Chapter Activities for Racial Justice

Racial Justice Forum is a series of facilitated small group discussions with the purpose of providing opportunities for self-reflection, training on how each of us can improve our anti-racism, as well as practice and preparation to have these conversations in life and practice.⁠

Over a year after racial justice and anti-racism was a front-page issue in our society and profession, we want to check in and see if there has been transformative change in our schools, practice, and association.

How do we hold space for racism and anti-Semitism? How do we, as social workers, promote and embody the practice of solidarity? Join NASW-NYS as Dr. Laura Quiros shares her experiences as a Black, Latina, and Jewish woman and the intersection of these identities.

Join social workers and adjustment counselors from across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts at our Annual School Social Work Conference. Every year, the NASW-MA’s School Social Work Conference Committee brings together school social workers, adjustment counselors, and other youth-focused professionals who work with youth in all levels of schools and beyond.

Through Revolutionize the Profession, BIPOC social workers requested a mechanism to engage in peer support. The Town Halls are a vehicle to identify, define, and describe how racism manifests in social work practice. While white counterparts are invited to the Revolution, they do not speak. BIPOC social workers desire a space that is theirs to process daily acts of racism. The Revolution has successfully connected BIPOC social workers across the world.

This series of Town Halls is focused on the following:

1. Acknowledging the history and current ways that white supremacy and racism exist in social work practice;
2. Creating goals to achieve a racially just profession;
3. The development and implementation of an action plan and action groups to achieve these goals.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome (PTSS) is a theory that explains the etiology of many of the adaptive survival behaviors in African American communities throughout the United States and the Diaspora. It is a condition that exists as a consequence of multigenerational oppression of Africans and their descendants resulting from centuries of chattel slavery, a form of slavery which was predicated on the belief that African Americans were inherently / genetically inferior to whites.

Participants will learn strategies to combat institutionalized racism and promote healing.

Join us for another session of NASW-NYS’ Revolutionize the Profession. This series of Town Halls is focused on the following:

1. Acknowledging the history and current ways that white supremacy and racism exist in social work practice;
2. Creating goals to achieve a racially just profession;
3. The development and implementation of an action plan and action groups to achieve these goals.

Do you believe social injustice is linked to the way individuals think? Do you believe
the way people feel and behave towards others is a reflection of their mindset? History has shown that people exhibit behavior that is birthed from their way of thinking. Cognitive Behavioral Theory proposes that people's perceptions and thoughts about situations and people influences their emotional and behavioral reactions.

The idea that a majority segment of our society has privilege and minority segments of our society are underprivileged, is a basic, yet uncomfortable premise in identifying as a Black person. This workshop will investigate the influence of oppression on shaping identity, expectations, and self-view of some Black clients.