UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare Second Annual Social Justice Symposium
Saturday, January 26, 2008
9:00am to 5:00pm

Online registration opens December 3, 2007.

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Please email ucbsjs@gmail.com with questions. Thank you.

Thanks to our Sponsors

Volunteers!

Self-reflection
The Self-Reflection workshops are intended to provide us with an opportunity to become more aware of personal strengths and challenges in understanding social justice issues and how they impact the efficacy of practice. There workshops are:

1.   Faith-Based Organizations, Spirituality and Social Work – Opportunities and Challenges in Building Service Relationships

Presenter: Jennifer Morazes

Jennifer Morazes, M.Div., is a current MSW/PhD student at the UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and has ten years of experience working in agencies with both social work and faith-based missions. Ms. Morazes has also been trained as an Anti-Racism Facilitator through the National Episcopal Church.

This workshop will address the issue of faith-based organization-social work partnerships and discuss ways in which social work and faith-based missions can either cooperate or create conflicts. Participants will learn how these interdisciplinary approaches can create positive results and a high quality of care through reflective, honest dialogue. The issue of cultural competency will be addressed from various vantage points, such as modalities across faith traditions, religion as an issue of cultural competency, and hurtful and problematic religious experiences from the perspective of social work.

2. Deconstructing White Privilege

Presenters: Shuli Lotan, LCSW and Nancy C. Arvold, MFT, The UNtraining and AWARE

Shuli Lotan, LCSW has worked with the “Un-Training White Liberal Racism” project and is currently a member and workshop planner for AWARE, the Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere/Evolving, in Los Angeles. Ms Lotan will be leading a workshop at the upcoming NASW conference on a similar topic. Nancy Arvold is currently a teacher with the UNtraining. She has presented at the Mental Health Summit in San Jose, and served on the Cultural Competency Committee of San Mateo County Mental Health.

This workshop will engage participants in an understanding the idea of white privilege as a tool of the white supremacist system, from an historical and contemporary perspective. Through self-reflection and interactive discussion, participants will gain knowledge, tools, and action steps towards developing an anti-racist consciousness and social work practice.