Time: November 10th, 12-1:30 pm PST

1.5 CEUs

Presented by: Anim Aweh, LCSW

Anim O. Aweh, licensed clinical social worker and health educator and corporate wellness consultant. She discovered her passion for public health and mental health in minority women while still in high school. Daughter of immigrant parents, Anim was raised understanding the importance of education. Their philosophy, “a good education is the only way to make it in this country,” quickly became a philosophy that she would adopt as her own.

Anim completed her undergraduate degree in Public Health, then went on to work for the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center Hospital in Boston. While working at the hospital, she volunteered some of her time doing outreach work through the social work department. Discovering yet another passion, Anim would complete her Master’s in Social Work. While completing her MSW Anim continued to focus on health and mental health issues and completed her dissertation on Postpartum depression access to care in the state of Massachusetts. She would then return to the Boys & Girls Club to pilot the first mental health program geared towards children by developing and facilitating cognitive psychotherapy groups and individual psychotherapy. She encourages those that are receiving services to be patient with the process, looking for immediate results is not realistic.

“We have the power to make changes that will transcend the future generations,” says Anim when speaking of public health and mental health.

Abstract:

Mental and behavioral health providers play an important role in helping change an unjust and racist system that carries negative effects on the overall health of those impacted by racism. By actively being anti-racists, counselors, therapists and behavioral analysts can help write a new narrative for human rights that is centered on diversity, identity, equity, inclusion and justice.By providing agencies and providers key strategies and actionable steps to address the foundation of anti-Blackness in healthcare, current mental and behavioral health care issues and frameworks, we believe we can dismantle the systems of oppression that impact the clients that we serve.

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