Working with BIPOC Youth & Families

Course overview

Through a Team-Based Learning approach, participants will explore the effective development of specialized services to Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) children, adolescents, transitional-aged youth, and their families. The training will utilize a framework grounded in principles of cultural humility, multicultural competency, trauma-informed care, intersectionality, and anti-racist behavioral health practices to promote BIPOC well-being. Participants will journey through the historical context of BIPOC in the United States to the contemporary realities which make this training necessary. Participants will hear from BIPOC youth who reside in communities of high demand and identify personal and multi-system challenges to address the behavioral health needs of BIPOC clients. Participants will be invited to identify and co-create strategies to enhance BIPOC client systems, resiliency, and overall well-being from a holistic approach. The training will also provide practical guidance on culturally informed healing practices and social justice in the form of racial and healing justice. Participants will increase use of an anti-oppressive and anti-racist lens to highlight opportunities to intervene and assist with the alleviation and transformation of physical, environmental, economic, political, and legal oppression which affect the lives of BIPOC clients. Objectives: 1. Describe how the principles of cultural humility and culturally competent behavioral health practices impact upon their ability to develop strong therapeutic rapport with BIPOC children, adolescents, transitional-aged youth, and their families. 2. Identify current impacts of racialized trauma that may manifest in their client systems' presentation. 3. Evaluate how to enhance resilience and wellness. 4. Analyze what an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, behavioral health care approach looks like in reference to their own treatment settings of practice. 5. Simulate the skills/tactics they can intentionally use within a racial justice framework to assist in the alleviation and transformation of oppression within the lives of their clients. 6. Analyze and address personal and multi-system challenges and barriers to provide holistic care to BIPOC client systems in the behavioral health system, while co-creating strategies with other participants and community partners.