Aug 26, 2021

Children's Cultural and Linguistic Competency Learning Series: Bridging the Credibility Gap: Societal Inequities and Their Implications for Behavioral Health

 

Bridging the Credibility Gap: Societal Inequities and Their

Implications for Behavioral Health Interventions with

Adolescents

Shaun Cooper , Ph.D., LP

10:00am-11:30am

Time: Thursday, August 26, 2021

 

Course Description:
The importance of youth voice has been acknowledged as a crucial element of service delivery within Wayne County’s System of Care.  Just as youth voice has raised consciousness within our SOC of the negative impact of factors such as stigmatization and bullying, we are challenged to adopt its perspective on recent tragic events that have so glaringly revealed racial inequities in our society.  Stark disparities across communities in law enforcement practices, accountability for criminal behavior, and regard for the rule of law have threatened to render our expectations of appropriate adolescent behavior as deceitful, hypocritical, or simply naïve.  Remaining credible partners in the efforts of young people to constructively shape their identities and establish trajectories for well-being will depend on our ability to appreciate their perspective on the disturbing realities that shape our society.   

Course Objectives:
1. To help behavioral health professionals understand how expectations for regulation of mood, impulse control, or respect for authority in young people are undermined by tragic events such as the murder of George Floyd and the Capitol Insurrection on 1/6/21.

2. To review theories of adolescent cognitive, moral, social and identity development as context for understanding youth perspective on the aforementioned events.
3. To re-examine youth perspective on the conditions or factors that make behavioral health services effective for them.
4. To examine practical strategies for engaging youth in discussion of social inequities as a means of maintaining focus on their personal clinical outcomes.
 
Timed Agenda:
10:00am-11:15am- Powerpoint presentation 
11:15am-11:30am-  Group discussion/Questions

 

Who Should Attend: Direct Service Providers, Administrative Professionals, Teachers, Children's Therapists, Youth Pastors, Juvenile Justice Professionals, Youth, or any other professions specializing in children and youth services.


Continuing Education Information:

  • SOCIAL WORKERS:  1.0 hour continuing education credit is approved for this training.
    • QUALIFIED CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS (QCMHP): This training hour meets the MDHHS training requirement for QCMHP staff. 
    • OUALIFIED INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES PROFESSIONAL (QIDP): This training hour meets the MDHHS training requirement for QIDP Staff
    • MICHIGAN CERTIFICATION BOARD FOR ADDICTION PROFESSIONALS (MCBAP): This training hour meets the MDHHS traing requirement for MCBAP Staff
    • TRAINING HOURSThis training will count 1.0 hour toward the annual training hours required by most provider agencies.

CREDITS

This summit is approved for 1.0 credit for Social Workers (MI-CEC). This summit’s training hour meets the MDHHS training requirement for Children's Mental Health Professionals (CMHP). Participants must arrive on time and remain in the training for its entirety to receive credits, including any Q&A portions. Late arrivals and early departures will result in the deduction of awarded training hours & credits.
 


 

If you have questions regarding the training, contact Marika Orme at Morme1@dwihn.org