Around the country, NASW chapters are organizing for racial justice.
The NASW-IL Board of Directors approved recommendations made by their Task Force on Racial Justice. The recommendations reflect three months of work, which included an application process that created a task force of 15 diverse well-informed members. A chapter-wide survey also informed many of the recommendations. The aim of the task force is to propose effective measures for reform and to increase accountability in policing.
Based on the work of Tema Okun and others, this workshop will introduce social workers to the ways that white supremacy culture is embedded in our workplaces. Social workers must be able to recognize the ways that professional practices are modeled off of the norms of dominant white culture. We can then begin to challenge these institutionalized norms with alternative models that promote greater equity for people of all cultures and backgrounds.
NASW Ohio is proud to support the efforts of a small group of organizers who are working to get a group of Ohioans to the 2020 March on Washington. The 2020 march will be August 28 and will recall the goals of the 1963 march including policing and justice demands. The group is organizing five buses and ninety hotel rooms to bring a total of 280 people to the march from Columbus while following COVID-19 precautions.
Join NASW's New Jersey Chapter for a guided discussion on Austin Channing Brown's 2018 memoir "I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness."
Register now and read/listen to the book in advance of the meeting.
Join NASW-MA for a discussion of the book "White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide," by Carol Anderson. The discussion will be facilitated by Gary Bailey, Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and Social Justice and Professor of Practice at Simmons University School of Social Work.
This event is designed to move social work schools along in their journeys to become antiracist institutions where racial justice is embedded across all activities, including hiring, student retention, classrooms, and field placements. It includes a keynote, a panel discussion featuring decision makers at schools of social work, and workshops.
Social Workers Unraveling Racism (SWUR) invites you to join the second installment of the Community Conversations series.
SWUR is a committee of the Maryland Chapter of NASW founded in 2015 in response to Freddie Gray's death and the subsequent Baltimore Uprising. We are social workers in Maryland devoted to racial justice. We are committed to the examination and education about how racism impacts ourselves, our profession, our clients, and society. Our goal is to use these learnings to enact change in our communities and to eliminate racism in our world.
NASW-VT virtual meeting to support each other and reflect on the current events. Racism is not new, but current events have unfolded a new level of urgency to remind us to reflect on our personal values.
Dr. N. J. Akbar, Vice President of Akron Board of Education and equity expert will lead a discussion on that district’s recent racism resolution and commitment to racial equity. He will share his support policy changes that will help to eradicate racism and the role our organization could play to support PACE-endorsed candidates beyond the endorsement process.
Join Kristin Miller, LCSW, and NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW, for a conversation about white privilege, white fragility and the concept of racial identity development.
Watch a recording of this conversation on Facebook Live.
Protest in North Carolina (Photo from NASW-NC member Chris Budnick)
NASW staff and membership are organizing and participating in town halls and other critical conversations.
Learn about our racial equity events
Protest in Fairbanks, AK (Photo by NASW-AK member Leigh Bolin)
NASW is committed to ending racism through public education, social justice advocacy and professional training. We need your help to do this work.