Pierluigi Mancini PhD, is the President of the Multicultural Development Institute, Inc.. He is one of the most sought after national and international consultants and speakers on the subject of mental health and substance use disorder, his areas of expertise are cultural and linguistic responsiveness, immigrant behavioral health, social and racial justice, health equity and health disparities.
Dr. Mancini founded Georgia’s only Latino behavioral health program in 1999 to serve the immigrant population by providing appropriate mental health and addiction treatment and prevention services in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Nationally, he has provided expert content to clients at the local, state and federal level. Internationally, he has provided consulting in Mexico, Italy, Colombia, Cuba and Kosovo. He recently led a project to train clinicians in Latin America who are taking care of over 4 million displaced Venezuelans in the region.
Dr. Mancini’s work addressing Latino underage drinking, suicide and prescription drugs have won a combined six (6) EMMY ® awards. Dr. Mancini has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Latinos in Georgia; honored with the NLPA Star Vega Distinguished Service Award; the UnidosUS (NCLR) - Helen Rodríguez- Trías Award for Health; and the Mental Health America “Heroes in the Fight” Award among others.
He serves as the Secretary/Treasurer on the Board of Directors for Mental Health America National, Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center, the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse and R.I. International.
Abstract
Finding Culturally Responsive Evidence-Based Program for Latinos
This presentation presents an eCompendium and Guide, a 12-month project by dedicated professionals, it will demonstrate to the participants a systematic review of a number of Evidence Based Programs (EBP) related to resilience in prevention and treatment. The eCompendium is a result of a review of EBP programs that target alcohol and drug misuse, tobacco/nicotine use (including vaping), behavior or emotional functioning, suicide risk, or post-traumatic stress derived from 6 well-known registries and their ability to support Hispanic/Latinx communities. The main objective is to introduce the eCompendium and Guide as a tool for providers, administrators, directors, education leaders, and community groups to easily identify EBPs appropriate for Latino populations in the areas of alcohol and drug misuse, tobacco/nicotine use (including vaping), behavior or emotional functioning, suicide risk, or post-traumatic stress and using local experiential and contextual evidence to optimize the practical fit of an EBP to specific communities. Furthermore, the guide will demonstrate to the participants how to implement the program in a culturally responsive manner, using research, experiential, and contextual evidence.
The presentation will include a demonstration of (1) a decision tree that can assist potential providers to select an EBP from the eCompendium that best fits their communities’ needs and (2) an algorithm that describes the use of the local experiential and contextual evidence to create an optimal cultural fit to their communities, given the limitations of culturally responsive and ethnically targeted EBPs currently available in registries.