Name: Addressing Racial Trauma in Young Children: 5 Early Childhood Interventions
Start: 2024-05-17T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-05-17T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Xavier University Community Outreach Center

Addressing Racial Trauma in Young Children: 5 Early Childhood Interventions

This training will focus on interventions for racial trauma as experienced by young children.
About this Event

This training will focus on interventions for racial trauma as experienced by young children. Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji will discuss race-based stress as an adverse childhood experience (ACE) and how to identify the symptoms among young children. More importantly, Dr. West-Olatunji will offer solutions and interventions that adults can implement to arm children against threats to their self-esteem, self-actualization, and self-identity to promote healthy emotional and psychological well-being and lifelong success.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will:

A) Enhance their self-awareness of racial trauma as it relates to young children and their mental health

B) Increase knowledge about race-based stress as an adverse childhood experience (ACE)

C) Augment their social action skills to serve as advocates to promote healthy development and psychological wellbeing among young children

Note: For last year's attendees, this training will provide additional content and new interventions that can be used for this population and will serve as a companion workshop to the previous training.

Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji is founder and CEO of CRESTSprogram, LLC. She has 20+ years of clinical experience as a private practitioner and community counseling center developer. Her research focuses on the effects of systemic oppression on culturally marginalized individuals, families, and communities. Dr. West-Olatunji’s publications include 3 books, over 20 book chapters, and more than 100 articles.