Programs & Projects
Rapid Crisis Response Team (RCR Team)
Through this program, this chapter (BAABPsi) will be able to respond to the psychological trauma associated with any natural or manmade tragedy (like Katrina, the Haiti earthquake, or the trauma of local school-based massacres like Columbine, or the senseless any day street shootings of innocent children caught up in the drug wars of our inner cities) by immediately dispatching a team of skilled Black psychology trauma specialists within the Bay Area to provide culturally appropriate services, treatment and referrals at no cost.
Monthly Professional Development Training Seminars
Through the year, our chapter offers for the Chapter membership and guest an opportunity to attend our Monthly Professional Development Training Seminars held at each chapter meeting (upon availability of speakers/ trainers). As Black Psychologists and other Black mental health professionals and educators, we should always be open to refreshing and gain new knowledge in how we can identify the issues within our community and ultimately healing our community. An open invitation to both local and international presenters is welcomed and encouraged to present at these seminars. We offer to our membership and welcome guests an opportunity to gain additional knowledge and resources for professional development, in addition, the possibility to earn CEU credits.
Advances in African (Black) Psychology 8-week course
An intensive course in Black Psychology instructed by one of the fathers of Black Psychology, Wade W. Nobles, Ph.D. This course will be available again in 2011 and will only be available to Bay Area ABPsi members only.
Jegnaship
Accomplished professionals in the social sciences field are linked with students to provide specialized mentorship and guidance. All Student circle members are applicable.
BAABPsi in the Post: “The Mind and Madness: Healing Thoughts From the Bay Area Association of Black Psychologists”
A monthly discussion about critical issues concerning the Mental Health of the Black Community published in the Post Newspaper. All members are eligible and welcome to write articles for the column and take advantage of the opportunity to be published in a mass distributed newspaper. This column is still in the early developmental stage.
ABPsi part of FESMAN 2010, the major intellectual component of the 3rd World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures in Senegal West Africa.
A large delegation of more than 200 American leaders participated in the 3rd World Festival of Black Arts and Cultures in Dakar, Senegal from December 9 to 17, 2010 at the official invitation of the President of the Republic of Senegal, Maître Abdoulaye Wade. The Association of Black Psychologists was represented by the presence of Drs Wade and Vera Nobles.
As part of the official United States Special Delegation. The Nobles both participated and presented in major Symposia on “Africa’s Place in Current Global Affairs.” including a round table on the role of Culture in the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015, with the response to HIV/AIDS as entry point and the symposium, Le Permanence de la résistance des peuples noirs : Session I : Les lectures pluriells des résistance des peuples noirs. Dr. Iba Der Thiam, the FESMAN chairperson organized a Working Group to develop recommendations and a concluding statement regarding the conference program to be presented to President Wade for his report to the African Union Summit in Addis, Ababa, Ethiopia in January 2011.
The following are our joint recommendations and proposed initial follow-up activities to be included in the report that President Wade will present to the African Union Summit at the end of January in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Proposal for the African Union: In order to repair the shattered African consciousness and fractured Black Identity, the African Renaissance should be guided by an international “To be African –We are Family Campaign”, including these elements:
a) Bring the discipline of Black psychology to greater emphasis as it serves as a key praxis in the restoration of the African mind, identity and consciousness. To that end, as co?founder and past national President of the Association of Black Psychologists, I will propose to the Board of Directors of the Association of Black Psychologists, an international body of Black mental health specialists, partner with our professional colleagues throughout Africa to engage in the development and advancement of an African Psychology grounded in African philosophy and wisdom traditions in order to liberate the African mind and to design and implement African centered mental health programming for both Continental and Diasporan African people.
b) Connect traditional African healing techniques with modern medicine and the best of any other healing traditions. As Executive Director of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture, Inc. I will assign the Institute’s Scholar in Residents to identify and partner with African traditional healers and African centered healing practitioners to design, implement and evaluate programs and procedures for utilizing traditional African healing in combination with the best of western and other healing traditions.
c) Explore the Healer Women fighting Disease Model, which uses the technique of re-Africanizing as a prevention model for HIV prevention and the achievement of the HIV/AIDS Millennium Goal. With the approval of the Board of Directors of the Institute for the Advanced Study of Black Family Life and Culture, Inc. we will develop and be prepared to deploy a technical design team to establish throughout Africa “Family Life and Culture” field sites capable of conducting on going in vivo African Centered research, health and healing services.
