
But one of the first, I guess,is directed to Dr Deloach.
What is the name of the artistwho sings the song that we

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listen to during meditation?

Great question.
A beautiful artist by the nameof Cleo Sol S-O-L.
Cleo Sol, and the name of thatsong was Know that you Are Loved
song was know that you areloved.

Thank you.
Next question we have.
It has been noted in thisdiscussion that modeling is key
as people.
From my experience, beinggenuine is the key to building
relationships.
How have each of you fosteredgenuine relationship building
within your professional roles?

They're looking at me.
I think one is just beinggenuinely consistent.
Basically, you're always goingto get the same tearing stone
when you see me, basically, andso I try to model that.
But also, too, with my staff,my team.

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I think I spend more time withmy staff than anybody else
because I'm at work every day,all the time doing something,
time doing something and so, butalso, too, I know that I would
never send them to do nothingthat I either have did or or
would not do, like I would neversend you into a fire that I

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have not walked through already.
Basically, so just them knowingthat and and seeing that.
So when Dr G earlier talkedabout just being out in the
community and communityengagement and outreach, I did
that already.
Or sometimes, when they go outthere and they set up, I'll pop
up for a little while and sayhello to the people and hang out

(01:37:56):
and give out some stuff, justso they know that I'm not too
big to give out stuff and be inthe community and make sure that
the community know who we areand things like that.

I think that the key, you know from a
professional lens, is about theyou know, again, as Terrence
mentioned, like you know,working, living by example.
I think the importance is toand I would just mention this is
that I'm human, I make mistakes, I am going to make mistakes.
I think the key is to beapologetic for it as well, but

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also to know that andacknowledge that a mistake has
been made.
Because, again, sometimes inroles and for many of us, in our
professional roles, especiallywhen you're in decision-making
role, sometimes you have to makedecisions on the whim.
It may not always seem like theright decision, but the idea is

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to know that it's the bestdecision that can be made in
that time.
It doesn't mean later it cannotbe changed or cannot be
modified or cannot be modified.
But again, I think, ultimatelyis being able to even set up
here today and be out in thecommunity and share your story,
to know that, outside of my life, of my professional work, I got
here based on the fact of mylived life and without that I

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wouldn't be who I am today.
And when people may ask you thequestion, if there's something
you could change in your past,what would it be and ultimately
I always say there would benothing I would change because I
wouldn't be here today.
So I think it really is aboutmodeling the importance of be
you know, be, acceptance of whoyou are and it's okay, we're not
perfect.
Again, everyone asks me ifsomeday I'm going to write a

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book.
I get scared because I have tothen write some truths and the
reality is, you know, there is atime to tell that story.
But I think there is timeswhere I not always made great
decisions and I've had to livebehind those decisions but
ultimately have grown from them.
But knowing, as I look out andjust seeing the audience here, I
know as many of you canresonate with that to know is
that we are human, we're notperfect, we're going to do our

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best to do what we can with whatwe have and basically, again,
model that to all of you andespecially in professional
leadership roles.
It's really about mentoringindividuals.
So someday you'll be the onewho's sitting up here Because I
do look to retirement.
I mean that's the idea.
I mean 27 years.
I'd like at some point totranscend into the next world of
no phone calls, no emails, nopolicy reviews.

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No, I can go on right.
But the idea is again, and oneof the things I also do on my
spare time is I actually teach.
I actually find a lot of joy inteaching and the reason why I
do it is because that is my wayof giving back to the next
generation.
And again I've learned the nextgeneration is not the young
generation, it's an array ofgenerations, because even as

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myself, as an older adult goingback to school, I encounter
individuals who are now comingback to school, who now have
gone through their life andtheir journey and obstacles that
they've overcome to come back.
So for me, it's about beingable to create that work and
that educational component andsaying to all of them this is
exciting, because I know you'rethe next generation that's going

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to come in and carry the legacyof all the great work that
we're doing every day.

Thank you.
Next question that we have fromour audience is one of the most
powerful tools in life, whichrequires no professional
experience, is to simply asksomeone how they are doing and
listen when they respond.
Paying attention to thosearound you matters, but it's
also important to know resourceswhen it can become too much for

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you.
What are some resources thatyou would recommend?

That's a great question One.
I think it's great to beavailable to people and to be
that listening ear that showedher to cry on and to have
boundaries around that, to knowhow much of that we're able to
hold and when it's time toencourage people to use other
resources, including otherpeople.

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In terms of resources, I thinkit really depends on what the
person would benefit from.
I think there are alwaysreligious and spiritual
resources, there are resourcesfor physical health, there's
exercise, there's all of thosethings, and then there's
professional help, whichobviously I'm a practicing

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psychologist I am a bigsupporter of.
Obviously, there are countyresources, and so I think,
really, being specific, I lovewarm handoffs, meaning pull out
your phone right now, not a I'llsend you later, because anybody
like me who, if you don't do itright now, it may or may not

(01:42:45):
get done, or it wakes you up inthe middle of the night
remembering to do it.
And so pull out your phoneright now, let me show you right
.
If I'm on campus, oh, walk withme, I'm going this way, and so
I will physically walk someoneto an office and talk to the
people that I know there.
Or, if I can't, ask for Martha,ask for such and such and say

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that I sent you Because peopleare much more likely to take
advantage of those resources.
But if you aren't sure who orwhat resource would be most
beneficial and we don't always,and that's okay or what resource
would be most beneficial and wedon't always, and that's okay
we don't have to know or have apersonal referral for every need
that everyone has.

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You can say you know what, Idon't know, but I know who does
right and connecting them tothat.
So I'm a big fan of reallypersonalized kinds of support
and referrals and resources thatare accessible, and so if
somebody can't afford to payout-of-pocket for something,

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that's okay.
We have other resources.
Thankfully, you have what wasit?
1,200 DPH a really large,magnificent DBH team here in
this county.
There are hospital-basedreferrals.
There are so many differentavenues, and then there are
books, there are podcasts likethis one that folks could

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benefit from.
So I also like to shareresources, not just in that
moment but later.
Right, if I know somebody'sstruggling with something and I
come across an article, I comeacross a song, I come across
something.
You know what I was thinkingabout, you.
I know you've been goingthrough, you know, or I know
you're still grieving, you'restill whatever.
It's been a minute, but youknow what?
Here's this resource.

I just want to add a personal resource
on top of that For me.
Remember, I mentioned earlierthat I'm a big paper person,
right, one of the things I I dois I have a paper calendar and
basically what I do is Iactually plan my year.
So, in that, what I do is Ibasically will put in everything

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I do every day, because thathelps me and, if you saw it, I'm
and I color code, by the way,so I have certain colors for
certain activities and myhighlighters, whether it's
personal or work, things thatare organized and helps me
compartmentalize what I havegoing on.
And every Sunday is when I fillout the next week.
Every month I do in advance.
So one of the things is I booktrips, I do things.
I reach out to my family hey,I'm going to go out to Carlsbad,

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do you want to join?
I'm looking at this weekend hey, I'm going to go here and a
balance between my personal andmy professional life, but still
have a bird's eye view ofeverything going on.
So that's the only thing Iwould say.
The second thing that I justwant to add is one of the rules
I have set for myself is, at theend of the day, when I go home
and no matter who I talk to my10-minute limit of talking about

(01:45:55):
work After I reach now it's not10 minutes per person, because
I won't have friends.
What I'm talking about is 10minutes max and I highlight
something that I feel isrelevant, that I need to share,
that I need to get off myshoulders or anything like that.
It's usually my sister, but theidea is and she doesn't have
good advice, so that's actuallyshortens the 10 minutes, but the

(01:46:16):
key thing is I'm able to thencut it off, and it happens so
many times you can just findthat you keep talking about it,
talking about it.
So it's important to put a timelimit.
It's okay, and then just say,okay, that's it for the day and
that's it, and put it to restBecause guess what?
Tomorrow it's going to be there.

As an extra tip to that, a similar practice is
I'll send voice memos and that'slike a nice, because it doesn't
have to engage in a dialogue oflet's just like sulk into this,
let me just get it off my chestand I see, oh my gosh, I talked
straight for five, six minutesabout a situation and I have the
opportunity to delete it after,and so that's always kind of

(01:47:00):
like a good release of alsotaking care of myself.
Another question that we havefrom audience is how can
employee take care of theirmental health when they work in
maybe like a high-pacedenvironment but still remain
positive for their clients?

I think just that self-care, like you have to
do, stuff that you like to doto decompress and relax and
things like that.
Meditation, like we just didearlier, right?
Or simply, you know, going tothe gym.
That's what I do.

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I go to the gym, I work outbefore I start encountering
people so I can get all that out.
Then I say, hey, how you doing.
After that, and you knowwhatever helps you to decompress
, you just have to start andjust do that.
Be faithful to yourself in that.
Basically, I don't care if yougo get your nails done and your

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toes and all that stuff Y'allknow what y'all talking about.
Just whatever it does to helpyou to woosah sometimes, and
just be faithful.
A lot of times, we're faithfulto everyone but us, but we have
to learn it's okay to befaithful to yourself as well,
though, too.

I would just add intermittent breaks
throughout any and every day.
Some years back I had acolleague who was a smoker and
would take smoke breaks andwould stop by my office and she
started inviting me and I waslike you know what I could use a
break?
I don't smoke.
But so she's like, yeah, takeit.

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So her joke was come take anon-smoking smoke break with me.
And um, she smoked a lot.
So I.
I didn't know that in advancewhen I agreed to this, but she
started taking me on her smokebreaks and it was actually

(01:49:06):
really helpful.
It would just break up the dayand it wasn't that long.
She'd take, you know, whatevernumber of puffs and we'd chat,
so it was also a good way toconnect with her.
It forced us to be outside.
I lived in Chicago at the timeso I didn't always appreciate
that part, but yeah, it got meinto the habit of taking

(01:49:28):
intermittent breaks during theday just to move around, just to
go outside to connect with acolleague or, if I'm working
from home, to connect at homewith my husband.
And so, yeah, intermittentbreaks, because we will always
have something due.
There's always going to be, um,a deadline.
The fast pace, slow pace, itdoesn't matter.

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Take breaks.

I was just going to ask a follow-up of did
you find that you showed upbetter after these breaks?
Because often the misconceptionis like let me just go through
all of these email, let me gothrough all of this work, and I
don't want to lose those 10minutes yeah, I think my
colleagues and students, andprobably clients as well, will

(01:50:13):
agree that my tone is a littlebetter if I've had a break.

I think people know if I'm taking care
of myself.
Even my loved ones know.
I always know that I may be alittle edgy when my husband, my
daughter, like, hey, you need togo on a run.
You know you need, why don'tyou go and do that?
But yes, absolutely, I feelbetter.
But also I think I'm moreproductive and just the quality

(01:50:42):
of how I'm able to show up afterthose few minutes of a
non-smoke smoke break can behelpful.

What was she smoking?

Oh geez, I'm just playing, I'm just playing.

I think one piece I'd like to add is
that it's how you start your day.
One piece I'd like to add isthat it's how you start your day
.
And it's funny as I'm lookingat Maribel right now, because I
came to her one day and I saidyou know, I learned this new
concept.
And she was like what was that?
And it was called.
I said it's check your weather.
And for me it's like when I getin my car it all begins there.

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Right, you wake up in themorning you can already already
tell the direction.
So when you get in your car,I've learned to my music.
So I've learned like, avoidhard rock, anything like beat,
because then I'm just like, okay, I gotta get to work.
But I think it's a matter andyou know, try not to have too
early of phone conversations.
I'm still working on that.
Sometimes I feel like I can geta lot of work done.
But I think it's about checkingyour weather.

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If you know that your day isalready stormy, to try to be
able to make someself-reflection, to realize like
, what's causing that?
To know, because if you don'thave that under containment when
you go into the office, it'llpresent and even though you may
try your best not to so everynow and then, Maribel Maverick,
she said to me she's like gee,check your weather.
So I think you know it's a goodthing, because it's sometimes

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and it's probably you may noteven know how you're presenting
until somebody says that andthen you realize because, even
though you may feel you'retrying to portray a certain way,
it may be what's physically onthe outside that someone's
seeing.
So thanks, maribel for that.
But I think, again, it'ssomething that it's really
important is how you start yourday and then, as I mentioned
earlier, how you end your day,because I think a lot of times
we, we don't we.
It's really important is how youstart your day and then, as I

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mentioned earlier, how you endyour day, because I think a lot
of times we don't.
It's everything in thein-between, and someone talked
about, you know, working in ahigh-paced type job.
We're drawn to that.
So many of us that do that.
It's because it's somethingthat we're drawn to, we actually
do really well.
It's when we forget to take thetime to realize what we do well
and realize that we need tomake decisions about how we take

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care of that, because it'ssomething that, again, it's
inherent in us, like we, just weconstantly go, go, go, but it's
when we start coming down fromthat, and there's that's where
you need those resources thoughout, those outlets, times with
friends, families, outings,things like that, doing things
that are going to find apleasure watching, watching TV.
I don't know about you guys, butI'm a big hallmark watcher, I'm
huge, and I know the story.

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I already know, I already knowthey're going to find someone,
fall in love, and it's going tobe happily ever after I got it.
But the idea, though, is, whenyou're sitting there and you're
just vegging out, right, you'rejust like, wow, this is great,
great, and I find myself cryingsometimes, like I'm like, why am
I crying?
Like I already know, right, butthe idea is it's calming, and I

(01:53:28):
think that's really what we dois we all have to find our own
way to find resources that willmake us realize that, hey, I'm
taking care of myself, but thenext day, when I go in, I know
that I'm going to feet are goingto hit the ground, because
that's what I do best.

Thank you.
Thank you.
Another question we have iswhat are some challenges you
have faced with boundaries asprofessionals and as caregivers?

Large sigh, I think.
Well, boundaries, like in myposition, I'm the executive
director, been executivedirector for close to 25 years,
so you always have to find thoseboundaries, like I said earlier

(01:54:15):
, like I'm around my staff andmy team more than anyone, like I
think I just go home to sleepand eat and then I come back to
work the next morning and so andso, with that too, you just
have to, you know, have it inthe back of your mind.
Now, I'm very mission-mindedand purpose-driven, right?
So that's always in my mind.

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Did we get it done?
Like I don't care what we'vebeen through today, how stressed
we are, whatever, at the end ofthe day did we get it done?
So that's what I'm alwaysthinking about, like that day.
So everyone on our team, theyhave a specific mission or
purpose or chore that they haveto do within an organization to

(01:54:59):
make stuff happen.
And too, I joke a lot, lotaround, joke around a lot, see
and and with that too.
So I have to check that,because somebody, I say
something, and then someone justpopped my head and it's fall
out my mouth and I didn'trealize I said it to afterwards.
I was like you know, I Ishouldn't have said that I'm bad

(01:55:20):
, but it it was funny thoughright, and so, even with those
boundaries as well, though, too.
Also, too, just being with wehave a great team and just
knowing, like you know our staffgo through things personally,
you know they lose loved onesand, you know, go through

(01:55:40):
relationships up and downs andthings like that, and go through
relationships up and downs andthings like that, and just
knowing how far to indulge inthis conversation.
Do you want to know thisconversation?
Is this conversation going toget me in trouble?
Things like that?
So I'm always thinking aboutthose actions towards when I'm

(01:56:01):
working with my team as well.

We could talk about boundaries all day
right.
Boundaries can be really hardfor me, given I approach people
and I approach my work from aspace of love and a real
commitment to the healing andwell-being especially of people

(01:56:30):
who look like me.
My boundaries with work havestrengthened, as I've learned,
boundaries with family and in mypersonal life, and that's been
a journey like for so manypeople.
I'm a lot better at it nowbecause, I have to right, I'm
older, I can't do as much, butalso as a parent, I will always

(01:56:54):
steal from myself but never frommy daughter and, as you know,
with a child who has healthneeds and that kind of thing, I
need flexibility and want toshow up.
I need to show up in differentways for her, and so I think as
I have lived and I have grown, Ihave come to better understand

(01:57:17):
how to set limits, how to honorthose limits for myself but also
for the people around me, andalso to show up in ways that are
meaningful, because when Idon't honor my boundaries, then
I'm going to be resentful and begiving people the side eye
around me and that's unfair.
It's unfair to them when Ididn't set in or honor my own

(01:57:39):
boundary, and so for me that'sbeen a journey, and I'm so much
better at that today.
People that I work with knowthat I have hard limits around
like nope, that's my family timeI, you can inform me of
something and you know I willget back to you on that and and
I feel okay, guess what?

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Nothing terrible has happened.
And so you know when you liveenough and you know and have
survived real emergencies, realtraumas, real horrors.
It also allows you to keepother things in perspective, and
so that also has been reallyhelpful for me.

So I'm gonna give you two sides.
So, from a personal side, withmy brother and I've shared in
different forums that my brotherhas lived with mental illness
since he was in his early 20sand, as for me, I'm his primary
caregiver since we lost myfather three years ago and in
this role it's a balance betweenbeing a sister but being the

(01:58:44):
responsible person who has tomake decisions for him, both
financially and for his medicalcare.
Now, good news is I have a good.
My brother and my sister arevery much doing things, very
supportive with that.
My brother lives in a facilityand, again, knowing that my
professional side and the jobthat I do, and knowing when I
walk through the doors of thefacility I have to keep my hat

(01:59:06):
on as a sister.
It's so easy to find with thatboundary that you could cross
over and begin to questionthings.
But I have to have faith inregards to understanding and
being on the professional sideof knowing what it is to operate
a facility and what thosechallenges are, but what the
positives are is to operate afacility and what those
challenges are but what thepositives are, and seeing that
every day when I talk to mybrother and when I see him, he

(01:59:26):
looks healthy, he looks well.
He might complain here andthere it's always about snacks,
but we got that covered.
But the idea, you know, again,it's that it's that crossing
over and being able to be thatperson can that, can flip the
hat in regards to ensuring thathe is well taken care of, which
he is.
So I get emotional about itbecause, again, it's my older
brother and at the end of theday, you know, as a sister, it's

(01:59:48):
always my primaryresponsibility to ensure that he
, you know, he's living his bestin his 60s.
But with that, on the flip sideof it, one thing I've learned
through my time and I've beenI've carried my role in
leadership positions since avery early age.
I would say my first leadershiprole, just so everybody knows,
I worked at Chuck E Cheese, butwith that I was a team leader.

(02:00:09):
I kind of took on these rolesand I always liked to do that.
But I've learned now, even inthe role that I am today, as the
director of a department with1,200 employees, over a $700
million budget, and the idea isI have a great team.
But what you do find is it's avery lonely position and I think
what it is is most people maynot think that, because you
think, like, how could it be solonely?

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Well, I remember the day when Iwas in the department and I was
a clinic supervisor, when Ipromoted to a program manager,
when I promoted to a deputy, Ihad more resources in regards to
people that I could go to and Ican talk to and I can consult,
and I can have conversations andhave those in the weeds moments
and maybe do some complainingagain, because it's part of the

(02:00:52):
role, right when we're in thesedifferent types of positions.
But when you find yourself, asyou begin to move up, one of the
boundaries is about being inthese positions where you don't
have that ability to do that andis a loss because, again,
sometimes you do, at the end ofthe day, go home and just feel
like, wow, you know, who can Italk to, who can I say?
That's why I got 10 minuteswith the family.
They don't care, they don'tunderstand if I'm talking about

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SB 43.
They're like, okay, great toknow, thanks for sharing.
But the idea, though, is, again,I think, when we talk about the
boundaries, this is something,and I think, your dedication,
you want to promote your team,you want to foster what the asks

(02:01:45):
are, the needs are, but thenyou're in between this pulling
force and trying to create thatbalance.
That's that boundary, andsometimes it can be very
challenging, but the worst iswhen you feel like you're doing
it alone.
So I think at the end of theday it's really about, I think
it's a juggling act rightbetween your personal, but also
within your professional.

I like how all of you touched on that.
It's a learning process.
It's constant learning.
It's not something that isnecessarily black and white, of
just set those boundaries andjust go by them.
It's definitely not that easy,but we're each trying to, on a
daily basis, try to achieve that.
So those are the questions thatwe have from our audience.
A segment that we have at theend of each of our podcasts is

(02:02:25):
just some rapid fire mythbusting.
So what is a mental health myththat you would like to debunk?
And it could be just overallstigma, some of the barriers,
myth about resilience.
What have you encountered?

I'm going to say that talking about
mental health is not a weakness,it is a strength, and it's one
that in which we must endure andknow that mental health is
every day part of everybody'slife.
And to know, most importantlyalso, is that when people say
there's no resources, there areresources.
Understandably, as mentionedearlier, is that we have to get
the education out there, theadvocacy, and so there I look

(02:03:05):
across this room and say for allof you to be here today is that
you are that person, so pleasespread the word to know.

Yeah, I was just going to say that
depression is something you canjust shake off, that you can
just cheer yourself up from thatdepression.
Yeah, just to underscore that,especially clinical depression
is significant and can bedisabling for people, and some
folks can struggle with that offand on for a good chunk of

(02:03:38):
their life.
And so, yeah, let's avoidtrying to just cheer people up
and instead trying to see them,hear them and try to show
support in ways that they canfeel and ways that they need.

I want to say that in the African-American
community we do have mentalhealth and you cannot cure that
with ginger ale.

That was your mic drop moment.
Any final comments from ourpanelists as we wrap this
wonderful discussion up.

I would just like everyone to give
applause to our panelists thatare next to me, please Dr Jewel
and Dr Terrence.
I just want to thank everyonefor being here.
Miranda, great job.
Just want to give a please givea round of applause to Miranda
and her team for putting thegreat this wonderful venue.
I know they were here superearly, I have a feeling, but

(02:04:39):
with that, again to acknowledgethat May is mental health month
and the great activities thathave presented and that we're
able to raise awareness.
We appreciate you all beinghere.
It's so important looking outand being able to say just how
proud I am to be the directorfor department of health, and
not only that, to know that, asa individual who has a mother
who would live with mentalillness, as well as a brother,

(02:05:00):
to know that I appreciate everyday your dedicated work and your
willingness to come and make achange for individuals to know
that they can have optimalwellness in their life, and you
are that person that brings themto that journey.

so thank you to all of you also for everyone in
the room as well, though, too.
You are a small part ofsomething major, basically
because we have a whole army ofpeople out there that couldn't

(02:05:31):
even fit in this room, but theywill see them, or they'll see us
on the podcast.
But just stay in the fight.
Just make it happen.
Be resilient within yourself tohelp other people be resilient
within themselves as well,though, too.
Thank you.

I'll just say thank you all for having me
.
It has been really just a greatconversation and to be in great
company today, and I hope thateach of you is able to take even
something small that youlearned here today a new insight
, a new tool, a new resource, anew something that you're able

(02:06:16):
to take forward with you and toshare with somebody else who was
not here today.

Thank you.
Let's hear it up one more timefor our wonderful panelists.
Thank you all for joining me uphere.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
We do have some short remarksas a PSA, but before I pass it
over to Carol, I do want to justbring up Eden Havtigidgis up
here to be recognized.

(02:06:43):
She is the one that plannedthis, was her brainchild, so
bringing us all together, thatmade this happen.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
From bringing together ourwonderful panelists to writing
out some of the questions,finding the venue, just a kudos
to our wonderful part of ourpublic relations and outreach

(02:07:04):
team, eden Habtigidgis.

Eden Habtegiorgis (02:07:12):
Thank you so much, miranda, and again, thank
you guys for being here.
Most importantly, mental healthis real.
Wellness is important.
Make sure you share everythingthat was talked about today.
I want to say thank you toMiranda for allowing me to be
able to just be as expressive asI wanted to be, but also to my
team.
You see them at every outreachevent.

(02:07:35):
You see them everywhere.
We are trying to promotewellness and yeah, so thank you
so much and yeah, so thank youso much.

So we had a great, great discussion here
today.
I hope you have some majortakeaways that you can take into
your practice, take into yourpersonal lives, but we also want
to just share some of ourtraining opportunities that we
facilitate from the Departmentof Behavioral Health.
So I'd now like to welcome upCarol McDonald, our Community
Outreach Coordinator.
Thank you, carol.

Carol McDonald (02:08:18):
Try to put it in here.
Hello everyone, you hear meokay, yes, okay, good, five
minutes till afternoon.
Hello, my name is CarolMcDonald.
I am the Community OutreachCoordinator with the San
Bernardino County Department ofBehavioral Health.
Thank you all so much for beinghere today.
I hope you feel well-fed,engaged and hopefully really

(02:08:42):
inspired by the conversationthat we had here today.
I'm happy to have the chance toshare some valuable and
potentially life-saving trainingopportunities that the
department offers to support thewellness and safety of our
community.
Dbh offers free mental healthand suicide prevention trainings
open to all community membersteachers, health workers, faith

(02:09:03):
leaders, law enforcement reallyanybody who is in a position to
help, whether it's a small teamor a large group.
They're designed to give youthe tools to recognize and
respond to mental health orsubstance use challenges in
those around you.
Mental Health First Aid AdultTraining is an eight-hour course
that teaches you how toidentify, understand and respond

(02:09:24):
to the signs of mental illnessand substance use disorders in
adults.
This training is offered toanyone 18 years or older.
Dbh also offers Youth MentalHealth First Aid Training.
This is an eight-hour coursethat focuses on helping youth
ages 12 to 18 who may beexperiencing mental health or
substance use challenges.
This training is ideal foranyone 18 or older who regularly

(02:09:51):
interacts with youth as I knowmany of you do such as parents,
teachers, coaches, youth leadersand more.
Both mental health first aidtrainings improve mental health
literacy and reduce stigma,which is key to early prevention
and something this departmentprioritizes because it's so
important.
The department also offerstrainings related to suicide
prevention.
The Applied SuicideIntervention Skills Assist

(02:10:14):
Training is a 16-hour, two-dayinteractive workshop that
provides in-depth training torecognize when someone may be at
risk for suicide and how tohelp them.
All community members 16 yearsor older may attend this
training.
Our department also offers SafeTalk Suicide Alertness for
everyone.

(02:10:34):
This three-hour training helpsyou recognize and support
someone who may be havingthoughts of suicide and connect
them to appropriate resources.
All community members 16 yearsor older may attend this
training.
It's also important for me tomention that these trainings are
not only for professionals.
They're for all of us, becausewe all have the power to make a

(02:10:58):
difference, whether you're acoworker, a friend, parent or
neighbor.
Knowing how to recognize thesigns and respond can save lives
, so these are really essentialtools.
To view our current trainingschedule, you can scan the QR
code behind me.
It'll take you straight to ourwebsite and you can head to the
events tab for full details onwhat we have coming up.

(02:11:19):
And if you're interested inbringing one of these trainings
to your workplace, your school,your church or community group,
we'd love to make that happen.
So please stop by the DBHresource table located just
outside.
Our team's ready to answer yourquestions and help you begin
the process to get a trainingscheduled.
At the training you'll also findour outreach card with our

(02:11:40):
email inbox, so feel free toreach out with training requests
, outreach requests or otherquestions.
And lastly, we want to hearfrom you.
Are there any types oftrainings you'd like to see the
department offer in the future?
If so, please email us yourideas.
Your feedback helps us betterserve this community in a way
that's tailored to its needs,with intention and with

(02:12:02):
partnership.
Thank you again for being heretoday and for supporting mental
health awareness and safetyacross San Bernardino County.
We hope to see you at one ofour trainings or any of our
other events this year.
Thank you so much.

Thank you, Carol.
Well, that concludes ourResilient and Real Summit.
Thank you all for making it apriority and being here today.
Thank you for being here.
Have a great rest of your day.

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