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Dissemination & Implementation Science

Workshop 3 - CANCELED: Cultural Healing in Schools: A Flexible Therapeutic Approach for Helping Youth of Color Navigate Cultural Stressors

Friday, November 15, 2024
8:30 AM – 11:30 AM EST
Location: 411/412, Level 4, Downtown Marriott
Earn 3 Credit
Ticketed Session
Keywords: Race, School, Treatment/ Program Design
Level of Familiarity: Moderate
Recommended Readings: Anderson, R. E., & Stevenson, H. C. (2019). RECASTing racial stress and trauma: Theorizing the healing potential of racial socialization in families. American Psychologist, 74(1), 63-75.,   Bernard, D. L. (2023). Toward a socioecological model of training and mentoring to reduce disparities in mental health service use among Black youths. American Journal of Public Health, 113(S2), S133-S135.,   DeLapp, R. C., & Gallo, L. (2022). A Flexible Treatment Planning Model for Racism-Related Stress in Adolescents and Young Adults. Journal of Health Service Psychology, 1-13.,   Malone, C. M., Wycoff, K., & Turner, E. A. (2020). Applying a MTSS framework to address racism and promote mental health for racial/ethnic minoritized youth. Psychology in the Schools, 59(12), 2438-2452.,   Williams, M. T., Holmes, S., Zare, M., Haeny, A., & Faber, S. (2022). An evidence-based approach for treating stress and trauma due to racism. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.
Race-based Stress (RBS) continues to be a social, emotional, and cognitive stressor that many youth of color must navigate in their daily lives. This workshop introduces a therapeutic framework that can be used to flexibly and creatively design programming that teaches skills to help expand youth’s racial coping self-efficacy. This presentation will draw from the Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Healing Unifying Principles (REACH UP; DeLapp & Gallo, 2022) model to provide tangible guidelines on how to support youth in noticing the interpersonal and systemic manifestations of RBS within their school and broader communities. Workshop attendees will also learn how to help youth explore the momentary and lasting impacts of RBS via discussions about Emotional Stress (the intense and uncomfortable emotional responses caused by RBS), Identity Stress (the ways RBS can impact one’s sense of self-love, self-confidence, and cultural pride), and Agency Stress (the ways RBS impacts one’s ability to correct, improve, or change racially stressful situations). Through didactic and hands-on exercises, this presentation will showcase engaging and experiential adaptations of evidenced-based interventions to help youth expand their racial coping self-efficacy.

Excitedly, this workshop features the creator of the REACH UP model who serves youth of color within a private practice setting, a researcher who has partnered with the model’s creator to establish its evidence-base within school settings, and a school social worker who partnered with the creator to learn how to deliver this programming in their school setting. And, in line with this year’s conference mission, this workshop will provide guidelines on how clinicians can partner with community stakeholders to create programming informed by the REACH UP model. Specifically, presenters will discuss options for establishing and maintaining relationships with community stakeholders, adapting therapeutic interventions for community-based implementation, and approaches for training community stakeholders to deliver therapeutic interventions in community settings.

Outline:
• Introductions & Agenda Review (8:30-8:45a)
• What is Cultural Stress? (8:45-9:15a)
• Why is Cultural Healing needed in school settings? (9:15-9:45a)
• Break (9:45-10a)
• Introduction to the REACH UP model (10a-10:45a)
• Considerations for incorporating REACH UP model in school settings (10:45-11:15a)
• Wrap Up and Q&A (11:15-11:30a)

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:
  1. Assess and conceptualize racial coping self-efficacy when working with youth of color.
  2. Assess and conceptualize the impacts of RBS on youth of color.
  3. Flexibly incorporate evidenced-based interventions within treatment plans to improve youth's racial coping self-efficacy.
  4. Formulate a working plan for establishing and maintaining community partnerships.
  5. Brainstorm options for disseminating clinical services within community settings.
  6. Long-term Goal: Integrate cultural stressors into case conceptualization and treatment planning with culturally diverse clients in school settings.
  7. Long-term Goal: Increase familiarity with guiding principles of an evidenced based framework for promoting cultural healing among diverse youth