Mental Health Resilience Workshops
Mental health plays a key role in overall health. Understanding how to manage stress and develop coping skills are important ways to strengthen mental and physical health.
The NYC Health Department offers free courses to help New Yorkers build mental health awareness and resilience. Private workshops for community-based organizations are available.
Community Mental Wellness and Resilience
Community Mental Wellness and Resilience Workshop provides resources for New Yorkers on community empowerment and individual and collective resilience. Participants will learn how to identify mental health issues, develop support strategies, and identify mental health resources within their own community.
This is a three-hour workshop that takes place in-person or virtually. For more information and to schedule a private session, email MHResilience@health.nyc.gov.
Community Mental Wellness and Resilience for Providers
The NYC Health Department provides Community Mental Wellness and Resilience workshops to satisfy LCSW and LMSW continuing education requirements. The Community Mental Wellness and Resilience for Providers training is a three-hour workshop that takes place virtually.
Promoting Mental Health in Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Communities Learning Initiative
Promoting Mental Health in AANHPI Communities (PMH-AANHPI) is a learning workshop that introduces participants to the history of the AANHPI community in the United States and how to access culturally relevant mental health resources.
This is a three-hour workshop that takes place in-person and virtually. For more information, email MHResilience@health.nyc.gov.
Workshops are available in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Arabic, Korean, Bengali, Punjabi, and Nepali.
Guiding Youth Through Intervention, Diversion, and Empowerment (GUIDE)
"GUIDE" workshop provides practical tools to help adults support youth in crisis, use trauma informed de-escalation skills, connect youth to essential services, and build mental health resilience. The workshop addresses stigma and teaches strategies for creating safe, supportive environments for young people. This workshop is part of the Partnerships for Early Diversion of Youth (PEDY) initiative, a citywide effort to support youth wellbeing and reduce their justice system involvement.
This is a five-hour workshop that takes place in-person and virtually. For more information, email MHResilience@health.nyc.gov.
Tending the Roots Workshop
"Tending the Roots" workshop is designed to help individuals and organizations understand how toxic stress and trauma affect mental health and wellbeing. Participants explore connections between racism, environment, adverse experiences, and health, and examine how fairness and justice influence outcomes. Tending the Roots workshop introduces protective factors and strategies to support healing and resilience.
Tending the Roots workshop is developed by the New York State Trauma-Informed Network and Resource Center (TINRC), sponsored by the New York State Office of Mental Health.
This is a six-hour workshop that takes place in-person and virtually. For more information, email MHResilience@health.nyc.gov.
Mental Health and Disaster Preparedness Workshops
The NYC Health Department offers free workshops to help New Yorkers learn how to cope with the effects of trauma and stress responses from distressing events, such as local disasters and public health emergencies.
Workshops are available to all New Yorkers, including community members, care providers, local leaders, and the general public.
For more information or to schedule one of the workshops below, email MHResilience@health.nyc.gov.
Stress, Wellbeing, and Self Care
This workshop discusses the negative effects of stress on health and productivity, common stress reactions, and positive ways to manage stress and increase wellbeing.
Burnout: Awareness and Prevention
This workshop defines burnout and discusses signs and symptoms. We will review who is at risk and what we can do to address and prevent burnout.
Equity in Emergency Management
This workshop discusses how achieving equity in disaster management can help improve post-disaster community mental health outcomes across NYC.
Additional Resources
- Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC): Aspires to make mental health easily available, approachable and accessible to Asian communities worldwide.
- Black Mental Health Alliance (BMHA): Network of mental health professionals who support the development of Black clinicians and provide culturally competent services in Black communities.
- Inclusive Therapists: Ethnically diverse clinicians who provide culturally affirming and responsive client care.
- Latinx Therapy: National network of Latinx therapists who provide bilingual, culturally attuned and inclusive therapy for the Latinx community.