Date: 12/4/2020, 9:30 am—4:00 pm
County: -Training Offerings
CEUs: 6
Location: DISTANCE LEARNING
Sponsor: A Better Way, Inc.
Phone: 510-601-0203
Website: http://www.abetterwayinc.net
Most mental health clinicians working in schools are working with youth who have had challenges in school. This workshop will explore how our socialization in schools contributes to our belief system around authority and impacts our practice with youth and families. Inspired by the #defundthepolice movement, this workshop will ask you to consider your experiences in schools to unpack how we have been socialized to accept or reject authority and authoritative practices as a necessary part of our work with youth and families. [breaking the silence around push-out rates for Black girls].
Participants will walk away with a deeper understanding of what authoritative practices and approaches look like in mental health services, and how these approaches are often perpetuated unconsciously through our biases and past experiences. Participants will be asked to engage in critical self-reflective exercises and intentional conversations around institutionalized racism and oppression within school settings, specifically, to focus on how personal experiences shape how we approach relationship building with families. Participants will also identify ways mental health intersects with educational experiences to actively challenge biases and prejudices that impact the quality of relationships we form with youth and families.