It’s really difficult to tease all this apart.
Turns out we are influenced by our family, friends, the media, our culture and environment, inaccurate stereotypes and a whole host of factors.
That’s a complicated question, Therefore in case you begin to wonder where stigma comes from. Also, you have had thoughts, feelings, or behaviors which can contribute to increased stigma ward people with mental illness, unless your score is zero. Well done! Higher your score, the more likely So it’s you have had these kinds of experiences types. One point for nearly any true response, The scoring is simple. With all that said… Congratulate yourself, if you scored a zero. Remember, like that’s my OCD or she’s so borderline, be careful about using diagnostic terms to describe behavior. Given that 1 in 4 adults experience a mental illness, you quite likely can be offending someone and not be aware of it. In a research study with British 14yearolds, the teens came up with New York City in the hopes of ending the EMSing of disruptive students to local emergency rooms when no medical emergency existed.
Now this webinar will discuss the history of this practice and the genesis of the lawsuit and the steps the City, the DOE and the FDNY will take to curtail this practice including.
Loads of us are aware that there is a general lack of understanding and appreciation for the contribution of social, educational, poverty related and economic factors in health disparities and outcomes.
Now this webinar is designed to define and identify the role of social determinants in health as well as explore strategies to address social determinants and its implications for the healthcare system. It’s the silent problem of hunger, so known as food insecurity. Oftentimes we are now aware of another social problem that is often overlooked.
We know that our participants in services often have many other challenges in their lives aside from mental health needs, including physical health problems, housing, substance abuse, or even trauma.
This webinar explores how the accumulation of social stressors prescribed onto women affect their social, emotional, and mental well being.
We define the various forms of oppression that impact women’s daily interactions. Our goal is to provide viewers with the ols and language to discuss such difficult pics with their clients. You should take this seriously. Therefore this webinar explores the methods and relationshipbuilding work that TCRC has employed, in the hopes of supporting other groups to replicate their successful strategies. In the City of Philadelphia, The Center for Returning Citizens has had laudable outcomes through applying holistic case management to those they serve.
Persons who have faced incarceration and are in the midst of transitioning back into the society, community and family face significant social, emotional and economic challenges.
Social service organizations and behavioral health providers have an important role to play in supporting successful transitions.
Understanding the landscape of local service delivery and the needs of returning citizens, can make or break the effectiveness of programs designed to assist formerly incarcerated persons in this transition. With that said, this webinar provides a lens through which to view services to populations impacted by harmful social and environmental factors and their impact on the ‘wellbeing’ of individuals and communities. Just think for a moment. Therefore this webinar will challenge participants to rethink ‘crosssystem’ problems and consider clinical and policy interventions that can have long lasting, positive impacts on a person’s holistic self and ‘wellbeing’. With all that said… One’s social and physical environment, access to a quality education and health services, and ‘socioeconomic’ status collectively have a major influence on their quality of life.
Did you know that the circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age shape health in powerful ways.
This webinar reviews research confirming the importance of housing for individuals with special needs, and explores what really was currently being done to it’s exceedingly difficult for disabled individuals to address their many healthcare needs, without a stable place of residence. Voting is an essential responsibility of citizenship and is pivotal to the health of our democracy. Lots of us are aware that there are benefits to their communities, including higher levels of civic participation, stronger connections within communities as well as better outcomes for the individual voters to include improved health, social connections, mental health and overall wellbeing, when people vote. Anyways, this webinar will discuss how Nonprofit human service providers are poised to play a significant role in narrowing the gap in participation in communities that have traditionally been ‘underrepresented the’ groups to which social workers often have direct access. With that said, So there’s an important relationship between individual and community ‘well being’ and the practice of voting.
Substantial differences tied to income, age, racial and ethnic disparities play a significant role in impacting voter ‘turnouteven’ in the most voterfriendly states.
This webinar is designed to raise the awareness of behavioral health providers of the possible overt, subtle, or unintentional ways that organizational policies and service delivery create barriers for individuals who have experienced racial discrimination.
Problems related to race are among the most difficult and least discussed pics in the field of behavioral health. Presenters will review the history of racism, how it impacts participants, and what organizations can do to reduce structural barriers for individuals impacted by racism and discrimination. Then again, they will engage in a dialogue with participants to review what happened in their hometown and explore how participants may respond if it happens in their own communities.
In this webinar, Robert Brown, associate director of the Center for Community and Economic Development at Michigan State University, and Kenyetta Dotson, a social worker, will explore the effects of environmental trauma while using the Flint, Michigan water cr as an example. In this webinar, individuals learn what the collective impact framework looks like through the backbone function around coordinating resources and support services to ensure student academic, ‘socioemotional’, and attendance success. Accordingly the Collective Impact Framework is a model for system reform that supports cross sector collaboration by collectively addressing a particular social problem. However, a regular agenda, shared measurement, mutually reinforcing activities, continuous communication, and backbone support are key to building community cohesion and are critical concepts of Collective Impact. We also outlined the importance of resilience in helping individuals and communities recover and cope with HT.
Therefore this webinar helped clinicians understand HT and provided some clarity regarding the intergenerational transmission of trauma and how it relates to racial oppression particularly.
We summarized the research on the biological, psychological and social forces that promote an intergenerational legacy of pain and suffering among descendants of people impacted by traumatizing historical events.
Historical Trauma refers to the psychological distress experienced by survivors or descendants of human initiated acts of oppression. I want to ask you something. Why are many settling for public benefits? I’m sure you heard about this. Besides, the unemployment rate isn’t our biggest problem. Although, focusing on poverty, unemployment, and its relationship to mental health, now this webinar is a call to arms to empower both providers and individuals with lived experience to begin the conversation in the mental health field.
So this webinar takes a honest look at what we need to do as a community to change this unsettling dynamic.
Rather, attention must be geared ward the lack of participation in the workforce.
Our health depends upon it! Therefore this webinar will outline the impact of trauma experienced by the justice involved population on an individual’s physical and mental health both during incarceration and reentry into society. People involved in the justice system present unique limitations when acclimating back in society. With that said, we will explore the various societal factors that often drive crime and ways to support individuals affected by such obstacles. Now look, the presentation will focus on the recovery and restoration process for which a clear connection should be made between reentry into society, belonging, attachment and reconciling a feeling of home. They are faced by joblessness, economic instability, and feelings of isolation. On p of that, this webinar will address the social, cultural, and economic factors that have an influence on people’s food habits and choices and identify culturally sensitive strategies to improve nutrition among diverse populations.
Differences in dietary intake, dietary behaviors, and dietary patterns in different segments of the population result in poorer dietary quality and inferior health outcomes for certain groups and an unequal burden looking at the disease incidence, morbidity, mortality, survival, and overall adverse health conditions for minorities as compared to whites.
Participants will learn best practices for addressing stigma and engaging with marginalized populations.
Plenty of people who seek or are in need of social services experience stigma associated with a lot of factors, similar to age, income, race and ethnicity, immigration status, and health conditions. Using case studies and interactive discussions, therefore this webinar will explore the ways in which stigma can be a social determinant of health and impact people’s service seeking experiences. I know that the environmental trauma endured by residents, children and families has greatly impacted the amount of stress and depression as the cr lingers with little resolution.
Flint ain’t alone -there are environmental crises that occur all throughout this country, including NYC. In 2014, residents of Flint, Michigan were impacted by a water cr because of years of political neglect. Environmental trauma can be triggered by feelings of neglect, helplessness, and loss from observed and felt conflict in the social and physical environment that has negative health implications for a person, family, or community. To effectively treat and promote mental health more generally, behavioral health organizations working within impoverished communities must understand and recognize the intricate relationship betweenpoverty and mental health. That said, this webinar will discuss ways providers can assess the impact of living in poverty has on service delivery and expand the strengths of those living in poverty. Lack of knowledge, fear and bias can prevent both the provider and client from discussing poverty’s effect on treatment. Living in poverty is linked to psychological distress that unless addressed can impactan individual’s trajectory to wellness.