Participants will examine how environmental injustice is rooted in structural racism, economic inequity, and policy failures, and what we can do about it.

Social Workers have a long tradition of emphasizing the importance of Reflective Practice as both a professional responsibility and a safeguard for providing equitable services to our clients. An unexamined professional easily falls prey to the common pitfalls of clinical practice—externalizing blame, over-surveilling our clients, becoming reactive, helpless and hopeless, and implementing harmful interventions without due diligence to our own biases.

Hello, My Name Is: Meeting the Whole-Person Needs of Your Clients is a workshop designed to help social workers enhance their capacity for whole-person engagement and assessment. Participants will examine how systemic barriers, personal bias, stigma, and burnout can inhibit relationship-building, and will learn how to create more inclusive, empowering spaces for clients. Through case-based and interactive learning, this workshop promotes culturally responsive, person-centered, and team-supported practices essential for ethical and impactful client care.