Color Me Well: Mental Health and Racial Trauma

Live Online Workshop

Friday, March 4, 2022
10:00am–12:00pm ET

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 2 CE contact hours

Color Me Well: Mental Health and Racial Trauma is a dynamic experience to engage social workers and mental health practitioners around systemic racism in our field and the impact that it has on the clients that we serve. This opportunity for continuing education empowers practitioners to exercise their clinical skills in mental health service delivery, while catalyzing their community and political advocacy. In the process we will explore the intersectionality of race, culture, gender expression, justice, community economics, immigration status, spirituality, and more. In this specially curated program, we will provide actionable steps for professionals and to engage in social work practice while acknowledging the underpinnings of institutionalized racism and trauma. Moreover, we will engage in strategies to self-care and network development for clinicians and students in the parallel process.

In this 2-hour virtual workshop participants will engage in a blend of PowerPoint lecture, reflective exercises and small group discussion. Participants will have the opportunity to develop a safe space through community contracting. Participants will gain insight into the manifestation of racial trauma, especially in the midst of the COVID pandemic, racial reckoning and environmental degradation. Participants will complete the program equipped with tools for engaging BIPOC communities impacted by trauma and tools for their own self-care on the journey. Moreover, participants will be equipped with strategies for community and political advocacy in advancing large scale mental health supports and restorative racial justice.

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

• Explore their continuum of identities through self-reflective, interactive activities and engage in exercises dedicated to raising awareness about practicing self-care, self- reflection and fostering a mental health support network for clinicians and students, especially those of BIPOC and marginalized communities.
• Identify at least one (1) strategy to dismantle stigma around mental health care and racial trauma in communities of color and marginalized communities.
• Identify at least (1) strategy to exercise community advocacy in social work practice regarding mental health and racial trauma.
• Identify at least one (1) strategy to exercise political agency in social work practice regarding restorative racial justice.

Pia J. Raymond

Pia J. Raymond earned a BA in psychology from Boston University and an MSW from New York University as an honors graduate, Lucretia Jett Phillips fellow and Nia Award recipient. Her NYU Social Work Study in Puerto Rico especially equipped her for practice within diverse Spanish speaking communities. Exercising with cultural humility, Pia has deeply engaged children and families through social work practice at the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services and the New York City Mission Society. As a community and political activist, Pia ran for NYC Council in 2017 and continued community organizing through leadership in several civic organizations. A champion for literacy with an emphasis on social emotional learning, Pia’s notable children’s book, Celebrate Smiles teaches self-esteem, love and thankfulness. She founded Creating Legacies, a nonprofit organization inspiring community building through nurturing entrepreneurs and offering families diverse social and educational experiences. In the educational sector, Pia served as the 2018-2019 co-chair of the Diversity Committee at the Packer Collegiate Institute in New York City. Her experience as an alumna of the Oliver Scholars Program, allows Pia a unique opportunity to render her service to the Oliver Scholars student and parent body through educating about mental health, particularly during the pandemic. As a speaker, Pia engages diverse audiences around race and cultural humility, political agency, collective trauma and healing, and the importance of self-care. She continues to share her expertise as a professor of social work at NYU Silver with a particular emphasis on the needs of immigrant communities and those reflective of the African Diaspora.

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General Admission: $40.00

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 February 25, 2022 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before March 2, 2022 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after  March 3, 2022: 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 2 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
Fax: 212.995.4497