Who are the Hmong and why is it important for us as service providers to be familiar with the Hmong? Review history, statistics and demographics of the community. Explore common healing practices and beliefs. Explain views of mental illness and mental health providers in the Hmong community.
Objectives:
Increase awareness of Hmong population
Improve quality of service delivery by understanding needs through a cultural len
Description : Navigating MicroAggressions Training
What is it? An opportunity to learn how microaggressions impact individuals and the workplaces so we can foster a more respectful and inclusive environment.
What will you learn?
How to define and describe microaggressions
Understand how microaggressions impact individuals and work environments
Learn strategies for responding to and intervening in microaggressions
This training will include a focus the use of task breakdown, individualized intervention planning, and the use of tools and formal structure to build skills for managing symptoms and skills across all functional domains.
Objectives:
Participants will receive training on the foundational principles of psychiatric rehabilitation
Participants will learn to connect symptoms to functioning, and functioning to intentional interventions.
Participants will increase their understanding of the definitions related to the LGBTQ+ community
Participants will review terminology pertaining to sex, gender identity, gender expression, gender role, and orientation - and the impacts on the lives of people who identify as LGBTQ+
Participants will become familiar with historical events pertaining to mental health, historical criminalization, social rights movements, and civil rights within the U.S.
Participants will gain understanding of current events
Participants will review common barrier and corresponding interventions pertaining to social, medical and systemic factors
Participants will become familiar with some of the health care services in the LGBTQ+ community
Participants are encouraged to explore their own biases related to this subject
Participants are encouraged to consider their role as an ally or as a member of the LGBTQ+ community and their work with individuals served
Assertive engagement of individual who are unsure of or unable to engage in services is a core value within ACT. This training will provide educations on ways to effectively engage people who are in contemplation/pre-contemplation stage of change in relation to accessing services. Engagement strategies and effective use of contingency management and incentive plans will be explored.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to identify signs engagement strategies being used with an individual may need modification.
Participants will be able to name and describe at least 3 techniques for assertive engagement.
Participants will be able to explain the benefits of contingency management strategies/ incentive plans, with the ability to describe when and how to effectively use these interventions.