Implicit Bias

Our Guest Presenter for this three part series is Pastor Edward L. Palmer Sr. of Louisville, Kentucky. Pastor Palmer is a Certified Diversity Trainer and works to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities within the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. He is a certified Racial and Ethnic Disparities Capstone Project Fellow through the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University. He chairs the Kentucky State Inner-Agency Council’s Diversity Standing Committee, Chair of the National Coalition for Juvenile Justice.

This training will help participants identify, manage and mitigate personal biases as well as consider the presence of structural biases within an agency’s policies and practices. As participants learn to identify, address and minimize the impact of individual bias as well as systemic bias, the desired outcome is data will eventually be reflective the agency’s mission.

Implicit Bias Training Objectives:

• Participants will be made aware of data that supports the realization of disproportionality and disparities among racial groups.

• Participants will understand what is meant by implicit bias and how they affect attitudes, understanding, and decisions.

• Participants will be introduced to skills that will aid them in naturalizing the impact of bias upon decision making.

• Participants will learn the best practice for addressing individual bias.

• Participants will learn how to apply a racial lens to the organizations policies and practices to address and remove the potential for bias.

***This Webinar has been approved for 3.0 CEU credits from the NASW-TN **Chapter. Certificates of Participation will be available as well.

This project is funded by the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (TDMHSAS). The project was supported by Grant Number SM063412 System of Care (SOC) Across Tennessee from Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of TDMHSAS, SAMHSA, Center for Mental Health Services, or Department of Health and Human Services.