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Together for Wellness CA

This website is a collaborative platform uniting mental health services, nonprofits, academic institutions, health agencies, and foundations in California, dedicated to providing digital resources like apps, websites, articles, and videos to support individuals managing daily stressors.

North American Programs

 

Selected CAPPS & NAPLS Study Findings

 
  • Presentation of findings from a high risk study funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.  https://www.rwjf.org/
  • For more information about NAPLS research, see our ‘Opportunities‘ tab.

UCLA Child & Teen Clinics

  • UCLA Child and Adolescent Mood Disorders Program (CHAMP)
    Provides evaulation for youth 7-17 years with bipolar and other mood disorders. Offers family therapy and medication management. Some individual and group therapies and parent support groups are available for those who qualify through CHAMP research clinic.
    http://www2.semel.ucla.edu/champ

  • UCLA Youth Stress and Mood (YSAM)
    Provides treatment for depression and suicide prevention in youth (ages 7-18)
    http://www2.semel.ucla.edu/youth-stress

  • UCLA S.A.F.E.T.Y. Program
    This YSM program works with adolescents who have presented to the emergency room with a suicide attempt. This three-month program provides individual/family therapy and case management.
    https://www.semel.ucla.edu/ysam/research/project/safety-program

  • UCLA Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®)
    Provides evidence-based group social skills interventions for youth (preschoolers to young adults)
    http://www2.semel.ucla.edu/peers/

UCLA Adult Clinics

  • Find Care at UCLA: https://www.uclahealth.org/patient-resources/community-resources
  • UCLA Aftercare Research Program
    Provides intensive, evidence-based outpatient treatment to individuals 18 to 45 who have had a recent first episode of psychosis (i.e., within 2 years of illness onset). Treatment includes individual case management, group therapy, intensive support in returning to work and/or school, and antipsychotic medication.
    http://www2.semel.ucla.edu/aftercare
  • UCLA Thoughts Disorders Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)
    Provides intensive, evidence-based outpatient treatment, including case management, groups, brief individual or family treatment, and psychiatry for adults 18+ with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and other thought disorders.
    https://www.uclahealth.org/resnick/thought-disorders-iop-1077
  • UCLA Schizophrenia Clinic
    Provides outpatient treatment for adults 18+ with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and other thought disorders.
    https://www.semel.ucla.edu/clinic/schizophrenia
  • UCLA Mood Disorders Clinic
    Treats adults with bipolar disorder, major depression, schizoaffective disorder, dysthymic disorder, and minor depression.
    http://www2.semel.ucla.edu/mood/service/mood-disorders-clinic
  • UCLA Anxiety Disorders Program (ADP)
    Treats adults with anxiety and related disorders. A team of psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers will help you understand what triggers your anxiety, the feelings and thoughts that sustain it and the coping behaviors you engage in to avoid it. Medication management available. ADP also runs clinical trials exploring novel interventions.
    http://www2.semel.ucla.edu/adc
  • UCLA Program for the Education and Enrichment of Relational Skills (PEERS®)
    Provides evidence-based group social skills and relationship support for young adults
    http://www2.semel.ucla.edu/peers/

Mental Health Non-profits, Programs & Agencies


Recommended Readings

 

  • Early Intervention in Psychosis (EIP) Online Resource Center by the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD): www.nasmhpd.org/content/early-intervention-psychosis-eip

  • Strong365 Online Resources: strong365.org/team-strong-365

  • Thought Disorders Information Guide: www.schizophrenia.com

  • Raising Teens: A Synthesis of Research and a Foundation for Action by A. Rae Simpson: www.hsph.harvard.edu/chc/parenting

  • Suicide Prevention Guide: www.bestcolleges.com/resources/suicide-prevention

  • Physician’s Desk Reference: www.pdr.net

  • Information on Addiction & Help for Young People: www.drugrehab.com/addiction

  • Successful and Schizophrenic By Elyn R. Saks (Article): mobile.nytimes.com/art/1020443/28?sub=Sunday

  • Parenting Teenagers: Systematic Training for Effective Parenting of Teens (STEP) by Don Dinkmeyer Sr., Gary D. McKay, Joyce L. McKay, Don Dinkmeyer, Jr.

  • Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers by Michael Riera

  • Staying Connected to your Teenager: How to Keep Them Talking to You and How to Hear What They’re Really Saying by Michael Riera

  • Stop Negotiating with your Teen: Strategies for Parenting your Angry, Manipulative, Moody, or Depressed Adolescent by Janet Sasson Edgette

  • Coping with Schizophrenia: A Guide for Families by Kim Mueser and Susan Gingerich

  • Surviving Schizophrenia: A Family Manual by E. Fuller Torrey

  • The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide: What You and Your Family Need to Know by David J. Miklowitz

  • Bipolar Disorder: A Family-Focused Treatment Approach by David Miklowitz and Michael J. Goldstein

  • An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison