Title: Let's Talk About It: Reflective Practice and Microaggressions
Date: February 8, 2024
Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm CST/12:30pm - 2:30pm EST
Description:
This session will focus on enhancing self and other awareness of microaggressions through reflective practice. We will explore strategies for identifying and responding to micro-aggressions within our work, with a specific focus on ourselves. Participants will be invited to participate in regulation activities, as well as the process of critical-self reflection, and dialogue.
Biography:
Amittia Parker, PhD, LMSW, MPA, IMH-E® Specialist is a researcher, trainer, social worker, and mama scholar. She is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She provides training and technical assistance for the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety. She also helps lead a program evaluation on infant and mental health consultation. Her research, scholarship, and service focuses on advancing minority mental health and equity, particularly among BIPOC families that are pregnant and parenting young children.