Cultivating Culturally Competent Clinicians

What do you do when there is a lack of available culturally competent mental health professionals to help your officers? Bring them in and give them an inside look at your culture! This workshop, led by a licensed clinician and a retired police captain, will give an overview of a cultural competency class they created and are currently using to help increase the number of available mental health professional to treat first responders and first responder families. Class attendees will walk away with tips and ideas on how to create their own training program that can be zero cost and a great benefit to their agency.

• Understand and define "Culturally Competent Clinician"
• Understand tools and framework to put together a workshop that will introduce clinicians to the law enforcement culture.
• List a variety of resources and ideas for their agency to partner with mental health professionals to bring a higher level of care to first responders and their families.