Amy Gajaria, MD, FRCPC
presented by
SickKids CCMH Learning Institute
Live webinar
January 28, 2022 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST This webinar will give guidance to those providing mental health care to young people and their families, on providing culturally competent care for diverse young people. It will discuss various ways that young people may have felt unheard or uncomfortable in mental health settings due to their racial and/or ethnic identity. The facilitator will present approaches that practitioners can use to help decrease barriers to care for such young people and their families. This training will discuss experiences young people and their families have of oppression, racism, and structural oppressions. While the goal is to help all participants have greater comfort in dealing with these issues, participants should come willing to acknowledge the role these factors play in young people’s lives. Participants of this training will gain a greater understanding of the barriers to mental health care faced by racialized young people and their families. Acquire strategies to engage racialized young people and their families. They will be able to identify specific struggles that racialized and underserved children and youth may face and how these might affect their mental health. Learn more About the Facilitator: Amy Gajaria, MD, FRCPC is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She also works at Black Creek Community Health Centre in the Jane/Finch neighbourhood of Toronto and in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is the faculty lead at the University of Toronto for Underserved Selectives. Her clinical and research interests are in working with racialized and underserved children, youth, and their families, and in global mental health.
website: https://sickkidscmh.ca/course/supporting-the-mental-health-needs-of-racialized-young-people/ | 
