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
  • "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