Engaging Black Youth in Radical Healing: Ideas for SBHC Operations, Patient Centered-Care, and Social-Emotional Learning
ABSTRACT SUMMARY
Come learn strengths-based strategies that your school/SBHC can implement that build resiliency and self-efficacy in Black youth. Explore culturally supportive, youth friendly SBHC Operations and tools for Patient–Centered Care. See evidence of the impact of multi-disciplined interventions that promote SEL through SBHCs, such as Gender-Specific Culturally-Based Healing Circles (as part of the SBHA’s Hallways to Health Initiative) and other Experiential Retreats. Participants will acquire tools and resources to integrate these ideas at their schools/SBHCs.
ABSTRACT DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this workshop is to share our tools and strategies to engage Black youth at SBHCs that emerge from evidence-based practices and experience. We understand that many African American youth are challenged by negative statistics and poor health outcomes as associated with failing academics and exposure to violence, trauma and the juvenile justice system. We must also understand how to conjure resiliency and instill a sense of hope, imagination and opportunity for our youth by developing meaningful relationships while providing opportunities for agency. SBHCs are in unique positions to foster this kind Radical Healing and support systemic change for a more positive future.
This workshop will provide participatory discussions and activities, as well as organized multi-media review of the evidence-informed ideas in the following format:
Part One of this workshop will allow participants to do a brief reflection on their current work in engaging Black youth at SBHCs. We will define Radical Healing as the framework for engaging Black youth, which includes building a healthy identity, meaningful relationships, and participatory activism that builds resiliency and self-efficacy.
This section may include a small opportunity to engage in trust-building activities as a sample of the powerful interventions outlined later in the workshop. It will also provide opportunity for networking for conference participants.
Part Two will help participants identify strengths-based strategies to promote culturally-supportive, youth-friendly SBHC Operations and actualize Patients Centered Care.
We will review strategies in the following areas:
• Outreach/recruitment,
• Open access scheduling
• Professional development for staff,
• School integration and data sharing for whole student/whole community support.
We will also review the core principles of Patient Centered Care. With this foundation, we will explore how to engage all members of the SBHC in care by building healing relationships; and coordinating services that are customized by patient needs, values, and choices in a healing environment through applicable examples.
Part Three will allow participants to acquire tools and resources to implement multi-disciplined interventions that address violence and promote social emotional learning through SBHCs. We will review our experience in facilitating Gender-Specific Culturally-Based Healing Circles, Life Skills Workshops, and Experiential Retreats with students many other Bay Area schools. We will highlight the interventions that were created as part of the SBHA’s Hallways to Health Initiative at Roosevelt Middle School through La Clinica’s Roosevelt Health Center. A video will be shown that intertwines images of these interventions with youth testimony and quantitative and qualitative data as evidence of the impact of these programs. We will also provide resources and step by step tools for schools and SBHCs to take this work back to their sites.
Part Four is the concluding section. We will facilitate discussion, and collective prioritizing so that participants leave with some clear ideas that they can further explore and implement at their owns sites. Participants will be provided handouts and worksheets to foster learning and networking after the workshop has ended. We will also provide time for questions and a final time for networking.
PRESENTER(S)
NAME: Mizan Alkebulan-Abakah MPH ORGANIZATION: Roosevelt Health Center NAME: Sizwe Andrews-Abakah MPH ORGANIZATION: Spearitwurx Foundation
AUDIENCE
ADMINISTRATORS: Y
PRIMARY HEALTH: Y
MENTALHEALTH: N
ORGANIZATIONAL: Y
PUBLIC HEALTH: N
EDUCATION: N
YOUTH: N
Technical
issues should be directed to Deirdre Taylor via email: dtaylor@sbh4all.org
or Telephone: (202) 638-5872, ext. 204
