Reflections on Anti-Blackness: Implications for Social Work and Mental Health Practice

Live Online Seminar

Friday, January 21, 2022
10:00–11:30am ET

NYSED and ASWB/ACE approved for 1.5 CE contact hours

Presenter will introduce participants to Anti-Blackness by providing the current (and evolving) definition as well as examples of how this is manifested structurally, interpersonally and institutionally. Facilitator will also provide various examples of how this is perpetuated in multiple institutions (including child welfare, educational systems, clinical settings, etc.).

Presenter will use breakout rooms to examine how perceptions of Blackness influence how we engage, assess and treat individuals, families and communities. The goal is to explore how social workers and mental health providers can deconstruct White Superiority and unpack how deceptively “well-meaning” practices dominate rather than heal the client system(s). Additionally, there will be extensive discourse related to Internalized Anti-Blackness/Devaluation/Racism and its influence on clinicians and (stakeholders) of color.

As a result of attending this seminar, participants will be able to:

• Clearly define Anti-Blackness racism (also contextualizing colorism and internalized anti-blackness) and provide personal, structural and/or institutional examples.
• Critically assess how perceptions of Blackness profoundly impacts clinical engagement, assessment and treatment planning.
• Define internalized anti-black racism/afro-pessimism and provide examples on how this is manifested in various institutions (including clinical settings).
• Creatively explore various ways to confront and subsequently abolish anti-black racism in clinical discourse, practice and organizational policy.
• Increase self-awareness to become dynamic participants in anti-racist practice and advocacy in child welfare, educational, mental health and other clinical arenas.

Christene Tucker, LMSW

Christene Tucker, LMSW (pronouns she/her) identifies as an Afro-Caribbean-American, reflective social worker who enjoys using art, drama and fantasy in her work (when appropriate). Christene’s interests vary and include: global history, fantasy literature, folklore, history of race, and Black feminist thought. Her favorite works/authors include Harry Potter, A Song of Ice and Fire (GOT), Marlon James and NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy.

Christene received her BA in Psychology from LIU CW Post Campus (2004) and her MSW from Fordham Graduate School of Social Service (2013). After receiving her BA, Christene began her work with social services as a supervisor in a non-secure detention facility in Nassau County NY. By 2006, Christene joined NYC Administration for Children’s Services as a child protective specialist (CPS). In addition to her assigned tasks, Christene was heavily involved in various inter-agency and community activities.

Currently, Christene is a Child and Family Specialist (CFS)/Conference Facilitator and a 3rd-year field instructor with ACS’s Professional Development Program. She also provides weekly psychotherapy for a private agency (focusing on gerontological social work). Clinical areas of concentration include (limited) CBT, Feminist Therapy, Psychodynamic and Gestalt therapy as well as Culturally-Competent Trauma Interventions.

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General Admission: $30.00

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 January 14, 2022 (by midnight): full refund
• Refund requests made on or before January 19, 2022 (by midnight): 50% refund
• Refund requests made on or after  January 20, 2022 : 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 1.5 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.

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

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

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