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 client’s capacity to respond to clinical interventions and are often identified in research, as components of poor behavioral health outcomes. Practitioners who are culturally responsive in service delivery, integrate cultural humility to provide highest levels of patient centered care.

This interactive virtual training will review practical tools and strategies for providers to identify and diffuse personal bias, and how to facilitate and align cultural humility with clinical strategies and other culturally responsive strategies to increase patient wellness for racial and ethnic populations.

Credits: This training meets the requirements for 3 renewal hours (CASAC, CPP, CPS) and 3 initial hours (CPP, CPS) through New York State’s Office of Addiction Services and Supports (NYS OASAS). All participants are required to attend the ENTIRE training, turn on their video cameras and to actively participate in order to receive a certificate of completion.