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SUMMARY:Reclaim Your Self Empowerment
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DESCRIPTION: In this seminar\, participants will get an opportunity to 
 cultivate a sense of resilience at a time that is challenging\, 
 emotionally activating\, and troubling. Through various healing and mental
  wellness frameworks\, Dr. Ramirez will review tools\, strategies\, and 
 content that are aimed at supporting AAPI folx impacted by the increased 
 rates of violence\, racism and xenophobia towards our community. 
 Together\, we will review relational strategies to develop courage\, 
 identify a true north to support in emotional and behavioral stuckness\, 
 and trauma-informed and healing centered tools to help ground folx when 
 distressed and find empowerment in professional and personal collectives. 
 Learning Objectives 1. Develop an understanding of mental health needs 
 among AAPI professionals amidst the increase in AAPI violence and 
 descrimination 2. Increase knowledge on mental wellness strategies towards
  resilience and empowerment About the Speaker: Dr. Noel Ramirez is the son
  of two beautifully resilient Filipino immigrants and grew up in Jersey 
 City\, NJ. He is a clinical social worker dedicated to creating 
 opportunities for folx and communities to find a home within themselves. 
 Dr. Ramirez is the director and owner of Mango Tree Counseling and 
 Consulting\, a group practice and mental health resource center for Asian 
 American/Pacific Islanders (AAPI) folx in the state of Pennsylvania. 
 Outside of Mango Tree\, Dr. Ramirez is involved in varying community 
 health and empowerment initiatives\, specifically in working as a 
 behavioral health consultant at a local federally qualified health 
 center\, teaching graduate social work practice on intersectionality and 
 healing-centered practices at Columbia University and West Chester 
 University\, and social empowerment programming with Philadelphia Asian 
 and Queer. He received his doctorate degree in Behavioral Health from 
 Arizona State University\, graduate degree in public health from Drexel 
 University\, and his MSW from the University of Pennsylvania. 
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URL:https://boston.naaap.org:443/events/reclaim-your-self-empowerment
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