Our Very Special Thanks... Sponsors Stony Brook University Office of the President School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare Graduate Student Government Undergraduate Social Welfare Alliance National Association of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Social Workers National Association of Social Workers/Suffolk Division League of Women Voters - Suffolk Leadership Training Institute Stony Brook University Graduate Student Organization SteveLinden.com Uncle Giuseppe’s
Planning Committee Judy Azzato, LCSW Pamela Linden, Ph.D. Sonia Palacio-Grottola, LCSW Carolyn Peabody, Ph.D., LCSW Stephen Rabeno, Ph.D, LCSW Lisa Scott Suzanne Velazquez, Ph.D., LMSW
And for your special help Jack Farrington, Ph.D. Margaret Perez Andrea Trezza Kelvin Tune
ADDRESSING STRUCTURAL RACISM IN SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE: THE IMPERATIVE OF OUR GENERATION
FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 2014 8:30 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY STUDENT ACTIVITIES CENTER (West Campus) Featuring
Co-Sponsors
Undoing Racism Internship Program (URIP) Panelists Candida Brooks-Harrison, MSW, LCSW, New York based clinician and consultant, holds degrees in both social work and special education. Ms Brooks-Harrison is a lecturer and clinical coordinator for field practice at the City University of New York (CUNY) Brooklyn College Graduate Programs in Special Education since 2002. She currently serves as program head. She is the founding member of the Village Enrichment, PLLC which provides individualized and relationship based direct services for children and families, as well as individual and group reflective supervision for clinicians. Ms Brooks-Harrison is currently 1st Vice President and Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee for the National Association of Social Workers-New York City Chapter (NASW-NYC) where she is able to bring leadership and support to NASW’s policy positions and priorities aimed at keeping social work accountable to clients and to the professional roots of service, social justice and reform. In order to more effectively provide services for all clients, she asserts the professionalism of social work and advocates for appropriate funding and compensation for services as one measure toward recruitment and retention of highly qualified professionals . Ms Brooks Harrison is dedicated to increasing efficacy in working with diversity in education and health care toward ameliorating disparities across systems. As part of her interdisciplinary work, she is in her second year as the reflective practice and diversity consultant on the Achieving Diversity Initiative (ADI) at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst School of Nursing. She is a founding member of the AntiRacist Alliance (ARA), a collective of clinicians, educators, and organizers in the Northeast region. Utilizing the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) principles, the focus of the ARA is to develop capacities to understand the impact of structural racism and oppression on all of our lives and to integrate anti-oppression principles into all aspects of practice and practice settings. The Undoing Racism Internship Project (URIP) which organizes within schools of social work to effect curricula and organizational change in order to effectively prepare new professionals is part of the ARA-PISAB collective and is located at NASW-NYC. Ms Brooks-Harrison serves as a URIP steering committee member and former field instructor as part of her desire to mentor and develop emerging leaders and new professionals.
Cheryl L. Franks, PhD, LMSW, retired from Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW) in 2010 after 22 years of holding such positions as Assistant Dean, Director of Field Education, and Executive Director of Diversity, Human Rights, and Social Justice. As Executive Director, Office of Diversity Human Rights and Social Justice (CUSSW) Dr. Franks provided leadership as the primary resource on the body of scholarship, most effective pedagogical methods, and the organizational and professional values and processes related to diversity, human rights, and social justice. She is best known for her work in race and racial identity theory. Her commitment to social justice led to her current position in faculty and administration at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) Department. At Columbia University she continues as external consultant to such schools as the College of Dental Medicine, Mailman School of Public Health, School of Nursing and Teachers College. At CUSSW and the School of International and Public Affairs, Franks developed and taught courses on human rights, rethinking human rights, issues of diversity, international immersion, and macro practice, and at John Jay courses on justice and sustainability. She is currently working with other faculty to develop a human service major for the College.
Mary Ruth Govindavari, MSW, was an intern for the Undoing Racism Internship Project (URIP) during the 2012-2013 academic year and currently serves on the Steering Committee to support the student organizing in NY-based School of Social Work for a stronger anti-racist, anti-oppressive lens in social work curriculum. She racially identifies as Asian American and is committed to discussing her role as an ally that her “racial mistaken identity” has given her. Mary Ruth was able to start piecing together her analysis of institutionalized racism while attaining her BSW from Stony Brook University. She owes the development of her social justice foundation to the women of color in her life who invested their time and energy in her. She is currently the interim Assistant Director of Social Services at HELP Supportive Employment Center at Wards Island.
Advocacy Day 2014 - PLAN FOR THE DAY Emcee: SBU Students 8:30 - 9:00am:
Registration & Breakfast
9:05 - 9:25am:
Welcome to Advocacy Day Frances L Brisbane, Ph.D., Dean, School of Social Welfare, Stony Brook University Noreen Berger LMSW, Suffolk NASW Carolyn Peabody, Ph.D., LCSW, NAPRHSW Lisa Scott, LWV
9:25 - 9:40am
Welcome by URIP Overview of URIP’S work URIP project description - Eleni Zimiles ICUR project description – Sharielle Applewhite Undoing Racism Workshop – Kalima DeSuze
9:40 - 10:45am:
Plenary Why Addressing Structural Racism in Social Work Practice is a Critical Charge for our Profession Moderator:
Sasha Ahuja, LMSW
Panelists:
Candida Brooks-Harrison MSW, LCSW Cheryl Franks, Ph.D., LMSW Mary Ruth Govindavari, MSW
10:50 - 11:45am:
Question & Answer Conversation w/ the audience
12:00 - 1:00pm:
1st Shift Lunch/Break-out groups. Facilitated workshop discussion. Yasmin Safdie- Discussion facilitator
1:15 - 2:15pm:
2nd Shift Lunch/Break-out groups. Facilitated workshop discussion. Jennie Encalada, MSW - Discussion facilitator
2:30 - 3:15pm:
Report back & Charge Megan Campbell, MSW & Pamela Linden, Ph.D.
