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Welcome to the JUSTICE PROGRAM (formerly known as the racial Trauma center) at Genesee Valley Psychology!
As a clinic inspired by social-justice values, we aim to uplift existing efforts and offer needed services to create a more equitable world. We aim to offer evidence-based treatments in an accessible way. Accessibility means multiple things to us, including 1) making our services financially accessible by taking area insurances including medicare, and offering sliding scale rates 2) working daily to increase our cultural accessibility by striving to increase the cultural awareness, responsiveness, and humility of our clinicians, and 3) sharing therapeutic resources for those with sociocultural barriers to receiving mental health care. We engage in regular trainings as individuals and as a group to work towards these values.
The Justice Program’s primary goal is to support and uplift local justice efforts aimed at co-creating mental health equity and healing racial trauma, as well as other traumas related to holding marginalized identities (e.g., LGBTQ+, disability status, etc.). We have community partnerships where we donate our time and expertise (see below). We also provide services for identified needs that are not currently being met. Our community partners and offerings are listed below. We would love to hear from you about unmet needs in the community and/or ongoing social justice efforts we can support.
Even ERP (the treatment for OCD) can be Justice-Based! See this free talk hosted by the International OCD Foundation interviewing our Director Dr. Lauren Wadsworth on Justice-Based ERP Considerations & Techniques
Community Partners & Resources
Click here for the full list of providers in the Black Healers Network of Greater Rochester
Educators: Click here for a guide of Black therapists who impacted our field throughout history (curated by Dr. Noora Abdulkerim)
The Villa of Hope offers programs and services to help with addiction, mental health, workforce development, and more. They also provide a home to anyone that goes to them in need.
We (GVP) have partnered with the Villa of Hope's Juvenile Reporting Center to collaborate on the integration of mental health education, as well as deliver specific programming to meet this need.
St. Joseph’s Neighborhood Center was started in the 1990’s and offers free mental and physical healthcare to those who are uninsured or underinsured.
Dr. Broderick Sawyer is a clinical psychologist specializing in race-based stress and trauma, mindfulness, and compassion. He is available to provide custom workshops on the following topics, and more:
Racial Trauma training for clinicians
Mindfulness for clinicians
White Allyship
Stress relief + meditation training
Mental health bootcamps
Dr. Sawyer offers monthly mindfulness retreats. GVP clients receive a discounted rate- enter “GVPdiscount” at checkout!
Twin Star Diversity is a partnership of Dr. Stephanie Pinder-Amaker and Dr. Lauren Wadsworth, co-authors of Did That Just Happen?!: Beyond “Diversity”—Creating Sustainable and Inclusive Organizations. Twin Star offers consultation and custom workshops for organizations, including the following:
Leading Through Empowering Listening (most popular: training for leadership on how to listen in a way that empowers narratives and conversations about identity)
Anti-ism Workplaces (how to make your workplace antiracist, antisexist, etc.)
Diverse Teams are Better Teams
The Personal: Guided Self-Work (Parts 1-3)
The Interpersonal: Responding to Identity Related Aggressions (IRAs)
Staying Safe: Swimming in the School (support for folks with marginalized identities)
Sustaining the marathon: Creating a culture that sustains and encourages ongoing learning/practice with cultural humility and responsiveness