Current and Recent Diversity Initiatives
Campus and Community Partnership
- Continued partnership with International Students and Scholar Services (ISSS) to promote mental health services and accessibility to international students
- Continued partnership with Center for Student Diversity & Inclusion (CSDI), and ISSS to offer our Campus Care program at their locations
- 2022-2023- SCS Campus Partner Table at CSDI
- Staff members are a part of various faculty and staff organizations, such as AAA-FSA (Asian and Asian American Faculty & Staff Association), ABFAS (Assoc. of Black Faculty and Staff), ALFAS (Assoc. of Latino/a Faculty and Staff) and Women of Color Leadership Group.
Outreach and Programming
- SCS continues to offer a therapy support group for students of color and those who identify as LGBTQIA+
- 2022-2023- Heritage Month Cultural Celebrations Tabling with OIDI
- Fall 2022 & Spring 2023- Met with Incoming International Students to share about mental health wellbeing
- Fall 2022- SCS staff participated and provided programming for MADE at Miami
- Fall 2022- Attendance at Rainbow Reception to share resources
- Spring 2022- Attendance at Lavender Graduation
- Spring 2022- Nationaliteas event with ISSS, and table partnership at Stress Less Day
- SCS engage in student interviews related to mental health services and concerns facing students of color, female students, and/or resiliency related to racial unrest in U.S., Covid, body image, and sexual assault.
Professional Development/Advanced Training
Race and Ethnicity
- "Culturally Responsive CBT for Depression and Anxiety" webinar
- "Antiracist Adaptions to Dialectical Behavior Therapy for White Therapists" presentation
- "Critical Race Theory as a Necessary Lens for Clinical Practice" workshop
- "Creating Safe Spaces Culturally Diverse Clients" webinar
- "Healing from Racism through the Power of Collaborative Systemic Change" training
- "The changing landscape of youth suicide and suicidal behavior: An examination of racial difference and risk factors" presentation
- "White Accountability Spaces Workshop" for white clinicians to discuss racial issues and what they and their centers are doing to ensure accountability is held
- "Going where angels fear to tread: Antiracism in clinical practice" presentation
- "Raced Based Traumatic Stress and Healing" webinar
- Intern modules on Latino/a populations, Navigating Difficult Diversity Conversations, Multicultural Identity, Model Minority Myth Busting
International Students
- "Multicultural Counseling for International Students" training
LGBTQIA+
- SafeZone 101, Clinically focused Safezone and follow up debrief
- "Affirming care and support for LGBTQI+ clients" training
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"Affirming Clinical Practices for Consensual Non-Monogamy" training
Gender
- "Men & Masulinities in Counseling & Psychotherapy" training
- "Healthy Masculinity" training
Accesibility and Disability
- "Inclusive Excellence" event
- "Inclusive Language in Presentations" webinar
- "Understanding Today's Student:Gentilligence*" workshop
- "Addressing Mental Health Concerns in Autistic Students" webinar
- Mental Health First Aid and Ally Training
- Eating Recovery Center Eating Disorders Workshop