Capacity Building Projects
Capacity building for communities & organizations in Latin America.
Scaling up, sharing knowledge, & integrating culturally-based, contextually relevant practices across borders
PASEO Salud Mental provides trainings to mental health professionals, teachers, paraprofessionals, residential staff, and other individuals helping to provide care for individuals with mental illness or psychosocial distress.
“In the Latinx community, without established strong rapport and relationship building, we may not be very successful. To have the most impact we may need to spend more time just being present and “doing” less.”
~ 2018 Alumni
Workshops and training include:
Methods and skills for treating complex trauma (for mental health professionals)
Understanding trauma and creating a trauma-informed environment (for non- mental health professionals)Managing crisis behaviors in children and adolescents
Psychological First Aid (specific to situations of community and familial violence and sexual abuse)
Positive parenting and positive behavior management (for parents, guardians, residential treatment staff, non-profit volunteers, and teachers)
Motivational interviewing (for professionals or youth-serving staff)
Methods for assessing and managing perinatal depression for non-professionals
