Cultivating resilience and wellbeing
Our mission is to advance wellbeing and resilience in the face of adversity, in support of our partners in the California social services, healthcare, and disaster response sectors.
“I would use the tools both personally and professionally. With clients, coworkers, friends and family. I think they are universal skills that can benefit someone regardless of their employment, or impact from a disaster.”
— Program Participant
“As case managers working numerous disasters, vicarious trauma is a common challenge. Imagine You training equips us with tools to enhance our work and to support our clients, offering skillful approaches to guide them through crises. Imagine You training also provides tools to support ourselves during traumatic and stressful events.”
-Norma S. Lacy, Northern Catholic Social Services Program Manager Disaster Case Management & Outreach Prevention/ Education Programs
"The Imagine You training is effective in its simple approach that centers each of our own unique sense of well-being. The Spanish language pilot program meets a critical need to invest in mental health supports that recognize cultural wealth. The bilingual, bicultural facilitators put power in the hands of the Latine* and Indigenous Promotora CHWs who in turn reaffirm that power in their clients. Thank you for the good reminder that we have the power to feel better!”
— Jocelyn Boreta, “The Botanical Bus”
*Latine is a gender-neutral form of the word Latino, created by gender non-binary and feminist communities in Spanish-speaking countries. The objective of the term is to remove gender from Spanish, by replacing it with the gender-neutral Spanish letter E, which can already be found in words like estudiante.
Our Vision
We envision a future in which all individuals across California, are resilient and engaged in shaping their own wellbeing according to what matters most to them.
What We Do
We offer professional development training to foster staff and client wellbeing using virtual and in person sessions. Our approach is guided by evidence-based mental and behavioral research on habit formation, goal setting, and kinesthetic learning. Our goal is to provide staff with client support while boosting their own resilience. Participants in our training include: case managers, disaster service workers, community health workers, and others.
Our Partners
We work closely with partners who are aligned with our mission and values. We are proud to work with:
Catholic Charities of California
American Red Cross Northern California Coastal Region
Changing Tides Family Services
Northern Valley Catholic Social Services
Catholic Charities Diocese of Fresno
“I found myself thinking about my own vision of my own health, ‘my own vision’ being the key words. If I were living life in the best way possible according to me, what would my life look like? I came up with a vision for myself that was so motivating, I took action toward new health practices that I had put off for years.”
- Nick Lawrence, Program Manager, Foster Care and Kinship Education, Santa Rosa Junior College