Our Work
We offer training that fosters staff and client wellbeing based on evidence informed mental and behavioral health research. To date, we have trained case managers, success coaches, disaster service workers, disaster case managers, crisis support counselors, lay ministers, community health workers/promotoras, parish nurses, patient navigators, and other frontline staff.
Our training goals are twofold:
To provide skills to help staff with client support and offer skillful ways to move clients forward.
To provide staff with tools to boost their own resilience and mitigate the vicarious trauma they experience working with vulnerable populations.
Imagine You Method
The Imagine You method harnesses the power of asking “What Matters Most” and uses thought exercises to provide grounding to our participants in the face of obstacles. At Imagine You, we believe in the power of people to transform their lives using small steps. We hope to assist our participants in self capacity building while increasing their ability to respond to disaster and personal trauma.
To get a sense of some of the mindfulness tools used by Imagine You, click the button below!
Outcomes
Imagine You transforms outcomes for many people. Our method has been shown to:
Support the creation of new health habits by clarifying goals and first steps.
Positively impact measures of self-efficacy, contributing to a significant (14.7%) increase in the ability to develop client resilience
Positively impact participant wellbeing, as measured by a 16% increase in participants reporting ‘very good’ wellbeing post-intervention.
After training, more than 95% of participants reported that they were likely to recommend the Imagine You training to a friend or colleague.
Principles
The Imagine You method is grounded in three basic principles supported by research in medicine, cognitive psychology, and education:
Visualization and kinesthetic experience helps identify true motivation.
Creating specific, short-term goals leads to success.
Successful small steps lead to increased self-efficacy.
Our Focus Areas
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DISASTER RESILIENCE
Since 2017, Imagine You has been helping staff, volunteers, community members, and fire survivors cope with the short and long term adversity brought on by natural disasters. We know that in a disaster, people often forget or struggle to apply healthy coping strategies. Imagine You trainees learn to use empathy, active listening, and trauma informed care to help people rediscover their own strengths. We provide culturally adapted and translated materials that emphasize skill building through role play, case example demonstrations, self reflection, and peer support. Through this experience, we help uplift communities by mitigating the effects of vicarious trauma experienced by those in disaster.
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SOCIAL SERVICES
Since 2010, we’ve been offering support to aid Northern California organizations in cultivating staff and client engagement. By partnering with organizations serving the most vulnerable, we hope to increase resiliency among individuals and in the community. By supporting self determination in ourselves and others, we hope to help shift the power dynamic between people and institutions towards a more equitable and just environment.
Our team of Imagine You Trainers have been trained to provide culturally competent services to the following social services and healthcare staff serving: LGBTQ+, at-risk and foster youth, homeless individuals and families, Latino families, fire survivors across the demographic spectrum, newly paroled parents, and more. We are committed to continuously advancing our own understanding of equity and cultural competency in working with a wide variety of populations.