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The EMPOWER Lab Featured Resources
You are welcome to download, print, and share these resources created by The EMPOWER Lab!
Bipolar Disorder
This psychoeducation flyer is designed for clinicians to help discuss aspects of bipolar disorder while also helping educate community members about the warning signs.
Mental Health in College
This extended two-part poster for college students details the importance of mental health and provides information about available services.
Finding a Black Therapist
An important first step to healing is getting the right person to help. Here is a guide for locating a Black therapist.
Confidentiality
This flyer for caregivers and clients details some commonly held concerns and facts about mandatory reporting in clinical settings.
Suicide Awareness
This poster is designed to help educate community members about the warning signs and impact of suicide.
Substance Misuse
This flyer details the effects and impact of substance misuse and provides information about available services.
HIV Myths & Facts
This fact sheet designed for clinicians provides myth-busting details for HIV+ clients and their caregivers.
Racial Trauma
This psychoeducation handout for caregivers and clients details the symptoms of racial trauma as well as coping and communication strategies.
Racism Hurts
This psychoeducation handout for clients, caregivers and clinicians provides citations on recovery from racial stress, the importance of self-care, and the medical and mental consequences of racial trauma.
Be an Ally Against Racism
This special handout includes specifics for community members on what allies can do, how to advocate effectively, and the medical and mental consequences of racial trauma.
Learning about You (patient handout)
This is available in two versions, the Client Handout and the Therapist Guide, designed for clinicians to engage youth and caregivers in discussions around racial identity and experiences with discrimination.
Learning about You (therapist how-to guide)
This is available in two versions, the Client Handout and the Therapist Guide, designed for clinicians to engage youth and caregivers in discussions around racial identity and experiences with discrimination.
FAST-T Caregiver Racial Socialization Handout
This special handout includes three parts to assist parents and caregivers in helping children feel better about themselves after experiencing or witnessing racism.
Microaggression Infosheet
This psychoeducation flyer is designed for clinicians, teens, and adults to understand the different types of microaggressions.
Anxiety Coping Technique
This flyer is to aid kids, teens, and adults in managing their anxiety.
Racial Socialization: What is it?
This flyer is to educate others about what racial socialization is as well as its benefits.
Racial Socialization:
Racial Equality
Psychoeducation and Suggestions
Racial Identity Development
This flyer delves into the ways in which our racial identity is formed. This process is not linear, and often takes it's own unique path!
HIV Basics
This flyer is designed to educate you on how HIV presents itself symptomatically and how it's spread.
How Does HIV Spread?
This infographic details the ways in which HIV IS and IS NOT spread between people.
Coping with the Stress of Racism (for Teens)
This extended handout is specifically designed for clinicians to help discuss racial trauma in depth with teens.
PTSD & Racial Trauma Similarities
This psychoeducation flyer is designed for clinicians, teens, and adults to understand the elements and similarities of PTSD and Racial Trauma.
Long-term Anxiety Reduction
This flyer is to help kids, teens, and adults manage their anxiety triggers and overall reduce future anxiety.
Racial Socialization:
Racial Pride
Psychoeducation and Suggestions
Racial Socialization:
Spirituality & Religion
Psychoeducation and Suggestions
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
This flyer is a guided PMR practice! Read each step and feel the tension leave your body.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Engage with each step and feel the weight lift from your body, leaving you refreshed and revitalized.
Non-Occupational Post Exposure Prophylaxis (nPEP)
This two-page flyer for medical service providers details the steps to administering Non-Occupational Post Exposure Prophylaxis (nPEP) after a patient's exposure to HIV.
Racism in the Dark- Mindfulness Activity
Explore a guided mindfulness exercise to cultivate compassion and healing in the face of racism’s deep pain. A tool for resilience and connection.
Coping with the Stress of Racism (for Kids & Teens)
This psychoeducation flyer is designed for clinicians to help discuss aspects of racial trauma with children and teens.
What is Grief?
This psychoeducation flyer is designed for clinicians, teens, and adults to understand grief.
How To Apply To Graduate School
This flyer is designed to help future grad students find the right program for them and display the necessary steps of the application process.
Racial Socialization:
Racial Barriers
Psychoeducation and Suggestions
Racial Socialization:
Family Involvement
Psychoeducation and Suggestions
How Can You Help BIPOC Youth as a White Therapist?
This flyer is a guide for white mental health clinicians to best serve their clients of color.
Progressive Muscle Relaxation Script for Clinicians
Designed to equip clinicians with an effective tool for promoting relaxation and stress reduction in their clients.
Finding Community for BIPOC Youth
This psychoeducation providesresources for intersectional LGBTQ+ BIPOC youth to find community and strength
in trying times.
Racial Socialization through Play
Use this M&M’s game to teach kids about inclusion, fairness, and diversity through play-based activities that foster empathy and respect for differences at any age.
How to Talk to Kids About Police Violence
This psychoeducation flyer is designed for parents discuss police violence with children and teens.
Trauma Infosheet
This psychoeducation flyer is designed for clinicians, teens, and adults to help understand trauma with children and teens.
Healing After an Attempt
This psychoeducation flyer is designed for teens and adults to help guide them after a suicide attempt.
Racial Socialization:
Racial Achievement
Psychoeducation and Suggestions
HIV Basics
This flyer is designed to educate you on what HIV is and how it's spread.
How to Talk to Kids About Police Violence
This psychoeducation flyer is designed to help parents discuss police brutality with children and teens.
HIV in the African American Community
This infographic details how HIV is impacting the African American community.
Celebrating Differences!
This kid-friendly poem is agreat way to help children and teens embrace diversity, self-love, and
inclusion.
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