Imagine You Receives Grant from Healthcare Foundation of Northern Sonoma County

Thanks to a generous grant from the Healthcare Foundation of Northern Sonoma County, we will be able to build out our Imagine You Resilience Skills curriculum in Spanish. The process will involve two northern Sonoma County partner organizations to make sure the content, concepts, and delivery are truly culturally responsive. Imagine You is proud to announce our first partner in this project, La Familia Sana. We are excited the La Familia team will be contributing to the much needed adaptation of our curriculum. We look forward to announcing our next partner soon. Since the 2017 wildfires and the pandemic onset in early 2020, local mental and behavioral health resources are stretched thin and are unable to meet the increasing demand for local staff support and retention, as staff and volunteers of organizations serving the Latino community in Sonoma County have experienced tremendous burnout and compassion fatigue. The Imagine You training aims to protect and enhance these community assets by boosting their resilience, increasing their capacity, and mitigating the vicarious trauma they absorb.

“We are thrilled and grateful to receive this endorsement of the work we are doing in the community,” said IMCF Executive Director Cynthia Calmenson. “While many disaster case workers, home caregivers, Promotores, early learning providers, and other staff serving our Latino community are bilingual, presenting the Imagine You curriculum in Spanish relieves them of the additional burden of code-switching when working with clients.”

“This is critical work being done at a critical time” said Healthcare Foundation Executive Director Kim Bender. “These organizations [we are supporting] are making an outsized contribution to the mental health of our region and particularly for our most vulnerable residents. We could not be more proud to support their efforts.”