CAMFTDiversity CommitteePlease email Committee Chair Marty Frankel at martyfrankel@icloud.com for information Marin CAMFT Anti-Racist Impact StatementMarin
CAMFT is dedicated to creating healing relationships and spaces that
engender safety and growth. Anti-racism is a verb. We believe that to be an anti-racist or engaged in anti-othering we must assume active responsibility and engagement on many areas. Marin CAMFT's Diversity Committee is engaged in efforts such as:
Current members of the Marin CAMFT Diversity Committee are Marty Frankel, Lynn Robinson, Adam Cohen, and Lisa Wenninger. The Diversity Committee is currently meeting quarterly with the Continuing Education Committee to help promote diversity, equity, and inclusion through the Marin CAMFT programming. We are looking for new members to join both of these efforts! If you would like to become involved with the Diversity Committee, please email Marty at martyfrankel@icloud.com and she can share further information. A brief history of our recent activities is below. April 2022: The Marin CAMFT Board of Directors voted on changing the Mission Statement based on a proposal by the Diversity Committee. The new Mission Statement as of 4/8/22, with changes marked in blue, is:
January 2022: All Marin CAMFT members were invited to the Marin CAMFT Annual Planning Retreat on January 8th to talk about ideas with the whole chapter on increasing awareness of issues surrounding diversity, equity, and inclusion, along with other conversations for membership and planning. Then, the Diversity Committee met on January 30th to put more plans into place specific to the diversity-focused initiatives that we want to embrace as a chapter in 2022. We hosted a Study Group in August 2021 focused on race
The Marin CAMFT Diversity Committee offered a Study Group around the book Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad.
Weekly one-hour meetings every Friday in August to work through the reflections offered in this book. Assigned readings in between each meeting. Open to all current members of Marin CAMFT. Free. Because becoming anti-racist is ongoing work. This Study Group is being organized by the Diversity Committee, with two co-facilitators who will be serving the group to manage logistics only. This will be a participant-led experience. Because of this format, this does not meet the CAMFT requirement for training and will not qualify for CEUs. Please consider purchasing Me and White Supremacy from a Black-owned bookstore such as this one, The Collective in Oakland. |
Marin CAMFT is working to increase awareness of bias and the harms caused by inequality. Since 2020 especially, Marin CAMFT's Board of Directors has been working to increase the breadth of programming offered through our chapter's continuing education, both in content and also in representation. The Diversity Committee is part of these efforts.
The Diversity Committee meets regularly to discuss initiatives that can be promoted at the Chapter level. In 2021, we developed our Anti-Racist Impact Statement, implemented a requirement for all Marin CAMFT speakers and presenters to include at least one learning objective focused on diversity, and planned the Study Group in August.
Resources
In 2020, we published the below list of resources in five areas of diversity: Racial, LBGTQIA+, Disability, Religious, and Generational. (Thank you to 2019 President Dan Neuharth for compiling this initial list!) We welcome suggestions for other links to resources and viewpoints about diversity and inclusiveness that are especially relevant to the practice of psychotherapy, diversity awareness for therapists and clients, support for diversity among our clients, and/or diversity resources in Marin and the Bay Area. Please send comments, corrections, or additions for this page to the Marin CAMFT web editor
Note: The list below is updated only periodically. Over time, links to these external sources may stop functioning. If you find a broken link, we'd be grateful to be informed.
Racial/Ethnic |
LGBTQIA |
Differently-abled |
Religious |
Generational |
