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.

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.

We provide direct service to the Latinx community in the form of Imagine You wellbeing workshops in both English and Spanish. Our cohort of Imagine You leaders have been trained to provide culturally competent services to the following populations: 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.