You are invited to attend the Early Childhood Mental Health Community of Practice's Annual Training!

As the U.S. becomes increasingly culturally diverse, there is an urgent need for practitioners to learn effective ways to work with individuals and families from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Across numerous service sectors, we see disparities in access to care, service utilization, and attrition that are linked to aspects of diversity including ethnicity and socioeconomic status. How do we understand these disparities? What can we do to better engage diverse populations? This talk introduces core concepts for enhancing diversity-informed practice and introduces case material to show how these concepts can help us understand interactional processes that may be central to engagement.

Training Objectives:

• Participants will become familiar with at least three core concepts related to trauma and diversity

• Participants will gain familiarity with the concept of historical trauma and understand how historical trauma may affect engagement with service providers.

• Participants will understand the connection between strong emotions and the tendency to use less flexible thinking and employ stereotypes.

Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Ph.D.

Chandra Ghosh Ippen is the Associate Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco and the Director of Dissemination and Implementation for Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP). She is a member of the board of directors of ZERO TO THREE and has spent the last 26 years conducting research, clinical work, and training in the area of early childhood trauma. She has co-authored over 20 publications on trauma and diversity-informed practice, including the manual for CPP, a randomized trial documenting the efficacy of CPP, the children's story "Once I Was Very, Very Scared," and the Trinka and Sam story series, which has reached over 200,000 families across the world.

She also has a mission to bake 1000 pies and a pie in all 50 states.

Additional Information

This is a free training designed for Mental Health Providers interested in learning more about Early Childhood Mental Health and Trauma and Diversity-Informed Practice. There will be light refreshments provided, and 6 CEUs will be available to those interested. There will be an hour lunch during which time attendees are welcome to eat a sack lunch or leave the premises.

Dr. Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Ph.D. will also be available after the training to sign copies of her book "Once I Was Very Very Scared, " which can be purchased on Amazon for $14.95.

Please note that we will be distributing the Power Point by email before the training date and in an effort to be more environmentally sustainable, we will NOT be providing Power Point copies at the training. Please print a copy for yourself if you would like to have a hard copy available to you at the training.