The Cultural Competence Training Center of Central NJ (CCTC) offers training and consultation to mental health professionals and agencies that receive public mental health funding in the State of New Jersey in the interest of helping them reduce racial and ethnic disparities in mental health services.
CCTC of Central New Jersey accomplishes our mission by offering three training series, ranging from six to twelve months) for teams of clinicians, clinical supervisors, and agency leaders working in agencies that are prepared to work towards maximizing their agencies’ responsiveness to the cultural groups they serve: 1) Intensive Clinical Training Series, 2) Clinical Supervision Series, and 3) Leadership Training/consultation Series. Additionally, we offer mental health professionals the opportunity to participate, at an individual level, in our ‘open’ workshops and conferences.
INTENSIVE CLINICAL TRAINING SERIES FOR AGENCIES - Orientation to Cultural Competence
- Cultural Assessment
- Working with African Americans
- Working with Latinos
INTEGRATING A CULTURAL LENS INTO CLINICAL SUPERVISION Group consultation offered to clinical supervisors on integrating culture into assessment and treatment. Limited to supervisors from agencies participating in leadership training. Sessions generally take place every month in 3 hour sessions. LEADERSHIP TRAINING CCTC of Central NJ offers leadership training/consultation to enable administrative and supervisory personnel to increase cultural understanding within their work systems and ultimately to increase their agencies' cultural responsiveness to their clients. A. Orientation to Cultural Competence Planning for Agency Leaders Half day program designed to highlight the business case for working to maximize the cultural competence of every aspect of organizational functioning. Agency leaders are provided with an overview of the basic elements of an organizational cultural competence plan and how the leadership training/consultation can support them in achieving their cultural competence goals,
B. Basic Leadership Training/Consultation
Agency leadership teams are offered job-embedded training and consultation to: - Enhances awareness of how to assess training needed to develop a culturally competent workforce.
- Enhances capacity to develop policies and procedures that are responsive to the needs of the agency's culturally diverse community.
- Heightens follow-through with the completion of an agency cultural competence plan.
- Enhances capacity to proactively lead agency personnel in discussions of cultural issues, particularly in managing difficult cultural dialogues about race, gender, religion and other areas of cultural intensity.
- Increases leaders’ confidence and skill in infusing a continuous cultural competence focus in every aspect of agency operations.
Sessions generally take place every 2 months in 3 hour sessions for a one year period. C. Advanced Leadership Consultation Sessions permit agency leaders who are committed to transforming their agencies with opportunities to engage in dialogue with one another about the successes and challenges of implementation, resources, and lessons learned. Agency leaders and selected staff also are provided the opportunity to participate in technical assistance workshops that will support them and their staff in their efforts to implement their mult-year cultural competence agency plans. (Participation limited to leaders who have completed the first year of clinical and leadership training).
OPEN WORKSHOPS
In addition to the training series offered to agencies, the CCTC provides various trainings for mental health professionals and agencies in the Central region. Since its inception the Center has offered a series of “open” trainings to 400 staff and administrators of state supported mental health agencies. Workshops offered since the inception of the CCTC are: - Working with Asians
- Assessment and Intervention with Immigrant Families
- Genograms: Assessment and Intervention - A Multicultural Perspective
- Addressing Sexual Abuse: Assessment and Intervention from a Multicultural Perspective
- Domestic Violence: Assessment and Intervention from a Multicultural Perspective
- Crash: Race, Religion and the Challenge of Cultural Competence
- Engaging and Connecting with Men: Multicultural Perspectives
- Parents and Society Dealing with Troubled Youth: A Multicultural Perspective
Additional workshops available as part of the open track for 2008-2009 follow: - Healing Families with Play Therapy in a Multicultural Context
- Working with Asian Families
- Soul & Survival: Healing Our Clients, Healing Ourselves in a Multicultural Context
- Working with Latino Families
- Effective Intervention with African Americans
- Ethics in Therapy and Counseling: A Multicultural Perspective
CONFERENCES The Center offers a series of conferences each year that are open to a limited number of grant-funded registrations for those working in the central region of New Jersey. (These conferences are available to all professionals for a fee.) All of the Center’s conferences focus on cultural competency in clinical assessment and intervention, even where the subject is a specific clinical problem such as domestic violence or trauma. A listing of CCTC conferences (past and upcoming) follow: - Culture Conference 2007: Crossing Cultural Bridges: Hope and Healing
- Culture Conference 2008: Healing, Recovery, and Wellness in a Multicultural Context
- Culture Conference 2009: Trauma, Survival, and Transformation
Conferences are held at the Neumann Center at the rear of the Diocese of Metuchen, 147Metlars Lane, Piscataway (see directions page for directions). |
