Session 4: Equity Culture Change; Guidelines for Designing, Implementing and Evaluating a Climate Assessment
Description
An organization’s Equity journey is always evolving. Depending on your initiatives, values and goals, an equity climate assessment can help you define ways to move forward toward a deeper level of engagement within your organization and your community. Leaders and direct care providers encounter challenges as they are faced with making critical decisions that impact the health, wellbeing and functioning of service recipients, practitioners, and other stakeholders in the behavioral health system. All too often, decisions are made with little, incomplete or the total absence of reliable and valid data. This is no one’s fault. Selecting, collecting and analyzing data that lends itself to informed decision making and strategic action is no easy task. The information presented will focus on understanding the variety of ways in which data can support decision making and answer key questions: How do we know we are achieving our goals related to equity, trauma informed care, and resilience? How do we know what to keep doing, what to change, what to stop doing and what to start doing to achieve our goals?
1. Attendees will understand the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of climate assessment data.
2. Attendees will describe the role of data in a continuous quality improvement framework
3. Attendees will recognize the variety of ways to display data in ways that guides informed decision making.
Meet the Instructor
Amelia Roeschlein, DSW, MA, LMFT
Amelia is a licensed clinician who has led behavioral health programs and trained behavioral health providers for the past twenty years, and is currently a consultant at the National Council of Behavioral Health with her portfolio in Resilience Oriented Trauma Informed Care and Integrated Health. She completed her doctorate at USC with a focus on innovation and creating large scale social change through transdisciplinary training of mental health practitioners, and a fellowship in Leadership, Equity Advancement and Diversity.
Dr. Roeschlein has published research and has expertise on the subject of harm reduction in re-entry and incarcerated populations, interpersonal violence including healing families and survivors of domestic violence, personality disorders, co-occurring disorders, trauma-informed care, compassion cultivation, clinical supervision, adaptive leadership and integrated team-based healthcare.
