Unwinding the Handmaid’s Tale: Social Work’s Role in Structural Racism (and Pathways to Transformation) — Virtual Event By The SoCal Social Work Women’s Council Held On October 24th

Please Join us for The So Cal Social Work Women’s Council Social Work Justice and Ethics Workshop: UNWINDING THE HANDMAID’S TALE: Social Work’s Role in Structural Racism (and Paths to Transformation).  This webinar is intended to highlight the urgency of the issue of structural racism in social work. We are bringing together speakers to help us understand how structural racism has impacted social work both historically and currently and how this plays out in the systems that employ social workers. We are creating a space to support social workers in speaking truth to power, starting with looking inward.

This webinar is being offered by the organizers of the biannual “Is Legal Always Ethical?” licensure trainings.  2 CEUs will be available to attendees for $5.  Anyone can participate for free with no CEUs but all must RSVP to receive meeting link to join.  Please feel free to forward to students, trainees, or colleagues.  

Time: Oct 24, 2020 10:00 AM in Pacific Time (US and Canada) 
Register/RSVP here: https://rb.gy/07lm0y. Registration ends October 23, 2020 at midnight

About this Event

Our Code of Ethics guides social workers to “promote social justice and social change with and on behalf of clients” and to be “sensitive to cultural and ethnic diversity and strive to end discrimination, oppression, poverty, and other forms of social injustice.” But how have our roles been co-opted and used in ways that have contributed to structural racism and oppression? This webinar is intended to highlight the urgency of the issue of structural racism in social work. We are bringing together speakers to help us understand how structural racism has impacted social work both historically and currently and how this plays out in the systems that employ social workers.

These are painful truths for those of us, both BIPOC and white social workers, to acknowledge and confront. They challenge our professional identities and demand that we take action to change our practices and institutions. We want to create a space within the social work community to speak truth to power, starting with looking inward.

This event will be held on October 24th. Registration closes at midnight on October 23rd. Click here to register!

This webinar is being offered as a collaboration between the SoCal Social Work Women’s Council and the California Social Action Social Justice Council, and will offer 2 continuing education units. SoCal Social Work Women’s Council, provider #146765 is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSW’s, LMFT’s, and LPCC’s. SoCal Social Work Women’s Council maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

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