Deepening Our Community’s Commitment to Diversity-Informed Practice

Deepening Our Community’s Commitment to Diversity-Informed Practice: Introduction to the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children & Families

May 14, 2021

9:00 am- 1:00 pm

This is a 4-hour session that introduces participants to the Tenets through reflective exercises. The content focuses on Tenet #1 (Self-Awareness Leads to Better Services for Families), a selection of our Core Concepts, and bringing the Tenets back to participants’ spheres of work/life. The learning goals for this workshop are:

• To provide an introduction to the meaning, value, and practice of the Tenets

• To deepen awareness of how systems of oppression prevent us all from doing our best work on behalf of infants, children, and families

• To support an initial exploration of how Tenet #1 can be applied to roles and spheres of practice

For more information about the Tenets, visit the website: https://diversityinformedtenets.org/

This workshop is facilitated by two Tenets Workshop Facilitators that have at least 15 years of experience in equity- and diversity-informed training, capacity-building, and clinical practice within the early childhood field. We design our workshops to be collaborative, reflective spaces for participants to link the Tenets to their spheres of practice. We do this by grounding our workshops in self-reflection so that participants and the facilitators are continuously thinking and sharing about the ways that their social identities, values, and histories relate to the Tenets and their collective work.

Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MSW, MS. Ed., IECMH-E® Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Mentor-Clinical is the Child Trauma Clinical Services and Training Lead at Child Witness to Violence Project and the Associate Director of the Boston Site Early Trauma Treatment Network at Boston Medical Center. She is a Child-Parent Psychotherapy National Trainer, an expert faculty of the Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood Training (DC: 0-5) and one of the developers of the Harris Professional Development Network Diversity Informed Tenets for Work with Infants Children and Families Initiative (https://diversityinformedtenets.org) and of the Boston Medical Center Family Preparedness Plan for Immigrant Families. Her practice and research interests are on the impact of trauma on attachment; the intersection of culture, immigration and trauma; diversity-informed reflective supervision and consultation; and on the implementation and sustainability of evidence-based practice in real world settings. She is a former co-chair of the Culture Consortium of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and has adapted and translated materials for Spanish-speaking families affected by trauma. Carmen Rosa has also contributed to the literature in infant and early childhood mental health, diversity and immigration.

Maria Seymour St. John, PhD, MFT is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco and Co-Director of Training of the Infant-Parent Program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She holds a private practice in Oakland (www.MariaSeymourStJohn.com). Dr. St. John has published at the intersections of psychoanalysis and queer, feminist, postcolonial and critical race theory in numerous books and journals including the Infant Mental Health Journal, Zero to Three, Feminist Studies, Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Attachment and Sexuality, and the World Association of Infant Mental Health Handbook of Infant Mental Health. She has been active in the collaborative process that gave rise to the Diversity-Informed Tenets (www.diversityinformedtenets.org) and works with groups and individuals to facilitate integration and implementation of the Tenets across diverse spheres of practice. She is endorsed by the CA Center for Infant/Family and Early Childhood Mental Health as a Reflective Supervisor and Mentor. Her book Focusing on Relationships: An Effort That Pays was published by ZEROTOTHREE in 2019 (www.zerotothre/PCRCbook).

Training Cost: FREE - Refund/Cancelation Policy – No refunds given on courses with or without a fee

Accommodations: To request accommodations for special needs, please email Kriss Sulka, Consultation & Training Team Leader at Kriss.sulka@ucsf.edu at least 10 days in advance.

Grievances: To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email Kriss.Sulka@ucsf.edu or call (510) 326-3350.

Continuing Education: An administrative fee of $30 will be charged for individuals who wish to earn CEUs. CE certificates will be emailed upon request to those who have paid the CE fee, attended the full training, and completed an evaluation form.

· Board of Behavioral Sciences – This course meets the qualifications for 6 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Early Intervention Services, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland (Provider #135218) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for MFTs, LCSW, LEPs, LPCCs, and ASWs. Early Intervention Services, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

· California Board of Registered Nursing – This course is offered through the Nursing Continuing Education Program at UCSF Benioff Children Hospital Oakland. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 00374 for 5 contact hours

· American Psychological Association – UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Center for the Vulnerable Child is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland, Center for the Vulnerable Child maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Target Audience This course is designed for infant mental health workers, MFTs, LCSWs, psychologists, and other professionals working with trauma-impacted children and/or children in out-of-home placement.

THIS TRAINING IS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH TITLE IV-E FUNDS IN COLLABORATION WITH CHABOT-LAS POSITAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT AND ALAMEDA COUNTY SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY.

Please note: In order to create a thoughtful and supportive learning environment for this subject matter, the audience size will be limited to 20 people. PLEASE ONLY REGISTER if you are certain you can attend and participate fully.