The aim of this five (5) week webinar series, Eliminating Inequities in Behavioral Health Care was to increase participants’ knowledge about the interplay between structural racism, behavioral health institutional racism, implicit bias, and behavioral health disparities. It also offered education about strategies to decrease, and ultimately, eliminate racial disparities in access, quality and outcomes of behavioral health treatment. This series was sponsored by the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS).
The target audience for the series included behavioral health care leadership, administrators and managers, ethnic service managers, peer professionals, clinical supervisors, clinicians/direct care providers, and care managers.
Topics included:
Introduction to a Framework for Confronting Racism in Behavioral Health
Systemic Racism and Structural Racialization: Examining the Impact on Behavioral Health Disparities
Implicit Bias: Recognizing Its Harmful Impact and Taking Actions to Counter Unconscious Bias
The Role and Responsibilities of Health and Behavioral Health Leaders in Addressing Systemic Racism to Eliminate Behavioral Health Disparities
Talking About Race and Racism With Clients: Challenges, Benefits & Strategies for Fostering Meaningful Dialogue
A joint effort by the California Institute for Behavioral Health Solutions and the California Department of Health Care Services.
HELD: Thursday, August 20, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am (PST)
Overview
Please join us for the webinar, Introduction to a Framework for Confronting Racism in Behavioral Health, the first webinar in the five (5) webinar series, Eliminating Inequities in Behavioral Health Care. The goal of this webinar is to provide a framework that allows for a deeper understanding of ways to confront racism at multiple levels within behavioral health organizations. The target audience for the series includes behavioral health care leadership, administrators and managers, ethnic service managers, peer professionals, clinical supervisors, clinicians/direct care providers, and care managers.
HELD: Thursday, August 27, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am (PST)
Overview
Please join us for the webinar, Systemic Racism and Structural Racialization: Examining the Impact of Behavioral Health Disparities, the second webinar in the five (5) webinar series, Eliminating Inequities in Behavioral Health Care. The goal of this webinar is to increase participants’ ability to identify how systemic racism and structural racialization leads to disparities in access, quality, and outcomes of behavioral health care for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). The target audience for the series includes behavioral health care leadership, administrators and managers, ethnic service managers, peer professionals, clinical supervisors, clinicians/direct care providers, and care managers.
HELD: Thursday, September 3, 2020, 10:00am – 11:30am (PST)
Overview
Please join us for the webinar, Implicit Bias: Recognizing Its Harmful Impact and Taking Actions to Counter Unconscious Bias, the third webinar in the five (5) webinar series, Eliminating Inequities in Behavioral Health Care. The goal of this webinar is to demonstrate how implicit bias not only impacts clinical decision-making and influences patient/provider interactions, but also obscures and compounds structural racism. Participants will also be introduced to strategies to help mitigate implicit bias at the interpersonal level. The target audience for the series includes behavioral health care leadership, administrators and managers, ethnic service managers, peer professionals, clinical supervisors, clinicians/direct care providers, and care managers.
Jei Africa, PsyD. Andrè V. Chapman, MA Le Ondra Clark Harvey, PhD.
HELD: Thursday, September 10, 2020, 10:00am-11:45am (PST)
Overview
Please join us for the webinar, The Role and Responsibilities of Health and Behavioral Health Care Leaders in Addressing Systemic Racism to Eliminate Behavioral Health Disparities, the fourth webinar in the five (5) webinar series, Eliminating Inequities in Behavioral Health Care. The goal of this webinar is to identify levers/opportunities for meaningful action that behavioral health leaders can take to address structural racism in their own organizations. The target audience for the series includes behavioral health care leadership, administrators and managers, ethnic service managers, peer professionals, clinical supervisors, clinicians/direct care providers, and care managers.
Adèle James, MA, CPCGloria Morrow, PhD.Alice Washington
HELD: Thursday, September 17, 2020, 10:00am-11:30am (PST)
Overview
Please join us for the webinar, Talking About Race and Racism with Clients: Challenges, Benefits & Strategies for Fostering Meaningful Dialogue, the fifth webinar in the five (5) webinar series, Eliminating Inequities in Behavioral Health Care. The goal of this webinar is to build participant’s skills to effectively engage in conversations about race with their clients that is healing, and ultimately, promotes racial equity. The target audience for the series includes behavioral health care leadership, administrators and managers, ethnic service managers, peer professionals, clinical supervisors, clinicians/direct care providers, and care managers.
CIBHS has now posted written responses for the 5 webinars hosted
during our Eliminating Inequities in Behavioral Health
virtual training series. Written responses are from the
faculty of each webinar. Please click on the link following
each webinar to access the responses.
Webinar #1 (Jei Africa, PsyD and Adèle James, MA,
CPC) Introduction to a Framework for Confronting Racism in
Behavioral Health
Overview
