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Legal developments pertaining to the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in the U.S. as well as the brutal beating of Defonte Miller and death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet in Canada have reinvigorated the Black Lives Matter movement and have sparked new discussions about the prevalence of anti-Black racism within police services and the criminal justice system. This webinar will explore issues of anti-Black racism, particularly as it relates to the law and its implications on Black life in Canada and mental health. Using a reflexive and participatory approach, participants will come away with a developing understanding of the ubiquitous nature of carcerality in the lives of Black people, inter-generational trauma, and community pathology.
This presentation will be useful to psychotherapists, counselors, professional coaches, psychologists and psychological associates, social workers, mental health professionals, probation and parole officers, criminal lawyers, and/or anyone interested in mental health.
Camisha Sibblis, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor and is currently transitioning to her most recent appointment at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor in Criminology, Law and Society with a focus on Black Canadian Studies. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Toronto and pursued her BSW, MSW, and PhD degrees at York University. Camisha has extensive experience working with marginalized children, youth and their families as a school social worker in the Peel District School Board, as a child welfare worker, and as a clinician who, in addition to treatment, authors various types of assessment reports - including “Morris Reports” aka Impact of Race and Culture Reports. She counseled Black wards of the Children’s Aid Society as a mental health practitioner in private practice; and she is a clinical agent for the Office of the Children’s Lawyer. Among her community work, she taught for the Tabono Liberation Learning Academy - fostering activism among young adults, she was a long-standing member of the Council for Adolescent Suicide Prevention in Peel, a suicide intervention trainer, and was a member of the Peel school board’s community advisory council for the board-wide strategy to support Black student academic success and well-being. She currently sits on the Board of Directors as a Research Consultant for the Black Community Action Network of Peel.
Connect with Dr. Sibblis on Twitter @CamishaSibblis
Attendance Certificates
These sessions are free and open to everyone. If you require a psychotherapy certificate of attendance, you can request one after the session and there is a $20 CAD fee. Attendance will be verified through zoom and you must attend the full 90 minutes to receive a certificate. *Note: this session does NOT qualify as continuing education for the International Coach Federation.*
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