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The UCLA Nathanson Family Resilience Center bridges the gap between research and practice to help families become more resilient in the face of challenges: http://nfrc.ucla.edu The UCLA Nathanson Family Center Center offers programs for families, including:

- FOCUS Family Resiliency Training
- Project FOCUS for military families
- Training Initiatives
- Operation-Mend FOCUS for Wounded Warriors
- SEEDS for families with infants
- STRIVE for adolescents
- The Family Development Project
- UCLA Family Trauma, Strength and Resilience Clinic
- Welcome Back Veterans
- Nathanson Family Resource Center for families

10/22/2026

Decades of research shows that adolescence–approximately ages 10 to 25–is a period of remarkable opportunity. The cognitive, physical, and psychological changes that take place during these years help adolescents learn from their environments, experiences, and relationships in ways that can profoundly shape their trajectories and prepare them to succeed in adulthood. Insights from developmental science can help determine where to focus support in order to promote healthy development for all adolescents. In this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Dr. Natalie Saragosa-Harris will give an overview of research on adolescent brain development, highlighting the role of context and experience. Drawing from this research, Dr. Saragosa-Harris will share practical insights for how individuals who work with adolescents can provide support for the key developmental needs of this stage and, in doing so, can promote healthy development for all adolescents, including those who have experienced earlier adversity.

Register: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=403567&k=1791485504

09/18/2026

Anger can be a misunderstood emotion and is often approached as a problem to eliminate, regulate, or control. Anger is frequently conflated with aggression, leaving clinicians and clients with limited frameworks for understanding its adaptive purpose. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar explores anger through an attachment-informed, trauma informed, and evidence-based lens, helping move beyond traditional assumptions and develop a more nuanced understanding of anger as meaningful emotional information. Participants will explore the science of anger, including its evolutionary function, relationship to nervous system activation, and current research challenging the catharsis myth. The training will examine the important distinction between anger as a core human emotion and aggression as a behavior, while exploring how shame, cultural messaging, relational experiences, and personal history shape the way individuals experience and express anger. Through a practical clinical framework, participants will learn how to help clients move through the process of understanding anger from cueing body sensations, emotional experiences, underlying needs, and ultimately toward intentional choice.

Register: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=403559&k=1788466652

08/11/2026

Whether we were given a title, assigned a project or in an ad-hoc situation where decisions need to be made, at some point we find ourselves in positions of leadership. How we receive information is just as essential as how we convey it. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will define the foundations of effective communication, demonstrate the importance of communicating clear and succinct directives, and differentiate between hearing someone and truly listening. Throughout the hour, participants will engage in thought-provoking self-assessment. Participants will also understand the opportunity costs, whether it be in lost time or dollars spent, resulting from miscommunication in the workplace. The resulting shift in perspective on how to communicate with clarity will benefit participants in their daily interactions with colleagues, clients, and other stakeholders.

Register: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=403536&k=1785196294

Register: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=401956&k=1782948791

07/09/2026

06/23/2026

This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar will introduce the audience to the behavioral health continuum at UCLA Health. It will review the development of behavioral health services within integrated primary care settings, including the establishment of community partnerships to expand access to care. The strategic expansion of outpatient behavioral health services within the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences will also be discussed.

Additionally, the session will highlight best practices in care integration, including the implementation of system-wide behavioral health screening and the adoption of measurement-based care within behavioral health settings across UCLA Health. The critical role of interdisciplinary collaboration in building and sustaining an effective behavioral health system will also be emphasized.

Register: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=401953&k=1781213773

06/02/2026

Dr. Byron Young is a psychiatrist, a lover of the arts, and a proud Black man; the work he does sits squarely at the intersections of mental health, education, creativity, and social and racial justice. He has learned — in clinic, in community, in years of watching young people navigate systems that were never designed with them in mind — that engagement is not a technique. It is a relationship. And relationships, real ones, require something most training programs never ask of us: the willingness to see another person as fully human, and to examine honestly the ways our own conditioning makes that harder than it should be. This Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar is about transitional age youth — young people between the ages of 16 and 25 navigating child welfare, mental health systems, and schools in a world that has already formed opinions about them before they walk through the door — and specifically about Black and brown youth, who are overrepresented in every one of these systems.

The seminar will be grounded in what Dr. Young calls the humanizing love tradition: a lineage running through Paulo Freire, bell hooks, Christopher Emdin, and many other thinkers rooted in social good — centered on a love ethos that is not sentiment but discipline, not charity but solidarity, and above all, a daily, active protection from the dehumanization that systems can quietly inflict. This presentation will look honestly at what gets in the way — systemic barriers, yes, but also our own biases, our burnout, the savior orientation that masquerades as care — and at what actually works: art, creativity, hip-hop, critical dialogue, and the radical act of seeing a young person wholly. Attendees will leave with practical tools, but more than that, Dr. Young hopes participants leave having asked themselves some harder questions — because that is where this work actually begins.

Register: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=401936&k=1778869507

04/16/2026

04/08/2026

Go to:https://dpbh.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/FINAL-PCI-for-Veterans-Flyer.pdf to learn more.

03/30/2026

Simple Strategies to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse

During this Stress, Trauma, and Resilience (STAR) Seminar, Marisa Faynsod and Claire Amabile will have a discourse on how families can talk to their children about body safety without the feeling of fear or discomfort. Participants will leave the seminar with the ability to start this conversation with the people they work with, children, and families. Participants will learn how to talk to a child about their body and safety, share concrete ways to reduce the risk of child sexual abuse, and what to say and do if a child discloses abuse. Participants will gain practical tools and language to start using immediately to speak with the children they work with and in their lives. This session will aim to create a sense of confidence when speaking to children about body safety, and create lines of communication to reduce risk.

Register: https://learn.wellbeing4la.org/detail?id=401911&k=1773943760

Address

760 Westwood Plz
Los Angeles, CA
90024

Telephone

+13107942482

Website

http://nfrc.ucla.edu/

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