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Mental Health Beyond the Individual
MENTAL HEALTH BEYOND THE INDIVIDUAL
Taking care of our mental health does not stop with us. We must also hold systems accountable for their role in our wellness. The Mental Health Beyond the Individual training encourages participants to redefine the concept of mental health as an individual issue by reflecting on the four types of oppression and their relevance to well-being.
By the end of the training, participants will have:
- Expanded their perception of mental health to include systemic influences
- Understood how oppression operates in its multiple forms
- Examined examples about the effects of oppression on well-being
About the Presenter
Ysabel Garcia is a first-generation Dominican immigrant with a bold and ambitious mission to dive heart first into raw and honest conversations about mental health, equity, and suicide prevention. She is a social justice educator, skilled dialogue facilitator, wounded healer, and disruptor of systems of oppression.
She embodies her messaging and personality through Estoy Aqui LLC, a grassroots initiative that provides suicide prevention training and social justice education to organizations and institutions serving the Latino/x and Black community. Her main goal is to raise awareness of the underlying social, cultural, and racial factors that create conditions for suicide to exist in these populations.
She has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Child Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Bay Path University.
