This July, join the CARE TA Center in observing BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) Mental Health Month. As a team of Chicana/Mexican American, Black, Puerto Rican, Pakistani, and White CARE TA Center Staff, we affirm and honor our diverse communities’ resilience to survive, resist, and heal from the stress and horror of racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, and ableism. Our precious communities of color are truly amazing to survive chattel slavery, colonization, and contemporary systemic racism, and our willingness to seek and provide support during moments of crisis is to be celebrated.
In honor of BIPOC wellness and the community-defined practices that support our healthful connection to self and one another, we share a series of BIPOC-focused trainings from the CARE Resource Library that offer strengths-based, culturally responsive approaches to behavioral health. Additionally, we are pleased to include several recent podcast episodes from our partner organization, C4 Innovations, that address BIPOC mental health. Join us in working towards a future in which BIPOC well-being is actively promoted and everyone has access to care that affirms their culture.
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Trainings from the CARE Resource Library
Please see below for a curated selection of BIPOC-focused trainings put out by the CARE TA Center. And don't forget: the CARE TA Center's Resource Library offers a searchable database of relevant resources and tools for enhancing your behavioral health care coordination, criminal justice diversion, and crisis care continuum efforts.
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Learn about supporting Indigenous youth through culturally responsive crisis care and justice diversion with the Two Feathers Native American Family Services Agency.
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This talk highlights the Sister Circle model as a culturally relevant, community-driven intervention for addressing the challenges and concerns that impact Black women's capacity to be mentally well. Further, this presentation discusses how the California Black Women's Health Project has used this model statewide to increase awareness and reduce stigma.
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Learn about community-based initiatives and advocacy strategies to advance equity in the behavioral health system with MECCA, the Multi-Ethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies. MECCA works to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities and leads a coalition of community agencies that work with underserved multicultural communities.
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This workshop presents core tenets of an anti-racist approach to mental healthcare with a focus on the crisis care continuum. This approach emphasizes recognizing racism and white supremacy's historical roots in mental healthcare, identifying the multiple forms of racism operating within ourselves and our medical systems, and then challenging them during clinical care.
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This hour-long webinar builds on the work of Kimberlé Crenshaw—the Black feminist legal scholar who coined the term “intersectionality”—to unpack how race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and any number of identities and experiences impact foster youth. Facilitators and participants collaboratively explore the ways that overlapping systems of oppression converge to criminalize and pathologize queer BIPOC foster youth.
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Increasing workforce diversity is a critical step in achieving health equity. It is a key strategy for improving health outcomes, addressing health disparities, and fostering cultural and linguistic competence in service delivery. This presentation helps behavioral health organizations explore the extent to which they are implementing various workforce diversity strategies.
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This presentation is designed for behavioral health providers who are considering what types of training might be available to help staff identify their unconscious biases. The training discusses how to address these biases at work as part of a commitment to anti-racist behavioral healthcare and workplaces.
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Partner Spotlight: C4 Innovations
Check out the following episodes from Changing the Conversation!, a podcast produced by C4 Innovations. This podcast series discusses critical topics focused on equity, homelessness, substance use, mental health, and trauma. The hosts interview health and human service experts, researchers, and advocates, exploring how we can adapt our systems to the rapidly changing landscape of social services.
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Drew Musa and host Ashley Stewart discuss mental health treatment and supports and why it is important to acknowledge and address racial and other intersectional identities.
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DaVonti’ Haynes and Daryl McGraw discuss self-care and what it looks and feels like for people of diverse races living in different regions and environments with host Ashley Stewart.
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Ashley Stewart and Daryl McGraw discuss urban, race-based trauma and ways recovery service providers can support healing for people who have experienced and witnessed it with host Livia Davis.
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Daryl McGraw and Ashley Stewart discuss ways recovery support services can respond to Black, Brown, and Indigenous people of color in ways that acknowledge the compounding effects of racism with host Livia Davis.
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