Liberatory Approaches to Integrated Behavioral Health

Webinar Description

A Liberatory approach to Integrated Behavioral Health (IBH) centers the needs of individuals who experience marginalization and oppression. Module 1 will introduce participants to strategies for integrating cultural humility (Mosher et al., 2017; Tervalon & Murray-Garcia, 1998) and social justice values into their IBH work. Participants will learn more about what to expect in the IBH workforce (Gloria et al., 2016) and ways to advocate for change and support community care.

Learning Objectives

LO 1: Participants will describe how to integrate cultural humility into IBH practice. 
LO 2: Participants will describe strategies to maintain a commitment to socially just practice in IBH           
LO 3: Participants will apply intersectionality theory to their work and career plans in IBH

Presenter Bio

Dr. Clark Harvey is a psychologist and the Chief Executive Officer of the California Council of Community Behavioral Health Agencies a statewide advocacy organization representing mental health and substance use disorder non-profit agencies that collectively serve over 750 thousand Californians annually. She is also the Executive Director of the California Access Coalition- a group of advocacy organizations and pharmaceutical industry companies that advocates for patient access to behavioral health treatment. Dr. Clark Harvey has previously served as Chief Consultant to the California State Assembly Committee on Business and Professions, Principal Consultant to the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development, and a health policy consultant to the office of former Senator Curren D. Price, Jr. 

Prior to her work within the California Legislature, she completed her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She completed her pre-doctoral fellowship at the University of Southern California Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles Mattel Children’s Hospital.

Dr. Clark Harvey has maintained an impressive record of leadership including serving on national and local boards including the American Psychological Association (APA), and prior positions on the Association of Black Psychologists, Sacramento County Public Health Advisory Board and the Sacramento County Children’s Coalition. Dr. Clark Harvey has received numerous local and national awards and in 2020, was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to his Master Plan on Aging Advisory Committee and the Behavioral Health Task Force. In 2021, she was appointed by California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis to the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Board.

Webinar Format

The Zoom webinar will be live, recorded, closed captioned, and offered in English with a Spanish translation audio feed. Participants will be able to ask questions via Q&A function.

Disability Access

SF State Department of Counseling’s Equity and Justice – Focused Integrated Behavioral Health project welcomes persons with disabilities and will provide reasonable accommodations (including ASL interpretation) upon request. If you need reasonable accommodations for this event, please make your request by contacting Julie Chronister jchronis@sfsu.edu by Monday 9/20/21.

Continuing Education Information

The Department of Counseling at San Francisco State University, an accredited post-secondary educational institution, maintains responsibility for the program and its content. Real-time attendance at this webinar has been approved for 1.0 hours of continuing education credit for LMFT, LPCC, and/or LCSW as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BPC 4980.54, 4989.34, 4996.22, 4999.76). Please direct concerns about this course or its content to Tiffany O’Shaughnessy, PhD taosh@sfsu.edu

There is no cost to attend this webinar. Participants desiring CEU credit for attending this webinar will be directed to sign in at the start of the webinar and will be required to provide an evaluation of the session directly following the webinar and verify their participation and attendance. CEU certificates will be emailed to participants who successfully complete both the sign in and evaluation process.