Deconstructing Systemic Racism Within our Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and Early Childhood Systems

When: Wednesday, May 18 - 12:00 PM

Duration: 3 hours

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Dr. Stroud will describe the history of white supremacy, as it is present in our developmental science and how BIPOC, Queer, Disabled and many more people are unseen, miss-seen or dismissed. She will further describe the current challenge of systemic racism and how it impacts families and providers at the relationship level and the assessment, and intervention phases.

Dr. Stroud will propose approaches to address these inequities in services and systems. Action steps include an assessment of our systems, putting health before profit, adopting a public health approach to developmental supports and an 'every child' model vs 'those children' model, applying a trauma informed lens to our broken systems and slowing down for reflection by all parties.

Following the presentation, Dr. Stroud will moderate a panel of cross system experts who will discuss unique challenges within their system and identify strategies to address them.