To our long term care professionals and friends, 

I’m excited to share an engaging series about navigating the current day-to-day challenges of long term care. It’s an honor.

In Foundations of Behavioral Health: we will come together, remember our past, hear from each other, and obtain a deeper understanding on behavioral health. You will walk away from this series connected, with tools and a plan in place to address current challenges in long term care.

It goes without saying, our industry has remnants of toxic behavioral health patterns, but it also has bright moments of profound healing and care.

Yes, I called it an industry, because that is what long term care has become, and we are all part of it. The history, the growth, and the continued change. I am guessing you too, seek more from our status quo, and may even feel at times frustrated and with little hope for change. You are not alone. My current understanding is: change starts with self.

Many of us have the ability to change the narrative around where we are right now, and where we would like to go. Each one of us has our own journey and behaviors of how we experience this life. As care professionals, we sometimes get caught up in doing for instead of doing with; this often leads to profound disconnect, reactions, and systems no one is happy about.

In our time together for Foundations of Behavioral Health, we will remember:

  • The history of behavioral health supportive services
  • The system’s periodic intentions of wellness
  • The individuals who became marginalized along the way, and did not receive the care they needed

So many individuals are living in care homes with complex and unmet behavioral health care needs. For this reason, we will build on ways to elevate behavioral health.

We will explore connections to strengthen behavioral health:

  • Trauma Informed Care and Compassionate Communication
  • Behavioral Health as a a whole body experience
  • How internal and external environments impact our behaviors.

I look forward to convening with you in August to discover components of building a thriving behavioral health community. Remember, we are all behavioral and it takes a community to heal. 

See you there!

Learn more, and register for the Foundations of Behavioral Health Series.

If you have any questions, or would like to share what came up for you while reading this post: reach out to Hope Carwile at [email protected].

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About Hope Carwile, LCSW:

Hope Carwile is a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado and Texas.

Hope has approximately 25 years experience supporting individuals navigating dis-ease. Her goal is to steward positive transformation for individuals, families, and communities. Hope takes culturally sensitive approaches in guiding individuals and groups with their well-being, and has been known to work with people labeled as the most complex. Simply stated her focus is in reclaiming health and wellbeing.


Register to attend Foundations of Behavioral Health!

Educational opportunities offered by The Eden Alternative provide an innovative approach to honoring Elderhood, with resources for Elders and care partners to elevate well-being.

About The Eden Alternative:
The Eden Alternative is a non-profit organization that improves the quality of life for Elders and their care partners through an approach that focuses on the whole person. The Eden Approach® creates a person-directed care environment that eliminates loneliness, boredom, and helplessness by providing opportunities for meaningful engagement and spontaneity. 

The Eden Approach® includes: 
Person-directed care: Upholding one’s right to choose for themselves
Strength-based solutions: Focusing on what can be done, rather than what can’t 
Empowered cultures: Engaging and building on the voice of each person 

The Eden Alternative:
Deconstructs negative attitudes about aging and changing abilities.
Produces creative, attuned, and highly responsive teams.
Fosters deeper confidence, satisfaction, and a strong sense of ownership.
Builds consistent caring relationships by reducing employee turnover.
Results in happier families, happier employees, and happier elders.