Utilizing An Africentric Framework In Mental Health Care

About Us:

Black Mental Health Canada (BMHC) is a volunteer, non-profit, organization with the mission to meet the mental health needs of the diverse Black communities in Canada.

Mission

To facilitate access to affordable, culturally safe and affirming mental health services to the black community through education, advocacy, and provision of resources.

Vision

To bring awareness that Mental Health issues are a real and significant problem within the black community and respond by promoting culturally empowering and equitable services.

About this event:

Utilizing an Africentric Framework, the workshop will equip mental health practitioners and service providers to support clients from a culturally safe perspective.

Mental Health clinicians have been trained to provide service utilizing an Eurocentric framework in service planning and delivery, which have not always proved effective for clients of African descent.

Emerging literature have indicated that there are crucial benefits to incorporating an Africentric framework in service provision when working with clients of African descent; as instilling African values in interventions increases protective factors and build resilience to support recovery.

This workshop will delineate central differences between Africentric and Eurocentric treatment approaches and provide tangible strategies on how to integrate Africentric approaches in their work with clients of African descent.

Day 1: Integrating An Africentric Framework In Mental Health Practice

Description:

This one day workshop will orient, educate, and train clinicians and Allied Health professionals on servicing Black clients by incorporating an Africentric perspective in their practice.

Objectives to:

• Build knowledge base of Africentric framework in clinical practice.
• Build awareness of the implications of Africentric modality in service provision.
• Build capacity to translate framework in clinical practice.

Day 2: Practical Applications of the Africentic Framework in Clinical Practice

Contact:

t: 1888-220-2510

e: info@blackmentalhealth.ca

w: www.blackmentalhealth.ca