Amy Gajaria, MD, FRCPC
presented by
SickKids CCMH Learning Institute
Live webinar
May 3 and 17, 2022 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST This webinar will give guidance on providing culturally competent mental health care for diverse young people and their families. Explore various ways that young people may have felt unheard or uncomfortable in mental health settings due to their racial/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 look at experiences young people and their families have of oppression, racism, and structural oppressions. The goal is to help all participants have greater comfort in dealing with these issues. However, participants should come willing to acknowledge the role these factors play in young people’s lives. Participants will gain a greater understanding of the barriers to mental health care faced by racialized young people. They will acquire strategies to engage racialized young people and their families. Identify specific struggles that racialized and underserved children and youth may face and how these might affect their mental health. Learn More Amy Gajaria, MD, FRCPC Dr. Amy Gajaria 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-3/ | 
