Antiracist & Multicultural Practice Conference: Clinical Implications of Racial Trauma

Clinical Implications of Racial Trauma

Live Online Conference

Friday, April 30, 2021, 9:00am–2:30pm EDT
Monday, May 3, 2021, 9:00am–5:30pm EDT
Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 9:00am–3:40pm EDT

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 16 CE contact hours

Co-Sponsored by:

NYU Silver's DSW Program in Clinical Social Work

Mental health treatment practitioners are just beginning to grasp the deep implications of racial trauma on Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) and their communities. Licensed clinical professionals are now understanding the intense impact that repeated exposure to systemic racism and anti-Blackness is having on bio-psycho-social-spiritual systems. In fact, evidence shows that the constant traumatic stress of racial trauma creates deep epigenetic changes in the physiology and health of people (Sullivan, 2013). People who work with and treat BIPOC must understand the severity and clinical impact of racial trauma. They must undo the harm done to people and learn new and correct ways to treat BIPOC individuals. This conference attempts to shed light on this concern, as well as propose innovative and needed ways to interweave social justice and clinical care.

As a result of attending this conference, participants will be able to:

1. Identify at least one (1) specific bio-psycho-social-spiritual impact from the experience of racial trauma.
2. Define the ways clinicians have contributed to the problem of structural racism in mental health care and what can be done about it.
3. Gain critical thinking skills in order to provide maximum care for BIPOC.
4. Identify at least three (3) strengths-based interventions to support BIPOC in mental health treatment.
5. Apply at least one (1) new intervention model to the people in a clinician’s care.

Keynote Speaker: Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD

Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy is Professor of Family Therapy at Drexel University in Philadelphia and Director of the Eikenberg Institute for Relationships in New York City. He is also President and Founder of the Eikenberg Academy of Social Justice. Dr. Hardy is a recipient of honors including the Distinguished Contribution to Marriage and Family Counseling Award from the International Association for Marriage and Family Counselors and the Distinguished Contribution to Social Justice Award from the American Family Therapy Academy. He maintains a private practice in New York City specializing in family therapy.

Patrice N. Douglas, PsyD, LMFT

Presentation: DSM-5 For The Culture: The Black Community

Krystal Folk, LMSW

Presentation: Fund BIPOC Youth, Not the Police

Bentley Gibson, PhD

Presentation: Discovering Your Race, Gender and Sexuality Implicit Biases

Michelle Harris, LCSW, MA

Presentation: Healing The Wounds We Can’t See: How Clinicians Can Empower Caregivers to Help their Children Heal from the Effects of Racialized Trauma

Abigail Levites, LCSW

Presentation: Fund BIPOC Youth, Not the Police

Melissa Ifill, LCSW

Presentation: Psychic or Psychosis: Exploring Indigenous Spiritual Practice In The Therapy Room

Nicole Johnson

Presentation: Dismantling Systemic Oppression in American Workplaces

Tiffany Llewellyn, DSW, LCSW-C

Presentation: Racial Trauma, Systemic Injustice & Black Mental Health

Anna Morgan-Mullane, DSW, LCSW-R

Presentation: Healing Racial Wounds: Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Social Work Education and Clinical Practice

Leslie Peña-Sullivan, DSW, LCSW

Presentation: Countering Structural Racism: The Role of Negative Cognitions

Joy Ssebikindu, LPC, CPCS

Presentation: Best Practices for Building Diversity and Inclusion in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Jillian Tucker, DSW, LCSW

Presentation: Countering Structural Racism: The Role of Negative Cognitions

Nelson Tung, LCSW-R

Presentation: Improving Pediatric Psychiatric Emergency Care by Addressing Racial Bias and Misdiagnosis

Joshua Ware, LCSW

Presentation: Healing Racial Wounds: Dismantling Anti-Blackness in Social Work Education and Clinical Practice

Deirdre Williams, DSW, LCSW, SIFI

Presentation: Countering Structural Racism: The Role of Negative Cognitions

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General Admission: $150.00

Discounts: 

• Current NYU Silver/Steinhardt Field Instructors and Educational Coordinators: $112.50
• NYU Faculty & Staff: $112.50
• NYU Faculty (Non-CE): $50.00
• NYU Steinhardt/Silver Alumni: $112.50
• Graduates of NYU Silver Post-Master’s Certificate Programs: $140.00
• Current Students: $25.00
• 3+ Registrants from one (1) agency: $112.50/person
• NYU Steinhardt/Silver Retired Full-Time Faculty: $112.50
• Veterans: $75.00

If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:

• Refund requests made on or before April 23 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before April 28 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after April 29: no refund

If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 16 Continuing Education Contact Hours.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Addressing Grievances:
For information on our grievance and complaint procedures, contact 212.998.9099 or silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

NYU Silver School of Social Work
Office of Global and Lifelong Learning
1 Washington Square North, G08
New York, NY 10003

Email: silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu
Phone: 212.998.5973
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