About the webinar:
The Provincial Support System Program (PSSP) invites you to join us on Monday, March 13, for a two-part special event that engages the expertise of diverse, multi-professional speakers working as clinician scholars, educators, and community leaders across healthcare and health professions education.
The speakers will share fresh perspectives and expertise about the surprising and unrecognized ways in which discrimination and bias present across the clinical care landscape. Participants will have the opportunity to take a new look at long-standing issues. They will learn from and engage in dialogue about how clinicians can work to provide affirming, inclusive, culturally relevant, and anti-racist care.
Event details:
Date: Monday, March 13, 2023
Time: 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. EDT
Schedule:
Part 1:
Keynote: Towards a language of racial health equity | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. EDT
Description:
This keynote explores the iatrogenic impacts of aversive racism in mental health care and the ways in which language plays a significant role in perpetuating racial health inequities.
Keynote:
Dr. Carmen Black, Assistant Professor, Yale University, and Psychiatrist, Yale Mental Health Centre
Part 2:
Panel discussion: Disrupting racism in clinical practice and creating spaces to heal | 3:15 - 4:30 p.m. EDT
Description:
This panel explores anti-racism in clinical care, including the ways in which bias and discrimination negatively affect access to and experiences of mental health care for racialized people. Each panelist will provide brief opening remarks and then engage in a moderated discussion where they will share their thoughts, respond to questions, and engage in dialogue on how clinicians can best provide affirming, inclusive, culturally relevant and anti-racist care.
Panel:
- Dr. Carmen Black
- Joelleann Forbes, Mental Health Therapist and Team Lead (Population Health), Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre
- Dr. Noor Sharif, Clinical Consultant and Equity Lead, Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program, CarePoint Health Mississauga
Who should attend?
This event is for both clinicians and those working closely with clinicians across the mental health and substance use landscape. There is no cost to attend this event. However, in order to create an optimum environment for sharing and mobilizing knowledge, space is limited, and registration is mandatory. We will maintain dedicated spaces for clinicians working on issues related to early psychosis and schizophrenia. Please indicate whether this pertains to you when you register.
REGISTER HERE:
A Special Event on Advancing Racial Health Equity in Mental Health Care Tickets, Mon, 13 Mar 2023 at 2:00 PM | Eventbrite
About the panel:
Keynote speaker: Carmen Black, MD, is a proud Black American woman descended from enslaved persons, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine, and the Director of the Social Justice and Health Equity curriculum for Yale Psychiatry. Dr. Black’s educational and publication expertise emphasizes how a provider’s own racial prejudice and bias against persons living with mental illness can iaotrgenically harm patients during real-time clinical practice and create behavioral emergencies. She is also a national advocate for removing police and security involvement from hospital medicine. In these capacities, she has been featured in USA Today, The LA Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, National Public Radio, and more in the last year alone.
Joelleann (Joelle) Forbes, MSW, RSW, is a social worker and psychotherapist registered with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers. She has spent many years providing mental health care in various settings, including Women’s Health in Women’s Hands Community Health Centre, hospitals, and private practices, and is a lecturer at the University of Toronto. She holds a BA in Bioethics and a Master of Social Work degree from the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto, and has also received training in CBT, DBT, ACT, narrative therapy, and motivational interviewing. Her practice philosophy reaffirms the importance of empowering communities, addressing the social determinants of health, honouring intersecting identities, and engaging in anti-oppressive and anti-racist practices.
Noor Sharif, PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist in supervised practice. Dr. Sharif holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Ottawa, a BA in Psychology from University of Ottawa, and a BA in Law and Human Rights from Carleton University. She is currently a Clinical Consultant and the Equity Lead for the Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program at CarePoint Health for Brampton, Halton, and Mississauga Region (OSP-BHM). In this role, she provides oversight, training, and consultation in supporting clinicians to provide anti-oppressive and anti-racist, culturally responsive CBT. Likewise, she develops programming and curricula for the region in increasing capacity and competency in health equity at various levels of the program. Dr. Sharif has co-authored peer-reviewed research on anti-racist clinical practice, racial allyship, assessment and treatment of racial trauma, and psychosis.
Panel Moderator: Stella Ng, PhD, MSc, is a Director & Scientist at the University of Toronto’s Centre for Advancing Collaborative Healthcare & Education (CACHE) at University Health Network. Stella is passionate about preparing those who work in health care and health science to act in ways that are collaborative, compassionate, and ethical. Her tri-council, ministry and foundation-funded research program has shown that critical reflection is crucial to navigating value-conflicted and uncertain aspects of everyday work. She mobilizes this theory and research within her extensive education and leadership work. Stella is the recipient of the Ministry Early Researcher Award, Meridith Marks New Educator Award and an AMS Healthcare Fellowship in Compassion and AI/Digital Technology.
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