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Panel Session

Higher Education/Non-Profit Leadership

Session: Looking Inward and Practicing Relationality: To do Racial Justice at the Organizational/School Level

Looking Inward and Practicing Relationality: To Do Racial Justice at the Organizational/School Level

Friday, October 25, 2024
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 3501F
Earn 1 CE Hour
Schools of social work must live up to the charge of being anti-racist, aligned with EPAS 2022 Competency 2 and 3. Nonetheless, how schools embody that charge is less clear. This panel will examine the importance of inward-facing practices when doing racial justice work, using a case from one institution.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain the fundamental importance of schools of social work practicing racial justice as a proactive and preventative process, including “reinforcing and establishing a set of policies, practices, attitudes, and actions that produce equitable power, access, opportunities, treatment, impacts, and outcomes for all individuals and groups impacted by racism” (CSSP, 2019).
  2. Extend the learnings and experience of the looking inward approach/example case to participants’ home institutions/schools of social work, grounded in relationality (Littletree, Belarde-Lewis, & Duarte, 2020), the Indigenous system of knowledge concept.
  3. Elaborate on and imagine together with other participants how racial justice work does and can take place in schools of social work at the organizational/structural level in the schools’ policies, practices, attitudes, and actions.