Name: Toxic Stress: Why this matters for providers and tools to navigate it
Start: 2026-06-12T09:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-06-12T12:30:00-07:00
Location: Women's Building

Toxic Stress: Why this matters for providers and tools to navigate it

A Domains of Wellness Training Presented by Malcolm Gaines Psy.D.
About this Event

Register now for this free training focused on how providers can better understand and navigate stress in their work and daily lives.

Objectives:

Using the Domains of Wellness framework, Malcolm Gaines Psy.D will provide information on

Toxic stress and the impact it has on individuals
The Domains of Wellness framework
Tools and materials that can be used to navigate the effects of toxic stress

Providers will receive information and materials that they can use in their work as well as their personal life.

Lunch and snacks will be provided for all participants.

Who Should Participate?

This training applies to everyone.

About the Trainer:

Malcolm Gaines, Psy.D., is a clinical psychologist and currently serves as the Senior Clinical Projects Director at Safe & Sound. He has been with the organization since 2002, and has also served as Clinical Director and Director of Intern Training there. Together with his colleagues, Dr. Gaines designed and implemented Safe & Sound’s Five Protective Factors-based service model in response to the need for an outcome-focused, data-informed, strengths-based model of family support in the field of child abuse prevention. He currently provides consultation and technical support to family support centers implementing Protective Factors-focused programming in San Francisco, and he leads Safe & Sound's efforts to integrate the Protective Factors framework, ACEs science, and trauma-informed care within their service model. He is a contributor to "The Case for Prevention: A Two-Generation Approach to Ending Child Abuse," in Two Generations. One Future: An Anthology from the Ascend Fellowship, published by the Aspen Institute and to Safe & Sound’s 2022 issue brief, “Creating a Child & Family Well-Being System: A Paradigm Shift from Mandated Reporting to Community Supporting.” His clinical interests include resilience, childhood trauma, adoption, parenting and attachment, and transition age youth. He received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology, and he maintains a psychotherapy practice in San Francisco, where he has worked with children and families since 2002. He lives in San Francisco with his husband and daughter.