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Tessa FowlerVOA Al Forthan Scholarship
503-802-0299
tfowler@voaor.org
Identity and Clinical Practice: Integrating the Liberation Health Model with Eddie May, MSW, LCSW
Please join us for the upcoming trainings on Wednesday, November 17th for Identity and Clinical Practice: Integrating the Liberation Health Model with Eddie May, MSW, LCSW.
All proceeds go towards the Al Forthan Scholarship.
Cost: $60 for half day of trainings (3 CEUs).
Identity and Clinical Practice: Integrating the Liberation Health Model
Featuring: Eddie May, MSW, LCSW
When: 8:30am-12:00pm
Purpose
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Effective clinical practice requires us to fight against social injustice to promote equity of opportunity and engagement with clients. However, social justice and anti-racist work continue to be conceptualized as macro interventions that are separate and distinct from clinical direct practice. This dichotomy has specific implications on our practice settings and too often reenacts experiences of bias, trauma, and harm in diagnosis and mental health treatment. To address this division, participants will learn and utilize the Liberation Health Model (developed by Dawn Belkin Martinez and Ann Fleck-Henderson) as a framework for centering intersectionality in therapeutic practice. Embracing the personal, institutional, and cultural factors related to a client’s mental health symptoms, this training will provide an overview of the Liberation Health Model, the need for implementation in non-profit and private practice settings, and its application to the therapeutic relationship. Small group activities and case studies will support participants in integrating the model into their day-to-day practice. |
Eddie May, MSW, LCSW
Eddie May, MSW, LCSW, is an Assistant Professor of Practice at Portland State University who maintains a small private practice focused on supporting queer-identified clients. His practice experience has focused on therapeutic interventions with individuals experiencing trauma, suicide prevention/intervention, LGBTQ affirming practice, and crisis mental health. Eddie's passion lies in equity and inclusion work and the intersection of micro and macro practice. He believes focus on implicit/explicit bias and socialization, informed by narrative and existentialist frameworks, is critical in clinical practice and the unpacking of each knapsack carried in our daily experiences. Eddie holds an MSW from Tulane University and a BE in Family and Human Services/Women and Gender Studies from the University of Oregon.
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If you have any questions please contact Tessa Fowler at tfowler@voaor.org or call me at 503-802-0299