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Taos Behavioral Health Student A. Name College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Grand Canyon University BHS-330, Cultural and Social Diversity in Behavioral Health Professor Teach D. Class Time o’clock

2 Taos Behavioral Health Throughout New Mexico there are different types of behavioral health agencies that offer services to the various populations that exist across the state. Populations can range from adolescents to elderly. In northern New Mexico, there is an agency that is dedicated to helping at-risk youth and adults, Taos Behavioral Health. This behavioral health agency was founded in 2004. Focusing on family and rebuilding a foundation. “Taos Behavioral Health provides comprehensive behavioral health services to individuals, families, and groups to support them in developing positive behaviors and making life-affirming choices” (TBH, 2021). The Taos Behavioral Health center focuses better decision-making skill and choices. By implementing new ways to think, react, or feel, they are basically teaching them new skills that they will carry for a lifetime. They offer preventative services offered to both youth and adults. The services that are offered to the youth are preventative towards social issues that may arise. They offer services such as in-school counseling, “familia y mundo”, SUCCESS, youth camp, gang resistance, and “art of nonviolence”. In-school counseling is a service that is offered to adolescents and teens. Familia y mundo is an after-school program that offers help with homework, individual and group counseling, and physical fitness. The SUCCESS center offers group and individual therapy to boys, girls, and LGBQT. Youth camp is offered during summer and holidays. There are two different age groups. Gang Resistance is Powerful, or GRIP for short is a program that offers youth the emotional and social skills needed to avoid participating in gang activity. Through this program they learn antibullying techniques and encourages students to engage more in sports or other after school programs. Lastly, the Art of Nonviolence is program that allows youth to turn their negative

3 emotions into positive actions, such as creating art. The students who participate in the program do have their art displayed at the Taos Center for Art. These programs help keep the youth informed and aware of what could potentially happen as they get older. Teaching them The services that they offer for adults are family counseling, couples counseling, nonviolence awareness classes, supervised visitation, and restorative parenting. The programs are designed to help re-establish a foundation for a family or individual who has been dealing with stress. With the many different counseling services, they are able to offer help to different populations. The nonviolence awareness classes are offered to families who are court ordered and are dealing some type of major life crisis, such as divorce, conflict, or custody cases. This program offers support to mainly domestic violence victims. Taos Behavioral Health offers supervised visitation for the non-custodial parent to have. And lastly, restorative parenting helps the parent and child rebuild and strengthen their relationship, this could be due to trauma that had happened. Some issues that may affect the services that are offered by this agency can include funding, insurance changes, and economic changes. 70% of their funding is spent on their at-risk youth. If the funding of this program goes underway there will be youth who will not utilize the services offered. A community is reliant upon the programs and services this agency has to offer. New insurance policies and/or state legislations could potentially affect the cost of these programs. TBH already has a “sliding scale/fee” in place that offers a discounted price depending upon poverty level and household size. The economy going down could cause more people to lose jobs and wind up in poverty. Although they are able to help some people, all the services cannot be discounted or free.

4 Mental health is important. “Communities are developing and implementing prevention interventions across the life cycle” (Romano, 2015). And as we move forward in life, more and more people are beginning to realize that it is just as important and physical health. Bringing the awareness of mental health to the people who need it most, making the programs more accessible to those who identify as a special population and creating an affordable program is what Taos Behavioral Health has done for northern New Mexico.

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American Counseling Association (ACA). (2014). 2014 code of ethics. Retrieved from https://www.counseling.or g/resources/aca-code-ofethics.pdf

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American Association of Christian Counselors (AACC). (2014). AACC code of ethics. Retrieved from https://www.aacc.net/wpcontent/uploads/2017/10/ AACC-Code-of-EthicsMasterDocument.pdf Romano, J. L. (2015). Prevention applications in community and medical settings. In Prevention psychology: Enhancing personal and social well-being. (pp. 107–129). American Psychological Association. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1037/14442-007 Taos Behavioral Health (2021) Taos Behavioral Health Mission Statement retrieved from Nonviolence awareness programs for adults and families in Taos County — Nonviolence Works (taosbehavioralhealth.org)...