To access more MHTTC trainings, events, products, and resources with a focus on cultural responsiveness and other relevant topic areas, visit the MHTTC Training and Events Calendar and Products and Resources Catalog. In the search field, you may enter keywords such as 'culture', 'equity', 'diversity', and 'disparities' to filter your search.
This reference guide focuses on supporting intentional dialogue about diversity, equity, and inclusion. As essential as these terms are for bridging the gaps that impact mental health, they are also often misused and misunderstood. This guide addresses the role of the MHTTC Network as a vehicle to promote and implement DEI principles in behavioral health practices. It also makes clear the position of MHTTCs nationwide when issues of diversity, equity and inclusion are discussed.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Guide | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
This roundtable focuses on the importance of self-care and family care in Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours
In this session, we discuss key cultural issues for understanding the causes and manifestations of psychiatric disorders in persons of Indian origin from India/South Asia in the United States. We discuss approaches to the management of such clinical presentations.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
In this event, Dr. Fan provided a brief analysis on how Asian religious and philosophical traditions affect the understanding, clinical manifestation and treatment-seeking behaviors of people with psychotic disorders and other mental illnesses. In addition, the mental health toll of anti-Asian racism and being a “model minority” are presented. During the second part of the event, Dr. Fan lead a clinically oriented discussion to address the barriers to improve mental health care for Asian Americans.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This brief synthesizes insights, reflections, and recommendations from a series of listening sessions held with Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) behavioral health providers in California from March to May 2021.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Handout | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
This talk involves a brief analysis on how Asian religious and philosophical traditions affect the understanding, clinical manifestation and treatment-seeking behaviors of people with psychotic disorders and other mental illnesses, a presentation on the mental health toll of anti-Asian racism and being a “model minority”, and a clinically oriented discussion to address the barriers to improve mental health care for Asian Americans.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours
Learn what it means to be part of the Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities; how each community self-identifies, unique strengths and challenges, and different mental health and social inequities associated with the COVID pandemic.
Audience: General | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among African American Youth, and African American boys age 5-12 are more likely than any other group to succumb to suicide. Central East MHTTC is committed to illuminating and mitigating this dire situation by increasing behavioral and primary care practitioners' awareness, skills, and knowledge around suicide prevention.
Audience: General | Resource Type: Resource List | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This webinar delves into discussions about the disparities present in healthcare and in the mental health of the Black community, amplifying the voices of the Black community and beginning the conversation surrounding solutions to these disparities.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
An important step in reducing disparities and expanding access to care is to train educators and mental health professionals to understand the cultural and racial support that men of color need. Another is by leveraging relationships in the community, in particular barbers, to help de-stigmatize the conversation about mental health in a setting men may feel more comfortable talking. In this on-demand recording, Lorenzo Lewis shares about the important work of The Confess Project and their efforts to teach barbers how to be active listeners, how to validate clients' responses, and how to eliminate mental health stigma by using positive language.
Audience: General | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
The Mid-America Technology Transfer Centers (TTCs) recognize that Black communities in our country are hurting. Across the Mid-America region, we commit to collectively increasing our efforts to develop a collaborative plan with our community partners to be part of a solution to promote equity, safety, and health for our communities. As a start to our efforts to promote behavioral health equity for all, we have compiled some resources that may support you in your work.
Audience: General | Resource Type: Resource | Time Commitment: > 3 hours
Recording of the event Schizophrenia Diagnosis and Treatment in the Black Community, originally held on November 18, 2021.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
Recording of the event Treatment of Mental Illness and Chronic Disease Co-morbidity in the Black Community, originally held on February 17, 2022.
Audience: Providers, School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This webinar discusses an integrative approach to working in a culturally responsive manner with Chicanx/Latinx populations and highlight tools related to “Browning” your counseling, also exploring an awareness of how traditional/individualistic concepts in mental health can be culturally incongruent for Chicanx/Latinx populations.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
These episodes celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month and focus on the importance of providing culturally appropriate services for Latinx communities.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Podcast | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This brief identifies issues to consider when conducting mental health services and supports through telehealth with culturally diverse communities and provides strategies to ensure that the national Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards continue to drive efforts towards culturally competent care.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Brief | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
This fact sheet is produced by the National Hispanic and Latino MHTTC and is based on the webinar Cultural Humility: Where Being Human Matters in Serving Others. This fact sheet describes why and how cultural humility matters as service providers, the current literature on color-blind racial ideology, and implicit bias. The fact sheet also mentions the importance of understanding one’s cultural limitations to enhance our service as cultural workers, both personally and professionally.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Handout | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
Esta hoja informativa describe por qué y cómo la humildad cultural es importante en nuestro trabajo como proveedores de servicios, la literatura actual sobre ideología racial daltónica y prejuicios implícitos. La hoja informativa menciona la importancia de comprender las propias limitaciones de las ideologías como una forma de mejorar nuestro servicio como trabajadores culturales, tanto personal como profesionalmente.
Audiencia: Proveedores de Servicios de Salud Mental| Tipo de Recuros: Hoja Informativa | Compromiso de Tiempo: < 10 minutos
Disparities in health care and mental health care are more evident than ever. Some areas of concern include limited access to high-quality care and the availability of culturally grounded evidence-based treatment and services for Hispanics and Latinos. Addressing these disparities, the National Hispanic and Latino MHTTC developed this booklet. It emphasizes the social determinants of health (SDOH), as well as non-medical health-related social needs (HRSN) and their impact on mental health outcomes. It offers recommendations for mental health providers, researchers, and consumers to reduce disparities among Latino communities, including increasing awareness and the importance of being trained in culturally grounded evidence-based interventions. Treatment works! Most Latinos who seek specialty mental health care do get better.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Booklet| Time Commitment: < 1 hour
This fact sheet is based on a webinar presented by Bernardo Ng, MD. The fact sheet discusses the Mental Health Issues among Older Hispanic and Latino Adults in the United States.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Handout | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
The National Hispanic and Latino MHTTC serves as a key subject matter expert and resource for workforce and community development across the U.S. and its territories to ensure that high-quality, effective mental health treatment and recovery support services, and evidence-based and promising practices are available to help reduce health disparities among Hispanics and Latinos experiencing mental disorders, in particular, those with serious mental illness.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Webpage | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
Unaccompanied minors from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador make up 48%, 27%, and 14%, respectively, of all unaccompanied minors arriving to the United States. Raising awareness of the traumatic experiences, background, developmental history, and mental health needs of unaccompanied minors and understanding this information in the context of the child's culture and national origin is critical to better serve their mental health needs. This factsheet provides tips for clinicians working with Hispanic unaccompanied children who have been detained and reunited with family members.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Factsheet | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
With an emphasis on early psychosis, this brief reviews clinical and organizational best practices to promote culturally and linguistically responsive care, with a focus on Latinx sub-populations. The associated webinar discusses implications for practice and research applicable to multiple service settings with varying service sectors.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This book guides mental health providers working with Latinx communities from México, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. Specifically, it presents unique and specific experiences of Mexican, Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Honduran communities in the country of origin and the United States and their possible impact on the mental health among these communities. A focus on the intersecting role of oppression, historical trauma, oppressive policies, and current stressors (COVID-19) is explored in the context of mental health considerations. The book serves to better inform providers and clinical educators on how historical contexts can provide unique insights into the mental health experience of Latinx communities.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Book | Time Commitment: > 2 hours
This booklet is designed to provide means to increase health equity among Latinx populations. The main purposes are to:
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Booklet | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
Region IV is the largest HHS region, comprised of eight states and 26% of the U.S. population. These states have large rural populations, high poverty rates, and face racial and cultural disparities in care. In addition the Southeast states have experienced considerable growth in Hispanic and Latinx communities and populations in recent decades. Cultural and linguistic factors are important considerations when planning mental health care and support services for clients and families in these communities. Visualizing influences such as country of origin, race/ethnicity, and access to linguistically and culturally competent care can be a challenge in a large, diverse region. The Southeast MHTTC Data Visualization Project provides information on Region IV priorities in an easy to understand graphical format.
Audience: General | Resource Type: Map | Time Commitment: < 30 Minutes
The webinar discusses efforts in Washington State to support implementation of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline as well as the first Native and Strong Lifeline in the country. Washington State Representative Tina Orwall describes passing legislation to improve the state’s suicide and behavioral health crisis response system implementing 988, which is strengthening Washington’s behavioral health crisis system. She discusses what is currently in progress as well a continuing vision to strengthen the crisis response system in Washington State, and across the country.
Audience: General | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: 1 hours
This presentation explores how historical educational oppression is linked to contemporary oppression in the classroom and schools and offer some guidance on how to overcome these barriers to support Native youth and families.
Audience: Providers, School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours
What does it mean to be "brave?" How do we incorporate those characteristics in a culturally responsive way? This workshop guides you through some grounding techniques that tap into the strength and resilience of American Indian / Alaska Native communities.
Audience: Providers, School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This 4-part learning series goes over cultural formulation within different categories and offers strategies to implement.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 3 hours
Practicing one's culture promotes well-being. In this series, we explore how Latinx and Native people use cultural elements such as community pride, family, spirituality, and resiliency to live safe, happy, and healthy lives.
Audience: General| Resource Type: Handout | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
This training will support your efforts to increase your understanding of Native culture. The training will also provide clinicians with practical tips for improving engagement with this population, in order to improve clinical outcomes with your American Indian/Alaska Native clients.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
The K-12 Program created fact sheets for both Serious Mental Illness (SMI) and Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) to educate individuals on the data surrounding SMI and SED in Native populations and to share best practices for working with Native peoples living with SMI and Native children and youth with SED. Both of the fact sheets can be downloaded above.
Audience: Providers, School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Handout | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
Healing Our Protectors: Building Resilience Among Tribal Law Enforcement Officers Through Cultural Interventions is a resource intended to assist behavioral health providers in gaining a greater understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among law enforcement officer, especially those working in and with tribal communities. It provides suggestions for a culturally responsive approach to treatment using the medicine wheel and offers concrete exercises. It is also a tool for law enforcement supervisors and administrators who wish to gain a greater understanding of the unique needs of Indigenous law enforcement officers who are dealing with a host of job-related challenges and stressors.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
The National American Indian and Alaska Native MHTTC works with organizations and treatment practitioners involved in the delivery of mental health services to AI/AN individuals, families, and tribal and urban Indian communities to strengthen their capacity to deliver effective evidence-based practices and experience-based practices to individuals, including the full continuum of services spanning mental illness prevention, treatment, and recovery support. You will find many helpful resources on the website.
Audience: General| Resource Type: Webpage | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This discussion with Native spiritual and cultural leaders provides an opportunity to applaud the bravery of our health care providers and community members, and to discuss how Native spirituality can support our ability to regain our health and balance.
Audience: General| Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This webinar explores how bias impact our worldview and the work with the LGBTQ population, to identify health disparities among LGTBQ population, and to explore interventions to create a safe space and minimize the impact of implicit bias.
Audience: Providers| Resource Type: Webpage | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
Dual Diagnosis is when an individual is diagnosed with having a substance use disorder and mental health condition concurrently. There are factors that contribute to an individual’s and/or community’s likelihood of having a dual diagnosis, including barriers to health care and treatment, minority stress from discrimination and stigma, and lack of awareness about dual diagnosis and symptomology. In 2018, The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) found that approximately 7.7 million adults were living with a dual diagnosis. This report has a specific focus on the LGBTQ+ communities in the US and highlights the context within the Southeast.
Audience: Providers| Resource Type: Guide Book | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
The Southeast MHTTC School Mental Health Initiative created a comprehensive resource list of the toolkits, webinars, and other resources and information they have published on LGBTQ+ student mental health.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Resource List | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
The Southeast MHTTC School Mental Health Initiative is collaborating with the Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity to support school mental health providers as they increase their skills as affirming providers to better support LGBTQ+ students. An affirming provider is a provider who does more than accept their client's identity; they embrace all LGBTQ+ identities and have knowledge and tools for individualized care based on their clients' experiences.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Resource List | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
People who identify as LGBTQ+ have higher rates of both suicide attempts and suicidal ideation. LGBTQ+ youth, in particular, have seen significant increases in suicide attempts in the recent years, often aligning with the passing of discriminatory laws or policies. While LGBTQ+ people share many risk factors and clinical needs with heterosexual or cisgender peers, the development and implementation of preventative care and interventions should also address the additional minority stressors facing this community. This webinar will provide an overview of the critical risk and protective factors, considerations for risk assessment, and intervention strategies specific to LGBTQ+ people.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
This webinar provides a community-defined and evidence-based foundation for mental health providers serving queer and transgender communities. Drawing from historical and current perspectives, this webinar introduces a comprehensive approach to queer and transgender care with a focus on trauma-informed care for trans youth. Centering anti-racism, community lived experience, and an interdisciplinary framework, this webinar explores strengths, weaknesses, and best practices of trauma-informed care for trans youth.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
In this session, hosted in collaboration with the Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity, we provide helpful tips on working with families and other caregivers of LGBTQ+ youth. Some families may struggle to understand their child or youth’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Some may fear rejection from their own communities or fear what the future may hold for their family. During this session, attendees will hear about the importance of family support, strategies for helping families process their feelings, and promising programs that are making strides towards creating evidence-based programs for families of LGBTQ+ youth.
Audience: Providers, School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: 1 hour
This three hour online session will provide information about a culturally-centered cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for Latinx youths with suicidal behaviors (Socio-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Suicidal Behavior-SCBT-SB) and diverse gender identities and sexual orientations. Evidence-based treatments for ethnic minorities and gender and sexually diverse youth, including Latinx youth with suicidal behaviors, is limited. The SCBT-SB was developed to address the specific needs of Latinx youth and their families. The SCBT-SB focuses on central issues in adolescent identity formation (e.g., ethnicity and sexual orientation) along with family interactions and communication.
The workshop will consist of two sections. Part I, will be directed to describe tailoring treatment for LGBTQ+ Latinx youth, and Part II, will be directed to explain how to work with their caregivers.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: 3 hours
This seminar focuses on how to effectively implement trans-affirmative care for transgender and nonbinary patients, covering relevant research (including health disparities as they exist for transgender populations), terminology, and cisgender privilege.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Slide Deck | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
This guide centers the needs, voices, and lived experiences of BIPOC School Mental Health providers through the conversations and materials it presents, and welcomes non-BIPOC providers to lean in, listen, and learn how to support our BIPOC colleagues.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Workbook | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
This series of four 60-minute interactive workshops is designed to support educators and mental health professionals recognize and redress patterns of bias and inequity in their institutions, their peer networks, and themselves.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers, Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 3 hours
This webinar, presented by Dr. Briana Woods-Jaeger, examined the various adversities experienced by racial and ethnic minority students as a result of the outbreak COVID-19. Additionally, this webinar highlighted how teachers and school staff can provide support to students disproportionately affected by incorporating cultural humility practices in a school/classroom setting.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: 1 hour
Counselors have the privilege of working with individuals and families from various backgrounds; intersecting identities; and cultural values, beliefs, and traditions. Deliberately incorporating culturally responsive care in mental health settings can help ensure that individuals have access to treatment that meets their needs.
Audience: School Mental Health Counselors | Resource Type: Fact Sheet | Time Commitment: <30 minutes
Learn how to navigate the ongoing impact of racial violence in all forms on student mental health and explore strategies for developing and implement curricula that addresses the detrimental effects of racial violence in schools, that further build protective factors, power and agency.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This document is a compilation of resources, materials, and links that help readers navigate discussions which are grounded in advancing racial equity and inclusion both in and out of school.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Resource List | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
Medicaid is a leading source of financing for school mental health services and programs. In this webinar event, Dr. Adam Wilk (SE MHTTC Policy Lead) will orient attendees to nearly 20 resources – reports, infographics, webinar recordings, and more – that help to explain the role of Medicaid in school mental health financing and how to use it to pay for mental health services in schools.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
This 7-part Community of Practice explored the roles and responsibilities of school staff and systems in supporting a school’s healing ecosystem within the context of racial violence. Case studies from members of the school mental health workforce were utilized to create solutions to dilemmas around racial violence.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinars | Time Commitment: > 2 hours
This informational brief was created by our partners at the Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities (OACBHA). The content of this brief was developed from the information provided in a Great Lakes MHTTC training of the same name that was presented by Amney Harper, PhD and Liz Cannon, PhD in June 2022.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Brief | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
This session, hosted in collaboration with the Center of Excellence on LGBTQ+ Behavioral Health Equity, will provide information on safety planning with LGBTQ+ youth. Safety planning is a protective measure that can be implemented with youth in situations that may lead to distress and crisis — from disclosing their identities to engaging in gender-segregated activities. This session will cover: (1) assessment of available supports for LGBTQ+ youth; (2) anticipation of challenges LBGTQ+ youth may face in distressing situations; and (3) tools that can help youth cope through difficult times.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers, Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: 1 hour
This is a presentation that provides strategies for addressing mental health disparities and advancing mental health equity in schools, particularly among students from marginalized racial/ethnic groups and/or families with low income.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
This webinar addresses common school mental health challenges and celebrations of immigrant, mixed status, and transborder students, exploring how to develop environments in schools that are trauma sensitive and reinforce sustainable systems of support via a cultural lens of the transborder and immigrant experience, while taking into consideration the challenges that have been exacerbated through COVID-19 and distance learning.
Audience: School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours
Over the past couple of years much has been said about immigrants, refugees and those persons seeking asylum in the United States, but very little has been shared about the behavioral health needs of this population arriving in the United States during the most polarized political period in recent history. Most of them are escaping horrors of war, gangs, death, poverty and persecution and in need of behavioral health treatment and supports. After a major decline in immigrant families entering the United States during the previous administration, we are beginning to see the number of immigrants coming into the country increase and continue to deal with the reunification of unaccompanied minors. All of these issues call for specific tools to address the behavioral health needs of immigrants and many organizations are not equipped to do so. In this presentation, Pierluigi Mancini, PhD, addresses the immigrant culture and language and presents strategies to provide access and eliminate health disparities in mental health services.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: 1 hour
Expanding workforce diversity is a critical strategy to support improved access to health and health care for communities of color. To support this work, the Pacific Southwest MHTTC created a self-assessment tool to help mental health organizations explore their implementation of workforce diversity strategies.
In addition, this workshop explores each of the tool's six key domains to build workforce diversity and outlines the purpose of these areas in strengthening workforce diversity and explore the different issues that require attention.
Audience: Providers, Administrators, Managers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
As the future of crisis care in the United States is on the cusp of being transformed, it is important to keep under-served and marginalized populations in mind when championing the changes and improvements to those services. This brief guide serves to highlight the unique struggles and barriers that many different marginalized communities experience when trying to access crisis services, and provides a glimpse into the future of crisis care.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Guide Book | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
This practice brief is intended to help clinicians —particularly those who administer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) for individuals with serious mental illness—to enhance their cultural awareness and incorporate culturally-relevant practices into their formulation and treatment approach.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Brief | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
This webinar aims to provide an overview of rural mental health disparities in the United States, provide an overview of Native American mental health disparities, and describe Native American cultural elements for improved rural mental health.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours
In this webinar, clinical recommendations are presented on how to accurately assess different symptom constellations with patients from different cultural backgrounds.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
We aim to help develop workforce competencies to provide equitable and inclusive care to all. Download this guide to learn more about our growing inventory of evidence-based trainings designed to improve the delivery of culturally-responsive prevention, treatment, and recovery approaches!
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Resource List | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
This fact sheet explains the differences between mental health disparities and mental health inequities, and explores how things like structural racism and inequality contribute to mental health inequities.
Audience: General | Resource Type: Fact Sheet | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
In this session, we take a critical look at the pervasive and innocuous consequences of racism on health and the role of behavioral health agencies and all members of the agency in responding. We review dominant culture and institutional biases that may uphold inequities within agencies and strategize around dealing with change fatigue and resistance to essential anti-racist practices.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
In this podcast, Aleks Martin invites the listener to consider his or her personal definition of diversity, the value of diversity, and ways to lean closer instead of pulling apart when encountering differences. She also presents skills for building provider well-being from an inclusion and equity perspective, including multiple dimensions of self-care.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Podcast Episode | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
This publication is designed to help organizations and staff address issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. It includes an array of resources that provide guidance about raising awareness, assessing competencies, implementing strategic planning, and advanced training opportunities.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Resource List | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
Unconscious or unspoken racism compromises clinical discussions and outcomes. Learning to listen for the clues and skillfully bring up race as opportunities to connect meaningfully with your clients of color and provide them with the high quality of care they deserve. Create a safe environment where clients can be seen fully, as they are, without pretense. People of color, traditionally, don't feel welcomed and tend to avoid mainstream clinical resources and consequently are unable to access much needed sometimes critical resources. As a non-topic in therapy, it inhibits and deters authentic communication and inhibits therapeutic connections.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
Disparities in mental health and mental healthcare have been a persistent and unremitting issue despite concerted efforts on multiple fronts to address the problem. The enduring nature of these problematic differences compels us to evaluate factors that led to our present state, and consider new evidence and new strategies to reduce and eliminate mental health disparities. This webinar will reframe the issue via a journey from cultural competence to structural competence (through cultural humility), address new trends in research in the field, and offer innovative solutions that providers and policymakers can adopt to more effectively address mental health disparities and inequities going forward.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
Authors Kirill Staklo (he/him) and Nze Okoronta (they/them) provide an overview of the necessary information for the integration of Peer Specialists in hotline programming for equity and sustainability.
Audience: Peer Support | Resource Type: Guide Book | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
Cultural competence is helpful when working with any community. We invite you to join our presenter, Ahmad Bennett, MA, LMFTA, MHP, a Navy Veteran and Marriage & Family Therapist in learning about the intersectionality, expectations, and experiences of the Veteran Community.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours
The MHTTC Cultural Responsiveness Working Group (CRWG) aims to disseminate culturally appropriate information and provide technical assistance for the mental health field to improve access to culturally responsive mental health services. Explore the six-part series of listening sessions around numerous culturally responsive evidence-based and community-defined practices conducted by the CRWG.
Audience: Providers, School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinars | Time Commitment: > 2 hours
Domestic Violence can impact a survivor’s sense of physical and emotional safety, their overall health, their capacity to function in daily life, as well as their ability to successfully navigate the available support systems and resources that can help them. In this webinar we define and explore the impacts of intimate partner violence (IPV) and the lasting effects of individual, historical, and collective trauma. The session 1 discussion will include information about how IPV specifically impacts mental health, substance use, parenting, and community connection.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours
There is no question that the experience of domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) is traumatic and, oftentimes, isolating. When survivors access services, this process can also be isolating, especially if those services are not culturally responsive. As mental health professionals, it is important to have an understanding of both the impacts of power and control dynamics as well as how social and cultural norms influence survivors’ and their families perceptions of these experiences. Service providers must be aware of how their biases may interfere with their ability to effectively engage with survivors. This session will define the core elements of culturally responsive services and identify examples of supportive approaches for survivors of DV and IPV.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours
Race-based health disparities have gained increased attention from health professionals, public health experts, and the public. Currently, there is momentum on addressing health inequities among Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). Within the movement to address health inequities, mental health must be prioritized. Opportunity barriers resulting from systemic, avoidable and unjust social and economic policies and practices impact an individual's ability to access needed mental health services. Similarly, mental health professionals often provide care, run clinical services, and design health policies without considering health inequities within their own system. During this webinar, Dr. Holden reviews the needs of and equity barriers experienced by underserved and underrepresented populations in the Southeast. She discusses potential strategies to promote wellness, access to healing and resilience among ethnically and culturally diverse individuals.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: 1 hour
Each July, several mental health organizations across the country shed light on the multitude of mental health experiences within communities of color, including Black and Indigenous people, and others that face disproportionate inequities due to systemic barriers and historical adversity.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Resource List | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
The MHTTC Network uses affirming, respectful and recovery-oriented language in all their activities. Access the Network's full statement on recovery-oriented language.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Handout | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
The Mental Health and Equity Coordination Group, part of the MHTTC Network, developed an equity definition that emphasizes an integrated focus that supports promotion of wellness, access to healing, and the resilience of the individual, community, and the systems that serve them.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Handout | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
Putting It Together is a podcast series designed to help people working in mental health to learn new ideas, implement new skills and hear new approaches to their practice. This could include research expertise, clinical experience, lived experience, equity and social justice topics, or a mixture of all those and more. We talk with a range of guests to get their ideas about how to put it together when working in this challenging and amazing field we call Mental Health.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Podcast | Time Commitment: > 3 hours
This fact sheet summarizes recommendations for eliminating mental health disparities from the American Psychological Association (APA), describes promising practices in the Southeast (HHS Region IV), and lists additional resources.
Audience: General, All | Resource Type: Fact Sheet | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
In this presentation, we take a look at integrated care and policy interventions that support equity in mental health care delivery. We also share about the history of mental health policy, the race-based inequities embedded in our mental health care system, and how to reduce these disparities.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinar | Time Commitment: < 1 hour
Inequities and disparities within our mental health care system have been long-standing issues. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the inequities and disparities marginalized communities face within the mental health care system. In hopes to ameliorate these inequities and disparities, the MHTTC Network has developed events and resources specific to the differential effects of COVID-19 on mental health care for specific populations.
Audience: Providers, School Mental Health Providers | Resource Type: Resource List | Time Commitment: > 2 hours
Region IV is the largest HHS region, comprised of eight states and 26% of the U.S. population. These states have large rural populations which tend to have reduced access to mental health care. Assessing the availability and accessibility of mental health services, in particular evidence-based practices, for rural residents can be challenging. The Southeast MHTTC Data Visualization Project provides information on Region IV priorities in an easy to understand graphical format.
Audience: General | Resource Type: Map | Time Commitment: < 30 minutes
This session will focus on the divisions in our society that have been illuminated since the killing of George Floyd and the COVID-19 pandemic, and the effects of those divisions on our mental health. The inequitable allocation of resources continues to divide communities. The most important ways to fight against inequality and injustice are for us to show up as collaborators and to share the costs and risks of advocacy.
Audience: General | Resource Type: Webinar | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
Recognizing and appropriately responding to mental health needs among asylum seekers and refugees poses a challenge because of differences in language, culture, as well as specific stressors and trauma associated with migration and resettlement. Through our 2-part panel series, Supporting the Mental Health of Refugee and Asylee Communities, the MHTTC Building Health Equity & Cultural Responsiveness Working Group (BHE+CRWG) aims to:
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Recorded Webinars | Time Commitment: > 1 hour
Over the last few years, racial divisions have been explored more openly in the American mainstream. However, in most therapeutic relationships, clients of color are likely to not open up if their provider is of a different race. In a time when racial turmoil hits the news daily, worries about safety, belonging, inclusion, etc. are commonplace for both individuals as well as communities of color. When those worries are not expressed in therapeutic encounters, they become the elephant in the room. Learning to listen for the clues and skillfully bringing up race are opportunities to connect meaningfully with your clients of color and provide them with the high quality of care they deserve.
Audience: Providers | Resource Type: Webinar | Time Commitment: < 2 hours