MONDAY NIGHT
SEMINAR - To be rescheduled
on
Zoom
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In the Pursuit of Health Equity
for Indigenous Peoples: The Role of Community Mental Health Workers in Promoting Health & Wellness in Tribal
Communities
with Carole Cadue-Blackwood, LMSW, CTTS,
MAADCII
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The American
Indian (AI) and Alaskan Native (AN) peoples suffer from significant health disparities, including nutrition related chronic
diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. The risk factors and social determinates of these diseases are
often rooted in the unique histories in the American Indian and Alaskan Native populations, including the history of genocidal
practices, cultural assaults, and ongoing oppression, which also contribute to high rates of mental health and substance use
disorders. Learn how Native Community mental healthworkers, alongside a growing workforce of Indigeneous mental health
professionals, can create balance and overall wellness, in alignment with Native worldviews and healing
traditions.
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LEARNING
OBJECTIVES:
After
attending this session, participants should be able to:
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Describe how
lack of resources within the American Indian and Alaskan Native community creates barriers to mental healthcare and other
healthcare services.
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Explain how
historical trauma may affect and challenge the therapeutic relationship and how local mental health workers can be of
assistance.
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Discuss how
mental health professionals, plus community mental health workers who understand local traditions, customs, and challenges,
can work in concert to overcome barriers to mental health treatment.
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Carole Cadue-Blackwood
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About the Presenter
Carole Cadue-Blackwood is a licensed social worker and Case Manager at The Kansas City Indian Center and
liaison to the United States Attorney General’s Office for the Western District of Missouri for Missing and
Murdered Indigenous Peoples. Carole is the first Indigenous USD 497 Lawrence Board of Education member to
have attended Lawrence public schools, K-12, and holds degrees from Haskell Indian Nations University, a B.A.
in political science from The University of Kansas along with a Master’s of Social Welfare with a clinical
focus. She is an enrolled member of the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas and affiliated with the Prairie Band
Potawatomi Nation.
Her career and passion for public education grew as a stay-at-home mom and military spouse while volunteering
for The Willow Domestic Violence Center where Carole realized that getting to the root of unique
systemic risk factors can shake social, emotional, and mental well-being for improving achievement and outcomes
for folk.
Carole is a 2016 recipient of the United Way’s Wallace Galluzzi Outstanding Volunteer for direct
and indirect service for The Willow Domestic Violence Center and a 2018 recipient of the National Indian
Education Association’s Parent of the Year award for her efforts to re-name Billy Mills Middle School
and advocacy for the Kansas House Bill 2498, known as the Regalia Bill, a measure that prohibits schools
or government agencies from barring students from wearing traditional tribal regalia at public events.
Kansas is only the third state in the nation to have such a law protecting this important right.
Other notable recognitions include a 2022 nomination for the YWCA of Northeast Kansas's Woman of the
Year Award and a December 2022 feature in the Lawrence, Kansas Business Magazine as a Women of
Impact.
Carole was recently re-elected to serve on the Board of Education for Lawrence Public Schools for another
four-year term where she continues her work as a tireless advocate for the most marginalized students.
Appointed by Kansas Governor Laura Kelly to serve on the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention
Committee, Carole advocates for more public dollars for classroom funding, increased neighborhood
enrollment, community schools, anti-racist policies, and racial and social justice, as well as equity in our
schools and communities.
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To be
rescheduled
7:00 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. Central Time
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This seminar
is free and open to the public.
Click HERE to Register
The Zoom link
will be emailed to registrants on February 16th.
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1.5 CMEs/CEUs
are available for this seminar.
Certificates
of attendance are FREE for Center members,
$30 for
non-Center members.
(Details about
how to receive CMEs/CEUs will be provided during the seminar.)
Helpful
Information to Access and Participate in the Center Seminar
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We strongly recommend that you use your PC or Mac for this meeting rather than phone or tablet, as the
reception and functionality is much better.
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When you enter the meeting, you will be on mute. You are free to unmute yourself during the event
during discussion
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that you plan to attend the event with your personal video camera on so that you may be seen by the
other participants on screen. This is necessary for CME/CEU attendance tracking purposes.
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Make sure you have labeled your name in the box with your video picture. If you have not done so, or if you
want to change your name, place your mouse on your video image. In the right corner, you will see three dots (…). Click the
dots, then click “rename” and insert your name as you want it to read. This is also necessary for CME/CEU attendance
tracking purposes.
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Continuing
Medical Education Credits
This activity
has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Greater
Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide
continuing medical education for physicians.”
The American
Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians
should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT
DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters for this educational activity have relevant
financial relationship(s)* to disclose with ineligible companies* whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling,
re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
*Financial
relationships are relevant if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of
the ineligible company.
-Updated July
2021-
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About the
Center
The Greater
Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center is a nonprofit organization which provides a forum for discussion of theoretical,
cultural, and clinical ideas regarding psychoanalysis, as well as networking opportunities for professionals, through community
forums, professional workshops and annual film series. Membership is open to any person with a serious interest in
psychoanalysis. The Center is the parent organization of the Greater Kansas City Psychoanalytic Institute, which provides post
graduate training in the theory and practice of psychoanalysis. More information about the Greater Kansas City-Topeka
Psychoanalytic Center is available at www.gkcpsa.org.
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