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Research indicates that boys of color (African-American and Latino) may start life with different gender-specific, genetic and environmental factors that can lead to a greater likelihood of challenges faced across the lifespan. Dr. Barbarin will discuss research that helps us better understand the impacts of such factors as gender-specific attributes, racism, socio-economic inequalities, and academic inequities from the beginning a boy of color's life. Professionals will gain a better understanding of how we can make an earlier difference in their lives.
Conference attendees will also be introduced to the Diversity-Informed Infant Mental Health Tenets that raise awareness of inequities embedded in American society. The Tenets are a set of ten aspirational principals rooted in developing individual, organizational, and system-level awareness and intentional action to work toward social justice. The Tenets empower practitioners, agencies and systems to identify and address the social justice issues intricately intertwined with all infant mental health work.
Conference participants will be able to:
1. Summarize developmental and parenting differences in boys of color ages 0-8
2. Identify what parents/families can do to help boys of color ages 0-8
3. List what preschools/schools and communities can do to improve outcomes for boys of color
4. Apply this knowledge to inerventions with families, schools and communities
5. Assess individual and institutional bias that may affect working with young boys of color and their families
6. Utilize the Infant Mental Health Diversity Informed Tenets to guide their work with diverse individuals, families and communities
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