Given the current COVID-19 precautions, the WARM team has been working to transition all upcoming events to online formats. We believe that this will allow us to continue providing…
To help slow the spread of the coronavirus, WARM is rescheduling two events: Dinner and Panel with Refugee Health Promoters (originally scheduled for March 2020)Resilience and Challenges when Working with Refugees…
Issa Spatrisano, M.Ed., State Refugee Coordinator and Director of Refugee Assistance and Immigration Services through Catholic Social Services, presented on WARM at the Idaho Conference on Refugees. Her presentation, Improving…
The Alaska Mental Health Trust Authority awarded a Partnership Grant to WARM. This grant, housed in Catholic Social Services Refugee Assistance and Immigration Services (RAIS) will allow WARM mental health…
As many WARM mental health practitioners have expressed interest in learning specific evidence-based therapies, our next workshop is on the only treatment – to our knowledge – that was specifically…
Working with interpreters is key to providing effective mental health care. Karen Ferguson, Ph.D., and Toc Soneoulay-Gillespie, M.S.W., came to Anchorage to present an experiential training on working with interpreters…
The Center for Community Engagement and Learning (CCEL) at the University of Alaska Anchorage has continued to support WARM. This year, two graduate students pursuing their MS in Clinical Psychology,…
Click here to read an article published in the Community Psychologist by the WARM Team!
A condensed 2-hour version of WARM’s foundational workshop, Working Alongside Refugees in Mental Health: Cultural and Contextual Considerations for Clinicians, is now available on online! Please email Dr. Sara Buckingham…