Venue

Zoom

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Conference Objectives

At the completion of this conference, participants will:

•  Understand how the structural inequalities beginning with the period of enslavement continue to impact African Americans and their communities today.
•  Select and apply strategies to enhance empowerment for African American populations at risk, and to promote economic and social justice.
•  Analyze relevant concepts of the Relationship Approach and the Philosophical Aspect of cultural difference as a basis for understanding the behaviors of African American individuals and families within their social/cultural environments.
•  Examine and investigate culturally appropriate interventions including “Virtues Training” for work with African American individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities.
•  Understand the role that social learning theory and learned helplessness has played in the adaptive behaviors of African Americans and other racial and ethnic groups.
•  Apply improvement tools in work with individuals, families and communities.