| SCAIR-USD Life, Personal, and Career Offices — NA-FACES
Southern California American Indian Resource Center (SCAIR) — in partnership with the University of San Diego (USD) Clinical Mental Health Counseling (CMHC) program — open two new satellite counseling facilities in San Diego and Alpine for their NA-FACES (Native American Forensic Assessment, Consultation and Education Services) program.
Executive Director Wanda Michaelis, SCAIR, posed for a picture with Ronn Johnson, Ph.D., USD. The two founded the USD-SCAIR NA-FACES program.
Ronn Johnson, Ph.D., ABPP, said:
"The NA-FACES program is designed to provide a wide range of counseling and mental health services to Native Americans both on the reservation and urban settings. We've placed clinical mental health interns in these two locations. These interns provide a wide range of personal counseling and career counseling services to those populations.
"Today is a very important day because it recognizes the launching of the counseling offices. I am very excited about the facilities because they provide great reception areas for clients, and some lovely counseling rooms that will make it very convenient and comfortable for clients to come and receive the needed services.
"The services we provide include general counseling services. We do career assessments and career counseling services. We also work with people who have been traumatized from a wide variety of incidents in their lives. We also screen people for alcohol and drug problems (and) we treat people for those problems. We hope to someday extend our services to include children and adolescents."
Traditional blessings and smudgings were performed by Verna Antonio.
ALPINE, CA — The SCAIR-USD Alpine counseling center is located above the Alpine Library at 2130 Arnold Way (a few minutes walk west from the SCAIR corporate office and Learning Center and directly across the street from the Alpine Post Office). MAP
ALPINE COUNSELING OFFICE — SCAIR Board President William Johnson talks with three guests about his SCAIR-USD counseling program.
This is one of several newly-decorated rooms used by USD-CMHC clinical mental health interns during their individual and family counseling sessions with SCAIR clients.
Program leaders took advantage of the time and discussed their program in the new Alpine reception area.
SAN DIEGO, CA — The SCAIR-USD San Diego counseling center is located 4265 Fairmount Ave., conveniently, this is the same building as Indian Human Resource Center — a well-known location withing the San Diego County Native American Indian community. MAP
SAN DIEGO COUNSELING CENTER — One of the rooms used for USD clinical mental health and career-related counseling sessions with Native American families.
Executive Director Wanda Michaelis gives Native American journalist Roy Cook (SCAIR historian) an exclusive interview during the grand opening.
by SCAIR historian Roy Cook, Opata-Oodham, Mazopiye Wishasha
Grand Opening!
SCAIR Counseling offices
Grand Opening of the SCAIR Counseling Alpine offices on March 11, 2010 and the San Diego office on March 12. 2010 is a welcome success. Southern California American Indian Resource Center has been providing services to the greater San Diego American Indian and other qualified recipients since 1997. We are proud to partner with the University of San Diego.
The people friendly and comfortable SCAIR offices will offer Life. Personal and Career counseling. Design and decoration was under the direct efforts of SCAIR Board President William Johnson and the Executive Director of SCAIR, Wanda Michaelis. It is refreshing to see the to see the SCAIR executive staff take the reins of this important image presentation. For the openings SCAIR office manager Tracy Stevens organized healthy and filling refreshments and cakes are available for all the visitors to the two locations.
Stop in and see the services at 4265 Fairmount Ave. Suite 160, San Diego, CA 92105 and 2130 Arnold way, Alpine, CA 91901. For more information: 619-445-9236 ex 221. They are staffed by qualified and interns from the Graduate Clinical Mental Health Counseling Department of the University of San Diego.
A short review on the back story, on September 2, 2009, Dr. Ronn Johnson proposed this NA-FACES counseling program to SCAIR executives at the SCAIR family training center in Alpine, California.
Wanda Michaelis said, “These new offices and counseling program is a commitment that was part of a vision of her Father. Her staff and family are committed to bring services and motivate those Native Americans and others who will benefit from the programs and services under the SCAIR umbrella.”
Back to Roy Cook's Articles page.
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Good times at the Southern California American Indian Resource Center offices, some our good friends:
TEAM SCTCA: San Diego TANF Site Manager Lynne Ray Smith arrived with some of his team members and bearing a gift for the USD counselors.
SCTCA staff members posed for a group photo. Tribal TANF professionals from across San Diego County came to the grand opening to meet the USD counselors and tour their new SCAIR counseling facilities.
SCAIR guests smiled for a snapshot.
A SCTCA high-definition video (HDV) camera was on location to record the historic event, and TANF professionals had some fun with the electronic news gathering (ENG) process.
SCTCA field reporter posed for a production still just before doing an on-camera interview with SCAIR Board President William Johnson.
Family nutrition is a large part of any SCAIR-sponsored event — Tracey Stevens (SCAIR office manager) helped coordinate the open house.
SCAIR staff mingles with USD-CMHC interns in one of the new SCAIR San Diego counseling rooms.
SCAIR staff assists the USD counselors and are pictured here at their desks. Maria Cristina Rosado (SCAIR education specialist) is pictured in the foreground.
Please CONTACT SCAIR for more information about services for American Indians in Southern California.
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