Embracing & Integrating Cultural Strengths & Differences in Substance Use Treatment Services
When: 12/04/2025 - 12/04/2025,
From: 9:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Location: Webex - Pre-Registration is Required!
Imparted by: Graciela Guardado, BSN, RN SAPC’s-Clinical Standards and Training (CST) Branch
Visit: https://lacountyph.webex.com/weblink/register/r9164e09b0df33b58687f26ad8cdf44bb
Description:
IMPORTANT
After registration you will receive an email confirmation with your own unique link to use to log into the training (do not share this link). The email will come from messenger@webex.com (please check your spam/junk email folders).
Please complete Pre-training Activity prior to the training. Information can be found Here:
Pre-Training Activity
PLEASE COMPLETE PRIOR TO TRAINING
Taking the Implicit Associations Test (IAT)
Activity takes approximately 10 -12 minutes
1. Go to this website: https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/aboutus.html
2. At the very top of the page, to the left – select “Take A Test.”
3. After reading the “Preliminary Information” and should you wish to continue select, at the bottom of the page, “I wish to proceed.”
4. A list of Implicit Association Tests (IAT) on various topics will appear, and you can choose to take whichever one you find interesting. Note: You only have to take one.
a. Recommended tests: Race IAT, Skin-tone IAT, Gender-Career IAT.
5. Print out the results page and bring it to the training. You can also save the results page as a pdf or screenshot and have it available at the time of the training session.
6. We will discuss the activity as a group
Who Should Attend
This three-hour and fifteen-minute (3:15) live virtual training is a free introductory training and is open to SAPC Network providers including:
• Registered and Certified Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Counselors
• LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs & Licensed Eligible (LE) AMFTs, ACSWs, APCCs
• Psychologists & Registered Psychological Associates
• Certified Medi-Cal Peer Support Specialists & Peer Support Specialists
• Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN) & Licensed Psychiatric Technicians (LPT)
• Registered Nurses & Nurse Practitioners
Training Description
The purpose of this virtual live training is to assist SAPC network providers with increasing
their understanding of cultural humility and how to apply that knowledge in a substance use treatment setting. This training will define and explore cultural humility and its importance to substance use disorder (SUD) treatment. Participants will be provided examples of at least two (2) SUD treatment approaches that are consistent with cultural humility. The training will then specify how to apply cultural humility in SUD treatment to assist participants in embracing patient’s cultural strengths and differences in their SUD recovery journey. The participants will be actively engaged throughout the presentation using breakout sessions, polling, and open discussion.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of the training, participants will be able to:
1. Define cultural humility and its central importance to substance use disorder (SUD) patient care.
2. Identify two (2) SUD treatment approaches consistent with cultural humility and patient-centered care.
3. Integrate at least three (3) strategies for applying cultural humility when recognizing and
addressing patient behaviors that conflict with practitioner’s personal perspectives of
recovery, morality, or preferred approaches to treatment.