Anti-racist Supervision as a Path to Liberation: Foundations of Anti-racist Supervision

Live Online Workshop

4 Sessions: Fridays October 24 and 31 and November 14 and 21, 2025
10:00am-11:30am ET (all days)

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 7 CE contact hours

This course offers an overview of anti-racism social work practice tenets and strategies for engaging in anti-racism supervision. By drawing connections between macro, societal dynamics and the interpersonal dynamics within the supervisory milieu, participants will be exposed to how racism, bias, and identity impact supervision. Participants will be offered practice-based strategies to build upon generalist supervisory skills to both identify and address racism and/or biases within the practice of their supervisees, enhance the relational dynamic, center race, teach and model structural assessments, offer incremental psychoeducation to enhance critical consciousness, model accountability, and move towards liberatory practice. Last, the course content will shed light onto the impact of organizational variables on efficacious anti-racism supervision. Social work supervisors play a significant role in molding and influencing the practice of their supervisees. Through the application of practice-based strategies, participants will have the opportunity to integrate anti-racist approaches to social work in their supervisory framework. This will help push social work towards more race-conscious and just practice.

At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to: 

• Distinguish the meaning and application of anti-racism social work practice tenets;
• Articulate the relationship between false dominant narratives and biased social work practice at the individual and institutional levels; 
• Apply foundational components to engaging in anti-racist social work supervision;
• Cite strategies for identifying and addressing potential racial biases in the practice of their supervisees;
• Employ the structural assessment approach and incremental educational scaffolding within supervisory relationships;
• Recognize ways in which white supremacist culture presents in organizations and engage in strategies to mediate them; and
• Distinguish the impact of organizations and societal dynamics on the efficacy of anti-racist supervision.

Monica X. Thompson, MPhil, LCSW, MSW, LCAS

Co-founder/Co-owner/Trainer/Consultant, de-Liberate, LLC

Driven by a deep passion for transformative change, Monica is the Co-Founder of Deliberate, LLC, where she leads initiatives that embody her vision for healing and empowerment. She also serves as the Executive Director of Clinicians of the Diaspora, LLC, a venture through which she has merged her commitment to social justice with her dedication to promoting health within the BIPoC community. As a licensed clinical addiction specialist, she brings specialized expertise to her therapeutic practice, where she crafts a blend of relational depth and solution-focused strategies. She recognizes the profound impact of storytelling in healing, especially within groups of diverse indigenous and ethnic backgrounds, a cornerstone of her collaborative work with clients. Monica's commitment to anti-racism work, racial trauma, and restorative justice is evident in every facet of her professional life. She firmly believes that healing is both revolutionary and a radical act of self-love, a philosophy that drives her dedication to social justice causes. She is pursuing a PhD in Social Welfare at the Graduate Center at CUNY and holds academic positions at NYU and Hunter College. Through her work with Trauma Free Wealth, she employs a trauma-informed approach to help individuals achieve financial prosperity.

Sarah Ross Bussey, PhD, LCSW, MSW

Sarah Ross Bussey, PhD, LCSW, MSW is co-founder/co-owner/trainer/consultant of de-Liberate LLC, a private practitioner/supervisor, contract research assistant, and adjunct professor at Hunter College, City University of New York. Sarah received her B.A. in Sociology from Reed College, Masters in Social Work at Portland State University, (where she was awarded the 2008 NASW Community Based Practice Award), a PhD in Social Welfare at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a post-doctoral fellowship with the Briar Patch Collaboratory. She worked in various capacities of youth work—with a focus on complex trauma, gang-involvement, transgenerational poverty, justice-system entrenchment, housing insecurity, and skill development—before joining an innovative program addressing clinical case management needs in a health care setting. Sarah worked for 14 years at Mount Sinai Health System as a direct clinical social worker, clinical supervisor, associate director, and director—all within Care Management. Her research interests include anti-racism clinical and community-based interventions; social work practice and anti-racism supervision; effective interventions to enhance and tools to measure critical consciousness; restorative justice and community healing; health disparities; and critical qualitative methods.

General Admission: $150

Available Discounts:

• Current Practicum Instructors/Educational Coordinators: 10% discount ($135)
• NYU Silver Alumni: 10% discount ($135)

If after registering, you determine that you can no longer attend this event, The Office of Global and Lifelong Learning will issue refunds on the following basis:

• Refund requests made on or before October 17, 2025 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before October 21, 2025 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after October 22, 2025: no refund 

If this event is cancelled, all registrants will be fully reimbursed. To withdraw from and be reimbursed for this event, please complete the event withdrawal form.

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 7 Continuing Education Contact Hours.

55 jurisdictions accept ACE-approved provider CE contact hours. ACE is not an approved Continuing Education provider in the states of New York (though NYU Silver is NYSED CE approved in NYS) and West Virginia, unless the event is outside of West VA. ACE only approves individual courses in New Jersey, though NYU Silver is CSWE-accredited and therefore accepted for licensed NJ professionals. Here is a full list of statutes related to social work CE.

Special Accommodations:
Students requiring accommodations have the opportunity to make these known upon registering or by writing to silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Addressing Grievances:
For information on our grievance and complaint procedures, contact 212.998.9099 or silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu.

Note on Accessibility:
It is a priority to make our events inclusive and accessible. For any questions or to notify us of a request, please email silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu at least 72 hours before the event.

NYU Silver School of Social Work
Office of Global and Lifelong Learning
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New York, NY 10003

Email: silver.continuingeducation@nyu.edu
Phone: 212.998.5973
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