Skip to content
Geography
Below you can find people and practices from the Directory listed by geographic region (Central, East, and West) in Contra Costa County.
Central County
Ade Gobir
agobir@cccoe.k12.ca.us
Contra Costa County Office of Education
Trustworthiness and empowerment, safety(physical and psychological safety), Peer support-showing up for colleagues when it matters and doing what you say you would do. Cultural and historical and gender issues.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Amanda Dold
amanda.dold@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Behavioral Health
the BH division does not currently have any trauma informed initiatives
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Ann Wrixon
annwrixon@cccocasa.org
CASA of Contra Costa County
Cultural humility, developing programs that don't require clients to retell their truama story, respecting the story as told by the clients (as opposed to what in in their "file")
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Ashley Blanco
risethrivellc@gmail.com
Rise and Thrive LLC
Rise and Thrive LLC supports families in transforming trauma with systems-involved children and youth. It trains service providers in increasing emotional wellbeing and managing stress. Children and youth are supported in nurturing their resilience and expanding their capacity for school- and community-based innovation.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
C.O.P.E. FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
cathy.botello@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
C.O.P.E. is responsive to the specific needs of a diversity of families represented in Contra Costa County. C.O.P.E. leadership and staff members have received training to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes among the county’s diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and sexual minority populations. Integral to C.O.P.E.’s success with a diversity of families is our staff awareness of one’s own unique cultural worldview, an understanding and respectful attitude towards cultural differences, knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews, and cross-cultural skills development. C.O.P.E. also strives to engage others in a humble way by suspending judgment and accepting people, groups, etc. as they are and where they are and do not impose their own personal values upon others.
All services provided by C.O.P.E. follow culturally competent best practices which embrace, and foster diversity based on race, ethnicity, cultural identify, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious or spiritual beliefs, or the ability to pay for services. C.O.P.E. will provide specific services tailored to the needs of foster families, fathers, and parents who are co-parenting and those involved in CFS support services.
C.O.P.E. staff members have a history of working successfully in culturally diverse settings and collaborating with a variety of local agencies and community groups. All services are tailored to the specific needs of clients and are adaptable to meet a wide variety of needs. C.O.P.E. also strives to maintain a diverse staff. Over 30% of C.O.P.E.’s staff members are bi-lingual in Spanish and are Latino or Hispanic, 35% are African American, and 35% are other ethnicities. Most services are available in Spanish and English, Arabic, Farsi/Dari and other languages with translators.
A fundamental cornerstone of C.O.P.E.’s success is our extensive networking within the community. We utilize this network to partner with other agencies to address the needs of clients of other cultures and languages. This further enriches our ability to meet the needs of a culturally diverse spectrum of community families.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Counseling Options and Parent Education (C.O.P.E.)
Clinical@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
We provide services that are truama informed, we don't judge, We Listen, We Care, We Act. We attend yearly trainings, have information material available in our office to increase our understanding of trauma.
We've made changes in infra-structure to minimize toxic stress and secondary trauma (flexible hours, rest periods, access to wellness resources, reflexive supervision) and identify resources to provide a system of support to help people heal from these.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Cristina Hickey
chickey@capc-coco.org
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Contra Costa County
Our parenting classes, work with children, and educating the community are all trauma informed programs.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Dr. Manuel Fernandez
manuel.fernandez@laconcordiawellness.org
La Concordia Wellness Center
Our clinicians are all trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. We incorporate empathy and care while working with clients who have experienced traumatic events, while standing alongside them in their journeys of healing. We help them find coping skills that will provide stability in the moments that stability is compromised, also ensuring the importance of safety. We provide this treatment in different languages, and can connect the treatment to aspects of clients’ cultures. Strength of the client is emphasized as they are the ones who are choosing to go on their trauma treatment journey.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Emily Hampshire (she/they)
ehampshire@first5coco.org
First 5 Contra Costa
As Trauma & Resiliency Program Coordinator, my responsibilities include a range of activities that nurture trauma-informed and healing-centered systems across Contra Costa County, including coordinating First 5's collaborative ACEs Aware grant work, managing the Contra Costa Network of Care online community, and supporting interagency efforts to promote trauma-awareness and individual/community healing.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Genevieve Leighton-Armah
gleightonarmah@gmail.com
Community Strengths
n/a
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Hannah Michaelsen
hmichaelsen@careparentnetwork.org
Care Parent Network
Parent empowerment, staff training
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Hisham Alibob!
hisham.alibob@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Public Health
N/A
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Iris Podschun PCC
ipodschun@richmondcf.org
RCF Connects
I have participated in several trainings on individual, collective, and systemic trauma and incorporate a trauma-informed approach in RCF's Embodied Leadership Coaching program. Organizationally, several other staff have been trained, we invest in employee wellbeing and healing opportunities, and in holistic support for resident leaders. Our latest strategic plan also includes transparent and equitable decision-making.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jamie Elmasu
jamie.elmasu@johnmuirhealth.com
John Muir Health
One main initiative is the Beyond Violence All Partners Collaborative, where we engage 5 departments from within John Muir Health with 5 partner nonprofit organizations involved in the program. The Collaborative intentionally links providers, healthcare workers and frontline nonprofit staff and leadership, in ways that offer support and engagement.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jamie Elmasu
jamie.elmasu@johnmuirhealth.com
John Muir Health
Beyond violence hospital based violence intervention program
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jenn Lynn-Whaley
JENN@JLW-CONSULTING.COM
JLW Consulting | Building Resilient Schools
I begin my work with each community by listening to needs and integrating existing supports. All partnerships involve customized support that provides a context for how exposure to trauma affects learning and behavior of students.
To that end, the trainings are divided across roughly four sessions that build sequentially. Depending on needs, content may include: defining and building awareness of trauma, understanding ACEs, the importance of self/co-regulation, restorative mindsets, creation of psychological safety, implementing community building circles, punishment v. consequences, and strategies to respond to dysregulated students that reset the nervous system.
All partnerships conclude with sustainability planning which may include: how to train new teachers, aligning discipline policies, and updating teacher recruitment language and websites.
East CountyWest CountyCentral County
Jenny Schaeffer
jschaeffer@foodbankccs.org
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
We engage in trauma informed trainings for staff who work directly with clients
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jim Carpenter MD, MPH
jim.carpenter@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Health Services
We are trauma-informed providers and refer most victims/survivors to therapeutic relationships
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Krista Peterson
Krista.Peterson@cchealth.org
California Children's Services
We promote trauma-informed trainings and expect staff treat all participants/clients, families and one another with compassion, respect, and collaboration.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Martin J F Reese
martin@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
Since 2022 I have worked at helping people understand the effects of trauma on their communications and decision making process.
The training focused on collaboration and Empowerment and Cultural Humility and Equity. Part of this was achieved through the recognition of individual norms and how those norms were formulated. The identification of past trauma and how it may express itself through our words and actions that may add trauma to each others lives is viewed from an empathetic lens governed by the principals that we all have different requirements to function at our optimal selves.
East CountyWest CountyCentral County
Martin J.F. Reese
martin@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
Provided Training and education to apply trauma informed principles in the work place
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Megan Miccio
megan.miccio@cocokids.org
CocoKids
Trauma Informed Care, reading books about feelings, relationship building/attachment, red flags, sensory processing activities/heavy work, co-regulation strategies, mindfulness, executive functioning games (e.g., Simon Says, Red Light/Green Light, Freeze Dance, etc.).
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Michelle Mankewich
mmankewich@ehsd.cccounty.us
EHSD Community Services Bureau
Trauma informed Care
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Miriam Orantes
miriam.orantes@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Health Services
N/A
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Missy Brooks
missy.brooks@shelterinc.org
Shelter Inc.
N/A
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Nain Villanueva de Lopez
nain@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
Understanding trauma and stress, compassion and collaboration
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Rainbow Community Center
kelly@rainbowcc.org
Rainbow Community Center
RCC uses a trauma informed approach in all of our different programs and services, as well as incorporating those practices into our different events and community gatherings. Specifically, we ensure that staff are equipped to understand the impacts of trauma and how they might manifest in peoples behaviors, and how to de-escalate situation and mitigate rather than cause harm. We develop protocols to do so during events and in person contact out in the community. We practice an affirming, collaborative approach to all of our work, internally and externally, and are responsive and compassionate to concerns that are raised or issues that arise. We use a transparent, direct and kind approach to addressing conflict. We inform ourselves on an ongoing basis about how different individual intersections of identity including for example race, class, gender, sexual orientation and others, can cause differing examples of trauma that require different trauma informed approaches in order to empower those with marginalized experiences such as BIPOC LGBTQIA+ individuals.
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Shannon Mahoney
smahoney@contracostada.org
Contra Costa County District Attorney
Victim centered trauma informed advocacy services
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Shannon Starzyk
shannon@cocofamilyjustice.org
Family Justice Center
Community Engagement & Outreach, Psychoeducation, Trauma Informed Therapy and Healing, Restorative Justice Practices, Continued Professional development and training through the Family Justice Institute, Creating and embracing Culturally Responsive Therapeutic environments
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Vanessa Sequeira-Garza
vanessa.sequeira@communitystrengths.org
Community Strengths
TIPs
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Wanda Davis
wdavis@first5coco.org
First 5 Contra Costa
Training
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
We Care Services for Children
kransom@wecarechildren.org
We Care Services for Children
Mental health and developmental services, training and parent support
Central County
East County
Ade Gobir
agobir@cccoe.k12.ca.us
Contra Costa County Office of Education
Trustworthiness and empowerment, safety(physical and psychological safety), Peer support-showing up for colleagues when it matters and doing what you say you would do. Cultural and historical and gender issues.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Amanda Dold
amanda.dold@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Behavioral Health
the BH division does not currently have any trauma informed initiatives
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Ann Wrixon
annwrixon@cccocasa.org
CASA of Contra Costa County
Cultural humility, developing programs that don't require clients to retell their truama story, respecting the story as told by the clients (as opposed to what in in their "file")
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Ashley Blanco
risethrivellc@gmail.com
Rise and Thrive LLC
Rise and Thrive LLC supports families in transforming trauma with systems-involved children and youth. It trains service providers in increasing emotional wellbeing and managing stress. Children and youth are supported in nurturing their resilience and expanding their capacity for school- and community-based innovation.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Brighter Beginnings
bbmccullough@brighter-beginnings.org
Brighter Beginnings
ACES
East CountyWest County
C.O.P.E. FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
cathy.botello@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
C.O.P.E. is responsive to the specific needs of a diversity of families represented in Contra Costa County. C.O.P.E. leadership and staff members have received training to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes among the county’s diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and sexual minority populations. Integral to C.O.P.E.’s success with a diversity of families is our staff awareness of one’s own unique cultural worldview, an understanding and respectful attitude towards cultural differences, knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews, and cross-cultural skills development. C.O.P.E. also strives to engage others in a humble way by suspending judgment and accepting people, groups, etc. as they are and where they are and do not impose their own personal values upon others.
All services provided by C.O.P.E. follow culturally competent best practices which embrace, and foster diversity based on race, ethnicity, cultural identify, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious or spiritual beliefs, or the ability to pay for services. C.O.P.E. will provide specific services tailored to the needs of foster families, fathers, and parents who are co-parenting and those involved in CFS support services.
C.O.P.E. staff members have a history of working successfully in culturally diverse settings and collaborating with a variety of local agencies and community groups. All services are tailored to the specific needs of clients and are adaptable to meet a wide variety of needs. C.O.P.E. also strives to maintain a diverse staff. Over 30% of C.O.P.E.’s staff members are bi-lingual in Spanish and are Latino or Hispanic, 35% are African American, and 35% are other ethnicities. Most services are available in Spanish and English, Arabic, Farsi/Dari and other languages with translators.
A fundamental cornerstone of C.O.P.E.’s success is our extensive networking within the community. We utilize this network to partner with other agencies to address the needs of clients of other cultures and languages. This further enriches our ability to meet the needs of a culturally diverse spectrum of community families.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Christina Jefferson
christinaj@cocofamilyjustice.org
The Family Justice Center
na
East County
Counseling Options and Parent Education (C.O.P.E.)
Clinical@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
We provide services that are truama informed, we don't judge, We Listen, We Care, We Act. We attend yearly trainings, have information material available in our office to increase our understanding of trauma.
We've made changes in infra-structure to minimize toxic stress and secondary trauma (flexible hours, rest periods, access to wellness resources, reflexive supervision) and identify resources to provide a system of support to help people heal from these.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Cristina Hickey
chickey@capc-coco.org
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Contra Costa County
Our parenting classes, work with children, and educating the community are all trauma informed programs.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Dr. Manuel Fernandez
manuel.fernandez@laconcordiawellness.org
La Concordia Wellness Center
Our clinicians are all trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. We incorporate empathy and care while working with clients who have experienced traumatic events, while standing alongside them in their journeys of healing. We help them find coping skills that will provide stability in the moments that stability is compromised, also ensuring the importance of safety. We provide this treatment in different languages, and can connect the treatment to aspects of clients’ cultures. Strength of the client is emphasized as they are the ones who are choosing to go on their trauma treatment journey.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Emily Hampshire (she/they)
ehampshire@first5coco.org
First 5 Contra Costa
As Trauma & Resiliency Program Coordinator, my responsibilities include a range of activities that nurture trauma-informed and healing-centered systems across Contra Costa County, including coordinating First 5's collaborative ACEs Aware grant work, managing the Contra Costa Network of Care online community, and supporting interagency efforts to promote trauma-awareness and individual/community healing.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Genevieve Leighton-Armah
gleightonarmah@gmail.com
Community Strengths
n/a
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Hannah Michaelsen
hmichaelsen@careparentnetwork.org
Care Parent Network
Parent empowerment, staff training
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Hisham Alibob!
hisham.alibob@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Public Health
N/A
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Iris Podschun PCC
ipodschun@richmondcf.org
RCF Connects
I have participated in several trainings on individual, collective, and systemic trauma and incorporate a trauma-informed approach in RCF's Embodied Leadership Coaching program. Organizationally, several other staff have been trained, we invest in employee wellbeing and healing opportunities, and in holistic support for resident leaders. Our latest strategic plan also includes transparent and equitable decision-making.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jamie Elmasu
jamie.elmasu@johnmuirhealth.com
John Muir Health
One main initiative is the Beyond Violence All Partners Collaborative, where we engage 5 departments from within John Muir Health with 5 partner nonprofit organizations involved in the program. The Collaborative intentionally links providers, healthcare workers and frontline nonprofit staff and leadership, in ways that offer support and engagement.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jamie Elmasu
jamie.elmasu@johnmuirhealth.com
John Muir Health
Beyond violence hospital based violence intervention program
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jenn Lynn-Whaley
JENN@JLW-CONSULTING.COM
JLW Consulting | Building Resilient Schools
I begin my work with each community by listening to needs and integrating existing supports. All partnerships involve customized support that provides a context for how exposure to trauma affects learning and behavior of students.
To that end, the trainings are divided across roughly four sessions that build sequentially. Depending on needs, content may include: defining and building awareness of trauma, understanding ACEs, the importance of self/co-regulation, restorative mindsets, creation of psychological safety, implementing community building circles, punishment v. consequences, and strategies to respond to dysregulated students that reset the nervous system.
All partnerships conclude with sustainability planning which may include: how to train new teachers, aligning discipline policies, and updating teacher recruitment language and websites.
East CountyWest CountyCentral County
Jenny Schaeffer
jschaeffer@foodbankccs.org
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
We engage in trauma informed trainings for staff who work directly with clients
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jim Carpenter MD, MPH
jim.carpenter@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Health Services
We are trauma-informed providers and refer most victims/survivors to therapeutic relationships
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jose Rizo
jose@vcrcbrentwoodca.org
Village Community Resource Center
Parent Peer Support Group, Promotoras en Bienestar Mental
East County
Karina I Martinez
karina@vcrcbrentwoodca.org
Village Community Resource Center
Hemos dado apoyo a familias que se han visto afectadas por familiares siendo encarcelados,
También hemos referido a nuestras familias a otras organizaciones que pueden ayudar mejor en un área en específico que nosotros no trabajamos específicamente. Tenemos talleres para la prevención de estrés y depresión, en estos talleres demostramos el poder de la resiliencia que tiene nuestra comunidad ante situaciones adversas. Damos apoyo a personas que requieren consejeria en salud mental al colaborar con Fred Finch Youth and Family services.
East County
Kim Jones
kimjones@vistability.org
The Lynn Center
Understanding Trauma & Stress; Compassion & Dependability; Resiliency & Recovery
East County
Krista Peterson
Krista.Peterson@cchealth.org
California Children's Services
We promote trauma-informed trainings and expect staff treat all participants/clients, families and one another with compassion, respect, and collaboration.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Martin J F Reese
martin@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
Since 2022 I have worked at helping people understand the effects of trauma on their communications and decision making process.
The training focused on collaboration and Empowerment and Cultural Humility and Equity. Part of this was achieved through the recognition of individual norms and how those norms were formulated. The identification of past trauma and how it may express itself through our words and actions that may add trauma to each others lives is viewed from an empathetic lens governed by the principals that we all have different requirements to function at our optimal selves.
East CountyWest CountyCentral County
Martin J.F. Reese
martin@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
Provided Training and education to apply trauma informed principles in the work place
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Megan Miccio
megan.miccio@cocokids.org
CocoKids
Trauma Informed Care, reading books about feelings, relationship building/attachment, red flags, sensory processing activities/heavy work, co-regulation strategies, mindfulness, executive functioning games (e.g., Simon Says, Red Light/Green Light, Freeze Dance, etc.).
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Michelle Mankewich
mmankewich@ehsd.cccounty.us
EHSD Community Services Bureau
Trauma informed Care
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Miriam Orantes
miriam.orantes@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Health Services
N/A
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Missy Brooks
missy.brooks@shelterinc.org
Shelter Inc.
N/A
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Modesta
modesta@cocofamilyjustice.org
Family Justice Center
Charlamos de quiene somos en círculos.
De valores,de herencia, de nuestros ancestros, de nuestra fe y acción.
East County
Monserrat Cabral
mcabral@antiochca.gov
City of Antioch
Personally, I believe in connectivity, and I increase my understanding of trauma through training, reading, and research. I practice meditation, and time outside to destress and teach children and young adults to do the same. I train departmental staff on the same concepts I practice and encourage them to take mental health days and not to answer emails on days off or when not at work. I practice being reliable both at home and work and do not overcommit.
East County
Nain Villanueva de Lopez
nain@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
Understanding trauma and stress, compassion and collaboration
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Rainbow Community Center
kelly@rainbowcc.org
Rainbow Community Center
RCC uses a trauma informed approach in all of our different programs and services, as well as incorporating those practices into our different events and community gatherings. Specifically, we ensure that staff are equipped to understand the impacts of trauma and how they might manifest in peoples behaviors, and how to de-escalate situation and mitigate rather than cause harm. We develop protocols to do so during events and in person contact out in the community. We practice an affirming, collaborative approach to all of our work, internally and externally, and are responsive and compassionate to concerns that are raised or issues that arise. We use a transparent, direct and kind approach to addressing conflict. We inform ourselves on an ongoing basis about how different individual intersections of identity including for example race, class, gender, sexual orientation and others, can cause differing examples of trauma that require different trauma informed approaches in order to empower those with marginalized experiences such as BIPOC LGBTQIA+ individuals.
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Rosa Acosta directora de Morada de mujeres del Milenio
acostaa2000@Hotmail.com
Morada de Mujeres del Milenio
N/A
West CountyEast County
Shannon Mahoney
smahoney@contracostada.org
Contra Costa County District Attorney
Victim centered trauma informed advocacy services
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Shannon Starzyk
shannon@cocofamilyjustice.org
Family Justice Center
Community Engagement & Outreach, Psychoeducation, Trauma Informed Therapy and Healing, Restorative Justice Practices, Continued Professional development and training through the Family Justice Institute, Creating and embracing Culturally Responsive Therapeutic environments
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Vanessa Sequeira-Garza
vanessa.sequeira@communitystrengths.org
Community Strengths
TIPs
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Wanda Davis
wdavis@first5coco.org
First 5 Contra Costa
Training
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
West County
Ade Gobir
agobir@cccoe.k12.ca.us
Contra Costa County Office of Education
Trustworthiness and empowerment, safety(physical and psychological safety), Peer support-showing up for colleagues when it matters and doing what you say you would do. Cultural and historical and gender issues.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Adriana Martinez
amartinez@thelatinacenter.org
The Latina Center
Community healing circles
West County
Amanda Dold
amanda.dold@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Behavioral Health
the BH division does not currently have any trauma informed initiatives
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Amanda jenkins
Operation.ground.0ceo@gmail.com
Operation ground 0 inc
Empowerment resiliency compassion cultural humility equity
West County
Ann Wrixon
annwrixon@cccocasa.org
CASA of Contra Costa County
Cultural humility, developing programs that don't require clients to retell their truama story, respecting the story as told by the clients (as opposed to what in in their "file")
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Ashley Blanco
risethrivellc@gmail.com
Rise and Thrive LLC
Rise and Thrive LLC supports families in transforming trauma with systems-involved children and youth. It trains service providers in increasing emotional wellbeing and managing stress. Children and youth are supported in nurturing their resilience and expanding their capacity for school- and community-based innovation.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Brighter Beginnings
bbmccullough@brighter-beginnings.org
Brighter Beginnings
ACES
East CountyWest County
Building Blocks for Kids Richmond
info@bbk-richmond.org
Building Blocks for Kids Rochmond
Not only do we provide trauma informed care through our peer based emotional support groups, but we facilitate wellness activities designed to educate people about the importance of practicing self-care in promoting mental and physical health. These activities include but are not limited to; monthly hiking events, family engagement events, and community resource workshops.
West County
C.O.P.E. FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER
cathy.botello@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
C.O.P.E. is responsive to the specific needs of a diversity of families represented in Contra Costa County. C.O.P.E. leadership and staff members have received training to reduce health disparities and improve outcomes among the county’s diverse racial, ethnic, cultural, linguistic and sexual minority populations. Integral to C.O.P.E.’s success with a diversity of families is our staff awareness of one’s own unique cultural worldview, an understanding and respectful attitude towards cultural differences, knowledge of different cultural practices and worldviews, and cross-cultural skills development. C.O.P.E. also strives to engage others in a humble way by suspending judgment and accepting people, groups, etc. as they are and where they are and do not impose their own personal values upon others.
All services provided by C.O.P.E. follow culturally competent best practices which embrace, and foster diversity based on race, ethnicity, cultural identify, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious or spiritual beliefs, or the ability to pay for services. C.O.P.E. will provide specific services tailored to the needs of foster families, fathers, and parents who are co-parenting and those involved in CFS support services.
C.O.P.E. staff members have a history of working successfully in culturally diverse settings and collaborating with a variety of local agencies and community groups. All services are tailored to the specific needs of clients and are adaptable to meet a wide variety of needs. C.O.P.E. also strives to maintain a diverse staff. Over 30% of C.O.P.E.’s staff members are bi-lingual in Spanish and are Latino or Hispanic, 35% are African American, and 35% are other ethnicities. Most services are available in Spanish and English, Arabic, Farsi/Dari and other languages with translators.
A fundamental cornerstone of C.O.P.E.’s success is our extensive networking within the community. We utilize this network to partner with other agencies to address the needs of clients of other cultures and languages. This further enriches our ability to meet the needs of a culturally diverse spectrum of community families.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Counseling Options and Parent Education (C.O.P.E.)
Clinical@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
We provide services that are truama informed, we don't judge, We Listen, We Care, We Act. We attend yearly trainings, have information material available in our office to increase our understanding of trauma.
We've made changes in infra-structure to minimize toxic stress and secondary trauma (flexible hours, rest periods, access to wellness resources, reflexive supervision) and identify resources to provide a system of support to help people heal from these.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Cristina Hickey
chickey@capc-coco.org
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Contra Costa County
Our parenting classes, work with children, and educating the community are all trauma informed programs.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Dr. Manuel Fernandez
manuel.fernandez@laconcordiawellness.org
La Concordia Wellness Center
Our clinicians are all trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. We incorporate empathy and care while working with clients who have experienced traumatic events, while standing alongside them in their journeys of healing. We help them find coping skills that will provide stability in the moments that stability is compromised, also ensuring the importance of safety. We provide this treatment in different languages, and can connect the treatment to aspects of clients’ cultures. Strength of the client is emphasized as they are the ones who are choosing to go on their trauma treatment journey.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Emily Hampshire (she/they)
ehampshire@first5coco.org
First 5 Contra Costa
As Trauma & Resiliency Program Coordinator, my responsibilities include a range of activities that nurture trauma-informed and healing-centered systems across Contra Costa County, including coordinating First 5's collaborative ACEs Aware grant work, managing the Contra Costa Network of Care online community, and supporting interagency efforts to promote trauma-awareness and individual/community healing.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Erika Ramirez
eramirez@thelatinacenter.org
The Latina Center
N/A
West County
Genevieve Leighton-Armah
gleightonarmah@gmail.com
Community Strengths
n/a
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Hannah Michaelsen
hmichaelsen@careparentnetwork.org
Care Parent Network
Parent empowerment, staff training
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Hisham Alibob!
hisham.alibob@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Public Health
N/A
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Iris Podschun PCC
ipodschun@richmondcf.org
RCF Connects
I have participated in several trainings on individual, collective, and systemic trauma and incorporate a trauma-informed approach in RCF's Embodied Leadership Coaching program. Organizationally, several other staff have been trained, we invest in employee wellbeing and healing opportunities, and in holistic support for resident leaders. Our latest strategic plan also includes transparent and equitable decision-making.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jamie Elmasu
jamie.elmasu@johnmuirhealth.com
John Muir Health
One main initiative is the Beyond Violence All Partners Collaborative, where we engage 5 departments from within John Muir Health with 5 partner nonprofit organizations involved in the program. The Collaborative intentionally links providers, healthcare workers and frontline nonprofit staff and leadership, in ways that offer support and engagement.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jamie Elmasu
jamie.elmasu@johnmuirhealth.com
John Muir Health
Beyond violence hospital based violence intervention program
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jenn Lynn-Whaley
JENN@JLW-CONSULTING.COM
JLW Consulting | Building Resilient Schools
I begin my work with each community by listening to needs and integrating existing supports. All partnerships involve customized support that provides a context for how exposure to trauma affects learning and behavior of students.
To that end, the trainings are divided across roughly four sessions that build sequentially. Depending on needs, content may include: defining and building awareness of trauma, understanding ACEs, the importance of self/co-regulation, restorative mindsets, creation of psychological safety, implementing community building circles, punishment v. consequences, and strategies to respond to dysregulated students that reset the nervous system.
All partnerships conclude with sustainability planning which may include: how to train new teachers, aligning discipline policies, and updating teacher recruitment language and websites.
East CountyWest CountyCentral County
Jenny Schaeffer
jschaeffer@foodbankccs.org
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
We engage in trauma informed trainings for staff who work directly with clients
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Jim Carpenter MD, MPH
jim.carpenter@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Health Services
We are trauma-informed providers and refer most victims/survivors to therapeutic relationships
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Kanwarpal Dhaliwal (she/her)
kanwarpal@rysecenter.org
RYSE
Healing-centered engagement, radical inquiry, creative expression, collective care, celebration and joy, youth power-building.
West County
Krista Peterson
Krista.Peterson@cchealth.org
California Children's Services
We promote trauma-informed trainings and expect staff treat all participants/clients, families and one another with compassion, respect, and collaboration.
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Lea Murray
collaborising@gmail.com
Collaborising
We practice all areas of trauma informed principles with an emphasis on collaboration and empowerment through advocacy.
West County
Leticia Navarro
lnavarro@richmondworks.org
YouthWORKS
N/A
West County
Martin J F Reese
martin@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
Since 2022 I have worked at helping people understand the effects of trauma on their communications and decision making process.
The training focused on collaboration and Empowerment and Cultural Humility and Equity. Part of this was achieved through the recognition of individual norms and how those norms were formulated. The identification of past trauma and how it may express itself through our words and actions that may add trauma to each others lives is viewed from an empathetic lens governed by the principals that we all have different requirements to function at our optimal selves.
East CountyWest CountyCentral County
Martin J.F. Reese
martin@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
Provided Training and education to apply trauma informed principles in the work place
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Megan Miccio
megan.miccio@cocokids.org
CocoKids
Trauma Informed Care, reading books about feelings, relationship building/attachment, red flags, sensory processing activities/heavy work, co-regulation strategies, mindfulness, executive functioning games (e.g., Simon Says, Red Light/Green Light, Freeze Dance, etc.).
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Michelle Mankewich
mmankewich@ehsd.cccounty.us
EHSD Community Services Bureau
Trauma informed Care
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Miriam Orantes
miriam.orantes@cchealth.org
Contra Costa Health Services
N/A
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Missy Brooks
missy.brooks@shelterinc.org
Shelter Inc.
N/A
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Nain Villanueva de Lopez
nain@copefamilysupport.org
C.O.P.E Family Support Center
Understanding trauma and stress, compassion and collaboration
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Omoniyi Omotoso
oomotoso@lifelongmedical.org
LifeLong William Jenkins Health Center
We routinely hire bilingual staff as majority of our community served are Spanish speaking and provide remote interpreter services in all our exam rooms and office spaces. We also conduct series of trainings including Fall 2021 All-Staff cultural humility training and a winter 2021 three-session series on staff wellness and trauma-informed practice around screening tools. We engage in trauma-informed practice grants including the Genentech Resilient Beginnings Network and ongoing parenting intervention program study associated with resiliency building utilizing ACEs and SDoH resources screening, navigation and linkage services for families with young children (toddlers). We provide opportunities for celebration and honoring of cultural events of our staff and community with displays in our waiting rooms and team rooms reflecting that.
West County
Rainbow Community Center
kelly@rainbowcc.org
Rainbow Community Center
RCC uses a trauma informed approach in all of our different programs and services, as well as incorporating those practices into our different events and community gatherings. Specifically, we ensure that staff are equipped to understand the impacts of trauma and how they might manifest in peoples behaviors, and how to de-escalate situation and mitigate rather than cause harm. We develop protocols to do so during events and in person contact out in the community. We practice an affirming, collaborative approach to all of our work, internally and externally, and are responsive and compassionate to concerns that are raised or issues that arise. We use a transparent, direct and kind approach to addressing conflict. We inform ourselves on an ongoing basis about how different individual intersections of identity including for example race, class, gender, sexual orientation and others, can cause differing examples of trauma that require different trauma informed approaches in order to empower those with marginalized experiences such as BIPOC LGBTQIA+ individuals.
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Rhina Reese
rhina.reese@lausd.net
LAUSD
Restorative Justice
West County
Rosa Acosta directora de Morada de mujeres del Milenio
acostaa2000@Hotmail.com
Morada de Mujeres del Milenio
N/A
West CountyEast County
Shannon Mahoney
smahoney@contracostada.org
Contra Costa County District Attorney
Victim centered trauma informed advocacy services
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Shannon Starzyk
shannon@cocofamilyjustice.org
Family Justice Center
Community Engagement & Outreach, Psychoeducation, Trauma Informed Therapy and Healing, Restorative Justice Practices, Continued Professional development and training through the Family Justice Institute, Creating and embracing Culturally Responsive Therapeutic environments
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Swostika Timalsina
swostika@cocofamilyjustice.org
Family Justice Center
We do meet clients where they are at. Our center collaborates with Family justice Institute to provide different trainings for service providers.
West County
Tierra Karriem
misskarriem@gmail.com
Bay Area Community Resources (BACR)
na
West County
Vanessa Sequeira-Garza
vanessa.sequeira@communitystrengths.org
Community Strengths
TIPs
West CountyEast CountyCentral County
Wanda Davis
wdavis@first5coco.org
First 5 Contra Costa
Training
Central CountyEast CountyWest County
Yolanda Mendoza
ymendoza@thelatinacenter.org
The Latina Center
.
West County
Want to print your doc?
This is not the way.
This is not the way.
Try clicking the ⋯ next to your doc name or using a keyboard shortcut (
CtrlP
) instead.