This workshop is intended to increase service providers’ effectiveness with diverse client populations seeking treatment in the Northern State Region.
This interesting and engaging one day training will address the following:
-Diversity in Clinical Work: Learning from and bridging differences
-Begin a conversation regarding diversity in the workplace
-Identify challenges
-Identify ways to build community and solidarity across differences
-Promote cultural proficiency and safety in the workplace
Latino Families: Migration, Transculturation, and Family Life
Provide a context to understand Latino families in their diversity
Offer a model to effectively evaluate and treat the problems faced by Latino families
Generate ideas about prevention and building resilience with Latina/o children and youth
Share outreach strategies to engage Latino’s in rural communities
Workshop Presenters
Yvette Flores, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis Chicana/o Studies Program
Born in Colon, Panama, raised in San Jose, Costa Rica, Dr. FLores migrated to the United States in 1965. She was educated in the public schools of South Central Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. Her interests in psychology emerged from the challenges the process of migration posed to her family.
Dr. Flores obtained a B.A degree in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1970. She pursued a Masters Degree in Community-Clinical Psychology at C.S.U. Long Beach and completed a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at U.C. Berkeley in 1982.
For the past two decades, Dr. Flores has worked as a research psychologist, university professor, and licensed psychologist. She has done postdoctoral work in health psychology, in particular substance abuse treatment outcome research and intimate partner violence. Her current research examines intimate partner violence among Mexicans on both sides of the border. She is also part of a NIDA funded study of caregiving among spouses and adult children of Anglo and Latino elderly with dementia. Her publications reflect her life’s work of bridging clinical psychology and Chicano/Latino studies, as she foregrounds gender, ethnicity and sexualities in her clinical, teaching and research practices.
Barbara Laymance
Barbara Laymance was Born and raised in California and her native tribe is Mi’kmaq in Nova Scotia, Canada. Her family moved to Montana and eventually to California in the 1800’s. Ms. Laymance has two son’s and four grandchildren and has been in recovery for 37 years.
She also has been working in the field of alcohol and drug abuse since 1987, and has worked in numerous treatment settings. Ms. Laymance has extensive experience in domestic violence/sexual assault programs. She’s been involved in organizing the Annual Indian Women’s conference since 1988. A current member of the Board of Directors of the Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Center. Ms. Laymance has also been involved in the developed, implemented and management of a residential treatment center for women. Currently she is teaching for Alcohol and Drug studies cources at a vocational school in Sacramento, Ca.
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6 CEU’s towards counselor certification will be given. FREE Workshop
