The Real Talk Series embraces honest conversations about groundbreaking topics to change narratives, shift paradigms, and promote meaningful change. This Real Talk Session will engage three experts in an intentional and authentic discussion about the role of racism, oppression, and historical trauma in the development and perpetuation of ACEs. The discussion will focus on the problem, action, and solutions. You will hear from a psychologist with expertise in the clinical assessment and treatment of ACEs and two experts with lived experience.
What is Peers and Clinicians Together (PACT)?
Peers and Clinicians Together (PACT) is a free monthly series where you can ask anything that’s on your mind of a mental health clinician and peer support provider. Whether you have a question of general nature or you work in the field, PACT is open to anyone. Each month, the featured clinician and peer speakers will be prepared to discuss a specific topic that draws on their expertise, but the majority of the session’s time will be an audience-driven Q&A, so bring your questions!
Series Audience
This series is designed for a broad audience of clinicians, peers, service providers, parents, and caregivers; community-based individuals providing supportive services; mental health service recipients; and members of the general public who are interested in learning more about mental health services in various applications (e.g., direct services, systems level, provider level).
MEET THE FACILITATORS
Evelyn Clark is a Mexican-Native American woman specializing in Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI), leadership development, and peer support. She has nearly 15 years of experience serving young people and their families within Systems of Care. Evelyn is a change consultant and Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) trainer at Change Matrix, a women-owned, minority-owned virtual company serving systems nationwide and in territories. She splits her time between the National Training and technical assistance center for Children, youth, and family mental health (NTTAC) and the Mental health technology transfer center (MHTTC). Evelyn is a Certified Peer Counselor and a justice-impacted professional. Her work models “nothing about us without us,” which speaks to including the voices of youth, family, and communities in all we do. She has experience supporting systems at the Community, State government, National, and international levels. Evelyn is a proud recipient of the 2019 Peer Alternatives Youth and young adult leadership award. In addition, Evelyn is a certified healing circle facilitator. She brings heart, empathy, and vulnerability to her work, making her a Brave and daring leader. Her mission is to end racial and ethnic disparities within systems of care and to promote leadership opportunities for the BIPOC workforce.
Dr. Dionne Smith Coker-Appiah is an Associate Professor and Psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry at Georgetown University Medical Center. She also serves as the Director of Research for the department’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Division and the Co-Director of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She provides clinical care for adolescents and emerging adults using humanistic and liberation-based psychology modalities. She has also engaged in a program of research that has focused on using community-based participatory research approaches to explore rural adolescent dating violence prevention and rural adolescent mental health, with a specific focus on African American adolescents. Her research program also includes global mental health, to include two current funded projects focused on exploring and addressing mental health stigma in Ghana, West Africa. Dr. Coker-Appiah has devoted her career to promoting the mental health of adolescents and emerging adults through the use of culturally sensitive treatment modalities and comprehensive, culturally and geographically appropriate domestic and international research.
Tyus Reed is a Black and Asian male who was born in Tacoma Wa 30 min south of Seattle. As a teen Tyus was sentenced to juvenile life and a year in DOC after. Uppon releaser Tyus dedicated his life to juvenile justice reform and youth advocacy. He has been on multiple statewide and nationwide panels and also got to work with inmates in the very facilities he did time at. He is now the Violence Prevention Specialist at the REACH enter in Tacoma Wa serving two of the very same school districts he attended as a youth.
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