Skip to main content
CSWE 2024 Annual Program Meeting Main banner
Columbia School of Social Work
Icon Legend
This session is not in your schedule.
This session is in your schedule. Click again to remove it.
Back
Evaluation

Paper Presentation

African Americans and the African Diaspora

Session: Powering Together, the Beauty of Community Work

Culturally Responsive Community Participation, Engagement, and Empowerment: Interdisciplinary Lenses

Friday, October 25, 2024
1:45 PM – 2:15 PM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2502B
Keeping professional social work principles relevant in African and other non-Western cultural settings is vital. Decolonizing social justice requires advocates to challenge and dismantle colonialism's lingering effects on individual countries' social justice education, movements, and policies. It involves decentering the dominant Eurocentric frameworks and reclaiming indigenous knowledge, practices, and values.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Participants will Identify social justice issues in their African, African American, Black and BIPOC communities.
  2. Demonstrate their understanding of culturally adaptive micro and mezzo social justice concepts and methods.
  3. Examine interventions helpful in supporting social justice needs of marginalized communities.