**you must attend both days to obtain credit**
This training provides participants with an overview of the history of racism in the war on drugs and in the field of psychology, with data on the impact to communities of color. Participants will identify barriers to addiction and mental health access and identify strategies to create more inclusive and effective services.
Topics include:
● Impact of generational racial trauma
● Trauma-informed practices
● Barriers that prevent people of color from accessing or receiving substance addiction and mental health services that are culturally appropriate, relevant and useful.
● Pitfalls to avoid including centering dominant culture, saviorism and the non-profit industrial complex
● Action steps to providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services to Black and Brown communities
● Practices to heal and repair
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
● Identify at least 4 examples of racism in the war on drugs
● Identify at least 4 examples of racism in the history of psychology
● Identify at least 4 barriers that prevent people of color from receiving culturally and linguistically appropriate services
● Define generational racial trauma
● Identify at least 4 trauma-informed practices
● Identify at least 4 action steps to providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services to Black and Brown communities
● Identify at least 4 practices to heal and repair with clients and communities who have been harmed by systemic and institutional racism in substance addiction or mental health services
