Antiracism in Mental Health Fellowship:
Ignite Your Antiracist Clinical Practice
Healthcare providers can no longer stand by, disconnected from their sociopolitical context and idle in the face of injustice. Healthcare is political, and mental healthcare is political. The worldwide call to action has never been louder. Here’s your opportunity to answer it.
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I'M READY TO ENROLL!THE ANTIRACISM IN MENTAL HEALTH FELLOWSHIP LOWDOWN
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SAVE LIVES, PROTECT LIVES
- Designed for healthcare providers but open to all.
- 30 pre-recorded lectures (40 minutes or less) that you watch on your own time. Each lecture features a journal prompt (5 minutes) and a recommended reading (15 minutes).
- 8 45-minute live group video sessions. Optional 1:1 supervision sessions with Dr. Legha.
- Time commitment: flexible! The most intensive version is 2-3 hours per week for four months. This allows you to watch 2 lectures per week, complete their related journal prompts and key readings, and attend the twice monthly groups. HOWEVER, you have access to the lectures for a minimum of 12 months. This access allows you to complete 2-3 lectures per month for an average time commitment of 2-3 hours per month.
- We also offer a package featuring the 30 lectures and four 1:1 sessions with Dr. Legha scheduled at your leisure. This option is the most flexible and ideal for individuals with tight schedules.
- Over 75 bullet-proof antiracist clinical strategies pertaining to psychoeducation, documentation, and clinical activism.
“Activism is the rent I pay for living on the planet.”
- Alice Walker
Secure Your Antiracism Transformation with Dr. Rupi Legha's FREE Antiracism Webinars!
The next step on your journey with the Antiracism in Mental Health Fellowship is to check out a webinar. Dr. Rupi Legha invites you to watch two FREE 60-minute webinars focused on connection, exploration, and reflection. Dr. Legha answers questions about the fellowship and shares samples of lecture material and antiracism strategies.
Whether you're considering the fellowship, have questions about enrollment, or want insights into the transformative journey ahead, these sessions are tailored for you. Dr. Rupi is eager to delve into your motivations, address challenges, and share insights, fostering solidarity and understanding. Dr. Legha will discuss your tuition package options, too. Sign up for the Antiracist MD Newsletter to stay posted on forthcoming FREE webinars!
WATCH A FREE WEBINAR!HERE’S WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
Module 1: Answering the Call to Action
Develop basic skills for answering the call to action for an antiracist approach to mental healthcare. By defining your own positionality, exploring critical consciousness and racial identity development, and differentiating between race and racism, you’ll lay a solid foundation for the heroic journey ahead.
Module 2: Deep Historical Orientation
Move beyond superficial approaches to racism, like health disparities, by unearthing the root historical causes of racist mental health inequities. By identifying enduring historical arcs of oppression, like “mental health and the carceral state,” you'll position yourself to transform, rather than perpetuate, them during clinical care.
Module 3: Definitions of Racism and Whiteness
We cannot dismantle the oppression we cannot see; but once we see it, we cannot unsee it. Learning to identify every form of racism, whiteness, and other intersecting systems of oppression will allow you to launch fierce and focused strategies that protect people against them.
Module 4: Racism’s Toxic Impact on Health
Racism devastates and harms through cortisol surges, weathering, and epigenetics. It propagates and spreads through “rigged discourses” that talk about it but do nothing to change it. By leveraging your newfound expertise about racism and its impact on health, you'll become an intrepid advocate for people suffering under its weight.
Module 5: Putting It All Together: Sustaining the Antiracism Journey Ahead
You’ve done all the work and you’ve cultivated the necessary toolkit for meaningful antiracism in mental healthcare. Get ready to put all the modules together and zero in on key antiracist psychoeducational, documentation, and clinical activism strategies that can save lives.
Testimonial about Dr. Legha’s Workshop “Teaching the Legacy of Slavery in American Medicine and Psychiatry:
"This lecture, despite being extraordinarily difficult, was the most effective lecture/discussion I have ever attended during my time here at David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM). The session needs to be included yearly and needs to be made mandatory for all DGSOM students."
- Second-Year Medical Student, DGSOM (2019)
Ready to be part of a transformative journey?
The Antiracism in Mental Health Fellowship is calling, but we're keeping this exclusive.
Join the Fall 2024 waitlist this isn't your typical mental health training. It's an intimate, game-changing experience.
Imagine being part of the pioneers rewriting the narrative in mental healthcare provision.
This isn't just a fellowship; it's a movement, and we need you.
Your chance to make history is knocking—will you answer? 🔥🚀
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Testimonial about Dr. Legha’s Heart-Centered, Antiracist Approach to Mental Healthcare:
"I am forever grateful for the love and care that was shown to me by Dr.Legha. If it were not for her help, nothing that I have accomplished so far would have been possible. I stand here today as a proud mother myself, and college graduate both things that at one point in my life seemed impossible. Thank you always, Dr.Legha!"
- An Adult Who Received Care from Dr. Legha When They Were a Child (2022)
Hello, I'm Dr. Rupi Legha
Daughter. Aunty. Scholar. Activist. Friend.
I am the daughter of Punjabi-Sikh immigrants and was born in Houston, Texas. My proudest title is aunty to my beloved nibling and dog-mom to my unruly doxies Saint (a.k.a. Yves Saint Laurent) and Sachi (a.k.a. Versace).
After graduating from Harvard Medical School, I completed nine years of post-graduate training in adult psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry, global mental health, and health services research.
My global mental health experience, which involved living and working in Haiti and Peru for three years, was a highlight of my career. After I completed training in 2018, I worked in various psychiatric clinical care settings while developing innovative medical education content pertaining to racism and antiracism.
COVID changed everything for me. It made me realize I could no longer continue practicing in standard mental health settings, where I witnessed racism’s devastation on a daily basis and feared I was doing more harm than good.
In 2021, I launched my private practice in California with the goal of providing high-quality, antiracist, and affirming mental health care that promotes healing and joy. No more restraints. No more calling the police. No more diagnostic condemnation of people’s suffering. Few providers possess my unique academic and clinical expertise, as well as my passion for the work I feel so privileged to do.
In addition to providing clinical care, I write and teach extensively about health equity and antiracism in mental healthcare and healthcare more broadly. My scholarship enhances and deepens my clinical work.
I believe that the people I see in my practice find their way to me as much as I find my way to them. I feel the same way about the learners I get to collaborate with–like you! I am thrilled to help you unlock more freedom and joy in your antiracist clinical practice.
I WANT TO JOIN TODAY!“Women of color can draw strength and purpose from recognizing that their own decision to nurture and promote themselves and their missions is intertwined with a larger imperative to promote intergenerational healing.”
- Rupi Legha
🌟 Transformation-Ready Healthcare Innovators
Tired of the status quo? Ready to challenge the system? This fellowship is your pathway to meaningful transformation. It’s time to get disruptive!
👥 Socially Conscious Clinicians: Whether you're a psychologist, nurse, or medical student, if you believe healthcare is inherently political and should be approached with a socially conscious mindset, this fellowship aligns with your values. While designed primarily for healthcare providers, the Antiracism in Mental Health Fellowship welcomes EVERYONE, including teachers, community organizers, social justice, advocates, and individuals with lived experience.
💡 Fulfill CME Requirements with Impact: Perfect for healthcare providers seeking to fulfill CME requirements for licensure while actively contributing to the movement for antiracist clinical care.*
🏥 Team Players in Healthcare Settings: Ideal for individuals working in healthcare settings—academic medical centers, clinical practices, mental health facilities—looking for an intensive training opportunity for themselves and their colleagues. Join the pilot as a party of one and then work with Dr. Legha afterward to bring the fellowship to your clinic, hospital, medical school, or any other healthcare setting.
🚀 Ready for a Unique Training Opportunity: This fellowship is not just another checkbox to mark or competency to perfect. It's a unique training experience that goes beyond theories, offering real-world strategies to address mental health inequities. We’ll get you to talk the talk AND walk the walk so you can keep on marching after the fellowship ends.
🌈 Change-Makers of Healthcare: If you're ready to be part of the movement to transform mental healthcare into a truly caring profession, join the fellowship and be a trailblazer in rewriting the rules for your clinical practice.
*Continuing medical educational credits for this fellowship are provided exclusively through CMEfy. State licensing boards are highly variable, in terms of approved continuing educational credits. The pilot of the Antiracism in Mental Health Fellowship launching in March 2024 will feature CME credits exclusively through CMEfy. However, Dr. Legha is open to working with CME-accredited institutions interested in fellowship material to ensure their employees receive proper credit.
Testimonials from Diverse Healthcare Providers about Dr. Legha’s Grand Rounds Presentations about Racism (2013-2019)
"She put forth a valiant effort to expose a very difficult topic in healthcare."
"Dr. Legha presented an emotionally provocative and clinically significant issue concisely."
"Brave, intelligent, outstanding."
"Dr. Legha is an amazing speaker."
"Absolutely wonderful, eye-opening, and powerful."
"Best/most important grand rounds of the year."
WHAT YOU'LL GET
Continuing Medical Education Credits
Dive into an immersive experience with over 30 dynamic lectures spread across five diverse modules. Explore thought-provoking topics such as 'Deep Historical Orientation,' 'Definitions of Racism and Whiteness,' and 'Racism's Toxic Impact on Health.' Plus, earn a minimum of 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits through CMEfy—ideal for doctors, nurses, NPs, PAs, pharmacists, and other members of the healthcare team.
Evidence-Based
The fellowship explores the works of influential scholars, like Dorothy Roberts, David Williams, Ibram Kendi, and Janet Helms, and incorporates historical, sociological, and biomedical perspectives. Grounded in Dr. Rupi Legha's numerous scholarly publications about antiracism and years of teaching at academic medical centers globally, it draws from her rare multidisciplinary expertise. Dr. Legha's contributions, featured in top psychology, medical education, child psychiatry, global health, and health policy journals, have earned her accolades from prestigious institutions such as Harvard Medical School, Duke University, and the American College of Psychiatrists. Her recognized expertise is reflected in invitations to lead grand rounds and teach healthcare providers worldwide.
Engaging Content
Powerful visuals featuring figures like Elizabeth Eckford (of the Little Rock Nine), Fannie Lou Hamer, and scenes from the Pine Ridge Reservation amplify the content’s impact. Thought-provoking quotes by influential voices such as James Baldwin, Sherman Alexie, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, inject life into educational messages and ensure a memorable experience. Forget the mundane PowerPoint slides; our visuals are a testament to this. For a sneak peek, explore Dr. Legha’s presentation slides from “Teaching the Legacy of Slavery…”
Antiracist Clinical Strategies
Each of the 30 lectures features 3 antiracist clinical strategies pertaining to psychoeducation, documentation, and clinical activism. That adds up to a toolkit of 90 fierce strategies, directly applicable to your clinical practice.
Personal Growth and Reflection
The fellowship fosters critical consciousness, nurtures racial identity development, and hastens antiracism journeys so healthcare providers can respond to racism as a public health crisis and engage in antiracism as a professional imperative. It ensures antiracism becomes a lifelong journey, not a one-time learning experience.
Meaningful Racial Dialogue
Dr. Legha will facilitate a series of eight engaging group discussions about the course material. Rest assured, all group conversations will be recorded, providing you with access to the replay in case you can't make it to a session. We value your privacy—please note that the recordings will exclusively be accessible to your fellowship group and will be promptly removed from the platform once your fellowship concludes.
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
- Angela Davis
BE PART OF THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE
The public health crisis of racism is ending lives, and healthcare providers must answer the mandate for an antiracist approach that protects and saves them. It's time to stop merely describing social injustice and start doing something about it. Join the Antiracism in Mental Health Fellowship now.
ALL PACKAGES INCLUDE
- Access to 30 lecture recordings for 12 months on Kajabi (2 lectures will be released each week).
- 25 recommended key readings and self-reflective exercises that advance learners’ antiracism journeys.
- 25 antiracist clinical strategies (25 pertaining to documentation, 25 pertaining to psychoeducation, 25 pertaining to clinical activism and advocacy) that can be implemented immediately.
- A detailed facilitator’s manual providing information described in the lecture recordings, including key terms.
- A minimum of 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits through CMEfy.
- An invitation to participate in subsequent advanced antiracism fellowships led by Dr. Legha.
- Upon completion of the fellowship in its entirety, an Antiracism in Mental Health Certificate of Excellence that you can hang in your office, permission to include our "Antiracism in Mental Health Fellowship Scholar" badge in your email signature, and an invitation to join a publicly available directory of antiracist mental health providers so members of the community can seek out your antiracism clinical expertise.
Lock in this exclusive pilot rate – your best deal for transformative learning! Act quickly as enrollment is limited to ensure a high-quality learning experience. The worldwide call to action for antiracism in mental health has never been louder, and this fellowship equips you to respond.
Testimonial about Dr. Legha’s Antiracism in Mental Health Module Workshop
"I only wish that this could be a year-long course and that we had more time! I have never been in a space that was so intentional and reflective on our roles in this system."
- Medical Student, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine (2023)
Your Questions, Dr. Rupi's Responses
How much time does the fellowship take?
I don’t think I have time to do the fellowship. Two hours per week is a lot.
Four months is a long time. I don’t think I can commit to do this.
Now is not a good time, so I’ll do it later.
I have my doubts, I am not sure I can afford the Fellowship
Is there much reading is involved?
When do the Group Sessions take place?
How do I take what I learn back to my organization/institution?
Do you offer any scholarships?
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