Zoom Link for Registration: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PRS4zyooR3iztBtdoUPMcw

Learning Objectives: 

1. Describe how Black youth experience and interpret trauma-related mental health inequities in their communities
2. Identify three youth-identified strategies to promote mental health equity - raising awareness, improving intergenerational communication, and promoting collective community approaches - and discuss how these strategies can inform community-based mental health initiatives
3. Describe how the HEART intervention was developed and adapted for Black youth and explain its preliminary outcom

Speakers:

Briana Woods-Jaeger, Ph.D.

Dawn Townsend, MS, LPC, NCC

Derrick Townsend, CFT, CSN

Citations Used for Presentation:

Hampton-Anderson, J.N., Woods-Jaeger, B., Maxwell, T.B., Craighead, W.E. (2025). Racial discrimination and anxiety in African American youth: Risk, resilience, and intervention. Journal of Mood & Anxiety Disorders, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xjmad.2025.100115.

Woods-Jaeger, B., Jahangir, T., Lucas, D., Freeman, M., Renfro, T.L., Knutzen, K.E., Cave, N., Jackson, M., Chandler, C., Riggins, C., & Lightfoot, A.F. (2024). Youth Empowered Advocating for Health (YEAH): Facilitating partnerships between prevention scientists and Black youth to promote health equity. Prevention Science, 25, 20-30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-022-01450-9

Woods-Jaeger, B., Jahangir, T., Ash, M.J., Komro, K., Belton, I. & Livingston, M. (2024). The Potential of Minimum Wage Increases to Reduce Youth Homicide Disparities: Diminishing Returns for Black Youth. Prevention Science, 25,891-897. doi: 10.1007/s11121-024-01714-6

Ash, M.J., Knutzen, K.E., Ogbeide, I., Renfro, T.L, Ramirez, M.R., Woods-Jaeger, B. (in press) Barriers and Facilitators to the Online Delivery of a School-Based Intervention to Reduce Racial Trauma. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services

Woods-Jaeger, B., Knutzen, K.E., Lucas, D., Cave, N., Latimer, S.K., Adams, A., Bates, A., & Renfro, T.L. (2022). Anti-racist violence prevention: Partnering with Black Youth to Identify Intervention Priorities. Health Promotion Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399221129542

Jahangir, T., Lucas, D., Lemon, E., Ogbeide, I., Latimer, S., Bates, A., Adams, A., Renfro, T. & Woods-Jaeger, B. (2022). Implementing photovoice online to promote critical consciousness, agency, and action among Black youth during a pandemic. Journal of Participatory Research Methods, 3, 3. https://doi.org/10.35844/001c.33677

Woods-Jaeger, B., Hampton-Anderson, J., Christensen, K., Miller, T., O’Connor, P., Berkley-Patton, J. (2021). School-based racial microaggressions: A barrier to resilience among African American adolescents exposed to trauma. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001091

Piper, K.N., Elder, A., Renfro, T., Iwan, A., Ramirez, M., & Woods-Jager, B. (2021). The importance of anti-racism in trauma-informed family engagement. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. Advance online publication. https://doi:10.1007/s10488- 021-01147-1

Woods-Jaeger, B., Briggs, E. C., Gaylord-Harden, N., Cho, B., & Lemon, E. (2021). Translating cultural assets research into action to mitigate adverse childhood experience–related health disparities among African American youth. American Psychologist, 76(2), 326–336. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000779

Woods-Jaeger, B., Siedlik, E., Adams, A., *Piper, K., O’Connor, P., & Berkley-Patton, J. (2020). Building a contextually-relevant understanding of resilience among African American youth exposed to community violence. Behavioral Medicine, 46, 330-339. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2020.1725865.