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The Other Pandemic: Racial Injustice
Juneteenth
June 19, 2020 | 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET
Go to NASW's Facebook page on June 19.
Participate in NASW's national town hall about the intersection of social work and racial justice. Share your experiences with colleagues and discuss the social work profession's role in ending racism. We’ll be joined by Angelo McClain, PhD, LICSW, Chief Executive Officer, NASW; Dawn Hobdy, LCSW, Vice President, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion, NASW; and Karen Bullock, PhD, LCSW, Chair, NASW National Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity.
Discuss Key Issues:
- NASW's racial justice priorities
- Eliminating police brutality
- Reducing health care and economic disparities
- Increasing social work investments in communities
- Fighting racism within the social work profession
*No continuing education (CE) credits will be offered for this event and there are no presentations. The event will be recorded.
"As social workers, our professional ethical mandate includes being actively opposed to racism in all its forms—individual, interpersonal, institutional, and structural," reminds the NASW National Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity (NCORED). Created in 1975 to help focus the association on addressing racism and intolerance of other cultures in our nation, NCORED reaffirms NASW's commitment to social justice and says now is the time to make substantial progress on ending racism in the United States.
Social Work Advocates, June/July2020
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"The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting existing weaknesses in our election system and presenting significant new challenges to safe, widely accessible, inclusive, and secure elections. States and municipalities are unprepared to meet these new challenges, and Congress has yet to address the issue with sufficient funding or legislation," said Tanya Rhodes Smith, instructor in residence and director of the Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work.
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Social Workers Critical in Fight Against Coronavirus
Boston Herald
By Angelo McClain, PhD, LICSW, Chief Executive Officer, NASW
It's said that the coronavirus doesn't discriminate. Yet minorities and low-income people are contracting the virus, and dying, at disproportionate rates. COVID-19 has also made life more difficult for marginalized groups, including victims of domestic violence, older adults, and those without adequate housing or transportation.
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NASW applauds the U.S. Supreme Court's historic decision this week that federal anti-discrimination laws protect gay and transgender workers. In 2019 NASW had joined other civil rights, anti-poverty, and child and family welfare organizations on an amicus brief supporting the ruling.
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LGBT Stigma and Stress: How Social Workers Can Help
Social Work Advocates, April/May 2020
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Zander Keig — who began transitioning in 2005 — says it was a seventh-grade teacher and a social worker at a group home where he lived at 16 who enabled him to gain a healthy attachment to well-meaning people. Those experiences also inspired him to go into social work. Today, Keig, LCSW, MSW, former chair and current member of NASW’s National Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues, works primarily with veterans — including veterans who identify as LGBT — using trauma-informed strategies in Jacksonville, Fla. But even early on in college in Denver in the mid-1990s, when he was a lesbian, Keig counseled people coming to the center where he worked to consider the consequences of decisions relating to their sexual orientation or gender identity status. To this day, he takes a prevention/intervention approach with patients and clients "because I don’t want people to end up homeless, jobless, being physically or mentally or otherwise assaulted."
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Dismantling Privilege: Understanding Systematic Racism
Tuesdays 12 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. ET Through August 4, 2020 | FREE
Hosted by Justice Consulting With Support of Phoenix Rising
Justice Consulting (www.justiceconsultinght.org), with the support of Phoenix Rising and in collaboration with Jamie Rosseland, is offering an eight-week course on dismantling privilege. This education and discussion group will meet via Zoom once a week for one hour, with the expectation that participants spend an average of 1-3 hours weekly reading, watching, or listening to materials provided by the facilitators. Join this weekly discussion to develop an educated understanding of the policy, economic, and governmental actions that created and maintain systemic racism; the way that those actions unfairly benefit white and white-passing persons; and what critical steps are necessary to remove barriers to racial equality and create a more just American society.
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Your association membership enables NASW to provide resources that are reliable, timely, and critical for social workers in public health emergencies such as the coronavirus. Visit NASW’s webpage dedicated to COVID-19 and social work practice and workforce issues, SocialWorkers.org/COVID19, for the latest updates on policy and advocacy, changes affecting teletherapy, tips on adjusting your practice and supporting clients during the pandemic, ethics guidelines, and self-care resources. Check here to see if it's time for you to renew your NASW membership.
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Sale Ends July 15
The 20% discount on these books will be applied automatically to your print book order prior to the final credit card charge. Sale ends midnight July 15, 2020. For more information about the summer sale and all NASW Press titles, including books, eBooks, reference works, journals, brochures, and standards, visit the NASW Press website. Questions? Email press@socialworkers.org or call 1.800.227.3590.
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| | MYNASW MEMBER COMMUNITY — HOT TOPICS |
The MyNASW online community is open to NASW members only and is free to join. Ask your colleagues questions, find mentors, exchange useful resources, and rally around your passion — social work.
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 Quickly search by key words to find evidence-based research and client education, assessment tools, practice guidelines, and more at the NASW Research Library. Filter your results by type of source (academic journals, books, conference materials, reports, etc.), name of publication, publisher, university, language, and more. Use your NASW username and password to log in to the library.
Keyword Search: "white privilege"
Document: White Privilege: What's a Family Therapist To Do?
Author:
Combs, G.
Source: Journal of Marital & Family Therapy.. January 2019, Vol. 45, Issue 1, p61-75.
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The Role of Attitudes Toward White Privilege and Religious Beliefs in Predicting Social Justice Interest and Commitment
Authors: Todd, N.; McConnell, E.; Suffrin, R.
Source: American Journal of Community Psychology. March 2014, Vol. 53, Issue 1, p109-121.
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Color-Blind Racial Attitudes: Microaggressions in the Context of Racism and White Privilege
Author:
Edwards, J.
Source: Administrative Issues Journal: Connecting Education, Practice, and Research. July 2017, Vol. 7, Issue 1, p5-18.
Access Documents: Log in to the NASW Research Library and enter the title of the article or key words in the NASW Research Library search box.
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An online MSW program ideal for working students
- Prepares them for advanced social work practice with a rural concentration using reflective and developmental techniques, critical thinking skills, while addressing issues of human rights, discrimination, and inequality.
- Both advanced and standard tracks with part-time options available.
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| | ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS |
June 26
NASW 2020 Annual Meeting of Members
Friday, June 26, 2:00 p.m. ET | NASW National Office | 750 First St. NE, Washington, DC (8th Floor)
RSVP by June 22: Email governance@socialworkers.org or call 202.336.8270.
Please provide your full legal name. All attendees will be expected to maintain social distancing and all other protections, as appropriate.
The purpose of the Annual Meeting of Members is to ratify results of the 2020 NASW National Election. Members in good standing (current membership, no pending sanctions) are eligible to attend. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NASW would prefer to meet virtually. However, we are required to conduct the membership meeting in person. If new COVID-19 legal restrictions affect the in-person annual meeting, we will post updates on our Board Meetings page and contact members who have RSVP'd.
July 15
Private Practice Q&A Call-in Session – Legal Considerations When Releasing Files to Other Parties
Call-in session is free, available to NASW members only, and starts at 12 p.m. ET. No registration is required.
| | SOCIAL WORK ISSUES IN THE NEWS |
PsyPost
Teaching non-Black people about systemic racial inequalities in the United States leads them to perceive more racism when a police officer shoots a Black man, according to research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The study also provides evidence that socially conservative individuals tend to perceive less racism when a Black man is shot.
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Medical News Today
White people in the United States have protection from racial stress. Engaging in conversations about racism may trigger a range of defensive actions, feelings, and behaviors, such as anger, fear, and silence.
Although white fragility is not racism, it may contribute to racism by dismissing white domination and racial conditioning. By developing racial stamina, white people can better address racism and strive to become anti-racist.
This article defines white fragility and explains why it is a problem.
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ABC News
Systemic racism. White privilege. Institutional racism. Microaggression. White fragility.
As protesters decry and demand deeply entrenched forms of racism be rooted out, the phrases commonly heard in the parlance of a grassroots movement gone global have become part of the mainstream dialogue.
But what do those terms mean?
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USA Today
Civil rights leaders and advocates are demanding an end to systemic racism, a reference to the systems in place that create and maintain racial inequality in nearly every facet of life for people of color. Here's what you need to know about systemic racism.
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