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March 16th (EST)
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March 18th (EST)
Welcome Address with Deona Hooper and Darla Coffey on World Social Work Day
Hello Everyone, March 16th is a celebration of World Social Work Day!!! Deona Hooper, SWHELPER, and Darla Coffey, CSWE will be talking about how this virtual summit began and why... Read More
Darla Spence Coffey, PhD, MSW
Deona Hooper, MSW
Promoting Positive Father Involvement
Session Description This seminar explores the challenge of promoting positive father involvement where there is historic DV and abuse and introduces a controversial form of abuse called ‘Parental Alienation’ (PA)... Read More
Kevin J Brazant MA, BA, FRSA, FHEA
9:50 am
Making Whiteness Visible: A Black Feminist Perspective
Session Description Societal and institutionalized cultural dominance (Eurocentrism/Whiteness) continues to pervade anti-oppressive social work education efforts, presenting challenges to the application of pedagogical frameworks aimed at attending to diversity for... Read More
Valerie Borum, PhD
11:00 am
Immigrants, Resettlement, and Healthy Societies
Session Description The session will include an exploration and understanding of who constitutes independent immigrants, the meaning and impact of resettlement, barriers experienced by immigrants from ethnocultural societies upon arrival... Read More
Priya Kharat, PhD
12:10 pm
Applying an Intersectional Framework to Eating Disorders: Unpacking Racial Trauma in the BIPOC Community
Session Description From film to media to treatment center brochures, eating disorders have been framed as a “white women’s” illness. Eating disorders impact people of all genders, races, ethnicities, sexualities... Read More
Javon Garcia, LSW
1:15 pm
Keynote: Disrupting and Dismantling Anti-Black Racism in Academia
Description Ongoing police brutality and killings of Black women and men have caused a global outcry, igniting numerous anti-Black racism demonstrations and protests both nationally and internationally. The current social... Read More
Patrina Duhaney, PhD
8:30 am
Welcome Address – NASW and Social Work Month
Mildren Joyner, President of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) North American Region will be talking about Social Work and World... Read More
Mildred Joyner, MSW, LCSW
9:00 am
Racial Equity: Fear of the Black Man
Session Description The death of so many Black Men in the last couple of years has created what seems to be a large target on the back of Black Men,... Read More
Gary Taylor, LCSW
10:10 am
Decolonizing Social Work: The Reparative Nature of Ubuntu Philosophy
Session Description Decolonization of social work requires the profession and practitioners to make a real and concerted effort to incorporate the very same communities the profession purports to serve. It... Read More
Lauren Reliford, MSW Candidate
11:20 am
Internalized Oppression: Conquering the Master Within
Session Description Internalized oppression occurs when people of color internalize stereotypes, prejudices, and negatives beliefs. This phenomenon is the result of macro and institutions that work towards the benefit of... Read More
Arlene Garcia, MSW, PhD
12:30 pm
Racism, Recovery, and Resilience: The Journey of a Social Work PhD Student
Session Description This session will focus on the personal narrative of a former social work doctoral student as she navigated academia in a historically white institution (HWI) as a Black... Read More
Charity Watkins, PhD, LCSW
1:45 pm
Operationalizing Democracy through Blackness: Revisiting the Revolutionary Actions of The National Association of Black Social Workers, Inc.
Session Description The 1968 Position Statement of the National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW) as declared at the National Conference on Social Welfare (NCSW) 95th Annual Forum and Exposition... Read More
Denise McLane-Davison, PhD
African American Women in Academia: Intersectionality of Race and Gender
Session Description African American Women face a variety of issues in the academy, community and society. The strength of this group often lies in sisterhood as to many the saying... Read More
Sara Casali
Charnetta Gadling-Cole, PhD
Tiffany Lane
4:15 pm
Keynote: When BIPOC Communities are harmed by the systems design to serve and protect them
Session Description This session will speak to the inequities that Black Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) experience in their local communities at the hands of the police. Systems whose policies... Read More
Anjanette Young, LCSW
Welcome Address – Social Workers United for Immigration
Lee Hopkins, LMSW
Cheryl Aguliar, LICSW, LCSW-C
10:10 am
Editorializing ‘Lived Experience’ through Professional Writing
Session Description The session is designed to teach folks how to discuss and unpack their lived experience in a professional writing venue. We will cover a wide range of approaches... Read More
Max Guttman, LCSW
11:20 am
Trauma Informed Authentic Leadership and the Psychology of Ownership
Session Description This session will analyze the impact of historical trauma on current systemic racism as it pertains to socioeconomic injustice and the psychology of ownership. Looking at Authentic Leadership... Read More
Aprill Harmon, PhD, MBA, LCSW
Using Group Me to M.O.V.E: Motivate, Organize, Value, and Empower First time Social Work students enrolled in Freshmen Seminar
Session Description Student engagement and support are essential in the development of our students, specifically those attending an HBCU. Historically, HBCU’s have provided a campus environment with a familiar context... Read More
Vivian Shannon-Ramsey
Phyllis E. Gillians, Ed.D
Makeba Green
1:45 pm
Calling “A Thing” A Thing: Addressing Anti-Black Racism in Social Work Education
Session Description The purpose of this session is to interrogate the effects and impact of Anti-Black Racism on students, faculty, and staff in social work education. Oftentimes, Institutions and Organizations... Read More
Yarneccia Dyson, PhD, MSW
3:00 pm
Keynote Speaker: Advancing Anti-Racism in Social Work Education
Session Description Recommendations on how to advance anti-racism in social work education that emerged from a CSWE Task Force will be shared. There will be plenty of time for participants... Read More
Darla Spence Coffey, PhD, MSW
4:15 pm
Keynote Speaker: Good Intentions are Not Enough: Undoing Racism in the Helping Professions
This presentation addresses the ways that racism operates, and inequity is maintained, even in professional settings where persons are committed to the well-being of clients, patients or the community at... Read More
Tim Wise
