2025
PURPOSEFUL 2025: ATTENTION, PREVENTION, INTERVENTION – Linking the Modalities of Behavioral Health Care
Behavioral and mental health care encompasses a broad array of treatments, and a range of nuanced facility types has been created in response. Addressing them separately does not acknowledge the comprehensive nature of treatment, or the unique way a given individual might navigate the offerings.
Purposeful 2025 asks us to envision new ways to physically connect the range of care modalities, and to envision a way to fluidly merge the prevention, attention, and intervention processes of behavioral health treatment to eliminate stigma and isolation, and infuse care with social needs and family involvement. The pressure to expedite the implementation of new care facilities is pushing us to build more of what we are already familiar with.
In Purposeful 2025, we ask ourselves: Is this the right response?
WHEN | WHERE | LEARNING UNITS
When
Friday, August 22, 2025
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Where:
AIA|LA & ACLA Center for Communities
4450 West Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
Learning Units:
AIA CES: 6.0 LU|HSW Approved
Learning Objectives:
Integrate Attention, Prevention, and Intervention
Identify how unified design approaches can reduce stigma, improve outcomes, and support community wellness.
Connect Care Modalities
Explore spatial and operational strategies that strengthen transitions between fragmented services, promoting accessibility, equity, and patient dignity.
Support Social Determinants of Health
Evaluate how design can enhance family involvement, social connection, and community integration within behavioral health settings.
Design for Urgency, Resilience, and Adaptability
Investigate innovative models that move beyond outdated facilities to support safe, flexible, and integrated behavioral health care.
PROGRAM
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TICKETS
AIA Member Ticket: $120
Non-Member Ticket: $165
Student: $55
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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Emcee
SPEAKERS
Anosha Zanjani
Architectural Designer, Researcher, and the Founder and Principal + Behavioral Health Consultant at Mindful Insights Consulting
Dr. Melissa Steach, Ph.D.
Industrial-Organizational Psychologist & Behavioral Health Design Strategist & U.S. Regional Engagement Manager, Pineapple Contracts
James E. Rosser, LCSW, CMT-P
Chief of Clinical Operations, Dept of Psychiatry, David Geffen School, UCLA
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
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