NYAPRS Note: Join us as we celebrate Black History Month with this timely webinar by Dr. Willie Tolliver of CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Tolliver will give us access to a historical timeline that is both interactive and educational. He will challenge us to affirm and validate history so that we can work more effectively with people of color. Register here today. CEs are offered for Social work, LMHC, CPRP, and OMH and OASAS Certified Peers.
February 2021
Webinar
Contextualizing the Geographic Spaces in Which African Americans Live
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Contextualizing the Geographic Spaces in Which African Americans Live 1.25 CE Hour
Beginning with a historical timeline to document systemic horrors and discrimination visited upon Africans and people of African descent from 1619 through the present, this presentation shows that the USA created a binary of human (white) and non-human (non-white). Given that this presentation is an event commemorating Black History Month, the presentation is focused on US history and the creation of the social identities of Black and/or African American.
The goal is to challenge current day practitioners to question a historical therapeutic frame used to guide practice with Black people. Mental health practice with Black people must affirm and validate this history. Diagnosis and treatment must be contextualized inside of an understanding of historical and intergenerational trauma and chronic toxic stress while at the same time amplifying the power and resolve of humans to survive and thrive in the face of continual dehumanization.
Date and Time: February 2, 2021 2:00-3:15pm EST
Presented By: Dr. Willie Tolliver, Faculty, Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College; Social Welfare Doctoral faculty at the City University of New York Graduate Center; Director of Social Justice and Equity Education at the Silverman School of Social Work
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Complimentary CE hours are provided for LMSW, LCSW, LMHC, CPRP and NYS OMH and OASAS Certified Peers