WSU, Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute Fall 2024 Colloquia Series is pleased to present:

Choosy: Black Mothers Making Choices about Supports for Wellness

Amittia Parker, PhD, LMSW, MPA, IMH-E®
Assistant Professor, Georgetone University

Join us on ZOOM, THURSDAY, DEC. 12, 2024, Noon - 1:00 pm (EST)
Speaker meets with MPSI Fellows & Trainees 1-2 pm

This talk on Black maternal mental health and supports for wellness centers the voices and experiences of Black mothers. This experience will inspire critical self-reflection and action to enhance existing supports, and also create better supports for Black mothers.

SPEAKER BIO:

Amittia Parker, PhD, LMSW, MPA, IMH-E® Specialist is a social worker, researcher, trainer, and mama scholar. She is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She provides training and technical assistance for the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety. She also helps lead a program evaluation on infant mental health consultation. Her research, scholarship, and service focuses on advancing minority mental health and equity, particularly among families that are pregnant and parenting young children. Amittia has worked for 15 years as a mental health consultant across a variety of settings, including home-based services, childcare centers, school-based services, and health clinics. This practice experience inspires her research on Black maternal mental health, mental health in higher education, behavioral health services, and natural helping. She serves in leadership roles in local, state, and national venues focused on infant and early childhood, Black communities, and Black social workers.

ZOOM:
https://wayne-edu.zoom.us/j/99576067904?pwd=RTuHdO2BeaGKVO5IpsrF1XbD40JL8V.1
Meeting ID: 995 7606 7904
Passcode: 469566
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MPSI colloquia are opportunities for expert researchers to present their work. They come from local, national and international universities. Presentations take place roughly twice a month, from September to April. Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute is part of WSU, Division of Research.

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