This month our intensity CBT (LICBT) pilot in California’s Pomona Valley received its 6th and 7th grants, totaling $60,000 of additional support for the program. Three years ago All Things CBT and Uncommon Good, a Pomona Valley California nonprofit, launched the nation’s first LICBT program. LICBT is a global movement that trains lay people toContinue Reading: Can Laypeople Deliver Quality Mental Healthcare?
Poems For A World Yet To Be
Please join me in celebrating this month’s release of a wise and wonderful new book, Poems For A World Yet To Be. It’s the first book by Nancy Mintie, executive director and poet in residence at Uncommon Good in Claremont California. In this interview Nancy speaks to her experience of low-intensity CBT, redwood trees, skidContinue Reading: Poems For A World Yet To Be
¡Su Doctora Está Dentro! (Your doctor is in!)
Low-intensity CBT is a worldwide movement that for the last two decades has been training laypeople to deliver mental health care in their local communities – for pennies on the dollar that such care traditionally costs. Last week I had the pleasure of site visit to our LICBT program in California’s Pomona Valley. Training thereContinue Reading: ¡Su Doctora Está Dentro! (Your doctor is in!)
Grassroots CBT
Spring has sprung in California’s Pomona Valley. Along with the field greens and new herbs CBT, too, is sprouting from the grass roots. Vigorously sprouting! Our low-intensity CBT project with Latinx immigrant women in the Valley took two big steps forward in the last weeks. Low-intensity CBT is a global movement aimed at increasing accessContinue Reading: Grassroots CBT