This webinar is intended to help substance use disorders and mental health professionals increase cultural awareness to effectively support immigrant and refugee populations seeking treatment for substance use issues. The webinar will focus on identifying the cultural and social challenges surrounding the lack or limited access to treatment in the United States for immigrants and refugees. During the session, ideas to implement culturally tailored tools and strategies to match therapeutic interventions to those cultural and social challenges to increase engagement and effectiveness in outcomes when treating immigrant and refugee clients will be discussed.
At the end of the webinar, participants will be able to:
Aline Muhimpundu immigrated to the United States in 2011 from East Africa. She is a Licensed Addiction Counselor who currently works with Community Medical Services, an Outpatient Opioid Treatment Program where she provides counseling services to patients enrolled in the Medication Assisted Treatment program. Prior to her current role, she worked as a Licensed Addiction Counselor at Prairie St. John’s Psychiatric Hospital, providing substance use counseling services in the Inpatient and Partial Hospitalization Programs for nearly six years. Her previous experience also includes delivering community presentations on mental health and substance use in immigrant and refugee populations and she also worked as a Pre-Arrival Specialist for the Lutheran Social Services of North Dakota Refugee Resettlement Program. She is a holder of a Master’s Degree in Counseling with a Concentration in Addiction Counseling.
