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Exploring the First Person Perspective
Exploring the First Person Perspective
June 7, 2018

On a warm spring day in May, our training room was filled to capacity with social service professionals eagerly awaiting the First Person Perspectives training that was about to begin. They would be listening to Peer Specialists with lived experience of incarceration, reentry and recovery discuss how to best support their justice-involved clients with mental health issues to carve a path to recovery.

  • Motivating Positive Change
    Motivating Positive Change
    May 31, 2018

    Our Training Institute provides interactive, hands-on training and continuing education credits for professionals in the human services sector. In 2017 alone, our Institute trained over 16,000 individuals throughout New York City and nation-wide. One important -- and quite popular --training our Institute offers is Motivational Interviewing and it is invaluable to professionals in the field.

  • Closing the Knowledge Gap on HIV and Mental Health
    Closing the Knowledge Gap on HIV and Mental Health
    May 24, 2018

    For six years, our Training Institute has worked with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) to train professionals working at organizations funded through the Ryan White Program. Through this partnership, the Institute has deeply impacted a number of social service providers working with people living with HIV and expanded their knowledge on topics around mental health awareness.

  • Changing Lives through Psychiatry
    Changing Lives through Psychiatry
    May 17, 2018

    On April 26th Dr. Van Yu, the Chief Medical Officer of Janian Medical Care, our signature health care program, sat on a panel hosted by the New York District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association. He and the other panelists discussed how to empower a community to approach challenges in mental health care. We sat down with him to learn more about the event and how it impacted him.

  • Thessa’s Journey to CUCS!
    Thessa’s Journey to CUCS!
    May 10, 2018

    We had the pleasure of sitting down with one of CUCS’s newest trainers, Thessa Marino, to discuss her career and what she is most excited about as she starts her professional journey at CUCS. Thessa started at CUCS this February, and after just a few months, feels at home in her new role.