How Implicit Bias Affects Our Work: Organizational Culture and Climate

Kick off your summer learning season with the Pacific Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (MHTTC)’s webinar series on Implicit Bias in Mental Health Services! Everyone has implicit biases. It is important to become mindful of how they can show up and impact our work with others. We will explore the dynamics of implicit bias and its impact on decision-making in behavioral health spaces.

 

This series will challenge you to:

  • Reflect on your own implicit bias
  • Experientially grapple with the concepts of prejudice, bias, microaggressions and stereotypes
  • Recognize the role bias plays in responding to #mentalhealth concerns and in client interactions
  • Learn ways to become self-aware of their own biases
  • Acknowledge the way bias shows up in our organizational culture, climate, policies, and practices
  • Examine strategies to break the biases that show up in organizational structure and engagement with communities

 

Sign up now!

May 13th 3-4:30pm PT - How Implicit Bias Affects Our Work: Starting with the Individual (completed / watch recorded session)
June 30th 3-4:30pm PT - How Implicit Bias Affects Our Work: Relationships with Clients (completed / watch recorded session)
July 22nd 3-4:30pm PT - How Implicit Bias Affects Our Work: Organizational Culture and Climate
August 27th 3-4:30pm PT - How Implicit Bias Affects Our Work: Engagement with Communities (register here)

 

About the Facilitators:

Headshot of Dr. Rachele EspirituDr. Rachele Espiritu is the co-director of SAMHSA's Pacific Southwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center (Hawaii, California, Arizona, Nevada, and the Pacific Islands). Dr. Espiritu provides training, technical assistance, and capacity building at the local, territory, tribal, state, and national level in multiple systems, including mental health, substance use, public health, and education. She is a founding partner with Change Matrix LLC, a minority- and women-owned small business that motivates, manages and measures change to support systems that improve lives. She is a former School Board Member of Denver Public Schools (DPS), where she provided direction and leadership for Whole Child efforts and successfully passed a resolution for DPS to become a trauma-informed school district.

 

Headshot of Kaitlin E. Ferrick, J.D.Kaitlin E. Ferrick, J.D. is a Knowledge Transfer Specialist with the Pacific Southwest MHTTC and a Change Specialist with Change Matrix. Ms. Ferrick’s work focuses on driving equitable outcomes for children and families through strategic, cross-sector systems change. Previously, Ms. Ferrick was the Head Start State Collaboration Office Director at the Michigan Department of Education where she worked to improve collaboration between the federal Head Start and state early childhood systems. Ms. Ferrick attended law school at the University of Wisconsin, where she participated in the Innocence Project and assisted an array of indigent clients with their legal matters. She also taught in Los Angeles County Head Start classrooms as a Teach for America corps member.

 

Headshot of Dr. Suganya SockalingamDr. Suganya Sockalingam is a Founding Partner at Change Matrix, LLC, which supports agencies in addressing diversity, cultural competence, and cross-cultural communication as well as leadership, collaboration, and conflict management. Dr. Sockalingam focuses on supporting individuals, organizations, and systems to motivate, manage, and measure systems change. Currently, she serves as a training and technical assistance provider for several national technical assistance centers, and for other federal, national, state, territorial, and community agencies. She earned her doctorate at Washington State University and has worked in many capacities in public and behavioral health, both nationally and internationally, for over 25 years.

Starts: Jul. 22, 2020 3:00 pm
Ends: Jul. 22, 2020 4:30 pm
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US/Pacific
Registration Deadline
July 22, 2020
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