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Understanding and Healing Intergenerational Racism and Bias

This session explores the need for anti-racist training at the leadership levels and how such training can create cultural competence within a recovery-focused organization. As part of this presentation Shari will explain how leaders have a unique position and power to raise awareness, continue education, create braver spaces and, most importantly, take real risks to dismantle the-isms. Shari will offer data that supports why SAMHSA calls for cultural competence within recovery organizations. Shari will also explore how anti-racist training attracts more diverse populations and positively impacts revenue for an organization.

Session Time: 
Thursday, December 9, 2021 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Session Category: 
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI)
Session Type: 
Workshop
Learning Objectives: 
• Discuss the emerging evidence that highlights the benefits of a strong anti-racism training program for leaders and staff that supports persons experiencing SUD
• Describe the positive results from having strong anti-racism training programs
• Recommend easy to implement solutions for treatment professionals to achieve cultural competence and tools for leaders to improve efforts that attract and support more diverse populations for persons in or seeking recovery
Presenter
Presenter Name: 
Shari Hampton
Job Title: 
Founder
Organization Affiliation: 
Shari Hampton Consulting
Shari Hampton is an anti-racist consultant who works with recovery and treatment organizations to help them explore their own biases and create pathways to greater diversity, equity and inclusion. She is also the founder of Served Up Sober, a non-profit organization devoted to increasing healthy equity in marginalized communities by creating holistic spaces for women of color who are sober or sober curious, and she is a Trusted Advisor (Anti-Racism) for the SHE RECOVERS Foundation. Shari is a fierce recovery advocate and sought-after workshop presenter who continuously works to center the issues of Black and Brown communities in recovery spaces.
Co-Presenter
Co Presenter: 
Ester Nicholson
Job Title: 
Founder
Organization Affiliation: 
Soul Recovery
Ester Nicholson, author of Soul Recovery - 12 Keys to Healing Dependence is a speaker, recovery coach, recording artist, and recovering addict who brings her incredible journey of transformation to a practical curriculum - addressing the root causes of dependence as they occur in contemporary living. Her Soul Recovery programs expand the traditional concept of 12 Step Recovery into spiritual practices that have served thousands. Ester’s life-changing program, Soul Recovery - The Roadmap Home, bridges the gap between the 12 Steps of Recovery and fundamental “spiritual” practices and modalities, from mindfulness and meditation to inner child/forgiveness processes and EFT “Tapping.”
Year: 
2021