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Recording of the event African Americans and Cough Syrup with Codeine Abuse, originally held on February 4, 2021.   Slide Presentation

Recording of the event Alcohol, Amphetamine and Cocaine Use Disorders: Update in African Americans During COVID-19, originally held on February 11, 2021.   Slide Presentation

What do we understand about interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in access to mental health care?  View this webinar recording for a look at integrated care and policy interventions that support equity in mental health care delivery.  This presentation illustrated an historical perspective on mental health policy and race-based inequities, and how to reduce these disparities.  Clinicians will learn deeply why they need to understand why and how systemic racism influences decisions to seek care or avoid care.  Resources Click HERE to view slides   Presenter Pamela Collins, MD, MPH, is Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington, where she is Executive Director of I-TECH and director of the UW Global Mental Health Program, a joint effort of the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Global Health. She is a psychiatrist and mixed methods researcher with 25 years of experience in global public health and global mental health research, education, training and capacity-building, and science policy leadership. Prior to her current role she directed the Office for Research on Disparities & Global Mental Health and the Office of Rural Mental Health Research at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (USA). She has served the field in diverse leadership roles, most recently as a commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development, a leader of the Grand Challenges in Global Mental Health initiative, co-lead of the NIMH-PEPFAR initiative on mental health and HIV, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Agenda Council on Mental Health, and the director of the RISING SUN initiative on suicide prevention in Arctic Indigenous communities. Her research has focused on social stigma related to mental illness and its relationship to HIV risk among women of color with severe mental illness; the intersections of mental health with HIV prevention, care, and treatment; and the mental health needs of diverse groups in the US, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently the Principal Investigator of EQUIP Nairobi: a pilot implementation of Trauma-Focused CBT in Nairobi, Kenya, part of a more comprehensive effort to meet the mental health needs of children and adolescents in Nairobi. Want more information? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's Resource Library and Websites by Topic  and sign up for our monthly newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

In this month's newsletter, we want to highlight the Healing School Communities Impacted by Racial Violence Two-Part Series, it is a follow-up to this past summer's series on Supporting School Mental Health in the Context of Racial Violence. Be sure to check out our newsletter for all the details.  We also want to highlight that February is Black History Month. While we all have an ongoing commitment to center, celebrate, and elevate BIPOC voices, Black History Month serves as an important reminder to learn more about the history and contributions of Black communities throughout our daily lives. Mental Health America's Black History Month webpage and the University of Washington's recent Black History Month blog post are great places to start.  Sign up for our School Mental Health Newsletter!  Want more information and school mental health resources? Visit the Northwest MHTTC's School Mental Health page and sign up for our newsletter for regular updates about events, trainings, and resources available to the Northwest region.

Monthly e-newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC.  February 2021 issue features resources for Black History Month, The Counselor's Corner, state spotlight on Ohio, the new Peer Recovery Center of Excellence website, and more!    

Resource list developed for our Supporting the Mental Health of BIPOC Community College Students Convening that took place on February 11, 2021. 

E-newsletter of the Great Lakes ATTC, MHTTC, and PTTC.  January 2021 issue features:  Hall of Fame: Online Museum of African American Addictions, Treatment, and Recovery Counselor's Corner State Spotlight: Minnesota Complete calendar of upcoming events New products from SAMHSA

On December 16, Dr. Li and Dr. Bogan from FAMU discussed the need for cultural competency when treating patient with mental illness. This is part of an important effort to assist the mental health workforce in better recognizing and responding to multicultural issues for people with severe mental illnesses. Learning Objectives • Learn about how psychosocial experiences may increase risk for a mental health crisis • Get to know protective habits for mental health from a cultural perspective • Get to know cultural factors that may impact processing initial and subsequent episodes • Get to know cultural sensitive strategies working with clients from minority backgrounds.   To view/download the slides, click here. 

Original Broadcast Date: 11/13/20 Dr. Aaminah Norris, a professor of teacher education, and Babalwa Kwanele, a licensed mental health therapist working with school communities to engage in examining grief and the double pandemics of racial violence and COVID-19. In Part 2, participant reflects on their own experiences with counseling, teaching and learning during the double pandemics and learn ways to incorporate culturally responsive pedagogies that create healing and learning spaces. Participants learn humanizing strategies for working through grief that address and disrupt racism and anti-blackness. Download the slides HERE.   Speaker Bios:   Dr. Aaminah Norris, Associate Professor at Sacramento State University, is Founder and CEO of UnHidden Voices LLC, a Black woman-owned educational consultancy with a mission of building empathy and disrupting the invisibility of Black children, students, and families. She has more than 25 years of experience supporting schools and non- profit organizations in addressing issues of educational equity for low-income students from historically marginalized communities. She researches, teaches, and advocates the digital literacies of Black girls and women, with a particular interest in their STEM practices, culturally responsive pedagogies particularly as they connect to maker education, and the pedagogies of Black women teachers.     Babalwa Kwanele is a licensed mental health therapist (LMFT), with over 30 years of professional experience working with culturally diverse youth, children, and families in community mental health and school - based settings. Her work and research has a special focus on prevention and intervention, with the goal of improving academic outcomes and the social determinants of health. She has extensively studied the neurobiology of trauma and the effects of racism and poverty on communities, families, individuals, and complex systems. Kwanele’s areas of specialization are complex multigenerational trauma, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma-informed school based mental health, impact of secondary trauma on educators and learning, complex family systems, cultural humility, and culturally responsive care.     This webinar was one of the sessions of November's Grief Sensitivity Virtual Learning Institute (GSVLI). For more information on how to access resources from September's and November's GSVLI, please click here.

Original Broadcast Date: 9/10/20 This session examines grief and the double pandemics of racial violence and COVID-19, including a discussion of ways that the double pandemics of COVID-19 and antiblackness inform grief, complex grief, and teaching and learning. Aaminah Norris and Babalwa Kwanele discuss the complexities of racism, how the loss caused by pandemics particularly influences and harms Black children, students, and families, and introduce possible healing strategies. Download the slides HERE.   Speaker Bios:   Dr. Aaminah Norris, Associate Professor at Sacramento State University, is Founder and CEO of UnHidden Voices LLC, a Black woman-owned educational consultancy with a mission of building empathy and disrupting the invisibility of Black children, students, and families. She has more than 25 years of experience supporting schools and non- profit organizations in addressing issues of educational equity for low-income students from historically marginalized communities. She researches, teaches, and advocates the digital literacies of Black girls and women, with a particular interest in their STEM practices, culturally responsive pedagogies particularly as they connect to maker education, and the pedagogies of Black women teachers.     Babalwa Kwanele is a licensed mental health therapist (LMFT), with over 30 years of professional experience working with culturally diverse youth, children, and families in community mental health and school - based settings. Her work and research has a special focus on prevention and intervention, with the goal of improving academic outcomes and the social determinants of health. She has extensively studied the neurobiology of trauma and the effects of racism and poverty on communities, families, individuals, and complex systems. Kwanele’s areas of specialization are complex multigenerational trauma, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma-informed school based mental health, impact of secondary trauma on educators and learning, complex family systems, cultural humility, and culturally responsive care.     This webinar was one of the sessions of September's Grief Sensitivity Virtual Learning Institute (GSVLI). For more information on how to access resources from September's and November's GSVLI, please click here.

This webinar will provide strategies to facilitate culturally responsive supports for student mental health and affirming approaches that capitalize on student strengths and avoid reinforcing stigmatizing beliefs. Webinar Objectives: Recognize how cultural bias, socialization processes, and prejudice impact our use of language Identify ways in which language use can improve mental health among youth   View presentation slides and transcript 

Presentation slides and transcript   This webinar will provide strategies to facilitate culturally responsive supports for student mental health and affirming approaches that capitalize on student strengths and avoid reinforcing stigmatizing beliefs. Webinar Objectives: Recognize how cultural bias, socialization processes, and prejudice impact our use of language Identify ways in which language use can improve mental health among youth

  Social Justice and COVID-19 is the second part of a three part series entitled "Sharing our Wisdom: Lived Experience and COVID-19." In this webinar we discuss our experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic as Black and Latina women. Participants spoke from their lived experience. Presenters: Pauline Bernard, Ph.D., Ana Florence, Ph.D., Bridgett Williamson To access a copy of this presentation, please click here. 

Learning From and With the School Mental Health Workforce (School Counselors, Psychologists, and Teacher Educators) is Session 2 of the two-part learning series Supporting School Mental Health in the Context of Racial Violence. This learning series is intended for students, families, educators and school mental health professionals who are navigating the impact of racial violence on student mental health. Each 1.5 hour learning session will feature a moderator who will engage advocates, leaders and the school mental health workforce in a conversation that focuses on: Strategies for supporting students’ mental health while navigating racial violence (in and out of school); Opportunities for the field to improve its commitment to fostering a workforce ready, able and willing to hold racial violence as a mental health issue; Steps we might take to advance school mental health supports for students experiencing racial violence. Download the slides for this presentation here. Learn more about our speakers here. Questions? Please email Jessica Gonzalez at [email protected].   

In this newsletter, we reflect upon our second year and our response to the COVID-19 pandemic while planning for our third year of operations. We continue to focus upon inequities and disparities in health and behavioral health issues and in access to effective healthcare and in this issue we share our upcoming events as well as resources related to Black mental health and prevention.

This webinar will explore the experiences of trauma among marginalized groups and the behavioral manifestations of trauma you may see among students, as well as barriers impacting life trajectory and seeking mental health supports.   Webinar Objectives: Define trauma and examine the various types of trauma Look at how trauma affects multiple aspects of our lives Explore how ethno-racial trauma affects a person of color from a lived experience Understand the impact of racial injustice on students of color Evaluate how the ethno-racial trauma affects student mental health and success in the academic environment   View presentation slides and transcript

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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.

Learning From and With Students, Caregivers, Advocates and Systems Leaders is Session 1 of the two-part learning series Supporting School Mental Health in the Context of Racial Violence. This learning series is intended for students, families, educators and school mental health professionals who are navigating the impact of racial violence on student mental health. Each 1.5 hour learning session will feature a moderator who will engage advocates, leaders and the school mental health workforce in a conversation that focuses on: Strategies for supporting students’ mental health while navigating racial violence (in and out of school); Opportunities for the field to improve its commitment to fostering a workforce ready, able and willing to hold racial violence as a mental health issue; Steps we might take to advance school mental health supports for students experiencing racial violence. Download the slides for this presentation here. Learn more about our speakers here. Questions? Please email Jessica Gonzalez at [email protected] 

The Northwest MHTTC invites you to read the second installment of our July newsletter. We continue to reflect upon the mental health experiences of Black, Indigenous and people of color. We share resources and events pertaining to the goals of this month of awareness. In addition, we describe our upcoming trainings and newest products as well as present resources from the Northwest ATTC, peer support resources, a report by the MHTTC Workforce Development Working Group on mental health workforce development and more.

The Northwest MHTTC invites you to read our July newsletter. During this awareness month, Northwest MHTTC honors the mental health experiences of Black, Indigenous and people of color. We are pausing to reflect on how our work can help ensure that all BIPOC workforce and community members-- including those of diverse sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions-- obtain the support and resources needed to thrive. We share resources and learning opportunities in support of the goals of this month of awareness. We also are pleased to share our upcoming trainings and newest products as well as resources from the Northwest ATTC and Northwest PTTC.

The Northwest MHTTC invites you to read our second newsletter for June 2020. In this newsletter we honor Juneteenth and address mental health disparities. We share our newest products, including webinars on telehealth and cognitive behavioral therapy for psychosis (CBTp), psychological first aid, integrated care and weight management, and children and family well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.  

Recording of the webinar titled "Guiding the Shepherd and Shepherding the Flock in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Part 2," originally held on June 9, 2020.   Download the slides

While racism and classism are not exclusive to the United States, the American paradigm is unique due to its history of slavery, conquest, and immigration.  Each new wave of immigrants to America has experienced systematic inequality in a system based on ethnic and racial oppression. The pressure of conforming and confronting this system produces stress and mental anguish, which primarily afflicts minority communities.  In the recorded presentation Liberty, Humiliation, and Identity: Race and the Suffering of America, Albert Thompson will cover how to engage in a dialogue about physical and mental health that encompasses societal morbidity. We will examine how particular events in our history demonstrate the consequences of racial views and our need to listen and engage. Behavioral health providers must consider race and the impact it has on leadership. Change leaders need to be politically and socially knowledgeable, listen, and understand a broader perspective of historical foreign and domestic policy related to race, ethnicity, and culture. To gain the agility necessary to navigate within an ever-growing diverse population in need of mental health and addiction services in our country, we must consider elevating skills that transcend culture and human-made racial boundaries.