Hello Friends, Colleagues, & Fellow Advocates!
The Center for Family Resilience and the Department of Human Development and Family Science at Oklahoma State University annually host the Chautauqua Conference on Family Resilience. With a focus on individual and family resilience, the event brings together researchers, service providers and policy makers around a series of research presentations around a common theme. The ultimate goal is for resilience research to pave the way for practical applications for family health and well-being.
The 2022 conference will center Identity as Resilience: Strengths Based Approaches to Development among Youth, Family and Community and take place on May 13th, 2022 from 8:30am to 3:15pm in the B.S. Roberts Room located in North Hall on the OSU-Tulsa campus. To register, please visit: https://okstateches.az1.qualtr...m/SV_2fvUW0gUzgYU5GC CEUs will be provided!
A little more about our speakers and their presentations:
I’m that girl: Promoting Resilience and Reclaiming Black Girl Voice
Speaker: Sheretta T. Butler-Barnes, PhD, Associate Professor of Social Work at Washington University in St.Louis
Abstract: "It should not be that radical" is what Dr. Monique Morris said several times in the seminal documentary "Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools." This call-to-action underscores how society has intentionally forgotten about Black girls. The demands and actions to promote equitable treatment for Black girls have been systematically left out of conversations. Black girls must contend with negative stereotypes and biases about who they are and what they should be – impacting their social identities. To date, the cultural-deficit lens has had a detrimental impact on Black girls. Through my work, centering Black girls' voices to understand and counter these narratives, three Rs are present —resistance, resilience, and reclaiming. This workshop aims to disrupt deficit narratives about Black girls, assist stakeholders in disrupting harmful practices that devalue Black girls, and use a strength-based approach in promoting positive development.
Understanding African American Family Resiliency in the Context of Racial Trauma
Speaker: Dr. Renea L. Butler-King, PhD, Program Manager for the Center for Child Welfare Simulation and Training within the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work at the University of Oklahoma
Abstract: Intergenerational Transmission of Historical Trauma (ITHxT) is a real-world challenge that is multifaceted for Black children. As children with a legacy of slavery, the passing of trauma into their environment (home life) can impact that child’s individual temperament and development. Culture is a huge factor in all families and shapes how behavior is expressed. The ability to comprehend a family’s coping skills when exposed to daily racial trauma and toxic stress impacts the families’ resiliency. This paper explores moving the subtext of racial trauma to the context for understanding this resiliency outcome. The extended knowledge of how many African American family systems adapt to daily trauma and/or major stressors in the young child’s ecological spaces informs, transforms, supports, and empower parents, pediatricians, and/or educators with a strength-based approach toward interventions.
American Indian Identities and the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) (25 U.S.C. §§ 1901-63. § 1901) as Viewed Through Cultural Resilience Theory
Speaker: Dr. Virginia Drywater-Whitekiller, Ed.D, Professor of Social Work at Northeastern State University
Abstract: American Indian tribes share similar experiences with oppression as well as common cultural perspectives. In the same vein, tribes can be diverse in cultural aspects and individual tribal identities can differ in degrees of acculturation and assimilation with mainstream society. Resulting from government-to-government treaty making, Federally-recognized tribes hold a unique political status in the United States that is not found with other racial/cultural minority populations. However, American Indian/Alaska Natives continue to endure ongoing struggles and tensions for the right to define what it means to be a member of a designated tribal group(s), threatening cultural identities which can adversely impact generations of families, children, and youth. An overview will address how American Indian/Alaska Native tribal identities merged with such critical factors that lead to the creation of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. More than 40 years later, American Indian/Alaska Native tribal nations and their allies continue to defend ICWA’s purpose in the lower courts as well as cases presented before the United States Supreme Court.
The Legacy of Resiliency Embedded in African American Homeschooling
Speaker: Stacie Warner, M.Ed., Fourth-year doctoral student in the Social Foundations of Education (SCFD) program at Oklahoma State University
Abstract: In the last decade, a body of scholarship has emerged on the experiences and motivations of African American homeschoolers due to the significant increase of families who have adopted the practice. For many African American families with concerns over racial disparity, negative stereotypes, lack of cultural and historical representation, insufficient school funding, and inequitable learning conditions, homeschooling has been an empowering alternative to the status quo (Dywer & Peters, 2019; Puga, 2019; Ray, 2015; Mazama & Lundy, 2012). For other families, homeschooling is rooted in the traditions of self-taughtness and homeplace. This presentation explores how African American homeschooling continues a historical legacy of resiliency salient to our efforts to achieve educational freedom and excellence. Homeschooling allows Black parents to enact counter-practices to the normative practices, ideals and structures instituted by formal education while taking ownership of their children's education in a space that offers educational freedoms and possibilities.
Black Identity and Resilience as the Framework for Black Mental Health Research and Practice
Speaker: LaRicka Wingate, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Africana Studies affiliate faculty at Oklahoma State University
Abstract: Black mental health has often been studied from a deficit model. This approach neglects centuries of strength, resistance and resilience embodied in Black people and Black identity. This work will introduce Black Psychology and the concept of an African worldview. Additionally, studies of Black mental health resilience will be covered. Finally, we will introduce a novel framework for the study of Black Mental Health and practice.
To learn more about the CFR and the Chautauqua Conference, please visit: https://education.okstate.edu/...uqua-conference.html
In Community,
Carly M. Dunn, MPH, PhD Student in the Human Development & Family Science Department, Center for Family Resilience Graduate Research Associate, and NEAR Science Trainer
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