TRAININGS | PRESENTATIONS | KEYNOTES
CAM Framework™ Trainings
Series of CAM™-Informed Care
CAM™ (Community Activated Medicine™) offers a transformative training designed to guide organizations in evolving from trauma-informed to healing-informed practices. This training encourages a paradigm shift in how organizations approach care, growth, and work culture, focusing on healing strategies that foster both individual and collective well-being.
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Through a deep dive into issues such as vicarious and secondary trauma, compassion fatigue, decision fatigue, burnout, and moral injury, CAM™ strengthens teams by helping them recognize their unique gifts and the value they bring to the workplace community. Central to this training is the integration of ancestral, intergenerational, and cultural wisdom, which builds resilience and a strong foundation of community care within organizational environments.
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CAM Framework™ trainings are customizable, offering modules such as an Introduction to CAM™, CAM™ Mental Health Without Borders™, the Intergenerational Healing Approach™, and tailored training experiences that merge CAM™ concepts to meet the specific needs and learning interests of your organization.
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The goal of CAM™ is to create just, loving, and sustainable environments that promote healing, rather than rationalizing violence or oppression.
Key Deliverables:
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A common language for discussing workplace trauma and stress
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An expanded understanding of how to address organizational toxic stress and fatigue
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Introduction to the CAM™ mindset and terminology
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Principles of cultural and community perpetuity
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Practical tools and practices for wellness, empowerment, and sustainable team growth
Join us to learn how CAM™ can revolutionize the way your organization supports its people and fosters a healing, resilient workplace culture.
Click here to learn more about CAM™.
Healing Informed Care for Victims of Crime
Healing Intergenerational Roots (HIR) Wellness Institute: Culturally Responsive Advocacy Training
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The Healing Intergenerational Roots (HIR) Wellness Institute provides culturally responsive trainings for professionals working with victims of crime. We have an intentional focus on Indigenous and underserved communities. We share to educate others on culturally respectful advocacy practices that support the healing and safety of Indigenous people. Our approach centers on empowering victim and survivors with the tools and knowledge they need to take proactive steps toward improving their circumstances and healing from trauma.​
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Our professional development training for culturally responsive advocacy delves into the history, trauma, and resilience of Indigenous peoples in the United States and Canada, offering a deep understanding of their current circumstances. The training also provides actionable strategies to improve advocacy practices, ensuring that advocates are better equipped to serve Indigenous communities with respect, sensitivity, and cultural awareness.
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Through our trainings, we aim to strengthen the capacity of professionals to support Indigenous and underserved survivors of violence, helping to create a more equitable, trauma-informed, healing-informed and culturally respectful system of advocacy.
Keynote
Visionary Speaker ​
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​Denny's powerful and transformative keynotes inspire audiences on a journey of healing and empowerment by sharing her groundbreaking models for addressing historical and intergenerational traumas.
With a focus on reshaping the culture of mental health care, she challenges conventional approaches and offers innovative, inclusive solutions that empower individuals and communities to break free from cycles of pain.
Drawing from her personal experiences and extensive research, she illustrates how healing can occur by acknowledging the deep-rooted impact of trauma, while also offering actionable tools for creating sustainable change. This session will inspire a deeper understanding of the intersection between trauma, culture, and mental health care, while encouraging a collective shift toward compassionate, accessible, and culturally respectful care for all.
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To learn more about Denny's models and work please click on the links below.
Reimagining Mental Health
Meet our Chief Executive Officer, Clinical Director, & Founder of HIR Wellness Institute
​Lea S. Denny, MS, LPC, NCC, NMT, a globally sought out expert with a visionary and innovative perspective, is a National Board-Certified Licensed Counselor and a Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics trainer with a focus on Indigenous healing. She is of Hawaiian and Filipino descent and her family is Indigenous to the Oneida and Ojibwe Nations. Beyond her roles as a wife, mother of two, and valued community member, Denny holds the responsibility and care of the notable positions of Chief Executive Officer, Visionary, Founder, and Clinical Director at the HIR Wellness Institute, a survivor and women led organization that serves survivors of violence, especially sexual assault, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, sex trafficking, and MMIW/R (missing & murdered Indigenous women/relatives). Denny is a survivor of sexual assault, adverse childhood experiences, intergenerational traumas and complex community violence.
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Denny has an impressive track record of over 20 years in the mental health field and she has been at the forefront of transforming how mental health care services are delivered to Indigenous and underserved communities worldwide. Leading a diverse interdisciplinary team of 16 professionals and continuously expanding, she is actively shaping the narrative around decolonizing mental health and embodying the paradigm shift towards healing-informed care and matriarchal shared leadership.
Denny's groundbreaking Lea S. Denny CAM Framework™ and CAM™ Mental Health Without Borders Approach™, along with her innovative CAMPsite™ model, have revolutionized access to mental health providers and support within community spaces.
Committed to workforce development, Denny has created a healing-informed organization that focuses on nurturing the next generation of helping providers and workforce development initiatives through her CAM™ Advanced Placement Training site. Her involvement as a community researcher on historical trauma healing, particularly in projects such as the CDC Indigenous research initiative on healing Adverse Childhood Experiences and tackling issues like the opioid epidemic and healthy homes. She has an unwavering commitment to making tangible impacts in the field and changing the landscape and culture of mental health.
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