peer run mental health organization
Creating Lasting Community Based Solutions
PURPOSE
Our Mission
To create lasting community-based solutions to mental health challengs and the impact of social injustice through arts, advocacy, and enterpirse.
SERVICES
To Build Community
Groups
Our groups are facilitated using the psychosocial rehabilitation model through various mediums of art, music, and poetry.
Trainings
Our Medi-Cal Peer Support Certification program offers peers an opportunity to be certified as a Peer Support Specialist in the 17 Core Competencies. Our other trainings cover Digital Health Literacy, Digital Security, and Social Media Marketing for nonprofits.
community Center
Check out the Painted Brain Community Center when visiting the West Los Angeles area where you can meet like-minded individuals living with mental health and trauma challenges engage in enriching activities, developing life-long friendships.
Events
Have the Painted Brain team of peers support your agency in organizing an event which includes supporting with the technical setup, hosting/facilitating, and managing the administration end to ensure the planning, marketing, and execution is successful.
PEER TECH
Digital empowerment and free resources below
5 Coping Steps
Apps For Connection
Online Satefy
How To ZOOM
Your Mental Health
Certification
Become a Peer Support Specialist
In 2009, we began utilizing the arts and training to support people with mental health and substance use challenges. We are a leader in innovative peer-driven services and training in behavioral health, digital literacy, and the arts. Our reach and staff are representative of the diverse communities throughout California, including the LGBTQ+, reentry, disability, and ethnically and linguistically diverse communities. Our peer-run program is a trusted provider of services that has been transforming lives in California for over a decade. PB’s Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification Training program prepares peers to deliver valuable behavioral health support services by covering the required Peer Support Specialist 17 Core Competencies required for Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialist Certification Training through self-reflection, skill building, practice sessions, and guided group exploration.
Dr. Kristen Ochoa
“Painted Brain has been a great support for our clients, helping them feel valued, build community, socialize and engage positively and grow in their independence through group leadership opportunities. We are grateful for their partnership.”
Christopher Shnieders, Director of The Saks InsTitute
“Painted Brain is transforming lives and supporting our advocacy efforts on multiple projects to improve the quality of care and protecting the agency of those living with mental health challenges to get the adequate care they need to establish recovery.”
Tod Lipka, CEO of Step Up
“Connections to others and a sense of belonging is vital and essential to the recovery process. Painted Brain has provided exactly such an important connection and creative arts community, using the commonality of mental illness, for over ten years. Painted Brain has been of tremendous value to many Step Up members during that time.”
LATEST BLOGS
Keep your fingers on the pulse of our mental health community
Mental Health & Wedding Planning: How to Ease Stress
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The World of Limited Mobility: How to Support Your Disabled Loved One
Living with a disability can be difficult not only for the person with the disability, but also for their family and friends. People with limited mobility may have difficulty with daily activities, making them feel isolated and helpless. As a loved one, it is critical...
How to Support Someone Who is Grieving
Losing a loved one is an intensely personal and emotional experience, and everyone handles grief differently. It can be difficult to know how to support someone who is bereaved, especially if you don't know what to say or do. However, with a little empathy and...
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Our Vision
Painted Brain creates lasting community-based solutions to mental health challenges and the impact of social injustice through arts, advocacy, and enterprise. Join our community of peers redefining the mental health system of care to improve access and the quality of treatment.
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State-Wide initiatives
September 25, 2020
We thank Governor Gavin Newsom for signing SB 803 (Beall). SB 803 will enable California to expand the behavioral health workforce by allowing certification of Peer Support Specialists. With the passage of SB 803, California will now be in line with the 48 other states that already recognize peers’ value.
Painted Brain is collaborating and heading statewide to nationwide research and program development. Learn more about our projects below and how you may be able to get involved.
Project New Start
Psychiatric Advance Directive (PAD)
Disability Roundtable
RESOURCES
COMMUNITY PARTNERS & OUTPATIENT SUPPORT
WESTSIDE MENTAL HEALTH
NETWORK DIRECTORY
Network Directory
Youth/TAY/Directory
Adult Directory
ARTS AND CULTURE
CALHOPE
Publications
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#BLACKMENTALHEALTH PODCASTSPONSORED BY JANSSEN
Co-founder Rayshell Chambers shares about Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs) and her mental health recovery story.
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