AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS ACTIVITY, THE PARTICIPANT SHOULD BE ABLE TO:

•  Recognize a fuller understanding of what Racial Trauma is and how it manifests in the workplace.

• Discuss the short-term and long-term impacts of Racial Trauma in the lives of people that are Racialized and Black.

•  Describe specific strategies and techniques on how to provide collegial support to Racialized and Black colleagues experiencing (or at risk of experiencing) Racial Trauma at work.

• Describe the impact of chronic exposure to racial trauma on boys and men of color.

• Describe how intergenerational trauma has affected families and communities of color.

• Describe creative pathways to help Black males heal from their racial and intergenerational trauma.  

• Convey an understanding of stress and trauma.

• Recognize the importance of a Bottom-Up approach to treating Trauma symptoms.

• Discuss benefits that Bottom-Up treatment approach may have not only in mental health clinics, but with people’s lives.

• Discuss prevalence of trauma manifested for clients and families through social class struggle and classism experiences.

• Recognize social class as an intersection of family and cultural identity.

• Describe best practices for both advocacy and clinical practices for individual clients and families with social class related trauma.

• Identify what secondary wounding is and how to recognize it.

• Identify skills to address secondary wounding.

• Recognize self-care strategies and techniques.

• Define the social determinants of health.

• Describe the research findings on SDPH and health outcomes, as well as trauma related outcomes.

• Identify at least three methods to address SDOH at each of these levels of practice: Policy, Community, Organizational, and Family and Individual.