The Great Lakes MHTTC Provider Well-Being Supplement offers these trainings to behavioral health providers in HHS Region 5: IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, and WI. This series is offered in response to a need identified by Region 5 stakeholders.

This presentation will emphasize the importance of providing culturally and linguistically appropriate mental health and recovery care to refugees and immigrants. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES 

• Learn about shared decision making and consent with the family as the patient
• Utilize basic recovery care practices using cultural formulation, finding meaning, and treatment guided by collective thinking
• Value the power of the story in encouraging recovery and sustained healing
• Invite participants to see themselves as serving in the context of a global health delivery of care. 
   

Intended audience: Mental health and recovery support providers, administrators, supervisors, caregivers, and anyone interested in the behavioral health needs of refugees and immigrants.

Certificates of Attendance will be available to all participants who attend the session in full. 

SPEAKER

Sebastian Ssempijja, PhD
Sebastian Family Psychology Practice

Sebastian Ssempijja, is a licensed clinician in the State of Wisconsin.  He is also the CEO and Clinic Director of Sebastian Family Psychology Practice, a certified behavioral health clinic in Wisconsin.  His extensive clinical education, clinical care experience has prepared him and his team to provide direct clinical care, supervision, training, consultations, and program development.  Along with his team, he functions in an interdisciplinary approach to meet the needs of the Clinic’s stakeholders, and the community.  He provides specialized Workshops to agencies and institutions, dedicated to meeting the needs of clients and stakeholders both at the local and international levels. In this capacity he has also developed and oversees the implementation of a global health program within the context of Global health.