These workshops are currently available for scheduling by NC AHEC regional mental health directors. Click on a workshop title to view detailed information: a program description, learning objectives, target audience, contact hours, and more.
If you need a workshop in an area of developmental disabilities that is not on this list, we encourage you to contact UNC School of Social Work faculty in the Family Support Program (Tamara Norris, Barbara Leach) about your specific AHEC training needs.
- Accessible Reproductive Healthcare: Removing Barriers for Individuals with Disabilities
(Nellie Galindo) - Aging in Place, Aging in Community
(Alison Climo) - Creating Environments that Support Executive Functioning
(Eileen Slade) - Critical Race Theory: Addressing Equity and Ethics in School Social Work
(Andrea Murray-Lichtman, Tauchiana Williams) - Culturally Relevant Engagement Interviewing
(Betsy Bledsoe) - Current Cultural Concerns with Latino Clients
(Sarah Cengel) - Diversity in Neurodivergence: Girls and Women with Autism
(Caroline Garrett) - Engaging LGBTQ Youth and Families: How Do You Show You Are an Ally?
(Rachel Galanter) - Exploring the Rainbow: Enhancing Cultural Competency in Work with the LGBT Community
(Avery Cook) - Health Disparities Among Older Adults
(Annamae T. Giles) - Implicit Bias in Mental Health
(Evelyn Taylor) - LGBTQ+ Trauma Informed Practice in Recovery: Ethical Care
(Avery Cook) - Living Ethics: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
(Karon Johnson) - Meeting the Health Care Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Ending Invisibility and Knowing Your Patients
(Avery Cook) - Mental Health Disparities Among African Americans
(Evelyn Taylor) - Navigating the Complex World of Autism Spectrum Disorder for Children and Adolescents of Color: a Parent Perspective
(Danyale Sturdivant) - Neurodiversity in the Workplace
(Caroline Garrett) - Parent Engagement & Involvement: African American Parents of K-8 Children
(Tauchiana Williams) - Pushing Past Stereotypes: Deconstructing Islamophobia and Best Practice for Muslim Patients
(Anderson Al Wazni) - Racial Equity as a Treatment Plan
(Juan Tuset) - Rethinking Guardianship: Exploring Less Restrictive Alternatives
(Linda Kendall Fields) - Rethinking Guardianship and Less Restrictive Alternatives: Transition to Adulthood
(Barbara Leach, Laurel Powell) - Same but Different, or Is It? Best Practice Treatment for LGBTQ+ Clients with Substance Abuse Concerns
(Avery Cook) - Sexuality and Disability: Reducing the Stigma, Improving Access, and Increasing Equity
(Nellie Galindo) - Sibling Support Across the Lifespan
(Eileen Slade) - Social Determinants of Health
(Betsy Bledsoe) - Strengths Based Work with Latino Families
(Rachel Galanter) - Supporting Choice and Self-Determination: Less Restrictive Alternatives to Guardianship
(Alison Climo or Linda Kendall Fields) - Surviving and Thriving: Strategies to Support for Families with Children who have Special Needs
(Barbara Leach, Laurel Powell) - The Impact of ACES on Autistic Individuals
(Molly Marus-Quinley) - Trauma and IDD
(Eileen Slade) - Using the Cultural Humility and Intersectionality frameworks with LGBTQIA+ Clients of Color
(Hayden Dawes) - When the Dam Breaks: Preventing and Planning for Mental Health Crises with People with IDD
(Barbara Leach, Laurel Powell)
