1.5 Hrs MCEP/CEU/LCPP

Grounded in the African Worldview, this introductory workshop is a creative synthesis of African Centered scholars contributions to the healing of people of African ancestry.  The workshop will attempt to identify essential components that practitioners and clinicians must understand and master to become competent change agents for clients in treatment. Participants will be exposed to intervention processes, intervention models and resources,  introduced to various mental health definitions and assisted in applying these definitions to clinical practice.

1.5 Hrs MCEP/CEU/LCPP

This LCPP presentation will consist of a panel of presenters who represent federal, state and local community interests.  They will present and examine available data (e.g. President s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health) on barriers to access of mental health services and discuss needed changes in policy and practices at the Federal, State, and local levels.

3 Hrs MCEP/CEU/LCPP

The current high risk African-American clientele are presented with severe Maafa psychostressors that present legal, malpractice and financial liabilities to treating African-American clinical psychologists. We will describe, discuss and share the best clinical environment, culturally competent interventions, private practice policies/procedures, and case documentation that will promote financial stability and reduce the legal liability of those in private practice.

2 Hrs MCEP/CEU/LCPP

This presentation will focus on the inequities that plague health and mental health services for African Americans.  There will be a review of trends pinpointing the impact of the lack and deficit of needed services.  An important question will be addressed:  How do you facilitate change in policies and practices that have been substantiated to impact the African American communities?

The docudrama, Black August, depicts the last 14 months of George Jackson's existence under the subjective and objective conditions of captivity. Sentenced to one year-to-life at age 18, for a $70 gas station robbery in 1960, George Jackson would spend the next 11 years in California's industrial prison complex, 7 years of which were in solitary confinement. The movie encompasses the infamous Soledad Brothers case in which George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clucheette are accused of murdering a Soledad prison guard, in retaliation for the killing of three Black inmates involved in a fight with White inmates on an exercise yard in Soledad State Prison, Soledad, California. The movie also reflects on the general prison movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the role the Black Panther Party would play in organizing both the outside communities in America as well as their influence on prisoners across the country.