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DSH Behavioral Health Safety Collaborative
Connecting People. Sharing Knowledge. Advancing Safer Behavioral Health Environments.
A free, monthly virtual learning series created for professionals across California's Department of State Hospitals.
Creating safer behavioral health environments takes more than innovative products. It requires knowledgeable people, practical experience, and open conversations about the challenges facilities face every day.
The DSH Behavioral Health Safety Collaborative is a free, monthly virtual learning series created for professionals across California's Department of State Hospitals.
Powered by Dunamis Distribution, the Collaborative connects DSH colleagues with manufacturers, safety specialists, and industry experts to share knowledge, explore solutions, and work through real-world facility challenges.
This isn't another product webinar. It's a conversation—and you're invited to help shape it.
Whether you're planning renovations, evaluating products, addressing safety concerns, or learning from colleagues at other facilities, there's a place for you at the table.
Real Challenges. Collaborative Solutions.
DSH Spotlight
Learn from your peers.
Hear directly from DSH colleagues as they share projects, successful approaches, challenges, and lessons learned.
Ask the Experts
Bring us your toughest challenge.
An open, moderated discussion with manufacturers, safety specialists, and industry experts, built around questions from DSH professionals.
Resource Library
Access helpful resources.
Approved recordings, planning tools, regulatory references, and manufacturer materials, available throughout the year.
Facility Workshops
Continue the conversation.
Optional in-person sessions with manufacturers and technical specialists selected around your facility's needs.
Upcoming session
Anti-Ligature Furniture & Furnishings
Join us for an interactive discussion exploring furniture and furnishings for behavioral health environments.
We'll examine important considerations including durability, ligature-risk reduction, patient experience, product selection, and practical implementation.
Most importantly, you'll have the opportunity to ask questions, share experiences, and discuss the challenges facing your facility.
Bring your questions. Share your challenges. Let's find solutions together.
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What to expect
One Hour. Meaningful Conversations. Practical Solutions.
Welcome & Introductions
Meet the featured experts, review the session objectives, and learn what's ahead.
DSH Spotlight
Hear directly from DSH colleagues as they share projects, successful approaches, challenges, and lessons learned.
Featured Expert Discussion
Explore practical insights, product innovations, design considerations, and real-world applications with industry specialists.
Ask the Experts
Bring your toughest questions. Participate in an open, moderated discussion focused on challenges facing behavioral health facilities.
Resources & Next Steps
Discover useful resources, educational materials, and opportunities for continued learning or facility-specific discussions.
Closing
Preview upcoming sessions and learn how to stay involved.
Bring us your toughest challenge
Ask the Experts
Have a difficult facility challenge? Let's work on it together.
Maybe you're trying to address a ligature concern in an older building. Perhaps you're balancing fire and life safety requirements with behavioral health design. Or you're searching for a more durable, safer solution for a patient care environment.
Whatever the challenge, we want to hear about it.
During each Collaborative session, our featured experts will explore questions submitted by DSH professionals, discuss potential approaches, and share practical knowledge.
When a challenge requires deeper investigation, Dunamis can help connect your team with appropriate manufacturers and technical specialists for further discussion.
Your questions help drive the conversation—and shape future sessions.
Upcoming Collaborative sessions
Second Thursday of every month
2:00–3:00 PM Pacific. Virtual.
Future topics and featured experts are subject to confirmation.
Behavioral Health Resource Library
Practical Knowledge. Available When You Need It.
The Collaborative is more than a monthly conversation.
Our growing Behavioral Health Resource Library is designed to give participating professionals a convenient place to access helpful information throughout the year.
Free access with email registration.
Resource access does not require consent to receive promotional emails. Participants may separately choose whether to receive future event invitations and educational updates.
Approved recordings, presentation materials, and key takeaways.
Checklists, project-planning resources, and product evaluation guides.
Links to relevant Joint Commission, CMS, CDPH, NFPA, and other authoritative resources.
Product literature, application guides, and educational materials.
Answers to frequently asked questions and anonymized discussion summaries, where appropriate.
Take the conversation further
Collaborative Facility Solutions Workshops
Some challenges deserve a closer look.
For DSH teams interested in exploring specific projects, Dunamis can help coordinate in-person workshops with manufacturers and technical specialists selected around your facility's needs.
These optional sessions may include product demonstrations, technical discussions, project-planning conversations, and opportunities to evaluate potential solutions.
Your team identifies the challenge. We help bring the right people together.
Let's Learn. Collaborate. Solve.
Join us on the second Thursday of every month.
Register for November 12This is an independently organized educational initiative for DSH professionals and is not represented as an official Department of State Hospitals program.