June 16 & 17, 2021 – 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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Recorded Sessions
Welcome, Overview, and Recaps
Keynotes and General Sessions
Learning Tracks
The following learning tracks were available at the conference:
LGBTQ Track
Foster Care System
Crisis Care Systems Perspective
Community-Defined Evidence and Diverse Populations
Hiring, Retaining, Promoting Diverse Workforce and Engaging Diverse Workforce and Clients
Peer Workforce Development
Faith-Based Leaders and the Crisis Continuum
Welcome, Overview, and Recaps
Join us for a gathering to celebrate our cultural strengths and honor the family and communities who inspire our work.
We will begin with a blessing, share virtual community norms, and provide a contextual overview of Crisis Care in California.
Join us to begin Day 2 with intention and learn about one another’s work, hopes, and challenges.
Join us to reflect on our learning and make commitments to leading anti-racist action in our work and communities.
Keynotes and General Sessions
Thought leaders who have expertise on a national and California state level and from a peer perspective discuss anti-racism and the crisis continuum of care.
Thought leaders who have expertise on a national and California state level and from a peer perspective discuss anti-racism and justice diversion.
Join the Lunch and Learn Session with Lyla June! Break bread or tortillas or naan or fry bread while Ms. June discusses her multi-genre work healing community and the planet. Nourish your work with her reflections on anti-racism and crisis care. Learn how cultural practices like music, art, dance, ceremony can help to heal and prevent crisis. Themes from her music, studies, and life’s work include the duality of showing love and compassion while fighting for social and ecological justice and how the planet’s health is tied to our physical and mental health now and generations to come.
LGBTQ Track
This session will offer a deep dive into unpacking sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE) through the lens of racial equity. Facilitators will offer a historical analysis of gender that explores the ways gender is racialized, socially constructed, and constantly evolving. Participants will also receive an introduction to intersectionality, a theory and tool that allows clinicians, teachers, parents, and others in care fields to understand the specific experiences of racialized LGBTQ+ foster youth. This is part one of a six part series.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn the nuances of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
- Learn to situate gender within its historical trajectory.
- Learn how to apply an intersectional lens in working with queer foster youth.
In part two of this six part series, participants will learn how to use intersectionality as a tool for individualizing case conceptualizations. Facilitators will build on the work of Kimberle Crenshaw who coined intersectionality, a Black feminist theory and framework, to unpack the ways that race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and any number of identities and experiences impact foster youth in particular ways. Facilitators and participants will collaboratively explore the ways that overlapping systems of oppression converge to criminalize and pathologize queer BIPOC foster youth. This session builds on the one before, please be sure to attend Session 1 – SOGIE 101: Let’s Talk Sexuality, Let’s Talk Gender – before joining Intersectionality in Practice.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn how to use intersectionality as a tool for individualizing case conceptualizations
- Learn to identify overlapping systems of oppression and privilege that impact youths lives.
In part two of this six part series, participants will learn how to use intersectionality as a tool for individualizing case conceptualizations. Facilitators will build on the work of Kimberle Crenshaw who coined intersectionality, a Black feminist theory and framework, to unpack the ways that race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and any number of identities and experiences impact foster youth in particular ways. Facilitators and participants will collaboratively explore the ways that overlapping systems of oppression converge to criminalize and pathologize queer BIPOC foster youth. This session builds on the one before, please be sure to attend Session 1 – SOGIE 101: Let’s Talk Sexuality, Let’s Talk Gender – before joining Intersectionality in Practice.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn how to use intersectionality as a tool for individualizing case conceptualizations
- Learn to identify overlapping systems of oppression and privilege that impact youths lives.
Part four of this six part series provides a foundational understanding of resiliency and the brain. Facilitators offer neuropsychology’s The Person-Brain Model as a series of tools to divert queer BIPOC youth from carceral systems. Through what this model dubs “reimbursements,” facilitators will offer tangible interventions for clinicians, teachers, parents, and anyone else who interacts with LGBTQ+ foster youth. This session will explore the first two reimbursements under this model, neurorelational and biological, to explore interventions within these domains of a youths life.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn the “brain basics” needed to support queer BIPOC foster youth.
- Learn how to build resilience for queer BIPOC foster youth.
- Learn how to apply the first two reimbursements under the Person-Brain Model in working with queer BIPOC foster youth
Part five of this six part series continues the discussion of The Person-Brain Model and explores the remaining four reimbursements within this model, eco-cultural, experiential, academic, and regulatory. Participants will leave this session with tangible tools for supporting queer BIPOC foster youth in several domains of their lives; these tools include community based safety plans, evidence based practices and trauma informed interventions for crisis response.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn how to apply the last four reimbursements under the Person-Brain Model in working with queer BIPOC foster youth
- Learn how to develop a community based safety plan for crisis response
- Gain evidence based and trauma informed tools for mitigating the harm of inherently harmful systems, namely the foster care system
The final session of this six-part series explores the legacies of resistance that queer BIPOC folks come from. By exploring queer culture including the ballroom scene, dance, music, activism during the AIDS epidemic, and other culturally relevant practices, this session offers methods to tap into the strengths and the resilience that already exists within LGBTQ+ communities. Participants will have the opportunity to apply the tools offered throughout the series to vignettes pertaining to queer BIPOC foster youth.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Have an increased understanding of queer culture and increased competency in working with queer BIPOC foster youth.
- Learn how to use queer histories as resilience building tools for queer BIPOC foster youth
A trans person is killed every 3 days in the world, with the majority of these murders occurring in Latin America (Maderazo, 2009). Although the U.S. now allows for LGBTQ immigrants to claim political asylum, the process is extremely difficult. Regardless of whether they may be able to remain in the U.S., trans immigrants and asylum seekers are often held in detention facilities until immigration courts decide their cases (Human Rights Watch [HRW], 2016). This qualitative study used grounded theory to provide an understanding of the psychological impact that the systemic power of detention and solitary confinement has on the lives of Latinx, trans immigrants. This study interviewed 30 TNB participants who were between the ages of 18 and 52, and reported migrating from El Salvador (40%), Guatemala (23%), Mexico (17%), Honduras (17%), and Peru (3%). The semi-structured interview protocol and implementation of this study was developed in collaboration with two national Latinx, LGBTQ immigrant advocacy organizations. Result, implications and recommendations will be discussed.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn about Latinx trans Immigrant experiences in home country and during migration
- Learn about Latinx trans immigrant experiences in detention and subsequent psychological impact and coping processes
- Learn about implications for these findings, including call for mental health and continuum of care services
Panelists will discuss the strengths of resiliency and resistance in the lives of Trans and Non-Binary (TNB) communities, explaining the differences between these strengths and the roles they play in how TNB communities access crisis care services. The panelists will address important questions related to how behavioral health providers can support the wellbeing of TNB communities and reduce the impact of institutional traumas.
This panel will discuss the healing role of visual art and music for self-expression, resilience, and healing for BIPOC LGBTQ+ people from behavioral health crisis (e.g., suicide, overdose, interpersonal violence) and as resistance to racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other traumas that are associated with elevated rates of crisis in our communities.
Mental health providers and advocates discuss their personal experiences receiving crisis care services and share their lived-experience perspectives on how crisis care providers can be more culturally responsive for BIPOC communities.
A discussion among queer dance artists on how dance grants the power of knowledge, healing, and resistance to and for our marginalized communities. This conversation will invite conversations around race, identity, queerness, and practices that support, sustain, and build communities in various localities.
In this panel, participants will learn:
- Dance as a vehicle of resistance and power
- Dance as a healing organism that is malleable to each identity
- Dance as a platform to sustain, center, and build community for those marginalized
Foster Care System Track
This session will offer a deep dive into unpacking sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression (SOGIE) through the lens of racial equity. Facilitators will offer a historical analysis of gender that explores the ways gender is racialized, socially constructed, and constantly evolving. Participants will also receive an introduction to intersectionality, a theory and tool that allows clinicians, teachers, parents, and others in care fields to understand the specific experiences of racialized LGBTQ+ foster youth. This is part one of a six part series.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn the nuances of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.
- Learn to situate gender within its historical trajectory.
- Learn how to apply an intersectional lens in working with queer foster youth.
In part two of this six part series, participants will learn how to use intersectionality as a tool for individualizing case conceptualizations. Facilitators will build on the work of Kimberle Crenshaw who coined intersectionality, a Black feminist theory and framework, to unpack the ways that race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and any number of identities and experiences impact foster youth in particular ways. Facilitators and participants will collaboratively explore the ways that overlapping systems of oppression converge to criminalize and pathologize queer BIPOC foster youth. This session builds on the one before, please be sure to attend Session 1 – SOGIE 101: Let’s Talk Sexuality, Let’s Talk Gender – before joining Intersectionality in Practice.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn how to use intersectionality as a tool for individualizing case conceptualizations
- Learn to identify overlapping systems of oppression and privilege that impact youths lives.
In part two of this six part series, participants will learn how to use intersectionality as a tool for individualizing case conceptualizations. Facilitators will build on the work of Kimberle Crenshaw who coined intersectionality, a Black feminist theory and framework, to unpack the ways that race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and any number of identities and experiences impact foster youth in particular ways. Facilitators and participants will collaboratively explore the ways that overlapping systems of oppression converge to criminalize and pathologize queer BIPOC foster youth. This session builds on the one before, please be sure to attend Session 1 – SOGIE 101: Let’s Talk Sexuality, Let’s Talk Gender – before joining Intersectionality in Practice.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn how to use intersectionality as a tool for individualizing case conceptualizations
- Learn to identify overlapping systems of oppression and privilege that impact youths lives.
Part four of this six part series provides a foundational understanding of resiliency and the brain. Facilitators offer neuropsychology’s The Person-Brain Model as a series of tools to divert queer BIPOC youth from carceral systems. Through what this model dubs “reimbursements,” facilitators will offer tangible interventions for clinicians, teachers, parents, and anyone else who interacts with LGBTQ+ foster youth. This session will explore the first two reimbursements under this model, neurorelational and biological, to explore interventions within these domains of a youths life.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn the “brain basics” needed to support queer BIPOC foster youth.
- Learn how to build resilience for queer BIPOC foster youth.
- Learn how to apply the first two reimbursements under the Person-Brain Model in working with queer BIPOC foster youth
Part five of this six part series continues the discussion of The Person-Brain Model and explores the remaining four reimbursements within this model, eco-cultural, experiential, academic, and regulatory. Participants will leave this session with tangible tools for supporting queer BIPOC foster youth in several domains of their lives; these tools include community based safety plans, evidence based practices and trauma informed interventions for crisis response.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn how to apply the last four reimbursements under the Person-Brain Model in working with queer BIPOC foster youth
- Learn how to develop a community based safety plan for crisis response
- Gain evidence based and trauma informed tools for mitigating the harm of inherently harmful systems, namely the foster care system
In this presentation, participants will:
- Have an increased understanding of queer culture and increased competency in working with queer BIPOC foster youth.
- Learn how to use queer histories as resilience building tools for queer BIPOC foster youth
During this session, panelists will reflect on challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned in engaging in anti-racism and share their perspectives on how providers can implement anti-racist practices in crisis care services.
Resource families share their perspectives on accessing crisis care services and discuss ways that the crisis care continuum can be more culturally responsive to families, especially those who are BIPOC. This includes a discussion on specific services and supports that have been helpful as well as approaches to improving safety plans.
Demanding racial equity requires examining and listening to those impacted by systems that have not historically served communities of color appropriately. Hear from a panel of parents with diverse perspectives on how to tackle the complexities of race and social justice —what it means for them, its impacts, and how we can shape a better future.
Crisis Care Systems Perspective Track
This session will include the research and stories of the historical crisis system continuums and the projects, programs, and resources that have been developed and attempted in order to support individuals in behavioral health crisis. Positives strides will be presented here as well as challenges to the system will be addressed. The session will include healthcare system research, standards that have been created in the healthcare systems, and how the justice/legal system have implemented programs and resources such as CIT to support the behavioral health crisis system. Information will be shared related to barriers in design to equity and inclusion in the current behavioral health system.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Be provided with data and real world examples of research and context for the Crisis System in the US
- Be provided with information on the intersection of disparities and inequities in healthcare
- Learn about the most up-to-date information on innovation and technology in the crisis continuum space.
This session will include current evolutions in behavioral crisis care specifically related to the momentum seen in the past year. Emphasis will be placed on the Crisis Now model and examples given related to the implementation of the Crisis Now model through RI International’s work in the crisis continuum space as it relates to the equity and inclusion, trauma informed care, peer workforce, and no wrong door access. Information will be shared on the opportunities presented with legislative changes, funding and 988implementation.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Be provided with data and real world examples of research and context for the Crisis System in the US
- Be provided with information on the intersection of disparities and inequities in healthcare
- Learn about the most up-to-date information on innovation and technology in the crisis continuum space.
This session will focus on the opportunities for the future to continue to buildout a behavioral health crisis system that is equitable and accessible for all. Topics will include inclusion of substance use services, medication assisted treatment, Fusion model, Zero Suicide initiatives, Family involvement, and engagement assessments. Information will be shared related to the opportunity for true zero sequential intercept mapping as well as the opportunity for technology advances, data collection, and value-based outcomes. And finally, barriers are expected to be encountered but overcome related to county resource restrictions, insurance and reimbursement, and behavioral health provider support and workforce.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Be provided with data and real world examples of research and context for the Crisis System in the US
- Be provided with information on the intersection of disparities and inequities in healthcare
- Learn about the most up-to-date information on innovation and technology in the crisis continuum space
This session explores the role of peers providing community-based crisis care in mobile crisis units and peer respite programs. Join us to learn how race and ethnicity factor into people’s experiences accessing crisis care and how peer-driven crisis services can be most responsive to diverse communities.
Peer support workers add unique value to the crisis continuum in many different roles. This session will explore the variety of peer roles, including within call centers, mobile crisis units, and crisis stabilization, in both integrated and peer-run programs. It will also cover the role of peer support in prevention and postvention.
This workshop presents core tenets of an antiracist approach to mental healthcare with a focus on the crisis care continuum. This approach emphasizes recognizing racism and white supremacy’s historical roots in mental healthcare, identifying the multiple forms of racism operating within ourselves and our medical systems, and then challenging them during clinical care. The goal of antiracist mental healthcare is to dismantle systems of oppression, address racial health inequities, and honor the oath to first do no harm.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Recognize why an antiracist approach to mental healthcare as part of the crisis continuum is necessary
- Identify key tenets of an antiracist approach to mental healthcare
- Apply these tenets to a specific case
Panelists will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected crisis care with a focus on the differential impacts across race and ethnicity. They will also share recommendations for crisis care providers during the pandemic.
Mental health providers and advocates discuss their personal experiences receiving crisis care services and share their lived-experience perspectives on how crisis care providers can be more culturally responsive for BIPOC communities.
California Behavioral Health Directors Association (CBHDA) members share their experiences and progress implementing meaningful diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work across California. Join us to hear from leaders of behavioral health departments in San Mateo County, Ventura County, and Mono County as they talk about lessons learned and recommendations for other counties engaging in this work.
Interview from the Medicine Stories Podcast with Lyla June describing healing racial trauma of indigenous European ancestors as part of a contemporary anti-racist movement in the United States of America.
Through the lens of African American psychiatric history, participants will explore the imbedded values, policies and practices that perpetuate patterns of oppression and inequity for marginalized populations. Utilizing the Seven Healing Questions inquiry framework, participants will learn to name, analyze and strategize to disrupt oppressive patterns that contribute to traumatizing encounters for BIPOC communities and create more space for healing and emancipatory practices.
Objectives
- Participants will be able to identify at least on current day mental health practice or policy which contributes to racial health disparities with roots in historical mental health practices.
- Participants will demonstrate knowledge of the Seven Healing Questions and how they can be applied to individual and institutional anti-racist inquiry.
- Participants will identify one concrete action they will take to utilize the historical information shared in this and Seven Healing Questions inquiry framework to their personal and/or professional anti-racist action plan.
The need for antiracism in mental healthcare is increasingly recognized, but few strategies for training students and providers exist. This workshop describes an innovative antiracism in medical education curriculum developed by medical students and endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians. It features the curriculum’s mental health module. Rooted in critical race theory and abolition frameworks, it uses a realistic, narrative case to emphasize racial health inequities as products of racism, unpacks their historical origins, and then highlights a multitude of antiracist strategies for challenging these inequities.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn key components of antiracist mental health trainings
- Recognize which frameworks (i.e. critical race theory) are critical for antiracist mental health trainings
- Consider how to apply strategies used to develop this innovative mental health module to other antiracist trainings
In the past year, we have seen the overdose death rate in the United States increase in unprecedented numbers. This workshop is a jam-packed session on overdose rates and trends, overdose prevention, principles of harm reduction and how to apply them within your program, and innovative strategies for Narcan distribution.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Identify risk factors of overdose
- Discuss the principles of harm reduction with providers and participants
- Learn about new ideas to increase access to Narcan
This interactive presentation will introduce the California County Crisis Continuum Asset Map, developed by the CARE Team. Participants will learn about the components of the asset map, strategies for using the asset map, and ways in which the asset map may be beneficial to their work.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn how to use the California County Crisis Continuum Asset Map
- Learn about the components of the California County Crisis Continuum Asset Map
- Discuss ways in which the California County Crisis Continuum Asset Map may be beneficial to their work.
This presentation will walk participants through using a data equity lens through out the 5 main phases of a project: 1) Project design; 2) Data collection; 3) Data analysis; 4) Interpretation of findings; and 5) Who benefits from findings. Woven throughout will be practical examples of application in a justice diversion context.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Understand what Data Equity is
- Understand what Data Equity looks like throughout the phases of a project
- Understand how to apply a Data Equity lens to their own work
Community-Defined Evidence and Diverse Populations Track
Learn about supporting Indigenous youth through culturally responsive crisis care and justice diversion with the Two Feathers Native American Family Services Agency.
This talk will highlight the Sister Circle model as a culturally relevant, community defined and driven intervention for addressing the challenges and concerns that impact Black women’s capacity to be mentally well. We will discuss how the California Black Women’s Health Project has used this model statewide to increase awareness, reduce stigma and prove resources to treatment and support.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Define what it means to create “culturally relevant” interventions
- Apply appropriate sociocultural context to working with diverse populations
- Recognize opportunities to use a strength-based approach to healing
A trans person is killed every 3 days in the world, with the majority of these murders occurring in Latin America (Maderazo, 2009). Although the U.S. now allows for LGBTQ immigrants to claim political asylum, the process is extremely difficult. Regardless of whether they may be able to remain in the U.S., trans immigrants and asylum seekers are often held in detention facilities until immigration courts decide their cases (Human Rights Watch [HRW], 2016). This qualitative study used grounded theory to provide an understanding of the psychological impact that the systemic power of detention and solitary confinement has on the lives of Latinx, trans immigrants. This study interviewed 30 TNB participants who were between the ages of 18 and 52, and reported migrating from El Salvador (40%), Guatemala (23%), Mexico (17%), Honduras (17%), and Peru (3%). The semi-structured interview protocol and implementation of this study was developed in collaboration with two national Latinx, LGBTQ immigrant advocacy organizations. Result, implications and recommendations will be discussed.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn about Latinx trans Immigrant experiences in home country and during migration
- Learn about Latinx trans immigrant experiences in detention and subsequent psychological impact and coping processes
- Learn about implications for these findings, including call for mental health and continuum of care services
Panelists will discuss the strengths of resiliency and resistance in the lives of Trans and Non-Binary (TNB) communities, explaining the differences between these strengths and the roles they play in how TNB communities access crisis care services. The panelists will address important questions related to how behavioral health providers can support the wellbeing of TNB communities and reduce the impact of institutional traumas.
You will participate in a hands-on workshop in which you will make a short video based on a personal narrative. The workshop will be led by Story Center facilitators and will include an introduction to digital storytelling, a story circle experience, feedback on your script, instruction on how to develop the visuals for the video, record your script and use a simple video editor for creating your final multimedia piece.
During the session participants will learn about challenges faced by migrant and immigrant populations when accessing health services. The concept of structural competence will be introduced to show how health systems can better align their practices with the needs of vulnerable immigrant populations. The crucial role of the community health promoter will be discussed as central to addressing health inequities by a comprehensive health team.
- Learn about challenges in accessing health care faced by migrant and immigrant populations in the US.
- Identify health system structural competence practices suited to migrants and immigrants.
- Recognize promising practices for integrated community health systems.
Durante la sesión los participantes explorarán los retos que los migrantes e inmigrantes en situación de vulnerabilidad enfrentan al intentar acceder al sistema de servicios de salud. Introduciremos el concepto de competencia estructural e identificaremos oportunidades y practicas efectivas para acercar el sistema de salud a las necesidades de las poblaciones inmigrantes vulnerables. Se discutirá el papel del promotor de salud comunitario como parte del equipo integral de salud para atender las inequidades en salud.
- Aprenderán sobre los desafíos a los que se enfrentan las poblaciones de migrantes e inmigrantes en losEE.UU.para acceder a la atención médica
- Identificarán las prácticas de competencia estructural del sistema de salud relacionada con los migrantes y los inmigrantes.
- Reconocerán prácticas prometedoras para los sistemas de salud comunitarios integrados
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This panel will address the power of ballet folklorico, videography, and fashion design as a buffer against the injurious affects of racism, classism, homophobia, and other types of discrimination that interrupt young people’s life course in pursuit of their dreams. Join this panel to learn about the intersection of dance, culture, and mental health from the perspective of recently graduated high school seniors on their way to college. Hear their reflections on the ways that this program nurtured their self-esteem, pride, connection to peers and family, and knowledge of Mexico, all of which sets them up for college success.
In this workshop, participants will learn:
- Devices that implement safety, acceptance, and agency
- Dance as a resource of movement therapy and experiential shared knowledges
- Dance as a holistic practice and medicine
This session will discuss the healing role of folklorico for high school students as a form of resilience from behavioral health crisis (e.g., suicide, overdose, interpersonal violence) and resistance to traumas from racism, homophobia, transphobia, and other marginalized identities. This school-based cultural dance program increases connection across generations in the community and develops pride and confidence in the student body. Behavioral health providers are encouraged to consider the inclusion of folklorico as a part of crisis continuum of care prevention and postvention wellness plans with youth and young adults.
This workshop aims to increase awareness amongst re-entry service providers about the traumatizing impacts of incarceration so as to decrease exacerbation, and possible re-traumatization, of formerly incarcerated clients. Re-entry services that are trauma informed, especially as it relates to the traumatic impacts of incarceration, will be better situated to understand, assess and meet the needs of their clients in meaningful and accessible ways.
In the presentation, participants will:
- Gain a better understanding of how to identify signs and symptoms of incarceration trauma.
- Be better resourced to assess for trauma and integrate this into service planning/provision for re-entry clients.
- Have a better understanding of some of the common challenges that formerly incarcerated individuals experience when accessing re-entry services.
“The purpose of this workshop is to give insight into the veteran perspective during critical incidents. We will learn about military culture and how it relates to behavioral health and suicide. Specifically, we will introduce the guiding ideals instilled into our military members and how they can be both strengths and weaknesses for transitioning military members.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Be able to better identify the SMVF population
- Learn resources to connect veterans and their families
- Learn crisis intervention strategies for the Veteran population
Clinicians working with currently & formerly incarcerated individuals, continue to be primarily white, and have had little, if any involvement with the criminal legal system. However, people involved with the criminal legal system continue to be comprised primarily of BIPOC. To be effective, clinicians must be able to identify and address the ways that systemic racism and historical trauma are (re)enacted within the field of psychology, so as to reduce the level of harm that continues to be perpetuated via mental health service provision to this vulnerable population.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Gain a better understanding of systemic racism and its historical roots within the field of psychology.
- Have a better understanding of the evolution of today’s criminal legal system and how it continues to perpetuate the tenets of white supremacy.
- Gain a better understanding of the intersectionality’s of trauma, systemic racism and the criminal legal system.
This workshop will help behavioral healthcare workers understand the larger social issues of behavioral health care and housing needs in the context of connecting their clients they serve to local homeless systems of care. First, we will cover more broadly the connections between the social issues of homelessness, housing, and behavioral health. We will then delve into homelessness policy, homelessness continuums of care, and how behavioral health care workers can connect clients to these systems. Last, we will incorporate an equity lens throughout our discussion of housing and health care interventions for people in crisis or experiencing homelessness.
In this presentation, participants will learn:
- Connections between the social issues of homelessness, housing, and behavioral health
- What local homelessness systems of care are and how to provide connections for clients experiencing housing crisis
- Understanding the importance of equity as a lens for serving different populations with overlapping behavioral health and housing needs
Hiring, Retaining, Promoting Diverse Workforce and Engaging Diverse Workforce and Clients Track
Since the onset of the pandemic, the AAPI community has experienced an increase in violent attacks and hate crimes. The Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC) held listening sessions for AAPI mental health providers, supervisors, and administrative staff to be in a shared space with others and to find strength in the community. Learn about how these sessions were organized and provided safe spaces to process and heal in a time of grief for AAPI staff.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Understand how employers and colleagues can create business practices that are responsive to the racial traumas that racially/culturally diverse employees experience inside and outside of work.
- Learn how listening sessions can be conducted to provide space for healing for staff – both those personally affected and allies.
- Assess ways in which listening sessions may be implemented in your organization to better support racially/culturally diverse members of your staff.
Increasing workforce diversity is a critical step in achieving health equity. It is a key strategy for improving health outcomes, addressing health disparities, and fostering cultural and linguistic competence in service delivery. This presentation will address the importance of workforce diversity and how DEI within an organization helps improve access to health and health care for the communities they serve. Presenters will guide participants through a tool to help organizations providing mental health services explore the extent to which they are implementing various workforce diversity strategies.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Assess the successes and challenges of your mental health organization in building a diverse workforce.
- Highlight the importance of a diverse workforce in effectively addressing mental health disparities for the populations in your community.
- Grow knowledge of equitable hiring practices.
Behavioral health providers who are considering what types of training might be available to help staff identify their unconscious biases (toward self and others) and how to address these biases at work as part of a commitment to anti-racist behavioral healthcare and workplaces.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Gain a high-level understanding of the Bold Conversations Learning Series’ vision and objectives
- Assess the ways in which Bold Conversations aligns with their organizations’ visions for anti-racist behavioral health culture, communities, and service delivery
- Gain the knowledge necessary to identify potential staff applicants for the Bold Conversations learning series.
This panel is geared for behavioral health providers who would like to hear from an organization that has engaged in inter/intrapersonal antiracist practices to shift the organizations inclusion environment.
In this panel, participants will:
- Learn how to start difficult conversations within their organizations/departments
- Identify three accountability steps
- Learn how to promote antiracist actions.
During this session, panelists will reflect on challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned in engaging in anti-racism and share their perspectives on how providers can implement anti-racist practices in crisis care services.
Workshop participants will have an opportunity to understand the broader aspect of racism, its impact to the disparities in life expectancy not only among various ethnic groups but also by where individuals reside. Participants will also recognize how insidious behaviors create disparities and find how their organization can begin at the ground level to build an organizational culture where diversity, equity and inclusion is exhibited in their service offerings to help minimize disparities.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Understand life expectancy disparities by various entities
- Recognize insidious behaviors that create healthcare disparities
- Learn best practices for bridging gaps of health disparities starting with Diversity, equity and inclusion at the ground level
MECCA, the Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies eliminates racial and ethnic disparities and leads a coalition of community agencies that work with underserved multicultural communities. Learn about our community-based initiatives and advocacy strategies to advance equity in the behavioral health system and ensure cultural responsiveness.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Learn about MECCA’s programs including suicide prevention, substance use, stigma reduction and mental health initiatives for multi-ethnic communities that MECCA has developed
- Learn about our learnings from working with multicultural communities and the cultural considerations when working with multi-ethnic communities
- Learn MECCA’s multiple strategies to advance equity in the behavioral health system and ensure cultural responsiveness that is inclusive of consumer voices
This workshop is aimed at increasing awareness and skills around antiracist practices on the intra and interpersonal levels within organizations. Special attention will be given to navigating microaggressions and self-awareness to hold ourselves in each other accountable within our organization.
In this presentation, participants will:
- Define antiracist practices
- Identify three ways to engage in difficult conversations about race
- Know how to hold themselves accountable in their day to daywork
The 1998 Landmark study between The Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] and Kaiser Permanente San Diego County paved the way for us to review how Adverse Childhood Experiences [ACEs] greatly impacts our health as adults if left untreated. Besides the 10 initial categories identified in the original study, we will discuss other risk factors that contribute to health disparities such as racism, discrimination, and other social deterrents of health.
In this presentation, participants will learn:
- What are Adverse Childhood Experiences [ACEs]
- The impact they have on our health if undetected and untreated
- How Racism, Discrimination and other Social Deterrents of Health contribute to Health Disparities
Peer Workforce Development Track
For peer support workers: your recovery is your strongest asset. Come learn how to lean into and unleash the full power of your recovery and your unique value to the continuum of crisis care.
The experience of urban trauma is one of the most misdiagnosed or undiagnosed forms of trauma. Many individuals who are directly impacted may not even be fully aware of it. Through lived experience and research from the Adverse Childhood Experiences study, this session will explore the impact of urban trauma and how it affects one’s ability to access crisis services.
The stigma associated with behavioral health issues can be an impediment to acknowledging challenges, seeking support, accessing services, and sustaining recovery. This session will explore different forms of stigma, including internalized stigma, and offers simple, straightforward approaches to help reduce and eliminate stigma.
Providing peer support for people who are justice-involved or reentering the community after incarceration helps to break the cycle of recidivism. This session will explore strategies for using your lived experience to connect with, engage, and support justice-involved people.
Peer support workers add unique value to the crisis continuum in many different roles. This session will explore the variety of peer roles, including within call centers, mobile crisis units, and crisis stabilization, in both integrated and peer-run programs. It will also cover the role of peer support in prevention and postvention.
Faith leaders share about the behavioral health crises affecting diverse faith communities and the critical role they play as a support system during times of crisis. This dialogue is intended to help providers understand the dynamics of supporting communities of faith in culturally appropriate and responsive ways, especially during the pandemic. In addition, they will talk about the ways that health providers can align with faith leaders and their communities to build stronger systems of care for people experiencing crises.
Faith-Based Leaders and the Crisis Care Continuum Track
The CARE TA Center sees faith leaders as critical partners to an effective anti-racist crisis continuum of care. Many people experiencing crisis seek support from faith leaders before behavioral health providers. Additionally, faith leaders often have the capacity to respond more quickly to the compounding stressors of COVID-19, systemic racism, recession, and natural disasters than public agencies. Throughout history and today, faith leaders make distinct contributions as a moral compass in the Civil Rights Movement. We believe that together, crisis care behavioral health providers and faith leaders can maximize efficacy of anti-racist community-based recovery outside of costly and often inhumane and ineffective institutions like locked psychiatric hospitals and incarceration facilities. Crisis care systems can be strengthened through collaboration between faith leaders and behavioral health providers.
Join this session to learn about CARE TA Center resources, such as the California Crisis Continuum Asset Map and hear Tonja Myles, CPSS describe her trauma training for faith leaders, which combined, can help two systems of crisis care response become one.
Partnering faith beliefs with evidence based, best practices program and resources, to heal our communities in times of crisis and need.
In this presentation, participants will learn:
- The importance of working with community organizations to help promote healing from trauma during crisis, and in times of need.
- What is trauma and how it effects individuals and communities.
- What faith communities can do to become trauma-informed.
Partnering faith beliefs with evidence based, best practices program and resources, to heal our communities in times of crisis and need.
In this presentation, participants will learn:
- The importance of working with community organizations to help promote healing from trauma during crisis, and in times of need.
- What is trauma and how it effects individuals and communities.
- What faith communities can do to become trauma-informed.
People experiencing behavioral health crises like suicide, overdose, and intimate partner violence often reach out to their Faith Leaders before behavioral health providers. As places of worship open up more fully, faith leaders are seeing elevated stress among communities emerging from the isolation of social distancing.
The CARE TA Center would like to hear from faith leaders how we might best serve their critical work ministering to people in crisis in the coming year. Join us to share what training you need and resources we can provide.
The 1998 Landmark study between The Center for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC] and Kaiser Permanente San Diego County paved the way for us to review how Adverse Childhood Experiences [ACEs] greatly impacts our health as adults if left untreated. Besides the 10 initial categories identified in the original study, we will discuss other risk factors that contribute to health disparities such as racism, discrimination, and other social deterrents of health.
In this presentation, participants will learn:
- What are Adverse Childhood Experiences [ACEs]
- The impact they have on our health if undetected and untreated
- How Racism, Discrimination and other Social Deterrents of Health contribute to Health Disparities