Event Description
The 2017 CPI Regional Trainings theme is Cultural Competence, a guiding principle of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) defines cultural competence as the “ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures.”
Regional topics include:
- Using cultural competence to guide prevention efforts;
- Instituting Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards organizationally and programmatically; and
- Supporting specific populations through culturally competent SUD prevention strategies.
Who should attend? County AOD Administrators, County Prevention Coordinators, local prevention providers, and other community agencies.
CLAS Webinars: CPI developed a series of four webinars to introduce you to CLAS and prepare you for the regional trainings. Click here for more information.
Now Available: 2017 CPI Regional Training Materials
We are pleased to share the training materials from the 2017 CPI Regional Trainings, held in Long Beach and Sacramento this summer. Hundreds of SUD professionals and community agency representatives attend the no-cost Regional Trainings each year to focus on core prevention topics. The downloadable training materials include PowerPoint presentations on “Examining Cultural Competence in Substance Use Disorder Prevention,” cultural and linguistic competence assessments, glossaries of key terms, and more. We hope that these materials will serve as a valuable tool in your SUD prevention efforts.
New Resource: Implicit Bias Tests
If you are attending one of the CPI Regional Trainings, we encourage you to try the Social Attitudes tests from Project Implicit. The Social Attitude tests were designed by Harvard University scientists and other researchers to help educate the public about hidden biases. Implicit Association Test topics include race, disability, sexuality, weight, age, and other factors. Take as many or as few of the tests as you like as a self-reflection tool before you attend the Regional Training.
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Announcing the 2017 CPI Regional Training Keynote Speakers
Rachel Garcia Guerrero, LCSW
Guerrero Consulting
Rachel Guerrero, LCSW, has devoted her 38-year career in the mental health field to issues of social justice, including reducing disparities and improving services for Latinos and other multicultural communities. Her expansive career began as a child family therapist hired as Yolo County’s first mental health Spanish-speaking therapist and concluded after 22 years as an administrator at the California State Department of Mental Health, including 12 years as the first Director of the Office of Multicultural Services. In 1999, Ms. Guerrero received a national leadership award for her pioneering work in multicultural mental health. In 2002, she received the California Statewide Mental Health Cultural Competence Leadership award. In 2008, under the voter-approved Mental Health Service Act, she secured support for the funding of the California Reducing Disparities Project. She retired in 2010 and currently manages her own national consulting and training practice, Guerrero Consulting, in Sacramento, CA.
Yolo Akili Robinson
Founder and CEO, BEAM
Over the last decade, Yolo Akili Robinson has worked in the public health field as a counselor, curriculum developer, facilitator, yoga teacher, and a trainer. His work has focused on HIV/AIDs, domestic and intimate partner violence, and mental health and wellness. His writings on these issues have appeared in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Huffington Post, Ebony, and Everyday Feminisms. Mr. Robinson has also delivered keynotes at Vanderbilt University, Claremont McKenna College, Northern Illinois University, and Ramapo College. In 2016, Mr. Robinson launched BEAM (The Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective), a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with the mission of eliminating ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic disparities in access to mental healthcare.
Get Social for the Regional Trainings
The CPI Team will be facilitating live conversations on Twitter during the regional trainings. You can share your ideas about the presentations, connect with other conference participants, and keep the conversation about cultural competence going–and it’s easy to participate!
- Follow @CARSRP on Twitter: During the regional trainings, the CPI Team will be posting discussion items and photos through CARS’ Twitter account. CARSRP will use the hashtags #cpi2017sac (Sacramento) and #cpi2017la (Los Angeles County) to tag its conference posts.
- Participate in the conversation: Reply to questions and discussion items posted by @CARSRP throughout the conference, or share your own thoughts and photos in tweets that include the conference hashtag. @CARSRP will be retweeting participant posts during the event.
- Follow CARS on Facebook: The CPI Team will also be posting photos and event insights to https://www.facebook.com/cars.rp.
Los Angeles County Regional Training
Thursday, August 3 and Friday, August 4, 2017
Hilton Long Beach
701 West Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA 90831
Agenda
| Day 1: Thursday, August 3, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:30 am | Registration and Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 am | Welcome (PLENARY) | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 am | Session 1 – Keynote Session (PLENARY) | |
| 9:30 – 10:45 am | Session 2 – The Role of Cultural Competence in SUD Prevention (PLENARY) | |
| 10:45 – 11:00 am | Break | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 am | Session 3 – Cultural Competence and You (PLENARY) | |
| 11:30 – 12:30 pm | Session 4 – Cultural Competence in Action: Examples of Culturally Competent Prevention Services (PLENARY) | |
| 12:30 – 1:30 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30 – 3:00 pm | Session 5 – Concurrent Breakout Sessions: Culturally Competent SUD Services with Specific Populations. Repeated on Day 2 (BREAKOUTS) | |
| Rural communities | ||
| Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity (SOGI) | ||
| Immigrants and populations with English as a second language | ||
| Native communities | ||
| 3:00 – 3:10 pm | Transition Time | |
| 3:10 – 3:45 pm | Session 6 – World Café – Defining Cultural Competence for the SUD Prevention Field (PLENARY) | |
| 3:45 – 4:30 pm | Session 7 – Wrap-up Day 1 (PLENARY) | |
| Day 2: Friday, August 4, 2017 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:30 am | Registration | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 am | Welcome (PLENARY) | |
| 9:00 – 9:30 am | Session 1 – Keynote Session (PLENARY) | |
| 9:30 – 11:00 am | Session 2 – Concurrent Breakout Sessions: Culturally Competent SUD Services with Specific Populations (BREAKOUTS) | |
| Rural communities | ||
| Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity (SOGI) | ||
| Immigrants and populations with English as a second language | ||
| Native communities | ||
| 11:00- 11:15 am | Break | |
| 11:15 – 12:15 pm | Session 3 – Operationalizing the CLAS Standards for SUD Prevention (PLENARY) | |
| 12:15 – 1:15 pm | Lunch | |
| 1:15 – 2:15 pm | Session 4 – Panel Presentation: Youth Culture (PLENARY) | |
| 2:15 – 3:15 pm | Session 5 – Gathering Culturally Competent Data (PLENARY) | |
| 3:15 – 3:30 pm | Break | |
| 3:30 – 4:15 pm | Session 6 – World Café – Fitting the SPP with the CLAS Standards (PLENARY) | |
| 4:15 – 4:30 pm | Session 7 – Wrap-up and Closing (PLENARY) | |