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REQUIRED ENHANCED TRAINING
Introduction to Culturally Responsive Crisis Care to Diverse Communities
September 14, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:30 p.m.
TRAINERS: Joshua Severns, LCSW, ACADC, Anitra Warrior, PhD, and Holly Echo-Hawk, MSc
INTENDED AUDIENCE: This required enhanced training is for all mobile crisis response team members, including Peer Specialist, Community Health Workers, First Responders, Clinicians, and Supervisors.
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Event Description
This training will provide mobile crisis team members with knowledge and practical skills on culturally responsive intervention and de-escalation skills with community members from a wide range of cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds, racial and ethnic identities, gender identities, and abilities, etc. Culturally responsive crisis response is not only best practice but an ethical imperative, especially critical in consideration of the richly diverse communities of California. Topics include how the intersectionality of race, class, gender, culture, and community history can result in social inequality and complex crisis engagement; role of cultural identities in the presentation of crisis response symptoms; application of culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) standards and culturally responsive techniques in mobile crisis response; and skill development in culturally responsive and strength-based crisis intervention and de-escalation strategies.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will be able to define and understand foundational principles of culturally responsive crisis care.
- Participants will be able to differentiate between cultural competence and cultural humility in mobile crisis response.
- Participants will increase their knowledge of culturally responsive communication and de-escalation techniques.
- Participants will deepen their knowledge of the concept of intersectionality and its relevance in crisis care.
- Participants will better understand and be able to apply the 'No Wrong Door approach in mobile crisis response situations with people from a wide range of cultural backgrounds.
- Participants will expand their knowledge of culturally responsive communication techniques in crisis situations.
Certificates of completion will be given to all participants upon the completion of the evaluation survey. CEUs will be available.
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Joshua Severns, LCSW, ACADC
Mr. Severns (Anishinaabe/Enrolled Little Shell Chippewa Tribe) serves as behavioral health (BH)/substance use disorder (SUD) advisor on Kauffman and Associates (KAI) training and technical assistance team, bringing more than 10 years of experience in emergency medical response, behavioral and mental health, including social work, counseling, and program management. His work has primarily been focused on substance use and co-occurring disorders, tribal community crisis response, as well as whole person care (Medicine Wheel), especially for the American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) population. In addition to providing direct clinical care and supervision, Mr. Severns worked as a program supervisor for both federal and tribal inpatient and intensive outpatient (IP/IOP) programs and has helped with developing integrated medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programming between medical and behavioral health systems of care. He also has experience as a primary care integrated behavioral health consultant and has spoken regionally and nationally about tribal integrated care with our relatives throughout Indian Country. Mr. Severns earned a Master's Degree of Social Work from Boise State University and is currently working on a PhD in Indigenous Health at Montana State University. Mr. Severns is a licensed clinical social worker (LSCW) in the State of Idaho and is an advanced certified alcohol and drug counselor (ACADC). Mr. Severns is also a registered clinical supervisor for mental health, problem gambling and substance use treatment. Prior to his graduate coursework, he served his local tribal community as a wildland firefighter, structural firefighter and emergency medical technician (EMT). Mr. Severns has enjoyed the intersection of building tribally specific crisis response capabilities for emergency medical services and behavioral health programming within communities.
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Anitra Warrior, PhD
Dr. Anitra Warrior is the owner of Morningstar Counseling and Consultation in Lincoln, Nebraska, and is from the Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma. She earned her Ph.D. in counseling psychology in 2015 and has operated her clinic since 2012. Since receiving her Ph.D., Dr. Warrior has established four additional clinics that are now located throughout eastern Nebraska. Morningstar offers counseling on two college campuses, as well as in schools, communities, and other integrated care locations with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska. Clinic sites are based on reservations and in rural and urban settings. Dr. Warrior specializes in treating trauma in children through the utilization of evidenced based practices that have been adapted to the American Indian population. Most recently, Morningstar has become a training site for doctoral candidates with the Munroe-Meyer Institute. This track will focus on integrated care on the reservation as well as provide additional clinical training opportunities in schools, colleges, and in the tribal communities.
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Holly Echo-Hawk, MSc
Holly Echo-Hawk is a former tribal and mainstream behavioral health director with more than 35 years of experience in the administration and development of licensed and accredited mental health and substance abuse treatment services. An author of tribal best practices, including some of the original work to promote Practice-Based Evidence, Ms. Echo-Hawk has substantial experience working with tribal health programs across the country. She also serves on the board of directors of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (now called the Global Leadership Exchange), an international coalition of mental health and SUD nation-leadership from ten countries.
Ms. Echo-Hawk is a behavioral health subject matter expert with the national Opioid Response Network, the New England Mental Health Technology Transfer Network, and C4 Innovations. In her Opioid Response Network role, she serves as the national co-chair of the ORN Indigenous Communities Workgroup. She is also employed as the tribal behavioral health Subject Matter Expert with Kauffman & Associates, Inc. and in that role serves as the senior behavioral health advisor for the California Tribal MAT initiative for developing opioid and stimulant use treatment for tribal and urban Indian health clinics.
In 2022, she led the development of Reclaiming Native Psychological Brilliance, a monthly virtual education Tribal ECHO series, which in its first year attracted participants representing 65% of all the U.S. federally recognized tribes. The Reclaiming series won an Outstanding Service Award for national impact from the National Indian Health Board in September 2022. She attended the University of Oklahoma, the University of Texas at Austin, and the California School of Professional Psychology where she earned a Master of Science degree in Organizational Behavior.
Holly Echo-Hawk is an enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and was born and raised in Pawnee, Oklahoma. After 26 years in California, she now lives in Vancouver, Washington.
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