Part 2 of 3 in series that can be completed individually or as a full series. The interactive three-part series is designed to increase vocational rehabilitation counseling professionals' capacity to cultivate resiliency in people with disabilities. With an emphasis on increasing cultural responsiveness of professionals  who provide services to consumers who are from under-resourced and racially/culturally diverse backgrounds. 

Part Two of the series prepares attendees to foster resiliency in clients across the rehabilitation process.  It will introduce attendees to the strategies to provide services from clients’ sociocultural perspective.  

Upon completion of this webinar, you will be able to:

1) Explore protective and risk factors of resiliency from the perspective of social determinants of health, adverse childhood experience, and trauma. 

2) Describe practices that promote an understanding of resiliency in

3) Develop skills to promote resiliency using a socio-ecological framework

Presenter: Dr. Michell Temple, EdD., CRC, NCC, CCPT, LPC (GA), LPC/MHSP (TN), President of the National Association of Multicultural Rehabilitation Concerns, is currently serving as the Counselor and ADA Coordinator at Tusculum University.  She provides counseling and rehabilitation services using a cognitive behavioral approach with an emphasis on meaning making of emotions and life circumstances. She brings a professional commitment of over hundred hours of continuing education to this topic. She holds a doctorate from the University of West Georgia in Professional Counseling