Building and supporting the health of Black women is our priority. Three NAACP units have come together to elevate and address the needs of women in our community. For an exciting day, please join the Ventura County, Santa Barbara, and Lompoc/Santa Maria NAACP. The focus of this day will be to address the alarming disparities in Black Maternal Health, Cancer, and Mental Health. We plan to present experts and have panel discussions on how we can better support the needs of black women. With community support and donations, this day will be free for all Black women participating.

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Healing Space is happy to announce the UCSB Black Scholars Luncheon: A networking event for Black graduate students, post-docs, faculty, and research-associated staff at UCSB. Join us at the Arts Fund on 821 State Street, on May 21st between 11am-1pm, for some quality time with other Black Scholars from UCSB! Enjoy live musical entertainment and free, deliscious, food catered by Afrofusion while we support, connect, and grow our community.

To RSVP for the event, please follow this link!

Would you like to learn more about the kind of work to promote health and wellness that some of our student clinicians are doing outside of the Healing Space? Please join us on May 7th, at the UCSB Mental Health Conference to hear from our very own Isabelle Fleury!

Isabelle will present preliminary results from her dissertation study, which investigates how Black undergraduate students experience racial stress and if campus health providers should screen Black students for racial stress. Using a public health framework that recognizes racism as a social determinant of health, Isabelle will highlight the advantageous position that colleges and universities are in to integrate academic, career, health, and crisis support services for their students.

Please register to attend here!

The Healing Space team would like to formally invite you to attend Dr. Thema Bryant’s discussion on Decolonizing Psychology: Addressing the Wounds of Racial Trauma. This talk will take place Tuesday, April 19th from 12-1 PM PST on Zoom and is open to the campus and larger Santa Barbara community. Additionally, Dr. Bryant will be holding a closed session with Black and African American students in UCSB's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education from 1-2 PM.

The first 1-hour session will expand the attendees' understanding of the ethic of care based on decolonizing psychology practice overall and with Black community members in particular. This training will provide an introduction to the use of decolonizing psychology as an aligned practice with the American Psychological Association’s call for ethical multicultural, justice-informed practice. This workshop will provide the practical application of decolonizing psychology and indigenizing psychology which is particularly relevant during these times of pervasive hate crimes and the trauma of oppression. Attention will be given to the ways in which commitments to anti-racism values in addition to awareness of discrimination, cultural identities, and personal as well as cultural strengths should inform assessment, case conceptualization, and treatment. The presenter will give an overview of decolonizing approaches, including African center psychology and womanist psychology as well as the ways decolonization can be implemented in teaching, research, and consultation.

Please register here: https://tinyurl.com/2p99c3a5

Have you ever wondered what you could do to support your loved ones in emergency and crisis situations? Or how might you help them and the first responders who are on the way in those key moments? The Healing Space and Healing Justice Santa Barbara presents “Supporting Loved Ones in Crisis: the Black Perspective”, a virtual event where we discuss how to identify mental health crises when they happen, how to support loved ones in those moments, and what to do when outside support is needed. Join us on February 20th, from 11:00 am-12:00 pm, to hear from our speakers and hosts, Tamara Cummings, M.A., Ed.S., N.C.S.P., and Jazzmyn Ward, M.A..

This event is intended for Black community members and our loved ones. If you would like to review this presentation, click here to download the PDF.