Shifting Mindset to Shift Practice: Visions for a Liberated Crisis Response

We are ...a community of mental health workers, clinicians, psychiatrists, current and prior users of mental health services, advocates, artists, and survivors of trauma and adversity, who are interested in exploring the link between personal and societal transformation.

Institute for the Development of Human Arts

Part of IDHA's Fall 2022-Spring 2023 virtual training series CROSSROADS OF CRISIS

<h3>To learn more, please visit: <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/crossroads-of-crisis" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.idha-nyc.org/crossroads-of-crisis  </a></h3><h3>*ASL and live closed captioning provided*</h3><h3>NOTE: 3 CE credits are available for this class. Learn more about CE credits at IDHA <a href="https://www.idha-nyc.org/ce-information" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.</h3><h2>Class Description</h2><p>Many of the dominant approaches to mental health crisis response today are rooted in mindsets that can be unhelpful, or even harmful, to those we seek to support. These approaches can often be traced to our socialization within a society and culture shaped by white supremacy. For example, moments of crisis often perpetuate a sense of urgency, prioritizing “quick fixes” at the expense of exploring root causes or engaging in collaborative problem solving with the person in crisis. Individualized approaches to mental health crisis can lead to isolation and competition, rather than cultivating collective care networks. Operating in environments of fear and liability, mental health professionals often center their own right to comfort over the needs of the person in crisis. Paternalism is at play when the viewpoints or experiences of those in crisis aren’t centered in making decisions related to their care, despite growing understandings that outcomes improve when people with lived experience are treated as genuine partners.</p><p>This class invites participants to scrutinize these mindsets, noticing how and where they show up, in order to shift practice. We will discuss how to uproot the characteristics of white supremacy that guide our dominant model of crisis response, and antidotes that make people agents of change rather than passive recipients of care. Grounded in the experiences of faculty who have both been through crisis and helped others navigate it, we will introduce concrete peer support tools that can be deployed in the mental health system and wider communities. Join us to unlearn unhelpful and carceral mentalities and alongside a growing community of people who are committing to meet crisis head on with care, compassion, and understanding. </p><h2>Learning Objectives</h2><ul><li>Describe the ways in which white supremacy culture is infused into dominant crisis response techniques </li><li>Analyze the power dynamics inherent to the roles of “professional” and “patient” in the mental health system and how to break them down </li><li>Detect unhelpful and carceral mentalities and paradigms embedded in dominant crisis response methods</li><li>Identify the power of peer support to shift mindset and practice</li><li>Integrate alternative crisis response approaches into everyday practice</li></ul><h2>Faculty</h2><p><strong>Ysabel Garcia</strong> is a Dominican immigrant, psychiatric survivor, social justice educator, and skilled dialogue facilitator with a bold mission to dive heart first into raw conversations about mental health, equity, and suicide. She shows her endearing sense of humor and ability to talk openly about suicidal experiences through Estoy Aqui LLC, where she helps organizations understand the sociocultural factors that create risk and protection around suicide and mental health in the Latinx and Black communities. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Child Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Public Health from Bay Path University.</p><p><strong>Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu </strong>(they/she) is a Disability Justice cultural worker, educator, organizer, parent, somatic and ancestral healer, consultant, writer, Transformative Justice practitioner, and the Executive Director of Project LETS. Their work specializes in building peer support collectives and community mental health care structures outside of the state. Stefanie comes to their work from the positionality of being white, Puerto Rican, Jewish, mad, autistic, Disabled, and a survivor of psychiatric incarceration and sexual violence. They have extensive experience as a facilitator, mediator, curriculum developer, and consultant for mental health policies, program development, and access-centered practices. Stefanie is invested in disrupting multiple carceral systems which disproportionately harm and kill our community members worldwide.</p><h2>What You Get</h2><p>Registration includes the 3-hour class session, an optional 90-minute discussion group one week after the live class (Sunday, December 18 from 12-1:30 pm EST), and access to IDHA’s School for Transformative Mental Health on Mighty Networks (our virtual learning community where you’ll have the opportunity to engage with other students and your faculty).</p><h3>Questions? Email us at contact@idha-nyc.org</h3>

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