Racial Trauma Among Asian American & Asian Immigrant Communities (Webinar Series)
Webinar 3: Community Programs in Action Recording & Slides
August 16, 2023
About
Racial stress and trauma can be caused by direct or indirect exposures to racism throughout one’s lifetime and is influenced by an accumulation of unavoidable exposures to racism across generations, communities, and history. While Anti-Asian hate crimes have risen dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, the experience of racial discrimination and violence is not new to Asian American and Asian Immigrant (AAAI) communities. The impact can negatively affect the mental health of many generations.
This webinar is the third of a three-part series, and aims to take a look into specific culturally competent and trauma-informed community-based programs that have been implemented to support AAAI children, youth, and families who have experienced any form of racial discrimination, stress and trauma.
Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this webinar, participants will be able to:
Describe at least two community-based programs that have been developed and implemented to address trauma, mental health issues, and impacts of anti-Asian hate in AAAI communities.
Identify at least two strategies on how to implement culturally competent community-based practices to support AAAI children, youth, and families.
*Continuing Education: RAMS is approved by the California Psychological Association (CPA) to provide continuing professional education for psychologists. For this webinar, RAMS is offering 1.5 hours of continuing education for psychologists, LMFTs, LCSWs, and LPCCs. RAMS maintains responsibility for this program and its contents.
Moderator:
Angela Tang, LCSW
Clinical Supervisor/Project Coordinator, Lotus Project (RAMS)
Email: angelatang@ramsinc.org
Angela Tang is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Certified in Healthcare Compliance. Ms. Tang is currently the Chief Operating Officer at RAMS, a not-for-profit agency in San Francisco that provides and advocates for mental health and wellness services that are centered in clients, community, and culture, with expertise in serving Asian and Pacific Islander Americans. Ms. Tang has previously served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Smith College School for Social Work (honorary) and a Program Advisor for Boston University School of Social Work. A San Francisco native, Ms. Tang earned her Bachelor of Social Work degree at SF State University and received her Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University. Her areas of interest include macro-level, systems, and strengths-based theories & practices; organizational development; and program evaluation.
Speakers:
Cruz Chan, M.A., LMFT, RDT
Clinical Manager, Healing for Asians at Richmond Area Multi-Services, Inc. (RAMS), San Francisco
Email: cruzchan@ramsinc.org
Slides
A Cantonese and Mandarin-speaking clinician, Cruz graduated from California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco), with a Masters of Arts in Counseling Psychology with a specialization in Drama Therapy. In Cruz's new role as Clinical Manager, Cruz will be further developing the RAMS Healing for Asians program which provides trauma informed mental health services to limited English speaking Asian victims of crime. This RAMS program is part of San Francisco’s multi-system, initial answer and collaborative solution to the “Anti-Asian Hate”. Cruz is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist as well as a Registered Drama Therapist. Cruz's background also includes providing mental health services to children, youth, families and adults at RAMS outpatient and school-based programs. Prior to clinical work, Cruz has also participated in many drama performances and was a radio host and producer in Macau. Currently, Cruz is actively receiving training in psychodrama under the guidelines of the American Board of Examiner of Psychodrama, Group Psychotherapy and Sociometry (ABE), and presented in the 2020 North American Drama Therapy Association Conference.
Ellen Chang, MSW/MPH Candidate
Project Assistant and Health Educator, Voicing Our Stories & the Lotus Project (Public Health Institute), Oakland
Email: echang@phi.org
Slides
Ellen (she/they) is a second generation Taiwanese American who currently works as a Project Assistant under the Lotus Project (a Center for Asian American & Asian Immigrant Child Trauma-Informed Care and Prevention) to develop and disseminate the project website, resources, webinars/workshops, and support project advocacy interns and high school volunteers. Before the Lotus Project, Ellen worked as a Health Educator and facilitator for the Voicing Our Stories (VOS) Project (under PHI) to develop and implement a digital storytelling program for AAPI youth who had been victims of anti-Asian discrimination to help them produce their own digital storytelling videos and tell their stories. Ellen obtained a Bachelor’s of Arts in Cognitive Science and a minor in Global Public Health at UC Berkeley in 2020 and is currently pursuing an MSW/MPH at UC Berkeley to strengthen her ability to better support the AAPI community in reducing mental health disparities, increase culturally competent mental health programs, and work towards the long-term healing and empowerment of these communities.
Yarou Ou
Victim Advocate at CYC (Community Youth Center), San Francisco
Email: yarouo@cycsf.org
Slides
I have worked as a victim advocate at Community Youth Center under the CCSJ program for 2 years. Our program provides wrap-around services to API victims of crime.