Online Course » Overcoming Stigma and Discrimination in the Behavioral Health Workplace

The primary goal of the WWT is to ensure public mental health agencies are prepared to recruit, hire, train, support and retain multicultural clients, family members and parents/caregivers as employees.This E-Learning Module is one in a series of modules developed to ensure the workplace is welcoming and values employees with experience as consumers, parents and family members from diverse ethnic, racial and cultural communities.

-Describe the concept of stigma as it affects individuals, organizations and

groups,including cultural and ethnic groups

-Identify key milestones in the evolution of mental health systems in California

and define the contributions of the Consumer and Family movements to its

development

-Articulate the value of people with lived experience in the mental health

professions

-Describe the unique forms stigma takes within the mental health workplace

-Demonstrate the skills necessary to address stigmatizing behaviors by

coworkers, supervisors and systems

-Describe the roles of policies and procedures, federal and state legislation,

human resources departments and labor unions in maintaining a stigma-free

workplace

-Describe the importance and types of self-care and supports useful in

managing stigmatizing environments

-Identify key elements of a stigma-free workplace and the cultural and systemic

factors that support it