Sincere Conversations About Racism and Psychological Well being, That includes a Supplier, a Mom and a Younger Grownup

Welcome to a different episode of The Optimistic Advocate. This podcast is about revolutionary advocates who refuse to sit down on the sidelines and determine a strategy to get it executed. Nonetheless, this podcast is not only about what advocates do but additionally about who they’re and what motivates them.

On this episode, we get the chance to listen to each skilled and private views on the subject of the impression of racial injustice on the supply of behavioral well being companies in Broward County, Florida. Visitors on this episode embrace a mom of two grownup sons, a younger man who has expertise with the psychological well being system, and a psychological well being companies supplier. It’s an unbelievable episode you’ll not need to miss!

This podcast episode is sponsored by Broward Behavioral Well being Coalition:
In 2011, the State of Florida’s Division of Kids and Households designated the Broward Behavioral Well being Coalition, Inc. (BBHC) as Broward’s native Managing Entity.  BBHC is chargeable for the contracting, monitoring, medical high quality oversight and efficiency enchancment of the DCF/State funded behavioral well being companies. BBHC offers a complete system of look after substance use, psychological well being, and co-occurring problems for people in Broward County. As a non-profit group, BBHC additionally manages native and nationwide grants to develop evidence-based practices and follow enchancment for suppliers and individuals served. One Group Partnership is a SAMHSA system of care grant contracted by way of Broward County authorities to BBHC. This podcast is dropped at you thru these grant {dollars}.

Featured Visitors

• Tiffany Lawrence, LMFT
  Tiffany is a Licensed Marriage and Household Therapist in Florida who has been working within the behavioral well being discipline for 7 years. She works at Broward Behavioral Well being Coalition because the Undertaking Director for Broward County’s One Group Partnership 3 System of Care SAMHSA grant. Her experience is in aiding communities to develop applications that promote success for transition-age youth with behavioral well being wants. Tiffany values an integration of conventional and non-traditional strategies in her work to assist others. She is an authorized Regional Transition to Independence Course of (TIP) mannequin coach and constancy reviewer in addition to an Particular person Placement and Help (IPS) Supported Employment coach and constancy reviewer.
• Damas Cher-frere
  Damas is a self-taught artist who was born in Haiti and has lived in South Florida for over 20 years. He graduated from Boyd H Anderson Excessive Faculty. Damas is a motivated younger man who doesn’t let his psychological sickness cease him from being productive. By means of his work as an artist and illustrator he reveals others that energy lies in pushing ahead and doing what you like, regardless of what obstacles could stand in your method.
• Erica M. Ricketts, MBA
  Erica Ricketts, a local of Jamaica and has resided in South Florida for nearly 3 a long time. She is the mom of two grownup sons, Kadeem – 28, and Kahlil, 24. Ms. Ricketts joined Henderson Behavioral Well being in 1993 and has been the Chief Monetary Officer since 1995.  As CFO, Ms. Ricketts’s duties embrace the day-to-day supervision of all accounting features. Ms. Ricketts oversees Henderson’s funding portfolio, manages the group’s finances, and is concerned in contract negotiations with federal, state, county, and different funding sources. Ms. Ricketts at the moment serves because the Chair of the Florida Council for Behavioral Well being CFO Workgroup and was one of many recipients of Psychological Well being Affiliation of Southeast Florida’s Epic Award in 2018.  Ms. Ricketts is a Nationally Licensed Grownup & Youth Psychological Well being First Help Coach.  Moreover, Mrs. Ricketts serves on the Board of Administrators for the Lighthouse of Broward and is a Constitution Member of the Ladies of Shade Empowerment Institute, at which she additionally serves as a Mentor for Skilled Ladies in Broward County.

Organizational Sources

Steered matters to discover additional, as mentioned within the podcast (hyperlinks added by the Optimistic Advocate)

Examples of art work by Damas Cher-frere

For Extra Info:

• For extra info on the work of the Broward Behavioral Well being Care Coalition, the One Group Partnership, and different assets mentioned on this episode of The Optimistic Advocate podcast, please contact:
  Tiffany Lawrence, LMFT, Undertaking Director
  One Group Partnership 3
  Broward Behavioral Well being Coalition
  tlawrence@bbhcflorida.org
  http://www.bbhcflorida.org