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UC
Berkeley School of Social Welfare Second Annual Social Justice
Symposium Address: Click here for details Please email ucbsjs@gmail.com with questions. Thank you.
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Skills
For Practice Presenter: Claudia Albano Claudia Albano has more than 25 years experience in social action organizing. She is currently the Neighborhood Services Manager with the City of Oakland and is a Lecturer at the School of Social Welfare at UC Berkeley. Ms. Albano holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University, a Master's Degree in Legal Studies from the University of San Francisco, and a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from UC Berkeley. Everyone wants change! Everyone wants action! Although we are long on passion and well versed in the issues, we can be short on organizing know-how. This workshop will introduce the principles and practice of grassroots community organizing so that participants will be able to apply organizing principles to their work, know the different types of organizations in the community, be capable of evaluating the effectiveness of community organizations, start a community-based organization, and learn a first step toward becoming a community organizer. 2. Radical Geriatric Practice: Adventures in Elder Financial Abuse Work 3.
Sex workers rights & Social workers roles: Preventing Violence
& Promoting Safety, Crossroads/US Prostitutes 4. Narrative
Therapy, Group Work, and Social Justice Participants will learn ways to bring Narrative Therapy-influenced social justice considerations into their practice, particularly with young people. Participants will be introduced to the social justice and narrative therapy considerations of three groups that have taken place at the Community Project: Grief Group, Taken by Storm: Responding to Community Violence with Spoken Word, and Da Rainbow. Participating youth will share their experiences of what narrative therapy groups have made possible for them. Presenters will create Narrative Therapy-based documents with participants to thank the young people for sharing their experiences. 5.
Empowering Youth to Fight for Social Justice: Removing Barriers
for Youth Leadership & Development This workshop takes
a co-facilitated youth approach to teach participants tools
and techniques for empowering and inspiring youth to take action
and fight for change in their communities. Participants
will learn how to create frameworks and supports to open opportunities
for youth voice and engagement. Participants will learn
concrete techniques for structuring meetings, planning projects,
and including monitoring and evaluation throughout. They
will also learn how to incorporate reflection, collaboration,
team-building, and key experiences into youth programs. This workshop will focus on mindfulness practice on vulnerable populations, with a focus on incarcerated youth. Participants will be lead in a group practice session (includes yoga, breathing techniques, and meditation for youth empowerment) to experience the possibilities of self-transformative skills. Upon completion of this session, participants will have a greater awareness of the power and potential of personal transformation, and will have developed an understanding of the implications of mindfulness practices in individual clients as well as in the criminal justice system. The workshop will be led by Bidyut Bose, Ph.D., Executive Director of The Niroga Institute 7. The right to know: connecting our most vulnerable populations with family This workshop will explore the history, values and examples of, and steps for Family Finding. Family Finding is grounded in the Geneva Convention's "Right to Know" emphasizing the human right to know what happens to family members. The founder of this model, Kevin Campbell, will be presenting his six-step process for identifying, engaging, and planning with family members that have been disconnected from youth in out of home care. Recently this practice has also been used with youth involved in the probation system, transition age youth, as well as disconnected elderly populations. Participants will receive a foundation to discuss family and youth rights to maintain and reestablish relationships, as well as learn the six steps of family finding. Rachel Antrobus is the Director of the Commission and is a passionate advocate for reform in foster care, alternative education, transitional-aged system development, youth employment and organizational development. Iqra Anjum is the former Chair of the Youth Commission. As an immigrant from Pakistan, Iqra understands the barriers young people face in the Bay Area and has been an advocate for and leader of youth-led change in San Francisco around transportation, juvenile and environmental justice. Cassandra James is the Vice-Chair of the San Francisco Youth Commission, member of the Transitional Youth Task Force and youth worker at Center for Young Women’s Development. This workshop will teach a ‘how-to’
on engaging young people in social justice local policy development
through a train the trainer model with participants. The
workshop itself will simulate a training to facilitate with
youth that includes: An introduction to policymaking (locally/state-focused),
mapping a social justice issue, drafting legislation to change
or develop a new policy and information about how to shop the
issue to appropriate decision makers and move forward with concrete
next steps. Presenters: Meghan Corman, Director of YELS Expulsion Prevention Clinic; Dylan deKervor, Director of YELS; Meredith Desautels, Lindsay LaSalle and Marina Sideris Co-Directors of YELS Juvenile Hall Outreach, Youth and Education Law Society (YELS) YELS juvenile justice curriculum contains many links to important social justice topics in the juvenile justice system, including: the prison industrial complex, racial profiling, and disproportionate minority confinement. This workshop will provide a working knowledge of the juvenile justice system, the relevant steps of juvenile procedure, rights of youth in detention, differences between the juvenile and adult criminal systems, and technical knowledge of the overlap between the dependency and delinquency systems. This workshop will also discuss how YELS utilizes social justice topics to empower youth to think critically and use their knowledge of their rights, and share best practices on how participants can do the same with their clients.
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