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NYU Silver at CSWE 2023

By NYU Silver CommunicationsOct 9, 2023
Gradient of purple, green, and magenta fading into a night photo of downtown Atlanta with the CSWE logo and the text It's time to act. Defining and Reckoning with Anti-Racist Social Work Education, 69th Annual Program Meeting, October 26-29, 2023, Atlanta, GA

NYU Silver faculty and doctoral students will be presenting their research and thought leadership at the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) 69th Annual Program Meeting, which is taking place in-person from October 26-29, 2023 in Atlanta, GA. The theme of this year’s Annual Program Meeting is “It's Time to Act: Defining and Reckoning With Anti-Racist Social Work Education.”

The following schedule of faculty and doctoral student presentations is self-reported and up-to-date as of October 4, 2023. All sessions will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis. The names of NYU Silver faculty and students are bolded.

NYU Silver Presentation Schedule

Friday, October 27, 2023

10:30 – 11:30 AM

Implicit Biases and Microaggressions: Examining the Impact on Black Social Work Students’ Well Being

Presentation Type: Workshop

Presenters:

  • Fatima Mabrouk, PhD Student
  • Gerri Connaught, PhD Candidate
  • Khadija Israel, PhD Student

This workshop will include discussions around ways in which implicit biases lead to microaggressive acts towards Black social work students, the ways in which these racialized experiences lead to feelings of impostor phenomenon, how these experiences are steeped in historic experiences of collective trauma for Black students, and strategies for how social work education professionals can help Black students address these experiences at a micro and macro level.

3:00 - 4:00 PM

The Advanced Seminar in Practicum Instruction - An ADEI toolkit for Practitioners

Presentation Type: Interactive Presentation

Presenters:

Anti-racism has received increased attention in social work education since 2020, but it is challenging to reconceptualize best practices in practicum education. One school of social work developed an on-line Advanced Seminar in Practicum Instruction course in order to help practitioners operationalize anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion (ADEI) frameworks.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

12:30 – 1:30 PM

The Practicum Prep Lab: Using Technology-enhanced Simulations to Prepare Students for ADEI Practices

Presentation Type: Panel

Presenters:

Social work educators are required to prepare students to demonstrate competencies in engaging ADEI practices. However, implementation is varied and inconsistent. This panel will discuss what one school of social work learned in developing and piloting a hybrid Practicum Preparatory Lab that uses technology-enhanced simulations to engage students on ADEI practices.

4:15 - 5:15 PM

Using Kuwentos (storytelling) as a Liberatory Tool to Cultivate Kapwa and Sense of Belonging

Presentation Type: Panel

Presenters:

  • Cora de Leon, Clinical Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
  • Lisa Reyes Mason
  • Kari L. Tabag

Moderator:

  • Lainey Sevillano

The panelists will be sharing their kuwentos (a form of counter-storytelling; Solórzano & Yosso, 2002) in hopes of encouraging social work educators to engage students in the practice of pakikipagkuwentuhan, the “informal, free, social process of exchanging information, thoughts, and knowledge” (Orteza, 1997, p. 22).  They aim to build community with small group discussions to practice kuwento-kuwentohan to facilitate self-reflection, critical dialogue, and healing. 

Sunday, October 29, 2023

8:45 – 9:45 AM

From Social Justice to Abolition: Anti-Racist Praxis in the Classroom

Presentation Type: Interactive Workshop

Panelists:

  • Kirk “Jae” James, Clinical Assistant Professor and DSW Program Director
  • Durrell Malik Washington Sr.

Contributor:

  • Kristen Brock-Petroshius

Moderator:

  • Dominique A. Mikell Montgomery

This interactive workshop will begin by making explicit the presenters’ conceptualization of racism and assessing the limitations of social work’s use of the social justice framework as a guide for anti-racist work. Next, they will review the history and principles of abolition and explore how they can be applied to the new Grand Challenge for Social Work of eliminating racismg. They will argue that the central aim of anti-racist social work praxis, as informed by abolition, needs to be the building of power in Black, Indigenous, or Brown and poor and/or marginalized communities. They will suggest four additional principles as part of a framework for anti-racist social work praxis.

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Partners in International Education Award

Presentation Type: Awards Presentation 

Student Recipient: Regina Wu, Class of 2023 MSW Graduate

The Partners in Advancing International Education (PIE) Awards honor the contribution of social work faculty members, social work students (BSW, MSW, or PhD), and organizations as partners in advancing education for international social work. The PIE awards are given in recognition of conceptual, curricular, and programmatic innovations in education for international social work. 

Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work Education (CORSW) Community Impact Award 

Presentation Type: Awards Presentation 

Recipient: Dr. Ijeoma Opara, Class of 2014 MSW Graduate; Associate Professor of Public Health and Director of the  Substance Abuse & Sexual Health Lab at Yale University's School of Public Health

The CORSW Community Impact Award recognizes community praxis, which is shaped through the process of social work education and which exemplifies the values of feminist leadership models in social work education, using the following criteria: 1) The recipient should have an affiliation with one or more accredited social work education programs (i.e., community engaged research partnership, field education placements, or other service learning opportunities). 2) The recipient engages in feminist praxis and leadership in a community setting, drawing on theories, models, competencies, and practice behaviors from their social work education. 3) The recipient is able to clearly articulate how their approach to practice, program, and/or policy reform shapes an awareness of how social work education is lived out in the real world of the community, contributing to feminist leadership and social work’s grand challenges.

1:15 - 2:15 PM

Decolonialization, Indigenization, Interculturality, and Anti-racism in Global Social Work Education

Presentation Type: Panel

Presenters:

  • Qingwen Xu, Professor and Coordinator of the MSW Program at Shanghai and New York
  • Othelia Lee
  • Guia Calicdan-Apostle

Anti-racism is informed by multiple streams of thought; decolonialization, indigenization, and interculturality are significant in the field of global social work and in their possibilities for anti-racism pedagogical practice. This panel introduces intercultural dialogue teaching, critical indigenization pedagogy, and decolonial thought, which would inform social work education to undo racism.

1:15 - 2:15 PM

Illuminating social work's educationally invisibilized: A heterogenous Pilipino/x/a case study

Presentation Type: Panel

Presenters:

  • Cora de Leon, Clinical Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director
  • Kari L. Tabag
  • Lisa Reyes Mason

Moderator:

  • Joanna C. La Torre

This panel re-visibilizes Pilipina/o/x American social workers in academia by featuring a spectrum of academics, professors, and PhD students, all of whom succeeded within environments not built for them and in which they were not reflected. Sharing on their research expertise and their lived experiences, we make a case for social work education to improve cultural competency curricula such that social workers can take the actions necessary to meaningfully shift outcomes for vulnerable populations like APIDA and PAs. 

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