PEARLS: Program to Encourage Active and Rewarding Lives is a community integrated, home-based treatment for depression that significantly reduces symptoms and improves health. It is an evidence based practice for working with older adults.

The treatment is based on three fundamental principles:

• What a participant is experiencing are symptoms and the symptoms are due to depression.
• There is a close link between depression and unsolved problems.
• Increasing participation in social, physical, and other pleasant activities will lead to a decrease in depressive symptoms.

PEARLS Process:

• Meet by phone, Zoom, Facetime, or any digital platform that will work for both parties.
• Depression screening (PHQ-9) takes place at the beginning, at each session, and at the culmination to track progress.
• 6 to 8, 1-hour sessions over 6 months: (weekly, bi-weekly, then monthly) and then 3-6 follow up phone calls.
• Focus is on the Problem-solving process and increasing social, physical and pleasurable activitie…

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Offers Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP) for individuals or as a group and one on one peer support to individuals with similar issues.

Provides peer supporters with a 16 week training course and ongoing supervision.

Offers suicide prevention resources including one-on-one peer support, support groups and activities. Also offers grief / bereavement support for people who have lost a loved one to suicide.

Web pages

• Programs & Services - https://spiritcenter.org/programs/
• Calendar - https://spiritcenter.org/calendar/

 

Placer County Law Enforcement Chaplaincy serves both the members of Law Enforcement and their families, and works through Law Enforcement to act as victims advocates to the citizens of Placer County.

The Mission of the Placer Law Enforcement Chaplaincy is "To provide spiritual, emotional, and mental support to the Law Enforcement Community, their families, and the citizens of Placer County."

Our Mission is achieved through:

1. Providing expertise in counseling on issues unique to law enforcement personnel
2. Specialization in trauma and crisis intervention
3. The conducting of crisis counseling in the field
4. Demonstrating excellence in delivering care and comfort to both law enforcement and the community

Below are some of the areas that our Community Chaplains have received specialized instruction in:

• Suicide Bereavement
• Child Death/SIDS
• Coroner and Funeral Home Policies/Procedures
• Blood Borne and Airborne Pathogens
• Critical Incident Stress Management
• Crisis and Grief Counseling
• Death Notification…

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Opening Doors, Inc helps underserved members of the Greater Sacramento Area access opportunities within the US social and economic system. Their programs help those escaping human trafficking and newly arrived refugees to start safe and healthy lives. They provide low-cost immigration legal services, financial education classes, and small business support programs.

They do this with a multi-cultural staff and volunteers who respect the cultural identities and individual goals of their clients.


Web pages

• Home - http://www.openingdoorsinc.org/
• Immigration Legal Services - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/defending-immigrants/
• Mental Health Program - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/addressing-mental-health/
• Refugee Programs - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/welcoming-refugees/
• Support for Survivors of Trafficking - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/supporting-survivors/
• Economic Prosperity Program - https://openingdoorsinc.org/programs/expanding-economic-opportunity/

Senior Peer Counseling provides a free, confidential, voluntary, peer support, in-home program for Placer County residents aged 55 years or better who are dealing with age-related adjustment issues.

Peer Counselors work with people in the community on issues such as:

• Grief
• Caregiver stress
• Change in individuals' sense of independence
• Family conflict
• Loneliness
• Situational depression or anxiety
• Loss of a companion
• Medical diagnosis
• Physical disability
• Retirement
• Relocation
• Change in health
• Other age-related concerns

Web pages

• Senior Peer Counseling - https://www.placer.ca.gov/2519/Senior-Peer-Counseling-Program

The Sierra Native Alliance offers programs for Cultural Education, Youth, Behavioral Health, and Family Wellness.

Services include:

• Outpatient Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Family and Child Counseling
• Family Advocacy
• Positive Indian Parenting
• Families of Tradition
• Anger Management and Violence Prevention
• Youth programs including the White Bison Group which provides substance use education and relapse prevention skills using the Youth White Bison- Medicine Wheel 12-Steps curriculum.

SNA Telehealth & Onsite Services
SNA provides counseling and education services through secure video format online. Staff are in the office and are available by appointment. Youth leadership, cultural arts, and mentoring is done individually and in small groups. Contact the office at 530-888-8767 to schedule an appointment.

Web pages

• Home - https://www.sierranativealliance.org/

Kindred Heart Therapy Group (KHTG) offers individual, family, couples, and group therapy to low income individuals who would otherwise not be able to afford these services.

KHTG can focus on survivors of:

• Childhood abuse
• Domestic violence
• Sexual assault
• Trauma, crime
• Divorce
• Blended families
• Anxiety
• LGBTQIA+ issues
• Suicidality
  
  

Web pages

• Home - https://www.kindredhearttherapy.org/