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Diversity: The Thread that Holds Us All Together

Speaker(s):

Tiffany Lacy Clark, MA

Rachel Jones, LPC

Presentation: The session will bridge the worlds of trauma informed care and cultural competency. We’ll explore the cultural competency toolkit and the five principles of trauma informed care. The goal is to collapse some of the work duplication of the state’s cultural competency committee and the state’s trauma informed care committee to streamline service initiatives that make the experience better for the staff and persons served.

Objectives:

  1. Discuss the cultural competency plans of the Missouri Coalition for Community Behavioral Healthcare
  2. Review the cultural competency toolkit developed for Missouri’s behavioral health organizations
  3. Discuss with participants how to utilize the cultural competency toolkit to help their agency

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Diverse Families: Cultural Competency in Working with LGBT Parents

Speaker(s):

Ryan Barker, MSW, MPPA

Presentation: In the 2000 U. S. Census, 33 percent of female same-sex couple households and 22 percent of male same-sex couple households reported at least one child under the age of 18 living in the home. These numbers have only continued to grow as more and more members of the LGBT community are building families, both as single adults or as couples. This session will explore providing culturally competent care to these families and address issues such as language, paperwork, access to care, discrimination, and existing disparities. Health providers should be familiar with the strengths and challenges experienced by these families and how state and federal policies can affect the health of LGBT families. In this session, Ryan Barker, will share his own story of raising a foster/adoptive child with his husband and how his own experiences translate to providing culturally competent care to the diversity of LGBT families throughout Missouri.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the diversity of LGBT families and the unique challenges experienced by these families within the health system, especially the mental health system
  2. Discuss how state and federal policies impact the health and security of LGBT families
  3. Provide tangible actions that can be taken to provide culturally competent care to LGBT families

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Cultural Considerations in Treating Hispanic/Latino Populations

Speaker(s):

Ignacio “Alex” Barajas Munoz, PhD

Presentation: This presentation focuses on how culture and cultural change affects Latinos’ Mental Health. Cultural factors in treatment and clinical issues related to culture are explored, and approaches to integrating culture into therapy are proposed. Problems faced by individuals around access and readiness for treatment, and sustaining a course of recovery are discussed.

Objectives:

  1. Provide examples of how culture and culture change effect Latinos’ mental health
  2. Describe the role of cultural factors in treatment, and
  3. Identify approaches to integrating culture into therapy

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Considering Culture & Self: Provider Bias & Cultural Influences in Mental Health & SUD Settings

Speaker(s):

Kate Mallula, MPH, LMSW

Ignacio “Alex” Barajas-Munoz, PhD

Presentation: This interactive session will explore the role that provider bias plays in assessment and how culture may influence client experiences of behavioral health symptoms and services. Participants in this workshop will review the latest evidence on the impact of provider bias on delivery of behavioral and SUD services. Through activities and case studies, participants will have the opportunity to reflect on how culture shapes their own perceptions as providers. The workshop will also present best practices for assessing how cultural paradigms may inform clients’ experience and understanding of physical and mental well-being and healing. Participants will obtain interview tools, assessment skills, and reflective approaches to facilitate the reduction of bias, comprehensive assessment of cultural factors, and implementation of culturally responsive treatment plans.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the ways in which provider bias can affect client assessment
  2. Describe how culture may frame an individual/client’s experience of health and/or illness
  3. Conduct a culturally responsive assessment by asking questions to explore how culture impacts an individual/client’s experience of mental health, SUD, and related services
  4. Develop treatment plans that are culturally responsive

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Barajas‐Muñoz, Alex, PhD

Alex Barajas‐Muñoz has a PhD in Counseling Psychology, a Master’s Degree in Counseling and Guidance, and a Master’s Degree in Neurosciences and is currently employed as a psychologist at the University of Kansas (KU) Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS). He worked for over ten years as a Research Associate, Evaluator and Trainer with Mid‐America Addiction Technology Transfer Center at UMKC. His areas of expertise include: evaluation and research; counseling; training, editing and translating (English/Spanish) professional literature in the areas of psychology, neuroscience and substance use disorders; psychotherapeutic medications; and counseling special populations (Hispanic, LGBTQI).

Presentation(s): 

Considering Culture & Self: Provider Bias & Cultural Influences in Mental Health & SUD Setting

Cultural Considerations in Treating Hispanic/Latino Populations

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Mallula, Kate, MPH, LMSW

Kate Mallula, MPH, LMSW is a Senior Project Manager with Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center. She has over eight years of experience working with clients experiencing domestic violence, SUD, complex trauma, child welfare involvement, immigration, and homelessness. Mallula’s focus on improving maternal and child well-being across the life-course stems from her work as a hospital-based domestic violence program coordinator where she supported women and families recovering from the health impacts of DV/IPV. She has had numerous opportunities to use both data, and clients’ lived experiences, to design programs and deliver clinical services that are trauma-informed and culturally-responsive. This background continues to inform Mallula’s approach to program planning and evaluation in the SUD field.

Presentation(s): 

Considering Culture & Self: Provider Bias & Cultural Influences in Mental Health & SUD Setting

More than Physical: Substance Use & Mental Health Coercion in Domestic/Intimate Partner Violence

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Brown Girl T/Drauma: Women of Color & Trauma Today

Speaker(s):

Gladys Smith, PsyD, MEd, MHs

Presentation: The presentation will increase your knowledge and awareness about the link between historical and intergenerational trauma, and the current challenges for women of color. The presenter will discuss culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed practices you can use with your clients in individual and group sessions. The purpose is to have a transparent, informative discussion about the status of Women of Color in our offices, our treatment centers and in our communities.

Objectives:

  1. Describe the link between historical trauma and the challenges faced today by Women of Color
  2. Identify culturally-sensitive, trauma-informed practices with individuals and communities
  3. Recognize and discuss your own conscious and unconscious perceptions that could interfere with treatment
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Thompson-Gibson, Lisa, MA, LPC

Lisa Thompson-Gibson completed her graduate training first at Michigan State University in College and University Administration, then at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in Art Therapy Counseling. As Staff Counselor and Coordinator for Outreach and Prevention Initiatives at SIUE’s Counseling Services, Lisa provides individual and group therapy engaging both talk and art materials in her work. She additionally provides outreach support, training, and ongoing programming relevant to college mental health (e.g., suicide prevention, trauma-informed care). Prior to this, she was the Project Coordinator for iCare, the campus initiative intended to improve on awareness and prevention of suicide. She has previous experience as a Student Affairs professional working in Residence Life, Judicial Affairs, Study Abroad, Law School Administration, and with the Dean of Students. Her work as a Student Affairs professional informs her clinical approach in working with college students and supporting their academic and out-of-classroom success. She is skilled in working collaboratively with campus partners to advance the mission and goals of Counseling Services.

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Boddie, Courtney, PhD, MEd, LPC, NCC

Courtney R. Boddie completed his bachelor’s degree in organizational behavior and social entrepreneurship at Washington University in St. Louis. He then earned his M.Ed. and Ph.D. in Counseling and Counselor Education at the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Dr. Boddie’s areas of expertise include multicultural and social justice counseling, neurodevelopmental disorders, career development, psychological trauma, and integrated care in post-secondary settings. His approach to psychotherapy is grounded in Adler’s Individual Psychology and informed by neurocounseling in an effort to support whole body/whole being health. His career has included roles in college mental health services, instruction, academic support, accessibility affairs, and administration. Dr. Boddie currently serves as Director of Counseling Services and Interim Director of the Center for Student Diversity and Inclusion. Through these roles, he aims to cultivate multiculturally-centered, ecological, and trauma-informed didactic, clinical, and policy development practices to improve the health, academic outcomes, adult functioning, and career trajectories of all learners at SIUE.

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Bridging the Gap: Trauma-Informed Care & Cultural Competency

Speaker(s):

Courtney Boddie, PhD, MEd, LPC, NCC

Lisa Thompson-Gibson, MA, LPC

Presentation: The past three decades have incrementally ushered in the age of trauma-informed care. From the original ACES Study (1998), to Perry’s (2006) Neurosequential Models of Education and Therapeutics, to van der Kolk (2015) and Levine’s (1997) teaching on the physiology of trauma, an abundance is known about psychological trauma. In short, this movement has offered mental health a way to reconceptualize most concerns presenting to counseling through the lens of traumatic experience. After training, implementation and sustainability often fall by the wayside. Could this be due to the preponderance of approaches on the market and possible fatigue involved in continuous process improvement? To move this needle forward, it is imperative that we next discuss inherent connections existing between factors like trauma and multicultural competence. For example, should we be moving toward a unified, developmental model that accounts both for the richness of cultural competencies and the clinical utility of trauma-informed practices? Join in on this hybrid lecture and round table to be part of this timely discussion.

Objectives:

  1. Review SAMHSA’s six principles of trauma-informed care (safety, trustworthiness/transparency, peer support, collaboration/mutuality, empowerment/voice/choice, and cultural/historical/gender issues)
  2. Review the ACA’s Multicultural and Social Justice Competencies (Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, Action)
  3. Discuss application of trauma-informed, culturally-centered care in your current praxis
  4. Process compassion fatigue related to trauma-informed, culturally-centered care
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