Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this training, participants will be able to:
About the Presenters
KB Brookins (they/them) is a Black/queer/transmasculine poet, essayist, and cultural worker from Fort Worth, Texas. Their writing is published in poets.org, Huffington Post, American Poetry Review, Teen Vogue, and elsewhere. KB is the author of How To Identify Yourself with a Wound (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022) and Freedom House (Deep Vellum Publishing, forthcoming 2023). They have earned fellowships and honors from PEN America, Broadway Advocacy Coalition, Lambda Literary, and The Watering Hole among others. Their poem, “Good Grief”, won the Academy of American Poets 2022 Treehouse Climate Action Poem Prize.
KB’s cultural work spans seven years. In that time, they founded and led two nonprofits (Interfaces and Embrace Austin) and contributed to many initiatives, such as Austin’s first LGBTQIA+ quality of life survey, inclusion of chosen names on the University of Texas at Austin diplomas, and serving as Project Lead for the Winter Storm Project. Currently, they are a board member with Ground Floor Theatre; community advisory board member with Texas PRIDE Health; MFA candidate with the New Writers Project at The University of Texas at Austin; and offer freelance arts and consulting services.
Follow them online at @earthtokb, and subscribe to their sporadic opinions/updates through their newsletter, Out of This World.
Melody Li (they/佢) is a queer therapist of Color, speaker, consultant, and mental health justice activist.
They founded Inclusive Therapists: a social justice-oriented mental health directory & community that celebrates the power and centers the needs of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+, and marginalized communities.
They also founded Mental Health Liberation, a non-profit bridging Black, Indigenous and People of Color with free, quality therapy and empowering Clinicians of Color.
Melody offers collective care and education focusing on decolonizing mental health and healing racialized trauma.
Presenters are approved to offer CEU trainings in accordance to:
LPC: TX Administrative Code 681.142
LMFT: TX Administrative Code 801.264
LCSW: TX Administrative Code 781.511 (c)
Psychologists: TX Administrative Code 461.11 (b)
Will my board accept the CEUs?
Most but not all mental health professional regulatory boards accept out-of-state (Texas) and/ or online continuing education hours. CEUs are not “accredited” by national boards.
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