Dietra D. Hawkins, PsyD
Assistant Clinical Professor , Department of Psychiatry
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Dietra.Hawkins@Yale.edu Phone: 203.764.7590 Fax: 203.764.7595 Program for Recovery & Community Health Department of Psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine 319 Peck Street, Bldg. One New Haven, CT 06513 |
Profile
I am currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University, Program for Recovery and Community Health. In this position, I serve as the Director for Consultation and Training. Were I work with a team of consultants and trainers to address national and international Recovery, Resiliency System transformation initiatives. As the Director for Consultation I have worked with Philadelphia’s Behavioral Health Systems transformation and the State of Georgia’s Recovery Transformation, addressing organizational change and the enhancement of recovery oriented and culturally competent practices at the level of service delivery through training, system wide assessments, community development and strategic planning. For three years I served as Clinical Director of Dixwell/Newhallville Community Mental Health Services, a not-for profit mental health clinic that provides services to adults, children and families in a predominantly African American, low-income community. In this capacity I worked to develop innovative culturally responsive and recovery -oriented services and programs, and provided supervision for BA and MA level student interns. I have also worked as a consultant for Texas Department of Health Services, facilitating their development of Cultural Competency guidelines for their service system providers; and I am currently working with Douglas Hospital and McGill University providing training and consultation for a Recovery initiative in Montreal, Canada.
Role in Program:
Consultation and Training
Professional Interests:
My primary research interests address racial and ethnic health care disparities; systems change and system transformation, recovery and resiliency -oriented practice and the critical dimensions of cultural competency and spirituality in psychology. My consultative work seeks to bring research and practice together, with a focus on providing culturally competent services and outreach into the community. As a consultant to state and community-based agencies, and forensic institutions, I have worked to develop programs that reduce health disparities among ethnic and racial low-income populations, increase cultural competency and promote recovery. I am also a facilitator and steering committee member of the Healing Racism Coalition. My long standing interest in addressing racism takes place through my community presentations on Black Hair and Slavery; and facilitating Chicago Dinners, a race dialogue program that brings strangers together for a dinner party in which the topic is race.
Personal Interests:
I like to travel to see my family and friends across the country and enjoy coffee and good food ( Southern, Indian, Thai, Ethiopian, etc.).
