Racial trauma and the experiences of systemic oppression have a significant impact on individuals and communities. Migration is a compounded factor, which can separate individuals from their natural processes, communities, culture, and identities. Grief is intertwined with racial trauma in unique ways that can impact healing and heighten experiences of racialized trauma.

Supporting the mental health needs of racialized young people
 

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Recruiting and hiring peer researchers—individuals with direct experience of a phenomenon under investigation—is widely acknowledged as a best practice in community-based health research. However, there is a notable gap in the existing research literature when it comes to understanding the experiences of peer researchers themselves.

In this webinar, you will hear insights from a participatory, qualitative research project concentrating on four intersecting communities often engaged in peer research:

Anti-Black racism is so embedded in the policies and practices of institutions that it has been functionally where racism becomes normalized and rendered invisible. Black professionals carry the unique burden of managing their own experiences of chronic racial trauma while simultaneously trying to help others navigate these same systems. Addressing Anti-Black racism can be a risk, leaving Black professionals feeling isolated and misunderstood. Chronic exposure to racial based traumatic stress, which experts equate with post-traumatic stress disorder, has a devastating impact.

Lack of data on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with developmental disabilities (DDs) results in the inability of health surveillance systems to accurately determine the impact of the pandemic on marginalized populations and support needed. More specifically, there is a need to generate more data on the pandemic experiences of racialized people with DDs.

Ontario Technical University's Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism, in collaboration with Kimberly Cato, RP / CEO and Founder of True Roots Counselling Services and Kara Hart, Director of Program Development and Sustainability at John Howard Society of Peel-Halton-Dufferin, presents Hate Crime in Halton – A Community Perspective.

Healing the Wounds of Race Trauma: Examining Interventions for Professionals

February 10, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Nicole Perryman, MA, BSW, MSW, RSW, RP, CPT

The Collision of Intersectional Racial Identities: Understanding the Mental Health Impact of Navigating the Self and Professional Use of Self in Social Work

January 26, 2023 @ 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Audrey Thompson BA, MSW, RSW

WHERE / WHO WERE YOU BEFORE COLONIZATION?

The Black Mental Wealth Experience is excited about this Panel Discussion that intends to plant roots of our individual, communal, and societal identity in the understanding of who / where we were as a People, BEFORE COLONIZATION.

Anti-Black racism: What mental health workers need to know in order to work with the Black community in clinical/organizational practice

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

Live webinar: August 10 and 11, 2022 | 9 a.m. to noon EST
Facilitator: Janelle Campbell, MSW, RSW

The Racialization of Poverty: Understanding Opportunities and Barriers in Income Support for Racialized Clients

May 19, 2022 @ 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: jasleen kaur johal, Staff Lawyer, South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO)

Mental Health Week (MHW) 2022

This year to recognize and honour Mental Health Week (MHW), SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute will be offering all children and youth programming during the week of May 2 – 8, 2022 with an automatic

Navigating Immigration Law to Support Racialized Clients and Others

May 2, 2022 @ 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET

Presented by: Shalini Konanur, Executive Director & Lawyer, South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario (SALCO)

Utilizing Ontario's Human Rights Code to Support Clients facing Discrimination

April 26, 2022 @ 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. ET

Presented by: Marci Gray, MSW, RSW

Gender, Race, SES & Gambling

Have you ever wondered if immigrating to Canada impacts a person's gambling behavior? Or maybe you've asked yourself how systemic inequity has impacted gambling trends? Perhaps you've even wondered how gambling awareness programming can be tailored to fit the needs of a specific community?

What you need to know

Systemic racism affects a wide variety of health outcomes. This includes the mental health of young people in Canada, spanning across access to care, experience of mental health services and outcomes of care. In Canada, there is no best practice framework that unifies research, education and clinical care for racialized youth. Coordinated efforts to collect race-based data are also lacking. In postgrad­uate medical education, a guide does not exist on how to implement anti-racism teaching and training relevant to child mental health in Canada.

CBT Approaches for Racial Trauma

February 16, 2022 @ 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Dr. Sanjay Rao, MBBS, MD, FRCPsych, FRCPC, MBA

Racial trauma has an impact on people's identity. A cognitive behavioural approach combining the social psychology of racism, psychological impact of discrimination and a systematic approach to rebuilding identity despite adversity will be outlined in this workshop..