A SAMHSA sponsored three sessions learning community presented by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI and Voices Institute, LLC. Session Three took pace Friday, June 24, 2022 from 2:00-4:00pm Eastern Time called “Healing the Wounds of Racial Stress and Trauma in Racially and Ethnically Diverse Communities Facing Serious Mental Illnesses and Serious Emotional Disturbances”.
**This is session three of three sessions.
Description
During this session, participants will explore four levels of racism: interpersonal racism, internalized racism, institutional, and systemic racism in Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC). Participants will discuss historical trauma, biases, and systemic inequities as contributing factors to intergenerational trauma, racial stress and trauma, and community trauma. Healing-centered strategies to address racial stress and trauma and community trauma will be emphasized.
Participants will be able to:
1)Describe the four types of racism;
2)Discuss the impacts of racial stress and trauma; and
3)Identify healing-centered strategies to mitigate racial stress and trauma and promote anti-racism.
Presenters
•Selena Webster-Bass, MPH, DMin, Founder/CEO, Voices Institute, LLC
•Rachel Gaiter, MBA, MS, PhD, Psychologist/CEO of Peak Reachers Holistic Health, LLC
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Kelle Masten via email at kelle.masten@nasmhpd.org.
Live closed-captioning is available for this session, however, should you need other accommodations, please specify. Thank you!
***We do not offer CEU credits however a letter of attendance will be sent to everyone who registered.