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Racial Justice & Community Restoration

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1 CE hour available for behavioral health clinicians upon completion.

Racial Justice & Community Restoration

Every day, clients carry the invisible wounds of racism into therapy rooms—and clinicians who aren’t prepared to recognize and address racial trauma risk missing their deepest cries for help. This course confronts that reality head-on.

Silence and uncertainty are no longer options. To provide truly ethical and effective care, clinicians must learn how racial trauma shows up in the lives of their clients, how systemic inequities amplify suffering, and what concrete steps they can take to break cycles of harm. This training is a call to action—an invitation to do the work of justice and healing inside the therapy room and beyond.

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Dr. Danielle R. Hairston, double board-certified psychiatrist and President of the American Psychiatric Association’s Black Caucus, joins Assistant Chief Gregory Padrick, Dr. Sonja Sutherland, and Dr. Susan Branco. Together, these leaders bring the perspectives of psychiatry, counseling, supervision, education, and community safety, creating a rare dialogue that cuts to the heart of racial trauma and community restoration.

With unflinching honesty, they outline how racial battle fatigue wears down clients’ spirits, how cultural blind spots in therapy perpetuate harm, and how clinicians can step into the role of restorer and advocate. This course blends evidence with lived experience, leaving no question about the urgency of the work.

Topics include racial trauma and battle fatigue, the cost of microaggressions across the lifespan, systemic inequities in healthcare and policing, strategies for moving beyond performative allyship, and the steps clinicians must take to build genuine cultural competence.

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Instructor

Dr Danielle R. Hairston, MD, is a double board-certified psychiatrist, educator, author, and advocate for racial equity in mental health. Learn more about Dr Danielle here.

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Instructor

Dr. Sonja Sutherland, PhD, LPC, ACS, BC-TMH, is the founder and CEO of Legacy Changers Worldwide, providing education, counseling, and professional development to promote family wellness and cultural competence. Learn more about Dr. Sonja here.

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Instructor

Assistant Chief Gregory Padrick is the Uniform Division Commander for the DeKalb County Police Department, where he has served for over 23 years. Learn more about Assistant Chief Gregory here.

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Instructor

Dr. Susan Branco, PhD, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and clinical supervisor in Virginia and Maryland, and Core Faculty and Clinical Training Director at Counseling@Northwestern. Learn more about Dr. Susan here.

Key Takeaways:

  • Recognize racial trauma and fatigue: Identify how racial trauma manifests in the body, mind, and daily life of your clients.

  • Grow into cultural competence: Move past awareness toward concrete, ethical, and effective practices for working with marginalized clients.

  • Take action that matters: Learn specific steps that separate performative allyship from genuine, anti-racist clinical work.

Why this course?

  • The stakes are life and death: Racial trauma erodes mental and physical health—ignoring it puts clients at greater risk of despair, disconnection, and self-harm.

  • Guided by trusted voices: These instructors have lived and led through the crises clinicians and communities are facing now.

  • Not theory, but transformation: This course offers more than information—it provides the tools and courage to show up differently for your clients.

Learning Objectives:

  • Explain and describe racial trauma and racial battle fatigue and how it can show itself in its victims.

  • List the steps to becoming culturally aware and explain the process of cultural competence awareness.

  • Describe the steps that counselors must take if they are serious about wanting to meet the needs of racially minoritized clients.

Clients are looking to their clinicians not only for relief, but for recognition, validation, and advocacy. This is the work that can no longer wait.

Enroll now to equip yourself with the knowledge and conviction to meet this moment—and to be the kind of healer your clients and community urgently need.

This is a non-interactive self-study course. Instruction consists of 1 hour of video instruction and a post-test.

Enroll in the 1 CE Online Self-Study for $20

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Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to attend: Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.

This program was recorded on August 6, 2020.

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