Mental Health Guides

The following includes resources the Journey Project developed working with the Peer Pilot Leadership Team to teach mental health professionals, peers and trusted helpers about advance care planning. Additional resources will be added as we further develop the Peer Pilot Program working to integrate advance care planning and palliative care into mental health services.

Conversation Guides: Approaching the subject, language to consider

There are a number of helpful guides for entering into the conversation about serious illness and end of life issues. The following were created by the Community Network to assist those working with people with mental health challenges and include: Some Ice Breakers: Having Difficult Conversations Advance Care Planning Cue Card … Read More

Helpful Video Clips

As part of the clinicians and peer support workers training, we created an annotated listing of YouTube and other web videos that are helpful for people wanting to learn more about advance care planning, palliative care, psychiatric advance directives, having difficult conversations and other such topics. This Video Resources Paper with hotlinks to these web-based …

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Mental Health & Wellness: Coping during the coronavirus outbreak

Mental Health & Wellness: Coping during the coronavirus outbreak was compiled by Sonoma County Emergency Services to provide helpful resources in English and Spanish. Here can be found helpful resources for people of all ages including resources when needing help right now.