The Impact of Structural Racism on System Involved Youth

Nola Kesia Brantley & Withelma TiOra “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew

Training Description

This training will explore structural racism and oppression. Participants will learn how structural racism exists within the child welfare system, the juvenile justice system, the healthcare system, and the educational system. Participants will also learn about implicit biases and how these and structural racism can impact system involved youth. The training will end with strategies to address these issues together in order to improve outcomes for system involved youth and families.

Learning Objectives

· Participants will be able to explain how structural racism can affect system involved youth.

· Participants will be able to identify one example of how structural racism within the healthcare system could negatively impact system involved youth.

· Participants will be able to identify one example of how structural racism within the educational system could negatively impact system involved youth.

Agenda

10:00-10:15am  Trainer and Topic Introductions

10:15-10:30am  Describing structural racism

10:30-10:45am  On A Plate: A Shorty Story About Privilege

10:45-11:00am  Structural Racism in Alameda County

11:00-11:15am  Systemic Racism and Housing

11:15-11:30am  Break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

11:30am-11:45am  Agency Assessments

11:45am-12:00pm  Experiences of Minority Parents in the Child Welfare System

12:00-12:15pm  Disproportionately in the Child Welfare System

12:15-12:30pm  Experiences of Youth of Color in the Child Welfare System

12:30-1:00pm  Lunch break (CE hours will not be offered for this time)

1:00-1:15pm  Structural Racism and Education

1:15-1:30pm  The Achievement Gap

1:30-1:45pm  Disparates in Discipline

1:45-2:00pm  Disparates in School Funding

2:00-2:15pm  Structural Racism in Medicine

2:15-2:30pm  African Americans and Healthcare

2:30-2:45pm  Experiences of Youth of Color in the Health Care System

2:45-3:00pm  Implicit Bias

3:00-3:15pm  Talking to Youth About Social Injustices

3:15-3:30pm  A Conversation with Black Women About Race

3:30-3:45pm  “The Talk”

3:45-4:00pm  Police Violence/Over-Policing

4:00-4:15pm  Mass Incarceration

4:15-4:30pm  Conversation Starters

4:30-4:45pm  What Can You Do

4:45-5:00pm  Questions and Closing

Meet Our Trainer

Nola Kesia Brantley, CEO & Founder of Nola Brantley Speaks has become nationally recognized as a powerful Survivor voice for the issue of child sex trafficking through her moving and information packed public speaking. Her hard work and perpetual vigilance has brought both focus and concrete resources to this chronically underserved and largely unrecognized population of victimized youth. Nola’s approach aims to be holistic!

T Ortiz, A.K.A. Withelma TiOra “T” Ortiz Walker Pettigrew, is an international Anti-Trafficking Activist and Foster Youth Advocate. Beginning her work in Oakland as an Inaugural WestCoast Children's Clinic Y.A.P. advocate and a co-collaborator and leader during the inception of M.I.S.S.S.E.Y, advocating for Measure Y funding, and keynoting Alameda County's first HEAT conference. T is a leading force in advocating for the civil and social rights of all people, with specialized expertise in highlighting the intersectionality between the child welfare system and domestic child sex trafficking. Her Federal work was vital in the passing of The Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act and The JVTA (Justice For Victims of Trafficking Act). In 2021, she was Honored by NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) as a “Hero Award” Recipient. In 2020, she was awarded “The Last Girl Award'' from Apne Aap International (India). In 2014, she was named one of TIME Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the world”, a TIME Magazine “30 under 30” in 2013, and a GLAMOUR Magazine “Woman of the Year '' in 2011. Her work has influenced many organizations including The United Nations, Google, The U.S. Congress, The White House, The American Bar Association, The Aspen Institute, and The Johns Hopkins Institution. Notably, she has led a TEDx talk on Exploring Sexuality after Trauma. She has successfully petitioned the Associated Press to utilize practices conscious of survivor trauma and circumstance with her #NoSuchThingAsAChildProstitute Campaign. T is a Magna Cum Laude graduate from Morgan State University holding a degree in Strategic Communications.

This course meets the qualifications for (6.25) BBS CE hours for LCSWs, LMFTs, LPCCs, and LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences & is provided by Fred Finch Youth Center, CAMFT Provider #045295.