Two Part Program
Thursday, September, 10, 2020
Thursday, September, 17, 2020
9:00am to 12:00pm on both dates 

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Lacey Schwartz Delgado, JD, & Laura Quiros PhD., LMSW

This course is most relevant given the zeigeist of our times when our nation is dealing with complex trauma from the COVID-19 pandemic and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Social work in particular, is well positioned and has a responsibility to grapple with issues of race, racial identity and trauma. This course speaks to all of that and the social justice mission of the social work professional on personal and professional levels.

This course will use the personal and professional knowledge of two women of color and the documentary Little White Lie to help social work practitioners on the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels dive deeper in the nuances of race, culture, family and ultimately, identity. In addition, this course is a master model in the purposeful use of self in a person-in-environment framework.

This training will cover the complexity of identity by engaging with the experience of one’s personal journey. Perhaps most unique about this course will be the personal and professional connection between who we are and what we do. This connection will deepen the learning of social workers on every level. This will be achieved through the exploration of the ways in which race and culture impact our relationships with clients and supervisors, discussion about how risk and protective factors impact coping strategies related to race based trauma as well as self-care strategies for managing racial trauma.

Questions framing the day for participants include: Who am I? Who are you? Who and what makes us who we are? How much do our families control what we become? How much does our background influence the groups we join and where we feel a sense of belonging? How does the answers to these questions impact our social work practice