CPT Community Projects: Immersive Learning in Community Psychoanalysis.
A CPT Community Project is a community training track placement that offers PINC candidates immersive learning in community psychoanalysis. Ideas for projects are developed through collaboration between the CPT and the Community Consortium network. Community Projects are conceived through dialogue, negotiating the needs and aims of both the agency and the track. CPT Projects aim to create multi-directional impact, fostering growth and creative change in all who participate: community workers and candidates, supervisors and site liaisons, participants in reflective and supervisory groups, and in the community agencies and PINC as institutions.
Projects History
The CPT&C (Community Psychoanalysis Track and Consortium) began in 2016 established by a group of psychoanalytic clinicians from both community mental health and institutional psychoanalysis to explore the possibility of developing a training track (the Community Psychoanalysis Track) and an affiliated network of community mental health and analyst members (the Community Psychoanalysis Consortium).
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2024-2025
- Continuation of SFPubDef social worker and investigator groups
- Continuation of RAMS peer counselors group
- Start of RAMS Wellness In The Streets (WITS) group
Facilitators:
- RAMS peer counselors group: Becky Rockwell & Maggie Homsy
- RAMS WITS group: Paul Alexander & Leigh Lyndon
- SFPubDef social workers: Deb Kim & Cria Merchant
- SFPubDef investigators group: Judy Blumenfeld & Ben Ringler
Project Site Liaisons:
- RAMS peer counselor group: Richard Zevin and Nicole Ng
- SFpubdef social workers group: Syeda Fatema Alam, Kristina Goettel
- SFpubdef Investigators group: Simin O’Brien, Joslyn Timmons
2023-2024
- Continuation of SFPubDef social worker group
- Continuation of RAMS peer counselors group
- Start of SFPubDef investigators group
Facilitators:
- RAMS peer counselors group: Paul Alexander & Leigh Lyndon
- SFPubDef social workers group: Lani Chow & Julie Leavitt
- SFPubDef investigators group unit: Judy Blumenfeld & Stephen Lugar
Project Site Liaisons:
- RAMS peer counselor group: Richard Zevin and Nicole Ng
- SFpubdef social workers group: Syeda Fatema Alam, Kristina Goettel
- SFpubdef Investigators group: Simin O’Brien, Joslyn Timmons
2021-2023
New projects in 2021:
- Start of group for social workers at San Francisco Public Defenders Office (SFPubDef)
- Start of group for peer counselors at Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS), Division of Peer-Based Services, please see their website at: https://ramsinc.org/peer-based/
Facilitators:
- RAMS peer counselors group: Paul Alexander & Leigh Lyndon (2021-2023)
- SFPubDef social workers group: Elise Geltman (2021-2022); Orion Rozsa & Denali Tice (2022-2023)
Project Site Liaisons:
- RAMS peer counselor group: Richard Zevin and (as of 2022) Nicole Ng
- SFpubdef social workers group: Syeda Fatema Alam, Kristina Goettel
2019-2020: First formal candidate training project, a reflective case conference group at PTR
Facilitators: Judy Blumenfeld & Ben Ringler
Project Site Liaison: Annika Sridharan
2018-2019: A pilot project for the CPT gave birth to the first Core Seminar with volunteer PINC graduate participants in the role of the candidates. The participants led a reflective process group at Partnerships for Trauma Recovery (PTR), a Berkeley-based agency that offers mental health services and advocacy for refugees and asylum seekers. For more information about PTR, please see their website at: https://traumapartners.org
Facilitators: Nancy Drooker & Betsy Kassoff
Project Site Liaison: Annika Sridharan
