Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS)

Welcome to the Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS)!

We are a California-based nonprofit dedicated to enriching the behavioral and public health field by promoting evidence-based practice and workforce development. We provide training, consultation, and coaching to individuals, organizations, and initiatives. In all our work, our mission is to foster safe, healthy, and engaged persons and communities.

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Workshops & Trainings Workshops & Trainings
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Topics of Expertise

Behavioral & Mental Health Promotion for Children, Youth, & Families
Substance Use Prevention & Recovery
School Climate & School Mental Health
Crisis Continuum of Care: Response, Recovery & Renewal
Prevention, Intervention & Postvention
Behavioral Health Equity & Cultural Responsiveness
Community Health, Resilience, and Healing
Workplace Culture & Organizational Leadership
Staff & Provider Wellness
Trauma Informed & Grief Sensitive Practices & Policies
Adult Learning, Training, and Facilitation
Cross-sectoral Partnerships & Systems of Care
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What’s Happening with CARS Projects?

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NTTAC
Fri December 6th
NTTAC
Ignite a movement for holistic community wellness! ✨ Join the CWAPS Training Academys next session on Understanding & Identifying Trauma Response in Self & Others. 🗓️ December 19, 12-2 p.m. ET. Learn from experts Dr. Denisha Carter (she/her) & Dr. Dionne Smith Coker-Appiah (she/her) as they cover primary, secondary, & tertiary trauma, adverse childhood experiences, and more. Register now and build your skills to support your community! bit.ly/training-academy-dec19 #trauma #wellness #community #training #mentalhealth
NTTAC
Fri December 6th
NTTAC
Join Georgetown Universitys new Child Medicaid Policy Institute for a no-cost webinar on the future of Medicaid! 🗓️Tuesday, December 10 at 2 p.m. ET. Learn about current financing, proposed changes (block grants, per capita caps), and their impact on states, enrollees, and providers. Expert speakers from Georgetown Center for Children and Families will discuss the threats facing Medicaid in 2025. Register now! https://bit.ly/medicaid-2025 #Medicaid #Healthcare #Policy #Webinar #GeorgetownUniversity
School Crisis Healing
Thu December 5th
School Crisis Healing
NEW RESOURCES FROM US FOR YOU 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈 * NEW GUIDE! Our new guide, “Honoring Grief: Invitations for Educators to Allow & Embrace Our Own Lived Experiences in the Classroom and Beyond”  is based on insights gathered over two years from SCRR’s “Honoring Grief” series. This guide offers a framework for educators and school leaders to acknowledge and hold space for both their own grief and that of their students. Written by our Field Coaches Brianna Young and Oriana Ides. Check it out at: bit.ly/SCRR_HG_Guide * NEW BLOG! In “Flowers in a Garden: Making space for grief and healing in our schools, in our classrooms, in ourselves – Reflections from a 2023-2024 SCRR Leadership Fellow,” Roberta Marguerite Chávez explores her grief journey as an educator and offers a template of a process that she created as an SCRR 2023-2024 Fellow for her capstone project, making space for colleagues to grieve and heal. * NEW BLOG! In “Getting to Our Grief: Utilizing Poetry to Metabolize Grief,” Niki Magtoto our Senior Project Manager, reflects on her personal grief journey and returns to the art-based healing practice at our 2024 Winter Institute for Educator Healing. Check out both our new blogs at: bit.ly/SCRR_Blog #educatorhealing #schoolcrisishealing #honoringgrief #metabolizinggrief #voicesfromthefield
School Crisis Healing
Thu December 5th
School Crisis Healing
Announcing: Our Spring 2025 Offerings January to April 2025 🌱🌱🌱 To learn more and register any and all of these opportunities go to: https://bit.ly/SCRR_Events SPECIAL SESSION Together We Weave: Collective Storytelling as a Source of Healing in Our School Communities - The SCRR 2025 Winter Institute for Educator Healing 
Designed by our very own @guavabelli with Michelle “Mush” Lee as our keynote and a dynamic workshop led by Chelsea Gregory, Tatiana Chaterji, and Ramy El-Etreby, this is going to be a powerful experience.  🗓️January 30, 2025 Workshops (One-time programs) ✨✨✨ Trauma Informed School Systems for Crisis Recovery and Renewal with @briannayoungteaches 🗓️ February 27, 2025 Communities of Practice (Series)✨✨✨ Self-Attuning and Attending to Emotional Activation - Healing our Own Wounds while Providing Care to Others with @guavabelli and guest faculty 🗓️ January 14, 2025; February 11, 2025; March 11, 2025; & April 8, 2025 Mourning is the Work: A Monthly Art and Ritual-Based Gathering for Educators to Practice Metabolizing our Grief with @guavabelli and guest faculty 🗓️January 16, February 20 & March 20, 2025 Acknowledging Our Humanity: Reimagining A Professional Development Plan that Supports Educator Emotional Wellness, Too with @guavabelli and Noor Jones-Bey 🗓️ January 21, February 4, February 18, March 4 and March 18, 2025 Liberated School Suicide Postvention Study & Inquiry Series with @briannayoungteaches and Zeruiah Buchanan 🗓️ February 5, 2025 • April 2, 2025 A Moment of Pause: Time to Cultivate Trauma Informed Communication with Antoine Moore 🗓️ February 26, 2025 • March 5, 2025 • March 12, 2025 • March 19, 2025 NEW! 5 Years Since COVID-19: Embracing Our Lives After Loss - A Practice of Shared Witnessing and Meaning Making for Educators, School Providers, and Leaders with our colleagues from @thedinnerparty 🗓️ February 27 and March 6, 2025 NEW! Love Made Visible: Cultivating Awareness, Protection, and Radical Healing for B/IPOC Educators Navigating Crisis with @guavabelli, @nikimagtotally & special guest faculty @teddymcglynnwright 🗓️ March 12 and 13, 2025
NTTAC
Thu December 5th
NTTAC
Together, we can create a space where Black culture is celebrated 365 days a year. ✨ Share your story, engage with others, and be a part of this powerful movement! 👥 Post your own photos and celebrating Black voices, stories, and achievements. Make sure to tag NTTAC in your post so we can share the love! ❤️ #BLACK365 #PowerInCommunity #BlackCultureMatters #CelebrateBlackExcellence #BlackJoy
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Wed December 4th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
OMID Multicultural Institute for Development in partnership with the Office of District 2 Supervisor Vicente Sarmiento, Lifting Humanity, and The Cambodian Family invites all community members to join us for our Community Resource Fair on Friday, December 6, 2024 11:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. Join us for a no-cost event highlighting mental health, emotional wellness, and community support. Explore resources to find your Pathway to Success and celebrate wellness together! To learn more about this event, please visit: bit.ly/CommunityResourceFairOMID
School Crisis Healing
Mon December 2nd
School Crisis Healing
Join us for session 2 of our 🌿 Liberated School Suicide Postvention Study & Inquiry Series THIS WEDS December 4, 2024 We will explore a problem of practice for a member of our community together! Details below! ⏰10 :00 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. PT / 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. CT / 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET ✨ How might we guide ourselves and the field toward community-responsive and critically reflexive liberated school postvention policy development and practice implementation? ✨ In this iteration of our community of practice, we want to engage in shared meaning-making by holding space for lived experiences and reviewing research and articles from experts in the field. This series is designed to hold conversations and co-create resources for liberated school suicide postvention policy and practice. We will use a “Socratic style” conversation to facilitate rich discussion, two of our sessions will be dialogue driven by lived experiences of school support staff navigating postvention from a liberated lens, and two sessions will center on a critical reflection around current research. Find out more and register at: bit.ly/SCRR_PostventionStudy #schoolcrisishealing #educatorhealing #freeprofessionaldevelopment #suicidepostvention
School Crisis Healing
Thu November 28th
School Crisis Healing
Gracias a @josebilingue (an SCRR summer institute faculty ✨) for this beautiful piece we read every year this time of year in our sessions.
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
Thu November 28th
Orange County Mental Health & Wellbeing for Diverse Communities
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