CHW Webinar: Trauma Informed Self Care and Community Care during a Pandemic
What does healing and resiliency-building look like in the context of a national moment of reckoning on health and justice?
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Course Information
- Audience: Community health worker, public health professional professionals serving communities of concern
- Format: Online Webinar
- Date/Time: June 23, 2020
11:00 - 12:00 PM EST - Price: Free
- Length: 1 hour
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: If you complete the post-test and evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course. Generally 50 – 60 minutes is equivalent to 1 contact hour and the contact hour(s) for this course may be applicable towards continuing education requirements for certain credentials. You may want to check with your credentialing body if you’re unsure if this course meets its continuing education requirements.
- Competencies: Health Equity Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
- Companion Trainings:
- Supplemental materials:Session PowerPoint
- Pre-requisites None
About this Webinar
Participants will explore the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and this new moment in the civil rights movement for Black lives through a lens of trauma-informed care. The workshop will cover self- and community care, self-reflection for allyship and liberation, and resiliency-building through a lens of racial and gender justice.
What you'll learn
At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
- Identify tools for self- and community care to help sustain health workers in a critical time
- Name Principles of Trauma-Informed Care and some ways they can be applied to daily work with colleagues and clients/ patients
- Think about how to hold trauma-informed, healing-centered space to talk about some of the major changes happening in our society right now.
- Deepen a self-reflection practice for resiliency-building and improved collaboration.
Subject Matter Expert
Samantha Calero
Samantha Isabel Calero (Sam, she/her) is a biracial Latinx public health consultant. Her work includes training and facilitation, technical assistance, policy analysis and development and organizational capacity building to address trauma, resiliency, racial and gender justice. She approaches her work with an intersectional, margins-to-center lens of relationship building and critical analysis for change. Sam is a member of Mijente and currently is completing her master's degree in health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She lives in Roxbury with her daughter.
Registration
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Acknowledgement: This project is/was supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under grant number UB6HP31685 “Regional Public Health Training Center Program.” This information or content and conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position or policy of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS or the U.S. Government.