Racial and Cultural Trauma

Description: This session will address issues and concerns affecting racial and ethnic minorities as it relates to race-related stress and racial trauma. It will address the impact of the social climate on the mental health of marginalized populations. Attendees will participate in open discussion on building awareness of how providers and clinicians can address these issues with focus on cultural sensitivity and competency.

CE Broker Tracking #: 20-867199

This event is sponsored by FMHCA, an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider. FMHCA NBCC Provider# 2058. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.  FMHCA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This course is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling, LMHC, LMFT, LCSW – FMHCA CE Broker #: 50-748

Learning Objectives:

1. Attendees will discuss differences between stereotype, prejudice, implicit bias, and discrimination.
2. Attendees will discuss levels of racism including but not limited to overt racism, institutional/systemic racism, and microagressions.
3. Attendees will learn how traumatic stress impacts and contributes to mental health concerns.
4. Discussion will focus on cultural considerations to be made when working with racial and ethnic minority communities.

Aisha T. McDonald is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor who has worked in the social services arena for over 10 years. She has worked with marginalized populations within South Florida specifically those with severe and persistent mental illness, forensic population, individuals with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, youth in the welfare system, and individuals who are involuntarily hospitalized. She is the Lead Trainer for the Mental Health First Aid program at United Way of Broward County and also facilitates community wide trainings on various topics as well as monthly workshops on mental health and substance use issues for the Crisis Intervention Team training for our local sheriff's department and municipal police agencies. She has focused on mental health awareness and education, victim advocacy, educating on toxic masculinity and its effects on violence, substance use and mental health issues with the forensic population as well as diversity and inclusion and social equity.