Date: 8/6/2021, 9:15 am—4:45 pm
County: -Training Offerings
CEUs: 6
Location: DISTANCE LEARNING
Sponsor: A Better Way, Inc.
Phone: 510-601-0203
Website: http://www.abetterwayinc.net
“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”
~ WOMEN’S ABORIGINAL ACTIVIST GROUP, QUEENSLAND AUSTRALIA, 1970S
Frequently, professionals in the social welfare system are tasked with service and helping work including advocacy, caretaking, and empowering youth and families involved with the child welfare system. While service-oriented efforts and responding to immediate needs for survival are a necessity, the goal of social work is often aimed at helping those impacted by oppression and social injustice, rather than social justice action and the promotion of social change and liberation.
What is social justice?
“We believe that social justice is both a process and a goal. The goal of social justice is full and equal participation of all groups in a society that is mutually shaped to meet their needs. Social justice includes a vision of society in which the distribution of resources is equitable and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure. We envision a society in which individuals are both self-determining (able to develop their full capacities) and interdependent (capable of interacting democratically with others). Social justice involves social actors who have a sense of their own agency as well as a sense of social responsibility toward and with others, their society, and the broader world in which we live. These are conditions we wish not only for our own society but also for every society in our interdependent global community.”
~ EXCERPT FROM: TEACHING FOR DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
In this full-day interactive workshop and dialogue, we will work to define social justice tenets and challenges to social justice and liberation in the child welfare system, explore opportunities to engage social justice with families in the child welfare system, and find ways to work toward interdependence and liberation for ourselves and the communities we support.