Oppressive Trauma-informed Youth Work
Your Course Description
Mental Health Basics
- Youth workers must recognize the effects of oppressive trauma and learn strategies to promote healing and resiliency. You can foster system accountability throughout your organization and youth programs.
- Expanding your understanding of oppressive trauma-informed practices supports equity for young people.
- You will be encouraged to examine your role in building a “new normal” where we have system accountability and thoughtfully designed programming for healing rather than harm for young people of color and other marginalized groups that experience ongoing harm from racialized and historical trauma.
Your Learning Objectives
- Learn about racialized and historical trauma and how it impacts communities
- Consider how your work with young people can foster system accountability, transformative justice, and healing
- Explore the value in transitioning from one modality of trauma-informed care to a multifaceted approach, such as oppressive trauma-informed care
- Identify action steps you can take to create spaces for healing within your programs
Your Course Details
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Completion Certificate
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Youth Worker Track
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This training will count as 1.5 CE hours for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting. Course details for CE submissions provided.
Your Trainer
Jamil Stamschror-Lott, LICSW is a public speaker; mental health therapist; Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion professional; educator; and the CEO and co-founder of Creative Kuponya. As a Black man, he represents less than 4% of licensed therapists in America. Jamil is a skilled healer and facilitator who has offered over 250 professional speaking engagements. Jamil and his wife Sara co-founded Creative Kuponya in 2017, hoping to dismantle the systemic racism and oppressive forces embedded within our mental health systems and provide therapeutic justice to those who society has pushed into the margins. Creative Kuponya offers innovative mental health care at the intersection of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion through three main avenues: individual and family therapy, transformative community healing sessions, education & training. 
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Your Skill-Building Objectives
Trauma-Informed Care
Creating a healing space for growth
Mental Health Awareness
Recognizing and responding to mental health concerns
Resilience Building
Teaching coping strategies to overcome barriers
Inclusion
Fostering belonging in all young people
What YIPA members are saying
There was so much information given, but it was delivered in a way that made it easy to follow. I will definitely refer back to this training.
Thinking about this topic furthers healing and encourages one to continue responding.
Jamil had a really fantastic way of looping the content back to the stories/situations he was talking about. Great information, great links, this was the best I've seen in a few years.
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