Youth Mental Health First Aid

Youth Mental Health First Aid is a comprehensive training specifically designed to equip educators, family members, and caregivers with the skills and knowledge to identify, understand, and respond to the signs or risk factors of mental illness and substance use disorders in youth.

Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use-related crisis.

Integrative & Innovative Strategies for Helping Kids Overcome Anxiety

Taught by Don MacMannis, Ph.D.

There has been a recent and dramatic increase in the number of children who suffer from various forms of anxiety. This course is designed for clinicians and mental health professionals wanting to learn and apply innovative and effective tools to help families with kids who suffer primarily from fears, phobias and PTSD.

Through a slide presentation, hands-on activities, demonstrations and numerous examples from videotaped sessions, the course will uncover the variety of factors that can contribute to anxiety. Moving beyond fundamentals of CBT, the group will focus on how to integrate and custom-tailor treatment methods, drawing form a variety of theoretical models. In a final segment of the workshop, Debra Manchester will routine strategies related to treatment of teens.

Public Lecture: Hope Kingsley on “Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840-1860”

A foremost expert on the history of photography’s first decades, Hope Kingsley, Curator, Education and Collections, Wilson Centre for Photography, presents a fascinating in-depth overview of "Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840-1860." This major traveling exhibition provides a rare and extraordinary chance to experience some of the earliest photographs ever made, by many of the most important and groundbreaking figures in the history of the photographic medium. Organized by the Wilson Centre for Photography, London, with the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, "Salt & Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860" is on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art September 8 – December 8.

This event is sponsored by the Lorna Hedges Lecture Fund.
Image: William Henry Fox Talbot, “Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London,” first week of April 1844, printed later. Salted paper print from a paper negative. Courtesy of the Wilson Centre for Photography.

Public Lecture: Hope Kingsley on “Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840-1860”

A foremost expert on the history of photography’s first decades, Hope Kingsley, Curator, Education and Collections, Wilson Centre for Photography, presents a fascinating in-depth overview of "Salt & Silver: Early Photography, 1840-1860." This major traveling exhibition provides a rare and extraordinary chance to experience some of the earliest photographs ever made, by many of the most important and groundbreaking figures in the history of the photographic medium. Organized by the Wilson Centre for Photography, London, with the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, "Salt & Silver: Early Photography 1840-1860" is on view at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art September 8 – December 8.

This event is sponsored by the Lorna Hedges Lecture Fund.
Image: William Henry Fox Talbot, “Nelson's Column under Construction, Trafalgar Square, London,” first week of April 1844, printed later. Salted paper print from a paper negative. Courtesy of the Wilson Centre for Photography.

Seeking new Courthouse docents

The Santa Barbara County Courthouse Docent Council is seeking applicants. Training for persons interested in becoming docents at this National Historic Landmark will begin on January 7, 2020 and end March 10, 2020. This is an opportunity to learn about the history and architecture of this special building and share the information with its many visitors from around the world. A coffee for prospective docents will be held on November 21, where you will be able to meet other docents and learn more about the upcoming class. Classes will be held weekly on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 – 12:00. Applications are available at the Courthouse information booth or by calling Mary Ann Froley at 805-448-1671 (email mafroley@cox.net). For those interested in this opportunity, please RSVP for the coffee to Ms. Froley.

Sustainable Seafood Teen Cook-off Reception, Competition, and Q&A with the chefs

You’ve watched them on television, now see them in person as they compete at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum! In recognition of the growing interest in sustainable seafood, cooking shows and competitions, as well as the emphasis on skills-based programs for teens, SBMM has invited two teen chefs to compete in a locally sourced seafood cook-off in front of a live audience. Both chefs are 14 and have competed on Top Chef Junior.

PFLAG Santa Barbara September Chapter Meeting

"Creating a Safe Community for our LGBTQ+ Children and Youth" - September meeting of PFLAG (Parents, Familes, Friends, and Alies United with LGBT People". All are welcome.

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