Graziela Reis
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Graziela Reis, MPH, BS is a Project Coordinator of Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry, Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) and serves as Latinx site coordinator of IMANI Breakthrough, Yale site coordinator of New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Network Center, and Co-chair of the Yale Latino Recovery Colectivo.
Graziela Reis received her Post-Master’s Degree Certificate in Trauma-informed Practice with Children and Adolescents from Springfield College, School of Social Work, and her MPH and BS as a clinical psychologist from the Pontifical Catholic University Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her expertise is related to 1) workforce development in recovery-oriented practices such as trauma-informed care and psychosocial rehabilitation interventions; 2) development of peer-coach training and technical assistance on the cultural adaptation of community practices; and 3) development of culturally appropriate curriculums and web-based training tools. In addition, Graziela trained multidisciplinary mental health and wellbeing workers, both nationally and internationally.
In Brazil, she worked as a director of primary health care in Belo Horizonte and Contagem. She developed educational training programs for primary health care workers in collaboration with the federal government, the state of Minas Gerais, and the city of Contagem and Belo Horizonte. In addition, she contributed to developing, implementing, and disseminating innovative recovery-based interventions in mental health services and multi-professional mental health residence programs in Brazil.
Graziela has been working with researchers in Brazil and Colombia to improve the healthcare system, advocating for high quality in the public mental health system. Her work is related to developing a cultural understanding of recovery, citizenship, and peer support strategies that offer better care in mental health services.
Graziela is involved in volunteer work with Latinx communities in the United States. She advocates for equity and inclusion of people facing behavioral health conditions and discrimination in Spanish and Portuguese-speaking local and global communities. Graziela is committed to working on community projects, research, and approaches to becoming more recovery-oriented and culturally responsive.
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Mark Costa, MD, MPH
Chyrell Bellamy, MSW, PhD
Luz Ocasio
Anthony J. Pavlo, PhD
Claire Bien
Katherine Ponte, JD, MBA
Publications
2023
Guest editorial
MacIntyre G, Hamer H, Reis G, Bellamy C. Guest editorial. Journal Of Public Mental Health 2023, 22: 93-97. DOI: 10.1108/jpmh-09-2023-162.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPeer support in Brazil: experiences and strategies of inclusion, empowerment and citizenship
Corradi-Webster C, Reis G, Brisola E, de Paula Araujo C, Ricci É, Rufato L, Sampaio C, Andrade M, Orsi J, Oliveira R, Cidade A, Campos P, Costa M. Peer support in Brazil: experiences and strategies of inclusion, empowerment and citizenship. Journal Of Public Mental Health 2023, 22: 98-108. DOI: 10.1108/jpmh-10-2022-0105.Peer-Reviewed Case Reports and Technical NotesStrategies for the Management of Voices Shared in a Brazilian Hearing Voices Group
Rufato L, Corradi-Webster C, Reis G, Bien C, Davidson L, Bellamy C, Costa M. Strategies for the Management of Voices Shared in a Brazilian Hearing Voices Group. Psychiatric Quarterly 2023, 94: 243-254. PMID: 37204626, DOI: 10.1007/s11126-023-10032-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricBreaking through social determinants of health: Results from a feasibility study of Imani Breakthrough, a community developed substance use intervention for Black and Latinx people
Jordan A, Costa M, Nich C, Swarbrick M, Babuscio T, Wyatt J, O'Connell M, Guy K, Blackman K, Anderson R, Reis G, Ocasio L, Crespo M, Bellamy C. Breaking through social determinants of health: Results from a feasibility study of Imani Breakthrough, a community developed substance use intervention for Black and Latinx people. Journal Of Substance Use And Addiction Treatment 2023, 153: 209057. PMID: 37207836, DOI: 10.1016/j.josat.2023.209057.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsSocial determinantsMental Health Services AdministrationDimensions of wellnessCommunity-based participatory research approachRate of deathHealth Services AdministrationDrug overdose ratesSubset of participantsSubstance use interventionsWeek 12Opioid overdoseOverdose ratesSubstance misuseEthnic disparitiesDisparity gapParticipatory research approachAddiction servicesSubstance abuseWeeks of educationHealth equityMental healthSubstance useLatinx peopleIntervention programsServices AdministrationBrazilian immigrants in the United States and mental health: An integrative review
Brisola E, Reis G, Costa M, Bellamy C. Brazilian immigrants in the United States and mental health: An integrative review. International Journal Of Social Psychiatry 2023, 69: 1303-1311. PMID: 36924461, DOI: 10.1177/00207640231159800.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsBrazilian immigrantsEnglish languageVisible minoritiesImmigrantsUnited StatesLatino sampleWork-life balanceLatinosIntegrative reviewSources of supportVariety of fieldsArticleSingular perspectiveLanguageExperienceAcculturationFamiliarityResearch studiesNeighborhood cohesionCommunityLifeMental healthcare needsPeer-reviewed articlesPolicy makersSpiritualityPeer Support
Bellamy C, Reis G, Costa M, McKenley C, Blackman K, Evans M. Peer Support. 2023 DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-323-95702-1.00063-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEquity and inclusion: people, power, and politics – the potential of “citizenship” to transform mental health.
MacIntyre, G., Hamer, H., Reis, G. and Bellamy, C. (2023), "Guest editorial", Journal of Public Mental Health, Vol. 22 No. 3, pp. 93-97. Equity and inclusion: people, power, and politics – the potential of “citizenship” to transform mental health. https://doi.org/10.1108/JPMH-09-2023-162Commentaries, Editorials and Letters
2022
Citizenship, Social Justice and Collective Empowerment: Living Outside Mental Illness
Reis G, Bromage B, Rowe M, Restrepo-Toro ME, Bellamy C, Costa M, Davidson L. Citizenship, Social Justice and Collective Empowerment: Living Outside Mental Illness. Psychiatric Quarterly 2022, 93: 537-546. PMID: 35048313, PMCID: PMC8769788, DOI: 10.1007/s11126-021-09968-x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and Concepts
2021
Peer Support in Behavioral Health care: why it can work in the Latinx context
Perez O, Reis G, Costa M, Ocasio L, Diaz A, Guy K, Restrepo-Toro M, Bellamy C. Peer Support in Behavioral Health care: why it can work in the Latinx context. Revista Iberoamericana De Psicología 2021, 14: 1-10. DOI: 10.33881/2027-1786.rip.14201.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchGrupo de Ouvidores de Vozes: experiência inovadora realizada por suporte de pares
Corradi-Webster C, Rufato L, Leão E, Bien C, Reis G. Grupo de Ouvidores de Vozes: experiência inovadora realizada por suporte de pares. Revista Iberoamericana De Psicología 2021, 14: 75-85. DOI: 10.33881/2027-1786.rip.14208.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitations
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News
- May 23, 2024
PRCH, DMHAS Launch Art Show and Book Expression & Recovery
- May 03, 2024
PRCH, Yale Latino Recovery Colectivo Launch Third Year of Disability Lived Experience Action Network Grant
- November 29, 2023Source: Journal of Public Mental Health
PRCH Publishes Special Journal Issue to Celebrate 10th Anniversary of IRCC
- May 25, 2023Source: Psychiatric Quarterly
Strategies for the Management of Voices Shared in a Brazilian Hearing Voices Group