Community Mental Health Spring Hike
Calling all Community Mental Health clinicians and staff! Looking for a space to connect with others who work in community settings while enjoying the outdoors? Join us for the Spring CMH hike, where you will have the opportunity to enjoy the natural beauty of the Bay Area while meeting others.
Working in CMH settings involves consideration of multiple factors working with marginalized populations. This event serves to provide a space for clinicians to meet others in the field for support, exercise, and fun.
This event is open to all clinicians, interns, and trainees working in community mental health non-profit and government-funded agencies.
Transfer of registrations are not allowed. If you registered for this event and can no longer make it, please contact Niki Clay at info@ncspp.org so someone from the waitlist can be added to the event.
For program related questions, contact Dr. Geetali Chitre at drgeetalichitre@gmail.com
Community Mental Health Committee
This committee is a group of clinicians who are interested in the relationship between Community Mental Health (CMH) and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is anchored in a quality of close care and attention that is often systematically denied to members of disadvantaged communities and difficult to locate in stressed, under-resourced public mental health clinics. CMH clinicians hold the tension between a variety of institutional, social, and political pressures and constraints. Meanwhile, psychoanalytic thinking sometimes misses the significance of these systemic influences on individual lives.
There is important work to be done in bridging the theoretical and concrete gaps between community work and psychoanalytic practice. The CMH committee aspires to create a more inclusive home for CMH clinicians within the NCSPP community. In turn, we advocate for greater investment from psychoanalysis in the projects of CMH practitioners- in terms of both theory and practical engagement.
We seek to identify the needs and interests of our various partners both in CMH and NCSPP. We invite our community members to engage with us by emailing us at cmh@ncspp.org .