Description

Upon completion of this conference, participants will be able to:

1. Identify key ways intergenerational mental health stigma is transmitted within Black families and communities and how it presents in clinical settings.
2. Analyze how cultural expectations of strength and silence influence Black women’s engagement, retention, and help-seeking behaviors in mental health care.
3. Apply culturally responsive, stigma-reducing strategies to clinical assessment and therapeutic engagement with Black women.

 

Presenter Bio

Candice Morrow is a licensed clinical social worker with more than twenty years of experience in healthcare and public health settings. Her professional work reflects a sustained commitment to equitable, compassionate, and culturally responsive practice with medically and socially complex populations. Her clinical perspective is informed by an understanding of how structural inequities, cultural expectations, and lived experience shape health and mental health outcomes across the lifespan.

Ms. Morrow earned her Bachelor of Social Work from Alabama State University in 2003 and her Master of Social Work from Florida State University in 2010. She holds professional social work licenses in Alabama and Mississippi and is approved to provide clinical supervision to BSW- and MSW-level social workers in Alabama.

She currently serves in a regional leadership role within renal care social work, providing clinical oversight and professional support. Ms. Morrow is a Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Social Work whose work reflects a strong scholar–practitioner orientation. Her scholarly interests focus on intergenerational mental health stigma, Black women’s engagement with mental health services, and culturally responsive clinical practice. Her capstone project, Her Silence, Her Strength: Addressing Intergenerational Mental Health Stigma Among Black Women, examines how inherited stigma shapes help-seeking behaviors and advances practice-based strategies aimed at disrupting silence, promoting healing, and strengthening culturally responsive social work interventions.

 

Delivery Method: Live Interactive Training via Zoom Video Conferencing

Credit Hours: 1.0 (ACE)

Target Audience: This conference is intended for social workers and students.

Accreditation: University of Kentucky College of Social Work, Provider # 1377, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/29/25-9/29/28. Social workers participating in this conference will receive up to 15 general continuing education credits.

Claiming CE Credit: Instructions for claiming CE credit will be disseminated at the beginning of each session.

Questions: If you have any questions regarding CE credit or to report a grievance, please contact Christina Krantz at Christina.Krantz@uky.edu. For technical assistance, please contact lmshelp@uky.edu.

 

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in these presentations are those of the individual presenters and do not necessarily reflect the official policies or positions of the University of Kentucky or the College of Social Work. The inclusion of any topics, perspectives, or discussions is intended for academic engagement and does not constitute endorsement by the institution.