Dr. Terence Roberts will give the keynote address, “Learning to Navigate Uncertain Terrain,” at the 2020 NASW-CA Virtual Conference on Friday, October 16 at 9:00am.
As one of The Little Rock Nine, Dr. Roberts has been in demand by a number of groups who wish to learn about the impact of the chaos in Little Rock on the social, cultural, political, and economic life of citizens in contemporary America. This especially true at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles where Dr. Roberts is a member of the adjunct faculty. He regularly spends time with groups of law enforcement officers including but not limited to the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, The California Highway Patrol, and the United States Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division.
A graduate of California State University at Los Angeles (BA), and UCLA (MSW), Dr. Roberts obtained his Ph.D. in Psychology from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. For thirty years, Dr. Roberts was a practicing clinical psychologist first in Deer Park, California and later in Pasadena, California. During this same time period he was Director of Mental Health Services at St. helena Hospital and Health Center (1977-1985); Assistant Dean of Student Services at UCLA’s School of Social Welfare (1985-1993); and Department Chair and faculty member in psychology at Antioch university, Los Angeles (1993 – 2008).
Dr. Roberts has presented keynote talks and graduation speeches, conducted seminars on a variety of issues including racism, stress management, and dialogue among human groups, written essays for publication in newspapers and other forms of media, and has been interviewed on radio, television, and podcasts both nationally and internationally.
He is CEO of Terrence Roberts Consulting, a management consultant firm devoted to fair and equitable practices in business and industry – http://www.Terrenceroberts.com
The NASW-CA Virtual Conference is October 16-17. Registration deadline is October 5. Early bird deadline is August 31 using the code VIRTUAL30. For more information or to register visit: https://bit.ly/3131nos or email CRaynak.naswca@socialworkers.org
