Register today for these two flexible format virtual courses presented by Shimon Cohen, MSW, LCSW, and Charla Yearwood, MSSW, LCSW.

Racial Justice and Liberatory Practice Series

About the Workshop:

This series will explore the historical and modern-day context of racism, white supremacy, and oppression from a systemic and interpersonal perspective. The following issues and themes will be discussed: colonization, enslavement, genocide, the social construction of race, whiteness, anti-Black racism, the myth of meritocracy, racial colorblindness, the role of policy, ethics, intersectionality, sexism, classism, heterosexism, ableism, ageism, resistance movements, and more.

Participants will learn generalist frameworks and skills that contribute to racial justice and liberatory practice. There will be an emphasis on an analysis of power and critical reflection on who benefits and who is harmed. All coursework is meant to allow participants to enhance their capacities to take action that challenges oppressive systems such as racism, sexism, classism, ageism, ableism, and heterosexism, in the context of social work. Participants will have the opportunity to examine their experiences of privilege and oppression. This course will utilize book chapters, articles, videos, podcasts, websites, discussions, and more as ways of learning, with a focus on theory and action.