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University-Community Partnerships

Session: Innovative Partnership Addressing Legacy Pollution and Socioemotional Impact from a Decommissioned Air Force Base

Innovative Partnership Addressing Legacy Pollution and Socioemotional Impact From a Decommissioned Air Force Base

Saturday, October 26, 2024
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 3501H
Earn 1 CE Hour

    Panelist(s)

  • Babu Gounder, MSc

    PhD student
    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, United States

  • KT

    Kevin Tan, MSW, PhD

    Associate Dean for Engagement, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Associate Professor
    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, School of Social Work
    Urbana, IL, United States

This panel discusses how social work researchers, practitioners, and educators from universities and communities partner to transform harms from legacy pollution and its socioemotional impacts into healthier, more connected communities. Panelists share their collaborative efforts of integrating critical antiracist perspectives into innovative approaches and programs to address unique local injustices.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will gain insight into innovative approaches between institutions and community-based organizations to address socioenvironmental inequities, including overlooked injustices with decommissioned military bases. Participants will learn perspectives and strategies for codeveloping field research and education-based initiatives to provide transformative experiences and growth for communities, their schools, and their youth.
  2. Participants will understand the importance and power of restorative circles organized by university and community members. Panelists will hear the process of co-creating community sessions integrating racial healing and environmental justice to provide safe spaces for socioemotional learning, critical dialogue with decolonial and anti-oppressive perspectives, and empowering social change.
  3. Participants will learn avenues in their own work for the Grand Challenge, Create Social Responses to a Changing Environment, by identifying how panelists have evoked various roles of their social work identities to promote community-led solutions through racial and environmental justice grants and youth and local workforce development projects.