Part 3: Problem Solving & Sustainability

Who is this training for?

Yourself/team/organizations that have been struggling to adapt and implement anti-racist practices.

Yourself/team/organizations that are interested to recruit and serve more clients and clinicians of color.

*Scholarships are available. Please email v.arunagiri@lamaisondelesprit.com for more information

What does this training entail?

This training is for individuals who have completed Part 1 and 2 of our program. You will have gone through the process of lifting your racial lens, accepting, and acknowledging your racial identity and attempted to implement anti-racist practices to yourself/team/organization. 

For Part 3:

• This training will be structured like a workshop/group supervision. We will split individuals into small "working" groups and depending on the make up of the group (e.g. teams versus individuals), each person/team will receive a dedicated amount of time to go over what went well, what could be done differently, conduct missing link analysis, problem solve etc. Each group will also have a facilitator present for parts of the discussion. 

• You will then have individual time to work on collecting all the information and coming up with a plan of action and agreement on how to sustain growth and stay accountable. 

• Each individual/team/organization will then present their plan of action and agreement at the end of the training. 

• The goal is that although groups receive some amount of dedicated time, they can also learn and take notes from other's experiences as well. 

*The groups are assigned based on the questionnaires from Part 1 so that people are in a group with others of a similar level on this journey.

What will this event help you achieve?

By the end of Part 3, you will have a set of solutions that you can continue to implement. You will also have an agreement created on how to sustain progress and keep yourself/team/organization accountable. 

What are the goals of the training?

• To increase you and your team/organization’s awareness of your racial identity

• To increase your own and your team/organization’s awareness of racist and anti-racist behaviors

• To identify concrete, actionable changes for you and your team to implement so that you can:

                o Work more effectively with clients of color

                o Improve your trainings and environment for trainees of color

                o Transform your DBT team into a courageous space for all identities

• To create sustainable solutions that will be implemented and continued to be worked on after the training

About the trainers

• Debra Bond is a clinical psychologist with expertise adapting DBT for use with the juvenile justice population.  She served as an administrator/ manager/clinician treating adjudicated youth with the State of CT for almost 14 years.  She recently co-authored a chapter “DBT in Juvenile Justice Programs” in the book “Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Clinical Practice: Second Edition”.  She is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Yale University School Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Psychology Section and is currently serving as co-chair of the Clinical Subcommittee of the Anti-Racist Task Force (ARTF) of the Department of Psychiatry. Debra has been a Licensed Clinical Psychologist serving a diverse population of marginalized  individuals with chronic trauma, emotion dysregulation, depression, anxiety and a range of disorders for more than 30 years and has supervised and mentored psychiatry residents and psychology graduate students, practicum students, and fellows for over 20 years.  She received the Distinguished Faculty Award (2020-2021) in recognition of her outstanding contributions in psychological training from the Psychology Section, Department of Psychiatry Yale University of School of Medicine.

• Vinu Arunagiri is a clinical psychologist with expertise in adapting DBT for underserved populations, specifically women of color who have experienced intimate partner violence. She recently completed her post-doctoral training at the 3East Residential Program at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School and her pre-doctoral internship at the DBT-IOP program at the Yale New Haven Hospital. She has served on multiple committees for anti-racism, authored papers, presented at conferences and provided consultation to teams to help them improve their anti-racist practices. She has received awards from the American Psychological Association and ISIT DBT for her research projects that were focused on adapting DBT for people of color.