Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Racialized Young People (and their families)
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Event type: Single day (a day or less)
Leading the way in Mental Health Training and Education
Supporting the Mental Health Needs of Racialized Young People (and their families)
December 2, 2019
Facilitator: Amy Gajaria, MD., FRCPC.
This training is suitable for: Those providing mental health care to children, youth, and families. This training will be most useful to those who already have some understanding of common mental health conditions affecting young people and who are looking to ensure their clinical work meets the needs of a diverse population.
Full Workshop Overview: This training will provide guidance to those providing mental health care to young people and their families around providing culturally competent care for diverse young people. The training will discuss various ways that young people and their families may have felt unheard or uncomfortable in mental health settings due to their racial and/or ethnic identity and will discuss approaches that practitioners can use to help decrease barriers to care for such young people and their families.
This training will discuss experiences young people and their families have of oppression, racism, and structural oppressions, and while the goal is to help all participants have greater comfort in dealing with these issues, participants should come willing to acknowledge the role these factors play in young people’s lives.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will have a greater understanding of the barriers to mental health care faced by racialized young people and their families.
- Participants will acquire strategies to engage racialized young people and their families in mental health care.
- Participants will be able to identify specific struggles that racialized and underserved children and youth may face in Canada and how these might affect their mental health
Amy Gajaria, MD., FRCPC.Dr. Amy Gajaria a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She also works at Black Creek Community Health Centre in the Jane/Finch neighbourhood of Toronto and in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is the faculty lead at the University of Toronto for Underserved Selectives. Her clinical and research interests are in working with racialized and underserved children, youth, and their families, and in global mental health.