Addressing Racial Trauma in Young Children: 5 Early Childhood Interventions

This training will focus on interventions for racial trauma as experienced by young children. Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji will discuss race-based stress as an adverse childhood experience (ACE) and how to identify the symptoms among young children. More importantly, Dr. West-Olatunji will offer solutions and interventions that adults can implement to arm children against threats to their self-esteem, self-actualization, and self-identity to promote healthy emotional and psychological well-being and lifelong success.

Learning Outcomes:

Participants will:

A) Enhance their self-awareness of racial trauma as it relates to young children and their mental health

B) Increase knowledge about race-based stress as an adverse childhood experience (ACE)

C) Augment their social action skills to serve as advocates to promote healthy development and psychological wellbeing among young children

Note: For last year's attendees, this training will provide additional content and new interventions that can be used for this population and will serve as a companion workshop to the previous training.

Dr. Cirecie West-Olatunji is founder and CEO of CRESTSprogram, LLC. She has 20+ years of clinical experience as a private practitioner and community counseling center developer. Her research focuses on the effects of systemic oppression on culturally marginalized individuals, families, and communities. Dr. West-Olatunji’s publications include 3 books, over 20 book chapters, and more than 100 articles.

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