Name
The Trifecta of Antiracist Social Work Practice on African American Families: Educating, Applying and Researching
Date
Friday, November 11, 2022
Priscilla Gibson Jessica Coleman
Description

This interactive workshop will describe how initiatives on antiracist social work practice were developed and implemented by three African American social work educators. Each presenter will provide objectives, share her personal views about its successes and challenges, report student evaluations, engage the audience in reactions, feedback, and suggestions for improvement. Using this information, participants will develop their own individualized antiracist plan. The first will be Experiential Learning in the African American Community (ELAA), which transports students into African American neighborhoods to highlight their historical and contemporary strengths in dealing with racism and its multiple influences. The description will incorporate pertinent literature, videos, activities to prepare students, and input from community collaborators. Secondly, the multi-agency collaboration with the School of Social Work, Ramsey County, and Family Services addresses anti-racism social work practice for BIPOC social work students during their internship. It aims to prepare them with wisdom and tools to deal with pervasive racism in child welfare, especially that results in disproportionality (over-representation of Black children in child welfare) and their colleagues and public policies that support ideas promoting disproportionality. The presentation explains the curriculum, specific topics, and supervision, and mentoring for the students. The third initiative focuses on research findings from stories of AAWE who shared their tactics for dealing with racism and how the tactics may be transmitted to a younger generation. It also will include how the stories, tactics, and themes were coded into social work practice strategies.