Family Service Agency of the Central Coast

Family Service Agency of the Central Coast Suicide Prevention Service of the Central Coast is looking for new suicide crisis line volunteers! Our crisis hotlin...e serves the tri-county area of Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz. Join us for volunteer responder training and participate in a rewarding experience while learning active listening skills, self-care, and suicide and crisis intervention techniques. The volunteer training sessions begin on January 21, 2021, and conclude on March 11, 2021. Training conducted by video conferencing. Early registration is required. For more information, please email us at [email protected] or visit our website at www.suicidepreventionservice.org. More on their announcement here: https://givesanbenito.org/blog/trainings-announced

Healthy at Home - A Virtual Conversation About Staying Fit and Safe While Indoors on Tuesday January 19th, at 11:00AM. Join via Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81722458352, The one-hour roundtable discussion with questions and comments is the product of an on-going partnership between Seniors Council, Kaiser Permanente, and the Santa Cruz Warriors, and will feature Clay Kempf, of Seniors Council; Brianna Jefferson, of the Santa Cruz Warriors; and Amanda Forster of Kaiser Permanente, discussing ways you and your loved ones can stay active, maintain physical strength and improve flexibility while at home during the pandemic.

From the Santa Cruz County Office of Education: These events in our nation’s Capitol have some members of our community, especially our students, frightened, confused, and upset. Our teachers and administrators are looking at how to establish a safe space for discussion and learning about these still evolving events today and in the weeks to follow. We are encouraging students expressing fear or distress about what they witnessed to reach out to their... teacher, principal or counselor for support. We are also thinking about the questions parents/guardians might have about how to talk to students about these events. We would like to share some resources to help you with these at-home conversations. https://santacruzcoe.org//1-7-2021-Letter-to-Community-re_

It’s not uncommon to experience the winter blues, a slight mood shift or sluggishness due to colder weather and less sunshine. But seasonal depression has a more significant impact on your daily functioning. https://www.huffpost.com//signs-dealing-seasonal-depressio

In Santa Cruz County more than 70% of all cases are from people who contract COVID-19 from someone in their household who attended a social gathering. Stop the ...spread by staying home this holiday season to keep yourself, your family, and your community safe. You may think that your social bubble is small, but it’s not as small as you think. You’re not just at risk of COVID-19 from people in your inner circle, but also from anyone else they have been in contact with. For more information, visit: www.santacruzhealth.org/coronavirus

Honoring Ama & Sacred Grief Workshop "When we grieve what we miss, we are praising what we love. We are praising the life we have been given in order to love." ...Martin Prechtel About this Event: "Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom" - Rumi Dana Schlick, LMFT and Lauren Reppy, LMFT of Sacred Grief Healing are offering an online space for celebrating Ama's life. The focus will be to build skills of grief and increase grief literacy. Come prepared to move your body and open your voice, engage in ritual to connect with nature and the sacred, write and speak from your heart, and share in both small and large groups. This will be a powerful time for circling/storytelling and honoring loss and grief. We hope you will join us. December 18th, 7pm-9pm and December 19th, 10am-noon and 2:30pm-4:30pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/honoring-ama-sacred-grief-tick