Serving California's Diversity: A Conference on Trauma and Resilience
This is a FREE conference.
Burbank, CA / Thursday, November 14, 2019
Start: 9:00AM
End: 4:00PM
Event address will be provided in the confirmation materials.
Conference Overview:
Join us for a full day of training, discussion, and networking on how to best serve immigrant populations, people of color, and those with limited English proficiency. This statewide event will provide information to professionals who are working with communities affected by historical trauma along with their ability to inherit their ancestors’ resiliency. Trainers will focus on culture and the brain, creating trauma informed programs, using resiliency to cope with bias and trauma. Participants will also receive information regarding immigration relief, encouraging agencies to shift from providing language access to language justice, and the role of law enforcement and other multi-disciplinary team members during a sexual assault investigation. All of the sessions will be looked at with a critical lens of professionals understanding their own biases. By the end of this training, participants will develop strategies to take back to their home agencies and will be able to:
• Describe how intergenerational resiliency can be used as a tool to heal and transform.
• Identify access and collaboration with Native specific programs to improve client care.
• Discuss availability and resources in underserved communities to improve client care.
• Demonstrate an understanding of immigration relief for survivors of abuse and crimes.
• Utilize their role in the victims’ nervous system to facilitate a more trauma and culture informed practice.
• List the rights of the victim/survivor as it relates to a sexual assault investigation.
• Utilize practical tools necessary for building language inclusive services.
Keynote Presentations
- Historical Trauma in the Native American Communities - presented by Julie Andrews, LCSW
This presentation will provide a basic overview of Historical Trauma, barriers to care and important things to know to improve services when working with Native American communities. This impact speech will deliver informative messages including, "We’re still here!", Genocide: the origins of intergenerational trauma, and historical Trauma responses and effects.
- Honoring our Ancestors: Using Intergenerational Resiliency as a Tool to Heal the Impacts of Implicit Bias and Cultural Trauma - presented by Taquelia Washington, LCSW
While it has now been proven that trauma can be passed along across generations, little has been done to study the impact of intergenerational resilience. If we can inherent the trauma of our grandparents, it only takes a small shift of the mind to believe that we may also inherent their resiliency. This keynote will guide us through an intellectual understanding of implicit bias and cultural trauma, focusing particularly on the ways they impact communities of color. As one gains a deeper understanding of the insidious impact these concepts have on individuals, the talk will shift to helping the audience learn about the role that intergenerational resiliency can play in helping communities to heal and transform.
Breakout Sessions (Participants will be able to attend three sessions)
- Culture and the Brain, Presented by Monica Borunda, LMFT
This brief presentation will help attendees begin to understand the concept of brain and autonomic nervous system functioning and how that intersects with culture. The autonomic nervous system mediates all human responses and it is important to understand how our cultural beliefs, attitudes, and values play into how we perceive human behavior. Why does one victim of trauma behave one way, while another victim of the same trauma behave differently? How can we understand more why victims behave the way that they do? And, does culture explain it all? What can the brain and the nervous system teach us so that we better understand and help victims? Learn the basics of how humans behave when they are threatened in this introduction to culture and the brain.
- From Language Access to Language Justice: Tools, Tips and Resources to Strengthen Service Provision to Survivors and Empower Multilingual Communities, Presented by Ana Paula Noguez, LL.M.
Language is a crucial component of any agency's effort seeking to improve the life, safety, and well-being of gender-based violence survivors. It's a powerful tool to ensure equitable, healing and trauma-informed services, foster survivor-centered leadership, and empower traditionally marginalized communities. This facilitated session aims connecting with the experience of "Limited English Proficient" and "Deaf or Hard of Hearing" individuals when attempting to communicate, participate or navigate survivor services and support in their preferred language(s) (spoken or signed). Articulating survivor language rights, demonstrating the implementation of a language justice framework, and offering practical tools necessary for building language inclusive services will also be covered.
- Historical Trauma in the Native American Communities presented by Julie Andrews, LCSW
This presentation will provide tools to identify barriers to care for communities affected by settler colonization, creating trauma informed programming and highlight reasons to create alliances with existing community agencies in underserved areas.
- Tapping into your Intergenerational Resiliency: Strategies to Use to Cope with the Impacts of Implicit Bias and Cultural Trauma presented by Taquelia Washington, LCSW
Building off of this morning’s keynote, this breakout session will create an experiential, reflective, and empowering space for participants to explore their own embodied wisdom that they have inherited from the generations that have come before, through both blood and relational connections. We will spend time further exploring this form of resilience and will continue to deepen into ways that we can use this wisdom to cope with bias and trauma. Participants will be able to take the learnings from this session to be applied to not only themselves but also to those they serve in the community.
- The Role of Law Enforcement and Other Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) Members During a Sexual Assault Investigation presented by Lieutenant Richard Ruiz
This presentation will explain the role of law enforcement in a multi-disciplinary team (MDT) approach as it relates to sexual assault investigations. The rights of a victim/survivor, law enforcement procedures, and the role of each member of the MDT Team during the investigation. The collaboration and cooperation between the different disciplines will be discussed, with an emphasis on culturally sensitive and diverse situations, when working with victims/survivors who have experienced a traumatic sexual assault incident in their life.
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Immigration 101: Family and Humanitarian-Based Visas presented by Rachel Ray, JD
This session will provide an opportunity for service providers with basic immigration knowledge to ask questions to better understand immigration relief that may be available to their clients. The format will be participatory and discussion-based (“round table” style), and participants will be afforded an opportunity to discuss family-based and humanitarian visas.
Statewide Conference Agenda:
- 8:30am – 9:00am / Check-In & Registration
- 9:00am – 9:10am / Welcome & Introduction
- 9:10am – 9:40am / Historical Trauma in the Native American Communities
- 9:40am – 11:00am / Honoring our Ancestors: Using Intergenerational Resiliency as a Tool to Heal the Impacts of Implicit Bias and Cultural Trauma
- 11:0am – 11:15pm / Break
- 11:15pm – 12:05pm / Breakout Session 1
- 12:05pm – 1:15pm / Lunch
- 1:15pm – 1:45pm / Multi-disciplinary Panel Discussion/Networking
- 1:50pm – 2:40pm / Breakout Session 2
- 2:40pm – 2:50pm / Break
- 2:55pm – 3:45pm / Breakout Session 3
- 3:45pm – 4:00pm / Certificates, Evaluations & Close
This training is FREE OF CHARGE. Participants are responsible for travel, lodging and all meal expenses. Lunch is NOT provided.
All attendees will receive a Certificate of Attendance. Participants may apply for continuing education credits (CEUs) at the event. Certificates for CEUs will be mailed to participants within two weeks following the event.
Continuing Education:
If you are interested in Continuing Education please apply and pay for credit at the training. Cash, card, and check payments (payable to CIR).
- Course meets qualifications for 6 hours of cont. education credit for LMFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences, $45, Provider #128510. The Center for Innovation and Resource, Inc. (CIR) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs and LCSWs. CIR maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
For more information, questions, or grievances, please contact Parasto Tabrizi at parasto.tabrizi@cirinc.org or 805-876-0291.
Individuals with disabilities who require accommodations to participate in this training should also contact Parasto Tabrizi. Requests must be received by November 1, 2019.
For interpretation requests, please contact Parasto Tabrizi as well. Requests must be received by November 1, 2019.
Produced by the Center for Innovation and Resources Inc. (CIR) with funding provided by the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (CalOES), made possible through the United States Department of Justice, Victims of Crime Act, 2017-VA-GX-XXXX.
