Hispanic Heritage Month Special Session

Transcript

• 00:01We're just for those who
• 00:02are on Zoom, we're just
• 00:03gonna give a second. There's
• 00:04a few folks grabbing some
• 00:05treats in the back.
• 00:07For those of you who
• 00:08are in the room,
• 00:11we supported
• 00:12two Latine
• 00:14businesses nearby. So the pastries
• 00:16are from Pan Del Cielo,
• 00:18and the coffee is from
• 00:19common grounds.
• 00:20So,
• 00:21enjoy.
• 00:22And those who aren't here,
• 00:24sorry you're missing him.
• 00:27So
• 00:28alright.
• 00:29Well, good afternoon, and welcome,
• 00:31everyone.
• 00:32I wanted before we move
• 00:34on, as we always do,
• 00:35just share that next week's
• 00:36grand rounds
• 00:37will be the annual progression
• 00:40celebration
• 00:41for all in the community
• 00:42who have moved up or
• 00:44have changed roles in some
• 00:45way. So that will be
• 00:47here in the Cowen.
• 00:48And then we will not
• 00:50have one the following week.
• 00:51We'll come back together on
• 00:53the twenty second
• 00:54when Andrew Cerezo will be
• 00:56here to speak about the
• 00:58most valuable to most
• 01:00value vulnerable to most valuable,
• 01:02early childhood policies on a
• 01:04fundamental building block of resilience.
• 01:07So that'll be the next
• 01:08one.
• 01:09So
• 01:10and I'm just thrilled to
• 01:11welcome you all here today,
• 01:13for this grand rounds that's
• 01:15going to
• 01:16in essence, we're observing,
• 01:18Hispanic
• 01:18and Latine heritage month.
• 01:23And before I get to
• 01:24that, I did wanna mention
• 01:25actually in the,
• 01:27reminder category, there is also
• 01:29a new series that the
• 01:30school of medicine has put
• 01:32out called perspectives
• 01:33for inclusion.
• 01:34And I would say that
• 01:35this would fit beautifully in
• 01:37that because really the idea
• 01:38is about sharing different perspectives
• 01:40so that others in the
• 01:41community can understand and sort
• 01:43of build some empathy
• 01:44and community
• 01:45with others. Right? So
• 01:47even if you are not
• 01:49of the
• 01:51if you don't share identity
• 01:52with the people who are
• 01:53gonna be speaking, we really
• 01:54do encourage you to attend.
• 01:56The next one that's coming
• 01:57is on Friday.
• 01:59This coming Friday the fourth,
• 02:00an author named Prisca
• 02:02Dorcas Mojica
• 02:04Rodriguez who wrote a book
• 02:06called,
• 02:07for,
• 02:09oh goodness, brown girls with
• 02:11sharp edges and tender hearts.
• 02:13Do you think they all
• 02:14read it? Perhaps.
• 02:17And it's written as a
• 02:18love letter to,
• 02:20women of color,
• 02:21and she speaks to her
• 02:23experience of being a BIPOC
• 02:24person in a predominantly white
• 02:26institution.
• 02:27So if that is something
• 02:28that you know something about,
• 02:30please go. If that is
• 02:31something you know nothing about,
• 02:32please go and come and
• 02:34enjoy
• 02:35the the speaker series. So
• 02:37that is the other thing,
• 02:38and it's at hope two
• 02:39sixteen. There is a registration.
• 02:41You can find it in
• 02:42the school of medicine,
• 02:44calendar. So,
• 02:47again, here today
• 02:48for Hispanic Heritage Month. The
• 02:50observation started in nineteen sixty
• 02:52eight as Hispanic
• 02:53Heritage Week
• 02:55under president Lyndon Johnson and
• 02:57was expanded
• 02:58by president Ronald Reagan. I
• 03:00did not know that. I
• 03:01actually found that kind of
• 03:01fascinating.
• 03:02In eighty eight,
• 03:04to cover a thirty day
• 03:05period starting on September fifteenth
• 03:07and ending on October fifteenth,
• 03:09and it was enacted into
• 03:10law in eighty eight.
• 03:12And it starts on September
• 03:13fifteenth. It's significant
• 03:15because it's the anniversary of
• 03:17independence for Latin American countries
• 03:19like Costa Rica, El Salvador,
• 03:21Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua.
• 03:23In addition, Mexico and Chile
• 03:25celebrate their independence days on
• 03:27September sixteenth
• 03:28and September eighteenth respectively.
• 03:31And so this year's theme
• 03:33is pioneers of change,
• 03:35shaping the future together. And
• 03:37you'll hear a lot
• 03:39from our
• 03:40faculty and fellows, our community
• 03:43members here,
• 03:46about
• 03:47sort of
• 03:49how they're shaping the future.
• 03:50But actually, each of them
• 03:51starts by going back to
• 03:52their roots.
• 03:54And so with that in
• 03:55mind,
• 03:57I'm gonna join that myself
• 04:00and
• 04:01take a minute to honor
• 04:02my ancestors and my roots.
• 04:04Right? So I'm a multiracial
• 04:05woman of Puerto Rican heritage,
• 04:07also referred to as Afro
• 04:08Latina. And I come from
• 04:09ancestors who were denied education
• 04:12and exploited
• 04:13due to interpersonal structural racism.
• 04:15And so I stand
• 04:17here as a manifestation of
• 04:18their wildest dreams.
• 04:20They did not
• 04:22have any idea what Yale
• 04:24University was.
• 04:25And so I am now
• 04:27standing here as an assistant
• 04:28professor in this institution.
• 04:30And so
• 04:32I share some photos
• 04:34of my family,
• 04:35My ancestors
• 04:37in the corner, the black
• 04:38and white are maternal relatives.
• 04:39It's my
• 04:41grandmother who recently passed and
• 04:43the folks who raised my
• 04:44mother.
• 04:45In the middle is the
• 04:46same woman who's here, just
• 04:48older, and my paternal grandmother,
• 04:51my paternal great grandmother in
• 04:53the middle. And I put
• 04:55the picture of me and
• 04:56my paternal great grand excuse
• 04:58me, grandfather who I never
• 04:59met, who I look really
• 05:01a lot like.
• 05:03So and then at the
• 05:04bottom are some more maternal
• 05:06relatives. So some of them
• 05:07never read, some of them
• 05:08could never write.
• 05:09But all of them have
• 05:11something to do with me
• 05:13and my life and my
• 05:14success and and my own
• 05:16family. So I just wanted
• 05:17to take a minute to
• 05:18honor them. So thank you
• 05:19for that.
• 05:21Also to take a moment
• 05:22to think about as we
• 05:23think about our roots and,
• 05:25you'll hear
• 05:26from Jen
• 05:27specifically
• 05:28about her indigenous roots.
• 05:31But to also acknowledge that
• 05:32we are on land that
• 05:33was taken
• 05:34from the indigenous folks of
• 05:36New Haven.
• 05:38And if we're thinking about
• 05:39roots in history, it's also
• 05:41wanna draw your attention to
• 05:43the Yale and slavery,
• 05:45history website
• 05:47and encourage you all to
• 05:48take a look, read through.
• 05:50This is really important information
• 05:51for us to think about
• 05:52as we serve the New
• 05:53Haven community.
• 05:55And so with that, I
• 05:57would like to
• 05:59welcome and introduce doctor Jennifer
• 06:00Herrera.
• 06:02She is an assistant clinical
• 06:04professor and an immigrant and
• 06:05Guatemalan
• 06:06American who's reclaiming her my
• 06:08her Mayan indigeneity.
• 06:10Jennifer is deeply rooted in
• 06:12in home services
• 06:13where she's been over the
• 06:14last fifteen years, and she's
• 06:15forever thankful.
• 06:17You guys, you put a
• 06:17timer on it and it's
• 06:18moving faster than I do.
• 06:21But she's she is,
• 06:23forever thankful to her ancestors,
• 06:25her family, and especially her
• 06:26father who risked his own
• 06:27life in the journey of
• 06:29migration
• 06:30so that she can be
• 06:31with you today.
• 06:33Jen.
• 06:37You might have to use
• 06:39this to go back because
• 06:39if it's on, it's Oh.
• 06:40Like, I think their timer's
• 06:43okay.
• 06:45Hola.
• 06:48Just wanted to say, Guatemala
• 06:50is presente.
• 06:55Happy Hispanic Heritage Month. Like
• 06:57Tara mentioned, my name is
• 06:59Jennifer Herrera.
• 07:00I use she and her
• 07:02pronouns.
• 07:04And I am here speaking
• 07:05to you today as a
• 07:06settler here in Connecticut
• 07:08on the unceded land of
• 07:10the Quinnipiac,
• 07:11Paugussett, and Wappeninger peoples.
• 07:15I was born in Guatemala
• 07:16and immigrated here when I
• 07:17was two years old.
• 07:20My family comes from San
• 07:21Cristobal La Casa Guaslan,
• 07:23which is located in the
• 07:24eastern part of Guatemala,
• 07:27where the Motagua River runs
• 07:28and the sun is so
• 07:29hot
• 07:30that our people are often
• 07:32known to live in the
• 07:33Tierra Caliente.
• 07:35Five hundred years ago, the
• 07:37eastern part of Guatemala
• 07:39was more accessible to colonizers,
• 07:41given the climate and terrain.
• 07:43And therefore, in present day,
• 07:45Mayan indigenous groups such as
• 07:47the Chorti and Poco Mam
• 07:48are slowly disappearing.
• 07:51Colonization is still happening,
• 07:53and my work in intensive
• 07:55family preservation
• 07:56has given me the privilege
• 07:58to work with my people
• 07:59with culturally relevant care and
• 08:01incorporating ways to maintain authenticity
• 08:04while also addressing the reasons
• 08:06they were brought into the
• 08:07DCF system,
• 08:09which also perpetuates the colonial
• 08:11trauma
• 08:12Guatemalans carry.
• 08:14I recently earned my doctorate
• 08:16in social work in May,
• 08:17and the focus of my
• 08:18study Which
• 08:20thank you.
• 08:22And the focus of my
• 08:23study was Latine social workers
• 08:25critically reclaiming indigeneity.
• 08:28In the workshop I created,
• 08:30I chose a transformative design
• 08:32to shift power dynamics,
• 08:34increase awareness, and describe the
• 08:36lived experiences
• 08:37of coloniality to move towards
• 08:39decolonization.
• 08:41And so today, I wanted
• 08:42to share this Maori poem
• 08:44that was written by Linda
• 08:47Tihiwei Smith, which
• 08:49spoke to my heart as
• 08:50it lifts the happenings of
• 08:52coloniality
• 08:53that I carry with me
• 08:54and that the families I
• 08:55serve continue to hold and
• 08:57the importance to incorporate other
• 08:59ways of knowing and doing
• 09:01into our care.
• 09:03Please note that in light
• 09:04of today and for the
• 09:05Latine community, I am in
• 09:07certain Maya people
• 09:09verse, but it's originally written
• 09:10for the Maori.
• 09:13The poem the poem's called
• 09:14the settler colonial anxiety blues.
• 09:24We are the ones who
• 09:26made this country,
• 09:28discovered you,
• 09:30and claimed this land.
• 09:32We burnt its forest for
• 09:34days on end
• 09:36to break this land,
• 09:38this untamed,
• 09:39savage land.
• 09:41To break it in,
• 09:42and break it down,
• 09:45and now we have the
• 09:46blues.
• 09:47Settler
• 09:48colonial
• 09:50anxiety blues.
• 09:54Maya people
• 09:55are rising up,
• 09:56going places that were once
• 09:59just for us.
• 10:00We took your land to
• 10:02punish you.
• 10:03We took more land for
• 10:05our farms.
• 10:06We took more land for
• 10:08our roads and townships.
• 10:11We took more land for
• 10:13the railway line. We took
• 10:15more land and more land
• 10:17and more land.
• 10:19We took your bodies to
• 10:21use and discard.
• 10:23We took your babies for
• 10:24you don't deserve them.
• 10:26We took your women to
• 10:28possess,
• 10:29and your men to humiliate,
• 10:31for our needs are more
• 10:33important than yours.
• 10:35And now we have the
• 10:37blues,
• 10:38settler colonial
• 10:40anxiety blues,
• 10:42Maya people are rising up.
• 10:45Having their say on what
• 10:47we have done.
• 10:49We made laws to justify
• 10:51our desires, to defeat you,
• 10:53to break you in, and
• 10:54break you down.
• 10:56We offered you the crumbs
• 10:58from our tables
• 10:59to work for us, to
• 11:01fight for us.
• 11:02That was the deal for
• 11:04you to live with us,
• 11:06under us,
• 11:07for us.
• 11:09And now we have the
• 11:11blues,
• 11:12the settler colonial
• 11:14anxiety blues.
• 11:16Maya people
• 11:17are rising up.
• 11:19From our seats are pow
• 11:20moving us aside
• 11:22from our seats of power.
• 11:24Where do we go?
• 11:25What do we do? Who
• 11:27are we? Why have you
• 11:29rejected us?
• 11:31We need you to make
• 11:32us feel good.
• 11:34We need you so we
• 11:35can be powerful.
• 11:37We need you to give
• 11:39us our identity.
• 11:40Without you, what will we
• 11:42do?
• 11:43Who will we be?
• 11:45And now we have the
• 11:47blues,
• 11:48the settler colonial
• 11:50anxiety blues.
• 11:53Maya people
• 11:54are rising up,
• 11:56forcing us to examine the
• 11:58past, to see ourselves in
• 12:00the harsh light of colonialism.
• 12:03You misconstrue
• 12:04our
• 12:05good intentions as racism and
• 12:07hatred.
• 12:08Can't you remember the times
• 12:10we saved you from yourselves,
• 12:12your tribalism
• 12:14and savagery?
• 12:15We came to civilize, not
• 12:17to oppress.
• 12:18We came to save,
• 12:20not to condemn. We came
• 12:22to develop,
• 12:23not to destroy.
• 12:26But now we are blue,
• 12:28anxious and unsettled.
• 12:30Our world is changing hands
• 12:32and we cling to a
• 12:33past that we denied you,
• 12:36the soothing pillow of a
• 12:38dying colonialism,
• 12:40the rising
• 12:41of the first people.
• 12:44The people of this land,
• 12:46they sing,
• 12:47they haka,
• 12:49they protest,
• 12:51their self determination
• 12:53coming into being,
• 12:55and now we are blue.
• 12:58Thank you.
• 13:04Let
• 13:05me figure this out.
• 13:10There's a black screen here.
• 13:12Oh, there we go. Okay.
• 13:14And now I like to
• 13:15introduce Laura Gallardo,
• 13:18to l LMSW.
• 13:19She is a social work
• 13:21fellow in intensive in
• 13:23home child and adolescent
• 13:24psychiatric services,
• 13:26also known as ICAPS, and
• 13:28identifies as Mexican American.
• 13:30Laura uses she and her
• 13:31pronouns. Thank you.
• 13:40Thank you, Jen.
• 13:42Hello, everybody. My name is
• 13:44Laura Gallardo. I'm a social
• 13:45work fellow as Jen so
• 13:47kindly introduced me here at
• 13:49the child study center. And
• 13:50today, I'm gonna be sharing
• 13:51with y'all a look at
• 13:52community resilience on the border
• 13:54and highlighting what love, life,
• 13:57grief, and healing looks like
• 13:58in an international community.
• 14:00No. I can't see them.
• 14:03I hear one quarter.
• 14:05I don't know. I see
• 14:06one quarter.
• 14:09I don't know what's happening.
• 14:10Yep.
• 14:16It keeps going forward.
• 14:21Sorry.
• 14:23They're going forward without me
• 14:26choosing that.
• 14:28Did you get to the
• 14:29right one? No.
• 14:31It's I'm clicking it there.
• 14:34Okay. Well, don't but can
• 14:35you use this instead?
• 14:37Mhmm.
• 14:38Not that.
• 14:39Oh, it's going the wrong
• 14:40way. Why is it doing
• 14:41that?
• 14:42Excuse me.
• 14:44And, of course, you just
• 14:45left. Right?
• 14:47Our tech person. Yeah. When
• 14:48I'm clicking back, it's going
• 14:50forward. Yeah. I don't know
• 14:51why.
• 14:53Yes. Can I click pause?
• 14:54Yeah. You should be able
• 14:55to pause.
• 14:57Where where do you start?
• 14:59Here. I mean, that
• 15:00screen. You should be. So
• 15:02that it won't go when
• 15:03I click it.
• 15:07Transition. Yeah. Come help.
• 15:09Like, come help. I don't
• 15:10know. Yeah. From here, go
• 15:12back into the just like
• 15:13the slide itself and then
• 15:14go to transition. Yeah. I
• 15:16don't get it.
• 15:17Oh, I thought I had
• 15:18turned it off. I'm just
• 15:19gonna be on there. I'll
• 15:20go one second duration for
• 15:22some reason. Yeah. Hello?
• 15:25We're pausing for a second
• 15:27because we have some, technical
• 15:28difficulties.
• 15:29They're having technical
• 15:31difficulties at the meeting itself.
• 15:34And
• 15:35and I and I but
• 15:36my screen isn't working either,
• 15:41And I don't know
• 15:42what to do. It's still
• 15:44doing that, but let let's
• 15:45see.
• 15:47Hopefully, we'll have it fixed
• 15:49in a minute, doctor Palmer.
• 15:57Okay. You're you're here. Right?
• 15:59Yes.
• 16:05No. You need the thingy.
• 16:09Okay. Okay. You're on the
• 16:11way. Okay. All is well.
• 16:12Teamwork.
• 16:13Thank you, everybody, for your
• 16:15help.
• 16:17We're back.
• 16:19So I wanna start by
• 16:20sharing a little bit about
• 16:22myself.
• 16:23I identify as Chicana. I'm
• 16:24a first generation
• 16:26college student. I'm from the
• 16:27southwest border of the United
• 16:29States and Mexico, specifically El
• 16:31Paso, Texas, and I come
• 16:32from upper middle class upbringing.
• 16:35I wanna also share that
• 16:36I'll be touching on topics
• 16:37that may be particularly heavy.
• 16:39And as someone from the
• 16:40border, this topic is extremely
• 16:42close to my heart.
• 16:45For those of you who
• 16:46may not know or would
• 16:47appreciate a little context of
• 16:49what I mean when I
• 16:50say Chicana,
• 16:51Chicana is a term used
• 16:52to describe people of Mexican
• 16:54descent born in the United
• 16:55States. It was originally a
• 16:56pejorative term that was reclaimed
• 16:58in the sixties during the
• 17:00Chicano movement.
• 17:01The Chicano movement was pioneered
• 17:03by political activists like Corky
• 17:05Gonzalez,
• 17:06Cesar Chavez, and Dolores Huerta,
• 17:08all of whom empowered the
• 17:10Chicano community
• 17:11to demand social justice and
• 17:13equity in the United States.
• 17:15I want to note that
• 17:16not all Mexican Americans identify
• 17:18this way and encourage curiosity
• 17:20with one another
• 17:21in the name of cultural
• 17:22humility.
• 17:26Today, I wanna highlight a
• 17:27community on the United States
• 17:29Mexico border,
• 17:30specifically the sister cities of
• 17:32El Paso, Texas and Ciudad
• 17:34Juarez.
• 17:35The El Paso Juarez border
• 17:36is crossed by about fifty
• 17:37thousand people a day by
• 17:38car, foot, and commercial vehicle.
• 17:41El Pasoans and Juarez residents
• 17:43have built a rich community
• 17:44in life, love, shared grief,
• 17:46and healing.
• 17:47To give a visual of
• 17:48how close the cities are,
• 17:50in this photo, you can
• 17:51see a red x at
• 17:52the forefront.
• 17:53That's in Juarez.
• 17:55And in the background, you
• 17:56can see tall buildings.
• 17:58That's El Paso.
• 18:01Not only are the cities
• 18:02extremely close to one another,
• 18:04they're a bit landlocked. There's
• 18:06sparse surrounding populations.
• 18:09Border dwellers engage frequently,
• 18:11often visiting the other side
• 18:12to shop, learn, and connect.
• 18:14There are people who live
• 18:15in Juarez but attend school
• 18:17in El Paso or families
• 18:18who live in El Paso
• 18:19and attend church in Juarez.
• 18:21There's often trips across the
• 18:23border to experience culture, food,
• 18:25and overall enjoy one another.
• 18:27The seesaws pictured here on
• 18:29this slide were designed and
• 18:30installed by Juarez and El
• 18:32Paso artists
• 18:34who collaborated to create an
• 18:36art piece that would emphasize
• 18:37the idea of building bridges
• 18:39and not walls.
• 18:41This is also this is
• 18:41in Anapara,
• 18:43which is, a county of
• 18:44Mexico.
• 18:48The community has shared space
• 18:50on either side of the
• 18:51Rio Grande for generations
• 18:53and have a long history
• 18:54of loving one another.
• 18:55It's emphasized in the way
• 18:57we interact,
• 18:58even referring to the cities
• 18:59as sisters.
• 19:01To share more visual examples,
• 19:02the mural art pictured here
• 19:04is in El Paso and
• 19:05is titled,
• 19:08which translates to spirit without
• 19:10borders. It's intended to represent
• 19:12both strength and struggle for
• 19:13justice on the border.
• 19:15The individuals you see with
• 19:17masks are Texas nursing students
• 19:20who volunteered to vaccinate Cuadis
• 19:22residents during the COVID nineteen
• 19:24pandemic
• 19:25and administered over four thousand
• 19:27vaccines.
• 19:29The bottom photo is an
• 19:30embrace organized by Hugs Not
• 19:32Walls, which is a Texas
• 19:33led initiative
• 19:34that reunited families separated by
• 19:36border policies
• 19:37at the border wall to
• 19:38embrace for six minutes.
• 19:44In community, there is also
• 19:45collective grief experienced.
• 19:47There is the grief of
• 19:48what it means to live
• 19:49and love between two lands
• 19:51when acculturation and assimilation
• 19:53become tools for survival.
• 19:55The pain and loss of
• 19:56crossing the border and leaving
• 19:58a homeland
• 19:59or families being stuck on
• 20:00either side so close but
• 20:02so far
• 20:03away. There's a grief that
• 20:05comes with being Mexican
• 20:06and living in the United
• 20:07States, the painful rhetoric used
• 20:09for political gain and the
• 20:11American violence against Mexican, Mexican
• 20:13Americans,
• 20:15and Chicanos.
• 20:17Excuse me.
• 20:20This photo shows a community
• 20:21grieving
• 20:23after the El Paso Walmart
• 20:24shooting
• 20:26where a Dallas man committed
• 20:27the deadliest anti Latino attack
• 20:29in history,
• 20:31killing twenty three innocent people
• 20:34from both the United States
• 20:35and Mexico.
• 20:38I'd like to take a
• 20:39moment to pause
• 20:41in remembrance of the twenty
• 20:42three lives lost on August
• 20:44third two thousand nineteen.
• 20:52Hi.
• 20:59With grief comes collective healing.
• 21:02A driving force of community
• 21:03healing on the border is
• 21:04faith and religion,
• 21:06which have been used as
• 21:07tools to orient the community
• 21:08towards hope and empowerment.
• 21:10The mountain shown here is
• 21:11in Juarez,
• 21:13and it reads La Biblias
• 21:15La Verdad Lealla,
• 21:16which translates to the Bible
• 21:18is the truth. Read it.
• 21:20The church shown here, the
• 21:22white church,
• 21:24is in El Paso. It's
• 21:25one of the oldest churches
• 21:26in Texas.
• 21:27And the statue shown is
• 21:29actually at the top of
• 21:29a different mountain,
• 21:31Mount Cristo Rey, and is
• 21:33the site of an annual
• 21:34pilgrimage
• 21:35where thousands trek to the
• 21:37peak in hopes of a
• 21:38miracle.
• 21:39There are many healing practices
• 21:41that are not religious or
• 21:43spiritual
• 21:44that encourage community engagement, like
• 21:46the city's healing garden, which
• 21:48is a national memorial for
• 21:49those killed in the El
• 21:50Paso Walmart shooting.
• 21:56I'm sharing all of this
• 21:57to highlight the cultural value
• 21:59of community
• 22:01and what it means to
• 22:02not only me, but many
• 22:03Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicano
• 22:06folks around us.
• 22:07Community is a practice and
• 22:08has supported
• 22:10not only collective groups, but
• 22:11many individuals in building resilience.
• 22:14I wanna encourage clinicians in
• 22:16the room or anyone in
• 22:17the room to take these
• 22:19next questions with you as
• 22:20you engage with clients, not
• 22:22only Latino, but all clients.
• 22:24What does community mean for
• 22:26clients?
• 22:27Is it family? Is it
• 22:28coworkers,
• 22:29church, or neighborhoods?
• 22:31And if it's unidentifiable,
• 22:33what does lack of community
• 22:35look and feel like for
• 22:36the children and families we
• 22:37serve?
• 22:40I wanna finish with some
• 22:42takeaways. As a clinician who
• 22:44has previously stated is from
• 22:45this resilient and shining community,
• 22:48I bring a lot of
• 22:49these practices and values into
• 22:50my work here.
• 22:52My work in in home
• 22:53services involves being curious about
• 22:54community,
• 22:55whether it's asking, visiting, eating,
• 22:58or joining in community.
• 23:00Additionally, I've learned to be
• 23:01patient
• 23:02with building rapport and holding
• 23:04space for grief and pain
• 23:07even when it's hard to
• 23:07talk about or identify with
• 23:09clinical jargon,
• 23:12and to be grateful
• 23:13that families have even been
• 23:15opening to sharing with me
• 23:16at all.
• 23:17And lastly,
• 23:19using community and connection as
• 23:20tools to build resilience with
• 23:21clients
• 23:22can look like connection within
• 23:24the home, outside of it,
• 23:26but remaining curious about how
• 23:28community can bring support and
• 23:30healing.
• 23:32I wanna thank you all
• 23:33for joining me and honoring
• 23:34a resilient community
• 23:36located between two lands, but
• 23:37joined together in love.
• 23:48Next up, we have Anna
• 23:49Maria Roscoe, LCSW.
• 23:51Anna Maria Roscoe is a
• 23:53bilingual and bicultural
• 23:54experienced licensed clinical social worker
• 23:57whose parents immigrated to the
• 23:59United States from Medellin, Colombia.
• 24:01She was born here in
• 24:02New Haven and raised in
• 24:03Connecticut. She's a clinical instructor
• 24:05of social work, clinician, and
• 24:07supervisor at the Yale Child
• 24:08Study Center.
• 24:18Hi, everyone.
• 24:19Thank you so much for
• 24:20being here, and thank you,
• 24:21Laura, for that. That was
• 24:22really beautiful and powerful.
• 24:26So I wanted to take
• 24:27some time today to highlight
• 24:29the use of cultural tools
• 24:31of healing,
• 24:32similar to what Laura was
• 24:33mentioning,
• 24:34And I wanted to go
• 24:35over some of my own
• 24:37clinical experience utilizing them.
• 24:40My slides are set to
• 24:41move on their own, so
• 24:42I'm hoping they do. But
• 24:43if they don't, we'll figure
• 24:44that out. They
• 24:45will.
• 24:46Oh, okay. So I will
• 24:47move them as I speak.
• 24:51So to get us started,
• 24:52I think it's important to
• 24:53reiterate that barriers to care
• 24:55should be consideration for providers
• 24:58when working with Latine children
• 25:00and families.
• 25:01Some of these barriers include
• 25:03things such as language,
• 25:05income,
• 25:06documentation status,
• 25:07and lack of accessibility
• 25:09to available resources.
• 25:12Additionally,
• 25:13the distrust of systems
• 25:16and stigma of mental health
• 25:17go hand in hand
• 25:19within the Latinate culture.
• 25:22The harm that healthcare systems
• 25:24has historically done to minority
• 25:26populations
• 25:27has led to a deep
• 25:28distrust of systems generally.
• 25:32This often results in needed
• 25:33for pair work, which falls
• 25:35on us as providers.
• 25:37Weaving in cultural healing tools,
• 25:40such as music,
• 25:41art, spirituality,
• 25:42community,
• 25:43and storytelling
• 25:45into conventional treatment can be
• 25:47a tangible way to begin
• 25:48to do this repair work
• 25:50and can be instrumental
• 25:52when we're thinking of considerations
• 25:54of adapting EBPs,
• 25:55making them more accessible to
• 25:57Latine families and clients.
• 26:01So when we use cultural
• 26:03tools of healing, we as
• 26:04providers are positioning ourselves as
• 26:07learners
• 26:08and allowing space for our
• 26:09clients to be the experts
• 26:10of their languages,
• 26:12cultures, and experiences.
• 26:14So there's a lot of
• 26:15tools of healing, but I
• 26:16wanted to focus on two
• 26:17today that I've been thinking
• 26:18a lot about lately.
• 26:20So the first one is
• 26:21community.
• 26:23So being part of a
• 26:25community can instill a sense
• 26:26of belonging
• 26:27and meaning in people.
• 26:29Oftentimes, for Latine folks, things
• 26:31such as community centers, places
• 26:33of worship, grassroots organizations,
• 26:36neighborhoods
• 26:37might be the only place
• 26:39where there are people from
• 26:40their culture gathered.
• 26:42A way that providers
• 26:44can lean into community as
• 26:45a healing tool when working
• 26:47with families
• 26:48are things like collaborating with
• 26:50community organizations,
• 26:51making yourselves aware of those
• 26:53organizations.
• 26:54A concrete example of this
• 26:56is
• 26:56places like Junta for Progressive
• 26:58Action,
• 27:00which is actually located here
• 27:01in New Haven.
• 27:02Organizations like Junta provide services,
• 27:06around social advocacy,
• 27:09connection to mental health, medical
• 27:11health services,
• 27:12and have a space for
• 27:13people to gather.
• 27:16A way for all providers
• 27:17to implement this into your
• 27:18work, like I mentioned, is
• 27:19to make yourselves aware of
• 27:21what community resources are available
• 27:23to the clientele that you
• 27:24are seeing.
• 27:27Community, I believe, is equally
• 27:29as important in clinical work
• 27:30for us as providers and
• 27:32for trainees.
• 27:33As a provider,
• 27:35when I think of pioneers
• 27:36of change, I often think
• 27:38about having a mentor, a
• 27:39supervisor,
• 27:41and leader of clinical consultation
• 27:43groups who not only understand
• 27:44what it means to be
• 27:45bicultural
• 27:46and bilingual
• 27:47but have made space for
• 27:49and encouraged curiosity around cultural
• 27:51adaptations and cultural humility when
• 27:54we work with minoritized families.
• 27:56Having access to this has
• 27:57given me a sense of
• 27:59community and belonging as a
• 28:00clinician and has influenced and
• 28:02informed how I approach supervision
• 28:04and my supervisees.
• 28:09Okay.
• 28:10The second tool that I
• 28:11wanted to talk about, and
• 28:12I could talk about this
• 28:13forever, but I'm only gonna
• 28:14talk about it a little
• 28:15bit today, is music. So
• 28:17the utilization of music and
• 28:19healing is accredited and dated
• 28:20to indigenous practices.
• 28:23These practices involve the connection
• 28:25between the mind and the
• 28:26body.
• 28:27They utilize drums, flutes, and
• 28:29voices to communicate,
• 28:31grieve, and heal.
• 28:32Physiological benefits of music include
• 28:34the release of neurotransmitters
• 28:36and hormones that can evoke
• 28:38emotional reactions,
• 28:40memory, feelings, and promote social
• 28:42bonds.
• 28:44In Latin America,
• 28:46music such as I'm only
• 28:47gonna name a few that
• 28:48are my favorite, but there's
• 28:49a lot.
• 28:50Music such as cumbias, salsa,
• 28:52mariachi, guajenatos, and reggaeton
• 28:55have been historically used to
• 28:57bring light
• 28:58to themes of mental health,
• 29:00substance use, and oppression in
• 29:02its different forms, such as
• 29:04marianismo,
• 29:05machismo, and familismo.
• 29:07A concrete example of how
• 29:09you can introduce music into
• 29:10practice can be things as
• 29:12simple as creating coping skills
• 29:13playlist with your clients.
• 29:16Overall, incorporating music when working
• 29:18with youth and families can
• 29:20be not only a way
• 29:21to build rapport, but it
• 29:22can help you learn about
• 29:23the client's individual
• 29:25and cultural,
• 29:26sorry, collective cultural experiences through
• 29:28their preferred music,
• 29:30and it also aids in
• 29:31leveling the power dynamic between
• 29:33clients and clinicians.
• 29:36Thank you.
• 29:44So I have the privilege
• 29:46of introducing Carolina Rivera Perrott.
• 29:49Carolina is a bilingual bicultural
• 29:51boricua. She was born in
• 29:52Puerto Rico and raised in
• 29:53New Haven.
• 29:54She is an assistant clinical
• 29:56professor of social work, clinician,
• 29:59supervisor, and director of social
• 30:00work training at Yale
• 30:03Child
• 30:05Study
• 30:07Center.
• 30:09Thank you, Anna, and thank
• 30:10you to all of you,
• 30:11for the work that you've
• 30:13shared so far.
• 30:14It's been just on my
• 30:16heart the whole time that
• 30:17I've been sitting there and
• 30:18just listening to it.
• 30:20It's a pleasure,
• 30:21to be with you all
• 30:23and to share a little
• 30:24bit about my own journey
• 30:25as well.
• 30:27I am so
• 30:29as Anna said, I'm Carolina.
• 30:31I am a licensed clinical
• 30:33social worker here.
• 30:34And when I think about
• 30:37when I was thinking about
• 30:38what to share, I really
• 30:39grounded myself in my own
• 30:41journey,
• 30:42as a Boricua
• 30:44who was born in the
• 30:45island
• 30:46and my family,
• 30:48my mom decided to come
• 30:49to New Haven,
• 30:52and basically settle here. I
• 30:54come from a family
• 30:56of
• 30:57dancers
• 30:58and musicians,
• 30:59and so that's something that
• 31:01is
• 31:02very
• 31:04near to my heart and
• 31:05what I bring into the
• 31:05work that I do with
• 31:06families. And what I would
• 31:08like to talk a little
• 31:09bit about
• 31:10is or share a story
• 31:11with you all about my
• 31:13journey of,
• 31:14connecting
• 31:15my culture and my roots,
• 31:18resilience, strength,
• 31:20and the resistance,
• 31:22that I bring into spaces
• 31:24that I show up in
• 31:25and how I show up.
• 31:27And so I'm gonna start
• 31:28with the song because it's
• 31:30only,
• 31:31like,
• 31:32that that would make sense
• 31:33since music is a part
• 31:35of who I am.
• 31:37And so I'm gonna start
• 31:38with this song here. This
• 31:41is a song by El
• 31:41Residente,
• 31:43and I'm hoping the audio
• 31:44will work.
• 31:48Oh, does that may seem
• 31:49like it will work? Okay.
• 31:51There is also translation
• 31:53in writing, so you'll see
• 31:55that there.
• 33:35I'll pause it there. And
• 33:36if you'd like to listen
• 33:37to it,
• 33:38the whole version is by
• 33:39El Residente,
• 33:41and it's.
• 33:44And I can't say credit
• 33:45for landing to El Residente,
• 33:47so I'm gonna give credit
• 33:48to Hector Chaides Raucho, who
• 33:50I had the pleasure of
• 33:51working with when he was
• 33:52here at the faculty and
• 33:53continue to work with him
• 33:54through the fellowship.
• 33:55And he reminded me of
• 33:58Entresidente,
• 33:58who I used to listen
• 33:59to when I was young
• 34:01as well. Entresidente,
• 34:03has a lot of music
• 34:04that I'm gonna be using
• 34:05some of the pictures and
• 34:06visuals from his music, in
• 34:08the presentation today.
• 34:10Part of the reason I
• 34:11decided to anchor on this
• 34:12is because
• 34:14I,
• 34:15what? This works.
• 34:17Sorry.
• 34:18Part of the reason I
• 34:19decided to anchor on talking
• 34:21about my roots,
• 34:22is because I
• 34:24thrive, and part of the
• 34:26way that I show up
• 34:26is through my authentic self.
• 34:29And
• 34:30it's just I have no
• 34:32other way to do that
• 34:33but to be me,
• 34:34and it's just part of
• 34:35how I grew up, as
• 34:37well. And so I think
• 34:38about what that means to
• 34:39me, and it's really about
• 34:40being self aware,
• 34:42being aware of,
• 34:43what I'm bringing into spaces,
• 34:45how I'm showing up into
• 34:46spaces.
• 34:47And a lot of that
• 34:48is really grounded in how,
• 34:49my parents raised me, my
• 34:51mother raised me, my family,
• 34:52my village really,
• 34:54raised me, to learn el
• 34:56limno de Puerto Rico,
• 34:58at a very young age
• 34:59because that was I needed
• 35:00to know that,
• 35:02to be able to dance
• 35:04as soon as I knew
• 35:05how to walk, and to
• 35:07do salsa and,
• 35:09bring and I had the
• 35:10opportunity early in my training
• 35:11in that clinic, Hispana,
• 35:13to bring in salsa, bring
• 35:15in bomba,
• 35:16into the work that I
• 35:17was doing with adults at
• 35:19the clinic Hispana.
• 35:21And really the therapeutic use
• 35:22of music and the therapeutic
• 35:24use of dance and movement
• 35:25was something that I continued,
• 35:28through my journey as a
• 35:29clinician.
• 35:30And with that, thinking about
• 35:33where that really is
• 35:35driving from and some of
• 35:36what, some of us already
• 35:38shared is our indigenous ancestry,
• 35:40especially in Borinquene,
• 35:42where I'm from, using
• 35:45some of what we know
• 35:46about who we are and
• 35:48the resistance,
• 35:49that comes with
• 35:51using bomba and salsa, the
• 35:53songs, the lyrics,
• 35:54that are often used are
• 35:56a representation of our own
• 35:58resistance in,
• 36:00in Puerto Rico as well.
• 36:02So I wanted to
• 36:03as I go through these
• 36:04slides, part of what I
• 36:06wanna share is also some
• 36:07of the tools that I've
• 36:08used in addition to dance,
• 36:09in addition to salsa,
• 36:11and Bomba. And,
• 36:13one of the things that
• 36:14I am really passionate about
• 36:16is the use of language
• 36:18and being able to speak
• 36:19the language
• 36:20of the families that I
• 36:22serve,
• 36:23being able to use language
• 36:25to inform,
• 36:26the work that I do.
• 36:28Storytelling
• 36:29is something that is very
• 36:31rooted, in many of the
• 36:32communities that I serve,
• 36:34and
• 36:35thinking about how I use
• 36:36that in other spaces as
• 36:38well,
• 36:39that I not only just
• 36:42think about what information I
• 36:43wanna share, I think about
• 36:44how I share that story,
• 36:47and being who I am
• 36:48and not resisting the urge
• 36:49to code switch, resisting the
• 36:51urge to,
• 36:52to gatekeep,
• 36:54which is something that was
• 36:57new to me as I
• 36:57was growing up and and
• 36:59learning about other spaces outside
• 37:01of my own,
• 37:02central kind of spaces. And
• 37:04what you see here is
• 37:04a picture of,
• 37:06people using dance,
• 37:08as a form of a
• 37:09therapeutic
• 37:10use,
• 37:12in,
• 37:12well, in New Haven, actually.
• 37:14So this is
• 37:15from what that is.
• 37:17And then thinking about when
• 37:19I was talking about language,
• 37:20how I use language as
• 37:21a form of strength,
• 37:23and resilience.
• 37:25Many times, I know I
• 37:26talked about my own experience
• 37:27as I was growing up.
• 37:29I actually was not allowed
• 37:30to speak English in my
• 37:31home because that was in
• 37:33itself the resistance for my
• 37:34family that we kept the
• 37:36language.
• 37:37But for some people, it
• 37:38was also that was not
• 37:40everyone's experience as a Puerto
• 37:41Rican growing up in in
• 37:42the states.
• 37:44That was my experience.
• 37:46And I remember,
• 37:47that, you know, that was
• 37:48not something that we could
• 37:50we had to speak Spanish
• 37:51because, one, my mom didn't
• 37:52know English,
• 37:54but also,
• 37:55because she was worried and
• 37:56she had this fear that
• 37:58we were gonna lose our
• 37:59culture in the process of
• 38:00being here in the United
• 38:01States.
• 38:03And so that's something that
• 38:04always stays with me too
• 38:05when I think about the
• 38:06work that I do with
• 38:07the families
• 38:08that I serve.
• 38:10More importantly, I think when
• 38:12as as I'm preparing as
• 38:13I was preparing for this,
• 38:14a lot of the pictures
• 38:15that you're seeing are really
• 38:17a representation of,
• 38:21I think I mentioned,
• 38:22you know, part of what
• 38:23I share is my own
• 38:25use of phrases in in
• 38:27in my in my own
• 38:28culture of
• 38:30or
• 38:32is like just so you
• 38:33know, I am Boriqua, and
• 38:35we we anchor in that
• 38:36because
• 38:38despite the challenges, despite the
• 38:40discrimination that we face as
• 38:42a community,
• 38:43and the many of the
• 38:44families that I've served have
• 38:45faced as communities, we still
• 38:47anchor on the fact that
• 38:48we have this cultural,
• 38:52this community
• 38:53of unity
• 38:54that anchors on culture and
• 38:57resilience. And Jessica Sedena used
• 38:59the word of imperative resilience.
• 39:00And so I come back
• 39:01to that even as I
• 39:02think about the work that
• 39:03I do, and I anchor
• 39:05in on that,
• 39:06as well.
• 39:07And so
• 39:10that is part of what
• 39:11I wanted to share with
• 39:11you all today. And,
• 39:14this is that's it.
• 39:16Thank you.
• 39:24Alright.
• 39:25And now I have
• 39:27the privilege
• 39:28of introducing
• 39:30one of my colleagues, doctor
• 39:31Cecilia
• 39:32Formera.
• 39:33Has a multifaceted
• 39:35identity as a Latine, first
• 39:37generation American woman of color,
• 39:40and daughter of political asylum
• 39:42seekers.
• 39:42The most challenging of these
• 39:44identities,
• 39:45being a person of color,
• 39:46has
• 39:47fueled her focus on understanding
• 39:49the deep impact of racism
• 39:51and intersectionality,
• 39:53leading to her current work
• 39:54on race through the racially
• 39:56informed clinical formulation,
• 39:58RICEF.
• 40:21First and foremost, I wanna
• 40:23extend my heartfelt thank you,
• 40:25to Tara
• 40:27Davila,
• 40:28for this incredible invitation. Thank
• 40:29you, Tara.
• 40:31An opportunity to share a
• 40:32bit about myself as a
• 40:33Latina woman.
• 40:35I prepared,
• 40:36except I don't see my
• 40:37slides here. Hold on.
• 40:42One more time.
• 40:45Okay. Because they're there. They're
• 40:47there. Do I have to
• 40:48go here? Maybe click.
• 40:55Okay.
• 40:56No. Do you have transitions
• 40:58or anything maybe?
• 40:59No. We don't.
• 41:01Because
• 41:02it was Mhmm.
• 41:06Okay.
• 41:07Let's see.
• 41:12And we're having technical difficulties.
• 41:14That's okay. The other side.
• 41:16Let me try this. Okay.
• 41:24Yeah.
• 41:26So
• 41:27the first one? Sure.
• 41:29For some reason, my title
• 41:31isn't coming up, but that's
• 41:32okay. Hold on. It may
• 41:33paste it.
• 41:35Yep.
• 41:36Alright. That's okay. I can
• 41:37go to that.
• 41:38So,
• 41:42I've prepared some slides to
• 41:44help tell my story,
• 41:45highlighting my identity as a
• 41:47Cuban woman,
• 41:48the daughter of Cuban exiles,
• 41:51and a Brown psychologist in
• 41:53academia.
• 41:55Each of these identities have
• 41:56shaped my journey and fueled
• 41:57my passion for teaching resilience
• 42:00despite obstacles in preparing the
• 42:02next generation of therapists to
• 42:03understand the critical importance of
• 42:05racial and cultural
• 42:07considerations when working with diverse
• 42:09families.
• 42:10I would like to dedicate
• 42:11this presentation
• 42:13to these amazing individuals who
• 42:15have come before me, especially
• 42:16my parents.
• 42:18They're in that last picture
• 42:19there.
• 42:21Sylvia del Toro, my mom,
• 42:23Ariel Frometa, and that's me
• 42:25and and and the
• 42:27as a little girl.
• 42:30Also, I'd like to thank,
• 42:32Cecilia Lobaina and Jose del
• 42:34Toro, my great grandparents.
• 42:37Their first picture here, closest
• 42:39to me.
• 42:40And my,
• 42:42grand grandparents Francisco del Toro
• 42:44and Genoveva Velasquez.
• 42:46These incredibly brave, brilliant
• 42:49individuals whose courage
• 42:51and vision inspire me every
• 42:52day have shaped, nurtured and
• 42:54created an extensive next generation
• 42:56of proud and resilient Cubans.
• 43:00Without their desire for a
• 43:01better life, I would not
• 43:02stand here today. Thank you.
• 43:08A little bit more about
• 43:09my familia. I'm really gonna
• 43:11focus on
• 43:12on,
• 43:13my family.
• 43:16Just a a little bit
• 43:17more.
• 43:19Slides.
• 43:22And about Cuba.
• 43:24Cuba has a very rich
• 43:25history,
• 43:26and diverse cultural heritage,
• 43:29and it's essential in understanding
• 43:31who we are as individuals,
• 43:33as people.
• 43:34It's located in the heart
• 43:36of the Caribbean, right next
• 43:37to Puerto Rico.
• 43:39Cuba's ethnic makeup is a
• 43:42vibrant blend of indigenous peoples
• 43:44of Guanahatavai,
• 43:45Taino,
• 43:46Cibone,
• 43:47along with descendants of European
• 43:49Spanish settlers,
• 43:51Afro Caribbean
• 43:52enslaved Africans, Chinese,
• 43:54Italian and French. We are
• 43:55a melting pot.
• 43:57This unique diversity of identities
• 43:59has deeply influenced our traditions,
• 44:01our values
• 44:02and resilience. As a Cuban,
• 44:04I carry that legacy of
• 44:06these varied ancestries,
• 44:08which continues to shape my
• 44:09perspective and my life work.
• 44:12My family's journey,
• 44:14to the United States is
• 44:15deeply intertwined with
• 44:17Cuba's,
• 44:19very, very complicated
• 44:21political
• 44:22history,
• 44:23and I hope that this
• 44:24comes out. Okay. Here we
• 44:26go.
• 44:28So
• 44:30excuse me.
• 44:32In nineteen sixty five, just
• 44:34really brief time frame, in
• 44:36sixty five, Cuba's sole political
• 44:38party officially became the Cuban
• 44:40Communist Party.
• 44:42And,
• 44:43at that point,
• 44:45that marked a significant shift
• 44:47in the country's governance.
• 44:49My grandfather, who you saw
• 44:51in a couple of slides,
• 44:52was a very wealthy,
• 44:53originally from from Spain, a
• 44:55very wealthy,
• 44:57businessman.
• 44:58And,
• 44:59he actually lost everything
• 45:01as a result of the
• 45:02the communist regime,
• 45:03Castro.
• 45:04So between there were a
• 45:06number of waves of Cubans
• 45:07coming to United States. So
• 45:09between nineteen sixty five and
• 45:10and nineteen seventy three, the
• 45:12United States,
• 45:14supported the second wave of
• 45:15Cuban immigrations
• 45:16through the freedom flights,
• 45:18which provided a way for
• 45:20many Cubans to flee
• 45:21the growing political and economic
• 45:23repression
• 45:24and and death.
• 45:26And in nineteen sixty eight,
• 45:27my mother and father separately
• 45:29were among those brave individuals
• 45:31who fled Cuba during the
• 45:33second wave of immigrants,
• 45:35leaving behind everything
• 45:37everything that they knew, their
• 45:39family,
• 45:40for a chance of freedom.
• 45:41They arrived in Miami
• 45:43through the freedom flights. And
• 45:44by nineteen sixty nine,
• 45:46they had settled in Boston
• 45:48where they began to build
• 45:49a new life together.
• 45:51And,
• 45:53that's where I was born.
• 45:56And so this is, Chelsea,
• 45:57Massachusetts. Some of you may
• 45:59know Chelsea.
• 46:01At one time, it was
• 46:02the poorest town in the
• 46:03state of Massachusetts,
• 46:05and it was,
• 46:06an immigrant hub,
• 46:08for many, Cubans and other,
• 46:11immigrants who were entering this
• 46:12country. So with the help
• 46:14of the Catholic church, my
• 46:15parents arrived in in Boston
• 46:17and Chelsea, and they began
• 46:18their new life working tirelessly.
• 46:20During the day, they worked
• 46:22in fact in a factory.
• 46:24And at night, my father
• 46:25took odd jobs while my
• 46:26mother learned English as a
• 46:27second language.
• 46:29They were movers and shakers
• 46:30trying to understand their surroundings,
• 46:33expanding their network,
• 46:34and other Cubans settled in
• 46:36the same area.
• 46:37Hard work was the norm.
• 46:38They knew no different.
• 46:41And
• 46:42to this day, I do
• 46:43not recall a day that
• 46:44my parents
• 46:45never worked. They always worked
• 46:47every single day,
• 46:48whether they were sick or
• 46:50not.
• 46:52I was,
• 46:53the firstborn, and while they
• 46:55worked and pursued their own
• 46:56education and,
• 46:58our socioeconomic
• 46:59status improved,
• 47:01eventually, they became homeowners, business
• 47:03owners, and moved away from
• 47:04the rougher parts of town.
• 47:06And a phrase that they
• 47:07that always stayed with me
• 47:08and I wanna share with
• 47:09you,
• 47:11was something that my parents
• 47:12often said to me. And
• 47:14they
• 47:14said,
• 47:20which translates to education is
• 47:22the richest gift that life
• 47:24has can offer.
• 47:26And what they were telling
• 47:27me was that education would
• 47:29open doors
• 47:31even when resources were limited,
• 47:33and certainly they were limited
• 47:35in in many ways to
• 47:36us.
• 47:37And so growing up as
• 47:38a daughter of Cuban exile,
• 47:39I also learned about the
• 47:41cultural tension of being in
• 47:43a new country.
• 47:44My parents, often afraid to
• 47:46speak up,
• 47:47taught me to honor our
• 47:48host country, right,
• 47:50and be cautious about expressing
• 47:52my views. This confused me
• 47:54at times as I struggled
• 47:55with wanting to speak my
• 47:57mind, especially with my opinions
• 47:58diverted from my very conservative
• 48:01parents. It was only later
• 48:02that I realized I was
• 48:03experiencing a process of acculturation
• 48:06and assimilation.
• 48:07And I
• 48:08I love school so much
• 48:09that I begged my parents
• 48:10to sign me up for
• 48:11summer summer school.
• 48:13And since they couldn't afford
• 48:15camps,
• 48:15I showed up to summer
• 48:17school as a straight a
• 48:17student,
• 48:19and my teachers were very
• 48:20confused about this to see
• 48:22me. And I said, Cecilia,
• 48:23what are you doing here?
• 48:25And,
• 48:26they would make me their
• 48:27teacher assistant.
• 48:28And so without knowing it,
• 48:29I became an educator at
• 48:31the age of eight.
• 48:32Yep. I did.
• 48:37These experiences,
• 48:39along with many others, were
• 48:40preparing me for my path
• 48:42as a psychologist,
• 48:43as an academic psychologist.
• 48:46My curiosity about language
• 48:48acquisition,
• 48:49family dynamics, acculturation,
• 48:51assimilation,
• 48:52cognition,
• 48:54child development in Latino families
• 48:57was born then.
• 48:58And that curiosity has stayed
• 49:00with me throughout my life
• 49:01and my career.
• 49:07Oops. And my photos are
• 49:08not here. Oh, yes. They
• 49:09are.
• 49:10So just briefly, these photos
• 49:12hold special significance to me
• 49:14starting from right first is
• 49:16my the greatest gift in
• 49:17my life,
• 49:18my beautiful and intelligent daughter,
• 49:20Shalini, a her quinceanera,
• 49:23a traditional celebration marking the
• 49:25Latina woman's fifteenth birthday symbolizing
• 49:27her transition from childhood to
• 49:29womanhood, similar to a bar
• 49:30mitzvah, bar mitzvah,
• 49:32in the Jewish in the
• 49:33Jewish culture.
• 49:35It is deeply significant rite
• 49:36of passage in many Latino
• 49:38cultures filled with family, faith,
• 49:39festivities,
• 49:41food.
• 49:43The next photo captures about
• 49:45ten percent
• 49:46of my family
• 49:48during a reunion we hold
• 49:49in Florida every five years
• 49:50or so. And following that
• 49:51is a picture of my
• 49:52remarkable,
• 49:54amazing, brilliant mother,
• 49:56and myself,
• 49:57obviously.
• 49:59She is brilliant,
• 50:01and she was,
• 50:03left everything in Cuba, transitioned
• 50:04from being a skilled accountant,
• 50:07to also being a social
• 50:09worker here and currently a
• 50:10director of a housing program.
• 50:12She instilled in me
• 50:14the value of perseverance.
• 50:16And lastly,
• 50:17there's a picture of several
• 50:19Latina women here from the
• 50:20Child Study Center throughout the
• 50:22years that I've had the
• 50:23privilege of supervising and mentoring,
• 50:26at the child study center,
• 50:27and they have since gone
• 50:28on to work with, within
• 50:29the mental health field
• 50:31with, a focus on culturally
• 50:33responsive care. So some of
• 50:35you may recognize them.
• 50:37This represents a selection of
• 50:41just wanna
• 50:42couple of more slides here.
• 50:44I wanna talk a little
• 50:45bit about, culturally responsive care
• 50:47and some of the work
• 50:47that I've done.
• 50:50Again, I'm not gonna read
• 50:51every slide. I know that
• 50:52we just have six minutes
• 50:53left. This represents some of
• 50:55the work that I've done
• 50:56here, at Yale in in
• 50:58in terms of racial equity
• 50:59initiatives, also some of the
• 51:00work at the APA national.
• 51:02And I've had, the opportunity
• 51:04to also travel internationally,
• 51:06including,
• 51:07setting up a mental health
• 51:08program in Argentina,
• 51:10next year, which I'm thrilled,
• 51:13to work on next. I
• 51:15just really wanna take this
• 51:16opportunity
• 51:17to thank, a number of
• 51:18individuals, particularly,
• 51:21Laurie Cardona,
• 51:22Andres Martin. I'm so deeply
• 51:24grateful
• 51:25for your mentorship.
• 51:26Thank you and support throughout
• 51:28the years. I also wanna
• 51:29thank, doctor James Comore,
• 51:32doctor David Rees,
• 51:34doctor Michael,
• 51:35Block,
• 51:36doctor Darren Lattimore, doctor Cindy
• 51:38Christo,
• 51:39and Linda Mays for your
• 51:41stead steadfast support
• 51:43of, my current work, with
• 51:45the rise of the racially
• 51:46informed clinical formulation tool. Together,
• 51:49we can continue to make
• 51:50a difference.
• 51:51I'm gonna actually end here
• 51:53in the interest of time.
• 51:55I might do have a
• 51:56couple of more slides, but
• 51:57I think it's more important
• 51:58to take some questions. How's
• 52:00that?
• 52:01Thank you. Okay.
• 52:07Well, that was beautiful.
• 52:09And I sat here feeling
• 52:11so lucky because I have
• 52:13had the opportunity to work
• 52:14with each of these women
• 52:15in one way or another
• 52:17throughout the career
• 52:18that I've had here, and
• 52:19it's just amazing. So but
• 52:22who cares about that? Let's
• 52:23talk about the does anybody
• 52:25have any questions for any
• 52:27of our folks today?
• 52:30They showed a lot of
• 52:31things.
• 52:37I have a question. My
• 52:38name is.
• 52:39I'm also from Puerto Rico.
• 52:41And as a fellow Latina,
• 52:43I'm very,
• 52:44just
• 52:45honored,
• 52:46and really grateful just to
• 52:47be able to see your
• 52:48faces, especially in the field
• 52:50that we're in. So thank
• 52:51you to all of you.
• 52:53And my question is is
• 52:55two questions.
• 52:57Well, two parts of the
• 52:58question is, what has been
• 52:59maybe one of the most
• 53:00challenging aspects of being a
• 53:02Latina woman in the mental
• 53:03health field, and then what's
• 53:05been the most rewarding? And
• 53:06anyone can answer it.
• 53:16Thank you for that question,
• 53:17and thank you. And and
• 53:18I'm glad that you're here.
• 53:21So I would say from
• 53:22my own experience,
• 53:24I guess the most challenging
• 53:26part of being a Latina,
• 53:27and I would say it
• 53:28looks different from the mental
• 53:30health space to primarily white
• 53:31spaces. Right.
• 53:33But I do think it's
• 53:34been
• 53:35checking in with myself,
• 53:37like
• 53:38even when I'm starting to
• 53:39work with someone new potentially,
• 53:41to make sure that I'm
• 53:42being that I'm aware
• 53:44of how I'm showing up,
• 53:46that I'm not
• 53:48that I'm I'm constantly learning
• 53:50and unlearning
• 53:51some of the ways in
• 53:52which I've had to show
• 53:53up to survive some spaces.
• 53:56And so that's part of
• 53:57what I keep in mind,
• 53:58and I think that's challenging
• 53:59because you're holding both at
• 54:00the same time.
• 54:02And then there's also, like,
• 54:03the, like, mental capacity, right,
• 54:06of all of that and
• 54:07and holding space for myself,
• 54:09for that moment and for
• 54:10those moments as well. And
• 54:11so I think that that
• 54:12would I would answer the
• 54:13challenging piece from my own
• 54:14perspective.
• 54:15I don't know if anyone
• 54:16wants to,
• 54:17answer the rewarding.
• 54:23It's so nice to meet
• 54:24you.
• 54:26I think the the the
• 54:27most challenging and the most
• 54:29rewarding,
• 54:32Our roots have been
• 54:33so colored by being silenced
• 54:36that I think
• 54:38it's challenging and also so
• 54:40rewarding when I'm able to
• 54:41speak and advocate for my
• 54:43people and my clients.
• 54:45So that's for me. When
• 54:46I'm
• 54:49in the courtroom or in
• 54:50a home or at a
• 54:51school,
• 54:54I really try to pull
• 54:55it in and show up
• 54:56and push myself to say
• 54:58something.
• 54:59So that's both challenging and
• 55:01rewarding.
• 55:04If I can add to,
• 55:07one of the hardest things
• 55:09is actively rejecting the narrative
• 55:11that others have
• 55:13informed by bias and stereotypes
• 55:14that we can sometimes take
• 55:16in.
• 55:17That is one of the
• 55:18biggest and hardest things to
• 55:20be able to do. And
• 55:21when you're able to do
• 55:22it, it's incredibly liberating.
• 55:26Thank you, Tara. You know,
• 55:27along those lines, so,
• 55:34it's great. But, you know,
• 55:35along this line about breaking
• 55:37the stereotype,
• 55:38I don't know if you
• 55:39realize what happened in Mexico
• 55:40today.
• 55:43It's an hour.
• 55:46We have we have the
• 55:47first woman president in Mexico
• 55:50who took charge today.
• 55:52Today.
• 55:53And,
• 55:55you know, without getting political,
• 55:56maybe this country can learn
• 55:58a thing or two. But,
• 55:58anyway,
• 56:03Were there any other questions?
• 56:07You guys have okay.
• 56:08Thank
• 56:12you. My name is Susie
• 56:13Roe, and I do policy
• 56:14and environmental justice work here
• 56:16and focus on the sense
• 56:17of place.
• 56:18And I'm just overwhelmed with
• 56:20all of your stories and
• 56:21especially
• 56:22all the guiding principles and
• 56:24so much magic that you
• 56:25have that's so urgently needed
• 56:27for the communities,
• 56:29that are fence line to
• 56:31pollution and frontline to natural
• 56:33disasters.
• 56:34And I think that it
• 56:35would be wonderful if we
• 56:36could all work together to
• 56:38start
• 56:39making bridges into communities with
• 56:41all the the magic that
• 56:42y'all have in terms of
• 56:43the clinical skill set. And
• 56:44so I don't know if
• 56:45anyone has any ideas about
• 56:47potential next steps. How can
• 56:48we be more supportive
• 56:50so that we can help
• 56:51take what you're saying with
• 56:53your communities that you're in
• 56:54now and help them
• 56:56expand? So does anybody have
• 56:57any thoughts on on next
• 56:59steps or what would be
• 56:59supportive? What are some of
• 57:01the barriers to trying to
• 57:02do that?
• 57:05Well, I think that,
• 57:07when we're reclaiming indigeneity, it
• 57:09also is reclaiming the importance
• 57:11of our environment,
• 57:13of our water,
• 57:14of our waterways, of our
• 57:16food, of how we get
• 57:17food.
• 57:18And so if if we're
• 57:20able to bring that into
• 57:21the spaces, into the homes,
• 57:23into our in our sessions
• 57:24here at the outpatient clinic,
• 57:26I think
• 57:27slowly,
• 57:28we will be
• 57:29watering and nurturing
• 57:31the masses of us growing
• 57:33and then also
• 57:35really infiltrating everywhere.
• 57:37So
• 57:38I think it it takes
• 57:40it takes all of us,
• 57:41really,
• 57:42to let
• 57:43everyone
• 57:44really respect our environment.
• 57:46Anyone else?
• 57:48I think one thing too.
• 57:49We had one comment, and
• 57:50we have another question, and
• 57:51I wanna add.
• 57:52Carolina, you said something about
• 57:54gatekeeping.
• 57:55Right? And that that was
• 57:57a new concept to you.
• 57:58Because within our collectivistic
• 58:00communities,
• 58:01we don't gatekeep. We share.
• 58:04And so if you're thinking
• 58:05about ways that we what's
• 58:06the next step is notice
• 58:08when you're gatekeeping
• 58:09and invite people in. Yes.
• 58:12I also wanna mention,
• 58:14that Lori Cardona made a
• 58:15comment. She's not able to
• 58:17be here, but she's
• 58:18Lori, you're in the room
• 58:19with us, and she was
• 58:20happy to be part of,
• 58:22hearing this. And then we
• 58:23have another question.
• 58:25First of all, thank you
• 58:25so much for sharing all
• 58:26your stories.
• 58:28I noticed that a lot
• 58:29of, you guys are kinda
• 58:31patient facing, client facing,
• 58:34professions. I think there's a
• 58:35lot of work that's needed
• 58:36there, and we're doing the
• 58:36best we can.
• 58:38Have you found it difficult,
• 58:39or how have you found
• 58:40the experience of kind of
• 58:41translating that clinical experience into
• 58:43research efforts or funding efforts
• 58:45to kind of push these
• 58:47and improve or expand these
• 58:48services?
• 58:50And that's a question for
• 58:51the group, whoever is best
• 58:52equipped to answer it.
• 58:56I think rent to worship
• 58:57is the key.
• 58:58And so I'm very happy
• 59:00that,
• 59:01we're doing the work. I
• 59:02know Friday, there was a
• 59:03meeting, and
• 59:05we need it. We need
• 59:06it so that we are
• 59:07involved in the research and
• 59:08that we do have our
• 59:09voice. In that way, we're
• 59:11also teaching and also modeling
• 59:13for the younger
• 59:14generation.
• 59:15So
• 59:16I'm very happy that the
• 59:18Yale Child City Center is
• 59:19working on that.
• 59:23Thank you for that question.
• 59:24You're did you she sure
• 59:27I I just was gonna
• 59:28share a little bit about
• 59:29the way that I'm seeing
• 59:29it,
• 59:30in the ways in which
• 59:31I'm engaged in my community
• 59:33outside of Yale,
• 59:34where I've been able to
• 59:35collaborate with other professionals
• 59:37outside of Yale, between La
• 59:39Clinica Espana, still, I still
• 59:40have connections and roots there,
• 59:42because they were vital to
• 59:43my training, as I started.
• 59:45And, also part of my
• 59:46work with the local universities
• 59:48as well where, I'm helping
• 59:50and and I'm supporting some
• 59:51writing around even, like, how
• 59:53we think about human behavior,
• 59:54and rethinking human behavior from
• 59:56the way in which it
• 59:57was taught in social work,
• 59:59to really integrating how we
• 01:00:01think of it in our
• 01:00:01communities, in our culture, and
• 01:00:03bringing in culture,
• 01:00:04bringing in, just the differences
• 01:00:07in which how we see
• 01:00:08family, how we see development
• 01:00:10in different,
• 01:00:11communities,
• 01:00:12outside of what was taught
• 01:00:13and and the general perspectives,
• 01:00:15that we were taught that
• 01:00:16we're really rooted not I
• 01:00:18don't think they were really
• 01:00:19rooted in how we might,
• 01:00:21identify and show up. And
• 01:00:22so that's part of what
• 01:00:23I am, working and collaborating
• 01:00:25on. And I do think
• 01:00:27it's a process. And like
• 01:00:28Jen said, it's mentorship. It's
• 01:00:29through, people, like, opening up
• 01:00:31doors and opportunities, right, for
• 01:00:33some of this work to
• 01:00:34be known in these spaces.
• 01:00:36So that's also what I
• 01:00:36would say to that.
• 01:00:38I'll I'll just briefly add.
• 01:00:42I'll just thank you so
• 01:00:43much for that question. I
• 01:00:44would just say,
• 01:00:46if you have an idea,
• 01:00:47think about where you are
• 01:00:49and surround yourself
• 01:00:50with individuals who can help
• 01:00:52support your ideas.
• 01:00:53I think that's how I
• 01:00:54actually was able to move
• 01:00:56some of
• 01:00:57some idea that I had,
• 01:00:59in terms of the racially
• 01:01:00informed clinical formulation tool, really
• 01:01:02surround myself with individuals can
• 01:01:05who could help support
• 01:01:08the next steps in in
• 01:01:09that initiative.
• 01:01:11And I think, you know,
• 01:01:12ask questions.
• 01:01:13Ask questions. You know, how
• 01:01:14do you get funding?
• 01:01:15I don't know. But can
• 01:01:16you there's a number of
• 01:01:17individuals here who can help
• 01:01:19support that. So I think
• 01:01:20going back to the mentorship,
• 01:01:21that's really important.
• 01:01:23But overall, don't be scared
• 01:01:24if you have an idea.
• 01:01:25Remember where you are and
• 01:01:27go for it.
• 01:01:35I didn't see other questions.
• 01:01:36I think we're at time,
• 01:01:37but thank you everyone for
• 01:01:38joining us today. Thank you
• 01:01:39everyone on Zoom, and thank
• 01:01:41you to all of you
• 01:01:42for sharing your story and
• 01:01:43for just blessing us with
• 01:01:45this last hour.