Training Playlists

Want to Learn About Social Justice?

These offerings can help providers and organizations get a good foundational understanding of anti-oppressive practice, cultural humility, and what is needed to develop a more socially just practice. 

Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in Children's Mental Health Services

February 25, 2025
This presentation is eligible for 1 CE for LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LMFTs, and LPs through self-study. Please view the entire recording and review the instructions in the continuing education tab. CE registration link can be found here. For complete instructions on how to obtain your CE's click here....

A Mental Health Moment: A Conversation about Environmental Racism and Youth Mental Health

January 27, 2025
Young people in the US today are significantly impacted by major social and global issues including climate change, which can contribute to climate anxiety and feelings of hopelessness. While climate change will continue to impact and displace young people and their families, it’s important to rec...

Live Screening and Discussion of Implicit Bias: What it is and Why it Matters

September 30, 2024
Mental health providers working with youth are in a unique position to support the young person and their family. However, unexamined bias (i.e., racial or gender biases) can have a detrimental impact on this therapeutic relationship as well as treatment outcomes. It is therefore critical that clini...

Applying an Intersectionality Lens to Mental Health Service Delivery

June 20, 2024
Coined by Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989, Intersectionality was used to describe the unique oppression faced by Black women; the term has now expanded to encompass various intersecting identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination. Intersectionality is fundamental toward...

Community and Culturally-based Approaches to Healing from Trauma in Refugee and Immigrant Communities 

May 30, 2024
This presentation is eligible for 1 CE for LMSWs, LCSWs, and LMHCs through self-study. Please view the entire recording and review the instructions in the continuing education tab. CE registration link can be found here. For complete instructions on how to obtain your CE's click here. Many people h...

Cultural Curiosity for Youth Peer Advocates (YPAs)

October 25, 2023
During this training, we boosted Youth Peer Advocates’ awareness about power and privilege dynamics between mental health care providers and the communities being served by diving deeply into the topics of racism, equity and ego. By drawing on the collective wisdom of the group, we discussed best...

Advancing Southeast Asian/American Mental Health: A Critical Refugee Studies Lens in Care

October 24, 2023
Thoughtfully and meaningfully supporting Southeast Asian/American youth and families requires understanding the high levels of trauma that have impacted and continue to impact the community across generations. This workshop provided a primer to the field of critical refugee studies as a way to asses...

Supporting Positive Black Youth Development within a Racialized Society

February 06, 2023
Black Americans have used their strengths and resources alongside their allies to resist historic and ongoing oppression. Mental health providers from all backgrounds have a role in supporting Black youth and families within a racialized society. This year’s Black History Month theme is Black Res...

Youth Justice: Towards a Socially Just, Trauma Sensitive Mental Health System of Care for Youth

May 12, 2022
Promoting social justice has always been important to members of historically marginalized and oppressed groups because of a long history of systemic racism and discrimination in our country. However, recent events have prompted increasing rates of white supremacy, homophobia, transphobia, and x...

How Anti-Oppressive Practice Can Impact Our Work

November 23, 2020
In a time when anti-racism, equality, equity, and diversity are at the forefront of our minds, practitioners and organizations are seeking approaches that work to reduce systemic inequities, and promote positive outcomes. Anti-Oppressive Practice works to analyze and redistribute power within instit...

Becoming a Socially Just Organization: Why should we care and what can we do?

November 05, 2020
This presentation is for organizational leaders to learn about ways to understand and begin the conversation about anti-racism and anti-oppression. We have reached a pivotal moment with regards to race and oppression in this country. Behavioral health organizations face a number of challenges when...
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