The Effects of Discrimination on the Mental Health of our Communities – Panel Discussion | Friday, September 10, 2021 | 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Panelists are Marvin Lindsey, Dr. Akemi Bailey-Haynie, Guadalupe (Lupe) Ortiz, and Melanie Johnson
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Discrimination is the unfair or prejudicial treatment of people and groups based on characteristics such as race, gender, age, or sexual orientation. Discrimination is incredibly complex and experienced in so many different ways that it can be difficult to pinpoint the process by which it undermines mental health. We will discuss the domino effects of discrimination and the link between discrimination and mental health disorders. Discrimination does not just affect one person, it affects entire communities!
About the Panelists:
Marvin Lindsey is the CEO of a statewide behavioral health association in Illinois. Marvin provides leadership, guidance, and advocacy for member agencies to design and build an effective community behavioral health system throughout Illinois. He is also an executive for a limited liability company of behavioral health providers created to act as preferred providers for behavioral health services to Medicaid beneficiaries for third-party payors across the State of Illinois. Marvin serves on the Illinois Medicaid Advisory Committee, Illinois Advisory Council on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependency, the Illinois Behavioral Health Workforce Taskforce, Adult Use Cannabis Health Advisory Committee, and several other state workgroups in his work capacity committees.
Dr. Akemi Bailey-Haynie is a Global Peace Education & Diversity Specialist. Dr. Bailey-Haynie is an Author, Founder & President of Global Educational Consultants, Inc. She is dynamic global peace education, diversity and inclusion, multicultural trainer, facilitator, consultant, and humanistic adult educator. She has devoted much of her efforts towards broadening the perspective of more the two million educators, administrators, policymakers, social service agencies, nonprofit and corporate personnel throughout America by helping them understand race relations, diversity, and inclusion, multicultural and equity issues, and highlight new systems or strategies to identify early warning signs. She has been a change agent for the past 35 years, working as a coach and mentor, consulting, and training the United Nations personnel, United States Institute of Peace, State Governments, Midwest Express Airlines, the seven City Colleges of Chicago, Illinois Community College Board, Chicago Public Schools, Miami Dade County Public Schools, Ohio Department of Education and teaching elementary to graduate students in numerous educational institutions throughout the United States. In addition, she had created and worked on various multicultural diversity boards and steering committees.
Guadalupe (Lupe) Ortiz is the Executive Director of the Youth and Family Center of McHenry County since 2016 after serving as the Youth Program Manager for a couple of years. Through her years of experience in social services. Lupe has developed a breadth of knowledge and skills in nonprofit management, program management, and service delivery. In addition, she sits on the board as secretary for the Latino Leadership Network for McHenry County. As a community leader, she deeply understands the linguistic, cultural, and economic barriers that many low-income Latino families in McHenry County face and recognizes this population as a top priority.
Melanie Johnson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and owner of New Hope Counseling Center in Crystal Lake and Huntley, IL. Over the past two decades, she has been working in various ways over the past 2 decades to educate white youth and adults about white privilege, white supremacy, and how to become anti-racist in an increasingly divisive world. In addition, Melanie is involved with a nonprofit organization called Be The Bridge and teaches classes on justice, racial reconciliation, and being a better bridge builder.
