The purpose of the Multicultural Mental Health Summit is to provide participants with the most innovative information and modalities that are currently being implemented in the communities as best practices as well as community defined evidence-based practices. The presentations will be structured to demonstrate how some of these practices have been effective in addressing cultural disparities by finding solutions that allow providers the flexibility of addressing inequalities and help them to provide services the are both Culturally and Linguistically relevant for
communities of color.
8:30am- Welcome- Luis Garcia, PsyD, Principal of Luis Garcia Consulting Services, LLC
Invited Keynote Speakers
8:40am- Congresswoman Judy Chu, United State Representative 27th Congressional District
8:45am- Supervisor Hilda Solis, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, First District
8:50am– Supervisor Kathryn Barger, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Fifth District
8:55am- Jonathan E. Sherin, MD, PhD - Director, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
Plenary Presenters
9-10am....... Black Mental Health Matters
Curley L. Bonds, MD - Chief Medical Officer, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
10-11am.......Indigenous Health Flourishes Where Ancestral Love is Nourished
Andrea Garcia, MD - Physician Specialist, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health
11am-12pm....Forty Years of AIDS: Our Loss, Our Battle for Equality, Let’s not Make that Same Mistake Again
Richard Zaldivar- Founder and Executive Director, The Wall Las Memorias Project
12-1pm....... Lunch Break
1-2pm..........Increase your Success on Equity, Inclusion and Wellness Working with
Asian Americans
C. Rocco Cheng, PhD- Principal Consultant at Rocco Cheng and Associates
2-3pm...........Achieving Health Equity in Access to and Utilization of Mental Health Services for Underserved Communities
Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, MD, PhD - Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine, School of Medicine,
University of California, Davis. Director of the Center for Reducing Health Disparities at UC Davis
Health and the Director of the Community Engagement Program of the UCD Clinical Translational Science Center (CTSC).
$35 Fee Culturally Responsive Training Attendance Certificate Available
NO Continued Educations Units (CEs) available.
To register click on the following link:
https://multiculturalmentalhea...t2021.eventbrite.com
For more information contact: lgarcia@lgarciapsyd.org or bpadilla@lgarciapsyd.org
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