The National Alliance on Mental Illness recognizes that current environmental factors are traumatizing people of color, which as a risk factor can also initiate or increase substance use and potentially developing trauma and stress complications. Provider bias in stigmatic language or other microaggressions affect a person’s capacity to respond to clinical interventions and are often identified in research as components of poor behavioral health outcomes. 

Practitioners who integrate cultural humility in practice are able to support the highest levels of person-centered culturally-informed care. This interactive training will review practical tools and strategies for providers to identify and diffuse personal bias, review how dynamics of culture can be integrated in care, and how cultural humility can lead to culturally responsive care meeting the unique needs of diverse community members.