Free Mental Health and Social Emotional Learning Modules through June 2025

CalSAC is offering free Mental Health and Social Emotional Learning professional development to youth-serving agencies in South Alameda County* through June 2025. This project is supported by Kaiser Permanente Northern California Community Benefit Programs.

Out-of-school time programs play a central role in supporting a young person’s mental health and are a core component in the mental health support system for young people. Youth development staff are the caring and consistent adults who, when trained effectively, create the protective factors that help young people heal from trauma. CalSAC’s Wellness Network training topics strengthen staff’s understanding of their role both in the prevention of mental health risk factors and in helping youth cope and heal from stressful and traumatic events.

CalSAC’s professional development training content aims to create a shared understanding and common language among out-of-school time staff to support young people’s mental health wellness. These topics make connections between positive youth development and successful trauma-informed practices; allow space for staff to explore their personal experiences with mental health, systems, and stigmas; explore “risk factors” that impact youth and adults’ mental health; and share how youth-serving programs play a key role in positive mental health wellness.

Our training content equips staff with:

  • Information about how trauma and stressful events impact a young person’s mental and emotional well-being

  • How out-of-school time programs build protective factors that support a young person’s ability to cope and heal from these experiences

  • How protective factors align with foundational youth development practices.

  • Strategies to support advocacy on behalf of youth and families in distress.

Review the complete list of available training topics below and reach out as soon as possible to schedule – funding is limited and available on a first come, first served basis. Each module topic listed below is a 2-hour training session.

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Want more Information? Sign up to join an upcoming webinar. See below for dates and links to register.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Vincent Arroyo, Program Manager, varroyo@calsac.org.

*Kaiser Permanente considers the following cities to be included in the South Alameda County: Hayward, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, Castro Valley, Union City, Newark, Fremont, and unincorporated Cherryland/Ashland.