Join us for a conversation on how to turn passion for mental health into a career!About this Event
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Are you passionate about mental health and psychology, and curious as to how to turn that into a career? Do you want to break down stigmas around mental health or expand access to support in communities of color?
Join the Office of Student Success and Department of Psychology for a panel discussion with practitioners in the field. We will explore career paths including advocacy, running clinics, working with substance users, and more. We will also examine racial justice issues that arise on the job and ways to approach your future work with intention.
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**Everyone who attends in-person must be ready to display evidence of full vaccination. See Covid Guidelines below.
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COVID-19 GUIDELINES
All attendees must be vaccinated, and masks are required. For guests (non-CUNY, non-CCNY attendees), here is the Cleared4 link for registering and submitting vaccination credential. This needs to be done at least 3 days in advance of the event. ((bit.ly/Health-Verification-GUEST))
Kailin is the Senior Director of Programs for OnPoint NYC. She was the program and development lead for the historic opening of the first two sanctioned overdose prevention centers in the United States. Before moving to New York in 2016, Kailin worked in Vancouver, Canada developing and operating innovative, award-winning drug user-focused programs including the Drug User's Resource Center (DURC) which employed 150 active substance users and saw 1,000 member visits a day. Beyond DURC, Kailin developed Canada’s first street-entrenched Managed Alcohol Program and an Alcohol Exchange for illicit alcohol consumers, a first in the world. Her many years working to improve the lives of people who use drugs has afforded her the opportunity to garner experience across multiple sectors including housing/shelter for active substance users, community-based detox and treatment, social enterprise, indigenous-directed care and cultural programming, drug policy reform, advocacy, and safer consumption.
Ann-Marie Louison joined CASES in 1999 to launch the award-winning Nathaniel Project, CASES’ first alternative-to-incarceration program for adults with serious mental illnesses convicted of felony crimes. For sixteen years she oversaw the development of programs and treatment services for individuals with serious mental illness and behavioral health needs impacted by the criminal legal system. Ms. Louison has developed arraignment diversion programs and implemented evidence-based Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) as an alternative-to-incarceration program. She has shared the innovative approaches and programs CASES has developed at the intersection of mental illness and the criminal legal system across the country, serving as a technical assistance consultant and presenting on expert panels. Ms. Louison has coordinated the organization’s response to healthcare and criminal legal system reforms and now leads and coordinates efforts to monitor and continually improve services and program performance. She holds a Master of Social Work and Applied Social Research from Brunel University (U.K.) and is the proud winner of the 5th annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize for Excellence in Urban Public Health.
Gregory Thompson
Mariela Perez-Batista is a licensed social worker and wellness counselor at The Brotherhood Sister Sol, a Bronx-based organization that educates, organizes, and trains Black and Latinx youth. With over 15 years of experience, Mariela is proficient in providing clinical services, psycho-social assessments and treatment planning, community engagement, organizing, youth development, and women’s and men’s and adolescent health. For the last thirteen years, she has served in various roles at New York Presbyterian’s Family Planning Practice and Young Men’s Clinic. Prior to that, she worked at Urban Health Plan as the School Health Support Services Program Coordinator. Mariela earned her Masters of Social Work from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College and earned her Bachelor’s in Sociology from Rutgers University. Mariela is a native New Yorker. She is passionate about equitable education for all, social justice, sexual and reproductive justice, and most importantly, the health and well-being of Black and Latinx youth and young adults.
Event Venue
The City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, United States
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