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Multidirectional Emotional First Aid

Dr. Angela Graham-Williams, LPC LCP-S LLP

Since starting my business in 2000, I have been happily sharing tips and helpful resources with clients and with the greater community. I believe that everybody, not just my loyal clients, should have access to the information and tools that will lead to more positive and fulfilling life pursuits. Check out some of the stories and resources below and contact me if you want to learn more.

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Format:

  • Program delivery will be highly interactive despite being structured as a didactic, face to face lectures.

  • The presentations will be administered via a seven hour, full day seminar.

  • The session begins with a self-introduction, discussion of my education, clinical training/certifications, professional experience, and personal connection to the topic.

  • The presentations will provide an explanation of Multidirectional First Aid its potential impact on recipients, and its capacity to assuage the effects of emotional injuries on the lived experiences of vulnerable communities

  • Discussions will ensure regarding internal and external logistical considerations for implementation

  • Question/Answer period

  • Attendees’ attainment of course learning objectives will be assessed via a post-test.

  • Encouragement to remain connected with the audience will conclude the presentations.

  • Contact information for attendees will be collected for the provision of Certificates of Completion.

Anticipated MEFA Outcomes:

  • Participants will understand the difference between horizontal and vertical relationships

  • Emotional hygiene practices become a normalized part of participant’s life

  • Participants will feel more empowered and better equipped to cope with life’s challenges

  • Participants will realize their mental and physical health are equally important

  • Participants will have a better sense of the nuanced emotional needs of BIPOC communities

  • Participants will learn to work towards mastery in self-soothing

  • Participants will be better equipped to manage daily stressors

  • Those providing support will assist Individuals in feeling less alone

  • Helping behaviors become increasingly normalized

  • Participants will have a better understanding of the stigma regarding mental and behavioral health treatment in Black communities

  • Realization that emotional distress is not unique to the mentally ill

  • An understanding is cultivated that allies are real

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Multidirectional Emotional First Aid

As access to care is often times limited for our communities’ most disenfranchised individuals who frequently struggle with myriad health related and accompanying psychosocial needs, practitioners are finding difficulty in addressing the multifaceted health maintenance of these increasingly vulnerable populations. For many emotional wounds, research has demonstrated that providing immediate care has longstanding impact on the prevention of future manifestation particularly for the nuanced needs of individuals during these taxing times of unrest.  Driven by a need for personal wellness and in the moment support for the difficulty of contemporary stressors, MEFA is a framework that provides practical strategies to those not only depleted by the stressors of life but to anyone who must also interface with individuals emotionally impacted by living in today’s racially and politically polarizing times of COVID. This culturally competent, data-driven solution trains laymen to recognize the signs of and provide immediate relief to themselves and others suffering with emotional injuries while mitigating psychological exacerbation and manifestation into severe, affecting distress. 

Objectives:

  • Attendees will be able to identify when they themselves or other individuals are in the midst of crisis or the manifestation of emotional injury

  •  Attendees will have a better understanding of the stigmatization of behavioral health that impacts Black students’ perception of connecting to direct care treatment modalities

  • Attendees will feel empowered to provide, in the moment, emotional supports to themselves or others, when necessary regardless of the type of relationship

  • Attendees will understand the difference between their own ability to provide immediate, emotional care and when to call a crisis, emergency hotline

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