Executive Director, Hunters Point Family
Vice President, SF District 10 African American Health Alliance
Member, SFPD African American Advisory Board
Student, USF Clinical Psychology PsyD program
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African American Health Alliance
- AAHA recently gained non-profit status
- Currently includes every African American led organization in District 10 that provides health/mental health services
- Meets monthly
- Has a quarterly newsletter
Toolkits
- Lena was a key collaborator on the CYW provider toolkit (facilitated all focus groups with community)
- Currently developing a trauma toolkit for community members
- Toolkit rational: lots of tools for providers, not much available for community; people need to know that their trauma symptoms and coping mechanisms are normal responses (anger, depression, anxiety, smoking weed, etc.) and learn alternative approaches (healing, advocacy, employment)
Police Training
- Lena is one of many trauma trainers contracted with SFPD (4 trainings done and 3 more scheduled as of March, 2016)
- Trained 2 groups of 20-30 field officers and 2 groups of 30-40 students
- SFPD wants all officers trained
- Lena’s training includes: trauma (PTSD, complex trauma, neurobiology of toxic stress); community context (level of stress, trauma, health issues, access to care, and coping mechanisms); police context (same issues, including high alcoholism and suicide); appropriate responses to community and healthy coping mechanisms for police (awareness, listening, mindfulness, positive psychology, cognitive processing therapy)
- Training rational: if first responders arrive at a scene and haven’t dealt with their trauma, it can result in a detached and disassociated interactions with community and result in increased trauma with community/police interactions.
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