WICS: 2nd Annual Summer Symposium
About the Event
The Summer Symposium is an annual event that will address Health, Mental Health and Access from an Ecological Perspective. The theme for the 2023 Summer Symposium is: Cultural Competency as a Social Justice Issue. The Symposium seeks to establish a diverse, supportive professional community, who contribute to the growth and development of the Scholars and build a sustainable pipeline into underserved communities. We seek to recognize, share, and celebrate the educational and clinical efforts, as well as community leadership within various interdisciplinary fields. Through the Symposium, scholars will have an opportunity to come together to share their experience in the field of health and mental health care for the high-need communities in the St. Louis metro area. WICS scholars at Webster and grant recipients at SIUE will showcase internship experiences through poster presentations, case study presentations, and/or panel discussions. The event also provides networking opportunities with site supervisors, community partners, and nearby HRSA-BHWET award recipients. The Summer Symposium will provide CEU opportunity for site supervisors, faculty, local counseling professionals and other HRSA-BHWET grantees. Key Events will be streamed Live.
Presented by:
The Summer Symposium is a collaboration between Webster University through the Webster Institute for Clinical Scholarship and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's HRSA-BHWET Scholars Program and is made possible by the generous support of Chiron Community Giving Foundation.
*The Webster Institute for Clinical Scholars (WICS) was developed after Webster University was awarded the Health Resources and Services Administration - Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training (HRSA-BHWET) grant which aims to increase the supply of culturally competent behavioral health professionals in order to promote access to quality behavioral health services. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit HRSA.gov.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. S. Kent Butler, Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with a concentration in Counseling Psychology, from the University of Connecticut. He is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC), and Nationally Certified School Counselor (NCSC). Dr. Butler is a Past President of the American Counseling Association (2021-2022), is an ACA Fellow, and hosted an ACA’s weekly vodcast, “The Voice of Counseling”. Dr. Butler formerly served the University of Central Florida as the Chief Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Officer and is a National Association of Chief Diversity Officer in Higher Education Fellow (2020-2021). In March of 2020, he was selected as a Fellow within the National Association of Chief Diversity Officers in Higher Education’s Chief Diversity Officer Fellows Program (NADOHE-CDOFP). He is a 2020 – 2021 cohort (C-7) member. The professional leadership program mentors new and early career Chief Diversity Officers. Dr. Butler is a Professor of Counselor Education at the University of Central Florida and has served as a Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence within the Office of the Provost. Dr. Butler presently serves as faculty advisor to CHI SIGMA IOTA International Honor Society (CSI), the Counselor Education Doctoral Student Organization (CEDSO), Project for Haiti Knights, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He served as the Principal Investigator, for The High-Risk Delinquent and Dependent Child Educational Research Project: Situational Environmental Circumstances Mentoring Program (SEC), which was a partnership between the University of Central Florida and several Florida universities. This grant opportunity has transitioned into the UCF Young Knights Mentoring Project a program that supports students at Hungerford Elementary School in Eatonville, FL. Also on the national level, Dr. Butler has served the Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (AMCD) as the 2011 – 2012 President and ACA Governing Council Representative (2015 – 2018). He is a proud member of AMCD’s Multicultural Counseling Competencies Revisions Committee which produced the Multicultural Social Justice Counseling Competencies (MSJCC). His research and academic interests lie in the areas of Multicultural and International Counseling, Social Justice, Mentoring, Counseling work as it relates specifically to African American males, Group Counseling, School Counseling, and Multicultural Supervision. S. Kent Butler, Jr. holds a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, with a concentration in Counseling Psychology, from the University of Connecticut. Dr. Butler is a Professor of Counselor Education at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Butler is a Past President of the American Counseling Association (2021-2022), is an ACA Fellow, and hosted an ACA’s weekly vodcast, “The Voice of Counseling”. He formerly served UCF as the Chief Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Officer and has also served as a Faculty Fellow for Inclusive Excellence within the Office of the Provost. He presently serves as faculty advisor to CHI SIGMA IOTA International Honor Society, the Counselor Education Doctoral Student Organization, Project for Haiti Knights, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
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