Directors’ External Webinars

Hello everyone,
In honor of black history month 2024, I wanted to share with you a free one-day learning event called Understanding Black Clients in Mental Health Care. I recently attended this workshop and found it very informative and beneficial for my clinical practice. See below for details and the registration link (new dates posted regularly):

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/understanding-black-clients-in-mental-health-care-tickets-784535064497?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshcopyurl

About Us:
Black Mental Health Canada (BMHC) is a volunteer, non-profit, organization with the mission to meet the mental health needs of the diverse Black communities in Canada.

About this event:

  • This workshop will equip mental health practitioners and service providers to support clients from a culturally and Africentric perspective.

  • Mental Health clinicians have been trained to provide service utilizing a Eurocentric framework in service planning and delivery, which have not always proved effective for clients of African descent.

  • Emerging literature have indicated that there are crucial benefits to incorporating an Africentric framework in service provision when working with clients of African descent; as instilling African values in interventions increases protective factors and build resilience to support recovery.

  • This workshop will delineate central differences between Africentric and Eurocentric treatment approaches and provide tangible strategies on how to integrate Africentric approaches in their work with clients of African descent.

Objectives:

  • Build knowledge base of Africentric framework in clinical practice

  • Build awareness of the implications of Africentric modality in service provision

  • Build capacity to translate framework in clinical practice

  • Build knowledge base of race-based trauma;

  • Facilitate better understanding of the implications for clinical practice;

  • Deliver a racism recovery plan on Black mental health wellness from an Afrocentric perspective.

Regards,

Mandisa

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Black Mental Health Matters: How the 2021 Budget Addresses the Needs of Black Communities

May 6th, 2021: Organized by the Ottawa Black Mental Health Coalition, this session held during the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Mental Health Week and addressed the year’s theme, ‘Name It, Don’t Numb It’. Featured speakers and panelists included Changing Minds Director Mandisa Peterson and Families, Children, and Social Development Minister Ahmed Hussen. The complete session can be found here.

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For Clergy: OCD and Scrupulosity

May 11th, 2021: Dr. Caitlin Claggett Woods is a clinical psychologist based out of the Ottawa Institute of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and a Changing Minds director. In this seminar she presented the symptoms of OCD, with a particular focus on religious-based OCD (scrupulosity) and its treatment. She provided practical tips to help clergy navigate challenging interactions and offered guidance on how to best support parishioners suffering from this affliction.

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