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Community Partner Spotlight: Carlos Plazola, Community Service Specialist  Community engagement is such a vital and rewarding part of social services. Carlos Plazola is a Community Service Specialist with Imperial County Behavioral Health Services and

CYFL employee, Micaela Cunningham, got to co-present with Suzette Southfox, the Education Director to the Children’s Initiative on September 21, 2021. They held a webinar on Learning from Lived Experience and Apps outreach to

Like 2.3% of U.S. adults, I live with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), a largely misunderstood mental health condition that can have a devastating impact. Some international research suggests that people with OCD may be up to ten times

How many people have tried talk therapy and made progress, but ultimately felt that it wasn’t enough? How many patients have tried medications and still experienced severe symptoms? Probably too many to count. What

To date, approximately 52,000 service members have been physically wounded in recent military conflicts. It’s also estimated as many as over 1 million live with invisible wounds of war, including post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI),

I’ve found that people are usually surprised to learn that a friend or family member (or anyone they’ve known for many years) has dissociative identity disorder (DID). Oftentimes, they expect that such a diagnosis