During this event, CPEHN will break down systemic barriers that prevent communities of color from elevating their community mental health needs. CPEHN and our multicultural partners will unveil the annual state of community report, a mixed-methods analysis of the collective needs of communities of color across California.
Additionally, the Right to Heal event will:
- Provide our communities of color the space to educate California decision-makers about the mental health needs of their communities and the history of our communities that relates to historical trauma & the needs for healing
- Elevate Black, Indigenous, people of color mental health practitioners and provide a gathering space for advocates to network and learn from each other’s experiences & expertise
- Inspire community members to take action in their designated counties in order to stay informed and to create culturally responsive spaces
Materials
Find session recordings and session-specific resources below:
Opening and welcome address from Dr. Ghia Xiong
- Performers: Daniel Richardson
- Speakers
- Dr. Ghia Xiong, The Fresno Center
- Recording
- PowerPoint
Challenges and Issues that Diverse Racial and Ethnic Communities Face in Accessing the Mental Health Services Act: Findings from 2021 Listening Sessions – Local Partner perspective
- Speakers
- Nataly Santamaria, Visión y Compromiso
- Evelyn Eterno, Bakersfield American Indian Health Project
- Angel Galvez, Bakersfield American Indian Health Project
- Jodie Geddes, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
- Seng Yang, Hmong Cultural Center of Butte County
Challenges and Issues that Diverse Racial and Ethnic Communities Face in Accessing the Mental Health Services Act: Findings from 2021 Listening Sessions – Statewide Partner perspective
- Speakers
- Rosa Flores, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California
- Montana Weekes, California Consortium for Urban Indian Health
- Belinda VanZant-Perez, Calfornia Black Health Network
- Mandy Diec, Southeast Asia Resource Action Center
- Performers: DJ Roza Do
Keynote from community leader
- Speakers
- Gladys Flores, Centro de Unidad Popular Benito Juárez, Inc.
- Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan
Workshop 1: Healing Within – Finding a culturally competent healer
In this workshop, you will hear from community leaders and practitioners on ways to search for qualified mental health professionals, questions to ask, and different forms of holistic healing. Healing happens in various forms, and we recognize that talk therapy is only one of many forms in which healing and transformation take place.
- Speakers
- Rita Phetmixay, Registered Associate Clinical Social Worker
- Carols Rivera, American Indian Health and Services
- Dr. Jamila Young, Clinical Psychologist
- Rayshell Chambers, Painted Brain
Workshop 2: Overcoming access challenges to mental health services
In this workshop, speakers will highlight the barriers to utilizing services and the solutions
to these services in our communities. Challenges to accessing services include not having
providers that look like you, accessing traditional healing through insurance, language
challenges, and more. Speakers will share strategies they have used to overcome these barriers that BIPOC often experience and will highlight their personal practices or even organizations that have created solutions.
- Speakers
- Michelle Maas, Native American Health Center
- Danielle Muñoz, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
listening Sessions from a multicultural lens
Speakers
- Sonya Young Aadam, California Black Women’s Health Project
- Divinity Matovu, MBA Mama
- Senator Skinner