racism

The STAIR model is a skills-focused approach designed to develop and strengthen emotion regulation, interpersonal skills while promoting resiliency. Participants will address how “loss” shows up in trauma survivors, and it will enhance skill building resources to provide “safety” for clients. With a Critical Race Theory lens, participants will further examine how prejudice and complex injustice further perpetuates trauma in the media, law, and access to resources of care and healing.

In today’s rapidly evolving care landscape, mental health professionals are increasingly being called upon to respond to the unique needs of racialized, newcomer, and equity-denied groups. Traditional trauma treatment models often overlook the lived realities of systemic oppression, racial trauma, and cultural displacement, leaving gaps in care and trust. This training addresses that critical gap.

Understanding and Addressing Black Racial Trauma in Communities

This webinar is designed to deepen social workers' understanding of Black racial trauma and its impact on relationship-building within the Black community. This session will explore the philosophical foundations of Black racial trauma, examining its root causes and how it manifests both at the community and individual levels. Participants will gain practical tools and strategies to support Black clients through racial trauma with sensitivity and cultural competence.

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

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.

Breaking Barriers: Micro-Interventions to End Anti-Asian Racism Among Children and Youth

September 20, 2023 @ 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ET

Presented by: Catherine Chan, MSW, RSW

This one hour webinar will focus on the following areas:

Join a patient-led and designed conference on patient engagement. The very first PxP (For Patients, By Patients) conference will be September 12-14 (for those in Europe, Africa or North and South America), or 13-15 (Asia and Oceana). This free, virtual event aims to bring you a wealth of knowledge, skills and resources on Patient Engagement.

News of PxP is already spreading quickly by word-of-mouth. It has become a must-attend event for these two reasons:

Learn how to navigate racial slurs with a trauma informed approach. Words are harmful and can have lasting impacts on racialized people, we simply cannot ignore racial slurs when they occur because we are uncomfortable. This interactive session will give you concrete strategies and practice navigating these difficult conversations for various interactions with any child, youth, or adult, including those with a developmental or cognitive disability.

This workshop will help mental health professionals work with clients who have experienced anti-Asian racism.

Anti-Asian racism has been on the rise since the COVID-19 pandemic and has significantly impacted the mental health of the Asian community.  

Led by Vera Cheng, RSW, this workshop will explore the origins of anti-Asian racism in North America.

Participants will also: 


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.

Part 3 of a 3 part webinar series hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH). Click link for info on how to register.

Part 1: #BlackLivesMatter in public health: Critical race theory, historical roots and legacies of anti-Black racism. | February 1st, 2023 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET

Part 2 of a 3 part Webinar series hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH).

Part 1: #BlackLivesMatter in public health: Critical race theory, historical roots and legacies of anti-Black racism. | February 1st, 2023 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET

Part 1 of a 3 part Webinar series hosted by the National Collaborating Centre for Determinants of Health (NCCDH). Click to register.

Part 1: #BlackLivesMatter in public health: Critical race theory, historical roots and legacies of anti-Black racism. | February 1st, 2023 | 1:00pm – 2:30pm ET

Supporting the mental health needs of racialized young people

Presented by SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

New Beginnings: From Victimization to Victory

January 30, 2023 @ 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET

Presented by: Catherine Chan, BA, BSW, MSW, RSW

The Colour of Justice: Recognizing Indigenous, Black, and Racialized Voices Within the Context of Mental Health and Justice Services

“I do not want to say the wrong thing”: A Facilitated Discussion Addressing Systemic Racism, Racial Trauma, and White Supremacy

In collaboration with Donna Richards, Hellen Gateri, and the York Research Chair in Youth and Contexts of Inequity, YouthREX is excited to co-host a

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

June 7, 2022 @ 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. ET

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