Dr Deborah Show

Tune in to listen to our special guests: Santa Barbara Sheriff's Department: Sheriff Deputy James McKarrell and County Mobile Crisis Clinician Bradley Crable, LCSW.

James was hired by the Sheriff's Office is 2006. He spent most of his career on patrol, working closely with the communities that he's served. James was promoted to his current position (CRD) in August of 2015. His primary assignment is to meet, collaborate and problem solve with our community members to keep IV a thriving, safe and cool place for us all. So far they have made tremendous strives together. He enjoys connecting with our community.

James works with Crable, who is a SB County Mobile Crisis Clinician with SB Behavioral Wellness. He is a crisis outreach worker who is able to make a determination if a subject needs to be placed on an involuntary hold/52150. The two respond to a new alliance called the Crisis Intervention Team, which pairs law enforcement with mental health specialists.

The program is called Co-Response and is an experimental program run by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Department that helps prevent mentally ill people from hurting themselves or others may have to end soon, even after a successful start. The pilot program, which started in September, pairs a deputy trained in mental health issues and a mental health worker who understands the resources available to people in need.

Deputy James McKarrell and Mobile Crisis Clinician Bradley Crable have responded to approximately 80 emergency calls. They typically arrive first before a patrol unit to de-escalate the situation. The team is diverting people from acute hospitalization into lower levels of treatment, and diverting them from the criminal justice system in lower levels of treatment.

Over the life of the program the pair determined 10 people needed to be under a 5150 hold, while convincing others to get treatment voluntarily. When weapons were involved, they were confiscated. Currently, the pilot program only exists in the South County, from Carpinteria to the Gaviota Tunnel, where there is the largest volume of health calls.

Tune in to listen to our special guests: Cheyenne Thies, 22, and Ella Fairon, 21. Cheyenne and Ella are survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault. They are fighting the stigma of being a "victim" and pushing to empower survivors rather than silence them.

In hopes to help other victims, they have started a podcast, Savage Survivors, premiering early April of 2019. The podcast spreads awareness of the reality of what it is like to experience assault as well as the raw recovery process. Ella was featured in the Netflix documentary Audrey and Daisy.

Learn about the origins of anxiety, types of anxiety and ways to counteract anxiety on this episode of the Dr. Deborah Show.

Santa Barbara County Supervisor Das Williams: Das was elected to represent the First District of Santa Barbara County in June 2016. Williams previously represented the area, along with over half of Santa Barbara County and a quarter of Ventura County in the California State Assembly from 2010-2106. Prior to his service in the Assembly, Williams served 7 years on the Santa Barbara City Council from 2003-2010 and also served as a trustee for Peabody Charter School in Santa Barbara.

During his extensive public service, Williams has earned a reputation as a champion for renewable energy and the reduction of green house gas emissions. In the Assembly, Williams helped successfully advocate for a requirements that 33% of the state's energy come from renewable sources by 2020. With the state on track to hit that goal, Williams has authored legislation to increase the renewable energy goal to 50% by 2030.

A lifelong advocate for our coast, Williams championed required testing of groundwater before, during, and after hydraulic fracturing, which was included in California's regulations on fracking and authored legislation to expand groundwater monitoring to other types of injection wells to protect underground sources of drinking water from oil and gas wastewater disposal.

Williams also took leadership to ensure statewide resources would be spent locally to provide relief from the drought, including securing funds for the Lake Cachuma pump project and supporting funding for water recycling and conservation efforts. He's also been a leader on emergency preparedness, hosting an emergency preparedness fair every year since he took office and working to ensure 911 calls are correct routed to cut down on response time.

Williams grew up in Santa Barbara County and attended local schools. In addition to his service in elected office, he taught at Antioch University in Santa Barbara, worked as a junior high school teacher, as well as a legislative aid to California State Assemblymember Hannah-Beth Jackson. Williams holds a Master's degree in Environmental Science & Management, with a focus on water pollution, planning processes, and land-use law at UC Santa Barbara's Bren School of Environmental Science.

David Bearman received his M.D. from the University of Washington School of Medicine. He has served at all levels of government including the U.S. Public Health Service, Director of Health Services at San Diego State University, Health Officer and Director Sutter County Health Department and Medical Director/Director of Medical Services for the Santa Barbara Regional Health Authority (CenCal).

Dr. Bearman has a long career in the field of drug abuse treatment and prevention. He was prominent in the community clinic movement, having started the third Free Clinic in the country in Seattle, then directing the Haight Ashbury Drug Treatment Program, and founded the Isla Vista Medical Clinic. He was Medical Director of Santa Barbara County Methadone Maintenance Clinic, Ventura County Opiate Detox Program, and Zona Seca, an outpatient drug treatment program.

He is a leader in the field of cannabinoid medicine, a co-founder of the American Academy of Cannabinoid Medicine and on the board of Americans for Safe Access. The Wall Street Journal Health Blog named him "Doctor of the Day." He has taught courses on the physiology and history of substance use and abuse at UCSF, UCSB, and SDSU, been a consultant to Hoffman La Roche, NIDA and the National PT A, made numerous professional presentations, consulted widely and has been an expert witness in over 400 civil, criminal, and family court cases. Currently he is Zona Seca's Medical Consultant and maintains a private practice in Santa Barbara, California.

Mariela Marin, MFT. Mariela currently serves as the Executive Director of Community Counseling Education Center (CCEC), which allows her the opportunity to work not only with the community but also with talented trainees and interns. She is caring for the well-being of the Santa Barbara community one phone call, client, trainee, associate, supervisor, Center supporter, and human at a time. She was also previously the Director of Counseling and Recovery Services at Pacific Pride Foundation.

Mariela has worked with other area non-profits serving abused and neglected children and the LGBTQ community since 2001. She was raised by her Mexican father and Spanish mother who taught her the importance of love, being true, and building community.

She earned her Masters in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University and returned to her alma mater to serve as adjunct faculty in 2006. Mariela's strong interest is in the area of multicultural competence and she is dedicated to combating power, oppression and privilege through the empowerment of her clients and students.

Tune in to listen to our special guest Chris Pelonis: Chris Pelonis is a Musician, Engineer/Producer, Singer-Songwriter and closer to home, he might be known as Chris the Martial Arts Guy, Chris the Surfer, Chris of Chris & Pits BBQ or Chris the Choir Director.

Pelonis grew up in a musical family, with an aunt who was a prodigy on piano, a grandfather who played flute and a mother who loved Sinatra. His grandparents owned a restaurant in Hollywood, and created Chris and Pitts Bar-b-Que sauce! He was surrounded by music, and support.

One of his earliest memories goes back to age 4, when his sister brought home a nylon string guitar. He stole it from her room and never gave it back. Pelonis has been described as kind, loyal and sincere, a compassionate man raised by compassionate parents. He gives as freely of his time helping raise money for mudslide victims in La Conchita, near his home, as he does putting in the extra hours designing world-class studios.

For the entire time Pelonis has been designing studios, he has also been acutely focused on the interconnection between room and speaker. Over the past 30 years, Pelonis has designed personal studios, commercial facilities, mastering suites and film stages for clients that include Skywalker Sound, Future Disk, Jeff Bridges, Glen Phillips, Disney, 3rd eye blind, Sony PlayStation Studios and more, all over the world. Music is the bedrock of nearly everything he does, whether onstage or building a studio space.

Tune in to listen to our special guest: Jack Herschorn. Jack began his career as a Chiropractor in Venice Beach in the 1970s and moved to Santa Barbara in the 90's. Jack and his wife, Rose, started Jack's Famous Bagels. When they sold Jack's Bagels, they decided to embark upon a trip around the world with their two children, David and Lauren (who were 11 and 9 at the time). They traveled and acquired items from China, Tibet and other places around the world, creating their current business, The Sacred Space in Summerland.

With ringing endorsements from notable characters in the spiritual sphere as well as the entertainment industry-the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Maria Shriver and Eckhart Tolle have walked the grounds, taking in the beautiful finds that Jack and Rose handpick while on regular buying trips to Asia.

The Sacred Space has a soulful touch and an enchanting experience. Their goal is to plant a seed of higher consciousness, of the beauty that is possible in this frenetic world, the beauty helps us shift into a calm serenity.

The Dr. Deborah Show brings peace & calm into your life, and the lives of KCSB listeners in Santa Barbara and on the Central Coast. In this episode, Dr. Deborah is joined by KCSB news and public affairs director, Lisa Osborn, to talk about the good work the Dr. Deborah Show is doing in the community, as well as how KCSB FM, the community and student-run radio station at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) has been serving listeners for 57 years. 

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Dr Lisa Firestone, is a clinical psychologist, author, and the Director of Research and Education for the Glendon Association. She studies suicide and violence as well as couples and family relations. An accomplished and much requested lecturer, she represents the Glendon Association at national and international conferences in the areas of suicide assessment and prevention, parenting, couple relations and Voice Therapy.

In collaboration with Dr. Robert Firestone, her studies resulted in the development of the Firestone Assessment of Self-Destructive Thoughts (FAST)and the Firestone Assessment of Violent Thoughts (FAVT).

Dr. Firestone has published numerous professional articles, and is the co-author (with Robert Firestone and Joyce Catlett) of Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice, Creating a Life of Meaning and Compassion, and Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships. (APA books) Dr Firestone speaks frequently at conferences including the APA, the International Association of Forensic Psychology, International Association of Suicide Prevention, the Department of Defense and many others. She has also appeared in more than 300 radio, TV, and print interviews including the BBC, CBC, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Psychology Today, Men's Health and O Magazine.