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The Ackerman Institute for the Family 2019 Annual Report FAMILY. ARE WE THE ACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY 2019 ANNUAL REPORT TABLE OF CONTENTS About Ackerman .................................................3 Features ......................................................................6 7 The History of the Social Work and Diversity Program at the Ackerman Institute for the Family 9 A Tribute to Sippio Small, Co-Director 10 Mission-Critical Work of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion INTRODUCTION 11 Over 25 Years of Partnership with Fundación Aiglé ........................................... It is an honor to share our 2019 Annual Leader and Donors 13 Report — a reflection on what we have 2019 Financials .....................................................19 learned, accomplished, and aspire to as a community. As leaders in professional training of family therapists for 60 years, Ackerman Institute for the Family remains an innovator in the branch of psychotherapy in which families create new interactions, patterns, and creative ways of being together. Never has our work been more relevant than today. 2 Above: Ackerman class of 2019 with staff. and faculty ACKERMAN ABOUT 3 ABOUT ACKERMAN Letter from President & CEO and Board Chair Dear Friends, As we write to share the 2019 Annual Report we are enveloped by the us who sit with White privilege. We simply cannot be silent. We are especially COVID-19 pandemic coupled with the inequity and racism plaguing all of us. proud of the culminating work highlighted in this report: As an Institute founded to train family therapists, our ethics demand that we care about all people, all families, and act towards social justice. Looking • Ackerman Institute’s Social Work & Diversity Program, its founders Sippio back at the year behind us helps us to appreciate where we have been and Small, Laurie Kaplan and Ruth Mohr and the 148 alumni of the program. gain focus for our community for the future. • Creation of the Vice President of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion position and hiring of Kiran Shahreen Kaur Arora, PhD as the leader charting In this report, we highlight the steadfast commitment of the Ackerman these paths. faculty and staff to relational work in challenging times and the life-changing • Inclusion reflected in our work, including more than 25 years of impact of Ackerman alumni in communities across the country. In a world partnership with Fundación Aiglé in Buenos Aires, Argentina. where families are experiencing the trauma of separation and isolation, where homelessness and hopelessness destroy connections, and where When more is asked of us, we have the opportunity to be better, stronger, teen suicide risk and substance misuse paralyze relationships, Ackerman and more resilient. Our capable team has embraced innovative technology Institute sees interconnection and interdependence as the way forward. and new ways of working in order to deliver all training online and Since 1960, we have pushed the boundaries to foster meaningful and just therapy services using teletherapy methods. This moment has given us relationship. We are steadfast in those commitments today and are building the opportunity to be the best institution we can be and to engage the our capacities for a future that ensures that all families flourish. Ackerman alumni to join in heeding this call. Our remarkable community is a regular source of support, serving as therapist volunteers, sounding boards, Sixty years ago, when Nathan Ackerman opened the doors of Ackerman mentors, champions, ambassadors, and advisers. Institute for the Family, he trained family therapists to identify systems in family life because he saw the potential to liberate. This was his life’s work. This is an amazing community, whom we are grateful to serve. As we search Today, our faculty and therapist-trainees thrive within these tangled webs out new, radical ways to operate in 2020, we invite you to join us in meeting of identities and relationships, encouraging each other to step in, step back, the challenge. and step up in supporting families and communities to face challenges and create unprecedented, sustained, and transformative change. With hope & courage, Our unwavering commitment to jettisoning racism in all its forms and to making the world a more just and equitable place is not something we do Martha Fling Ira Sallen alone. It is our therapist-trainees, partners, and supporters, who make all President & CEO Chair, Board of things possible. We are each responsible to take action, especially those of Directors 4 ABOUT ACKERMAN About Our In 2019, The Ackerman Institute Ackerman Mission for the Family: As leaders for nearly 60 years in The Ackerman Institute’s mission the training of therapists and the is to provide: (1) Innovative delivery of family therapy, the couple and family therapy services Ackerman Institute for the Family through its on-site clinic (licensed provides mental health care for by the State of New York Office of 7,377 families from all socio-economic Mental Health), (2) State-of-the- Delivered 7,377 family therapy 25Celebrated over 25 years of backgrounds. Founder Nathan art training programs for mental sessions. partnership with Fundación Aiglé Ackerman published, taught, and health and other professionals showed films demonstrating this on-site, in community settings and new method of seeing patients and internationally, and (3) Cutting- their families together. He pioneered edge innovations that focus on the not only a new type of therapy, but development of new treatment also the tradition of the audiovisual models and training techniques. documentation of clinical work that became a cornerstone of We innovate and disseminate Launched 12 family therapists Honored27 the Social Work and family therapy training. Ackerman- our methods of practice to a 12from post-graduate training Diversity Program and our 27 trained therapists use innovative large network of organizations, into their careers and into the years of partnership with the approaches to complex and practitioners, and families. We are Ackerman alumni community. Silberman School of Social Work contemporary challenges facing committed to applying social justice at Hunter College, the NYU Silver families of every form and history. in clinical settings and training School of Social Work, and the Ackerman Institute is committed therapists in socially just clinical Columbia School of Social Work. to placing the goals of diversity, practices. Our projects address equity, and inclusion at the center conditions that interfere with of everything we do. We whole- quality family life and relationships heartedly believe that it is strong and provide therapists with small alliances that create change and professional learning communities drive success for our families and where they continue to grow and our communities. advance their practice. 6,000 Reached more than 6,000 30Supported over 30 clinical Our vision is to develop in all families therapists with professional projects since 1960. the relational skills and strengths development workshops and needed to prosper and flourish. short courses. 5 FEATURES Social Work & Diversity Program Receives the Ackerman Legacy Honor In 2019, the Ackerman Institute’s Social Work and Diversity Program received the Ackerman Legacy Honor. We are grateful for our 27-year partnerships with the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, the NYU Silver School of Social Work and the Columbia School of Social Work. Co-Director, Laurie Kaplan shares a history of the program and impact, in her own words. Above: Kiran Arora presents Laurie Kaplan with the Ackerman Legacy Honor. 6 FEATURES The History of the Social Work and Diversity Program at the Ackerman Institute for the Family By Laurie Kaplan, Co-Director In 1992, there were only two Ackerman’s student population. We students and two faculty members researched recruitment strategies of color at the Ackerman Institute. for students of color in social work Nationally, only 4% of couple and and discovered that essential family therapists were of color. ingredients for success were: early Families of color and white families recruitment, mentorships and were being treated almost solely financial and emotional support. Mr. Above: Ackerman’s Social Work and by white professionals. Our field’s Small emphasized the importance Diversity Program founders, Sippio theoretical base was strongly of recruiting students of color while Small, Laurie Kaplan, and Ruth Mohr. influenced by its dominant White they were still in graduate school membership and lacked the and also suggested that we enlist knowledge, lived experience and the help of Arthur Maslow, a former expertise of professionals of color. faculty member and current board This underrepresentation impeded member who agreed to provide the development of a community initial start up funds. It cannot be of multiracial professionals tackling emphasized enough the importance the problems that families face of that support. The Maslow family’s and did little to reduce racial bias ongoing steadfast commitment to in our society. this program has been integral to its survival. To address this, Sippio Small proposed to colleagues Laurie In 1992, the Social Work and Kaplan and Ruth Mohr that we Diversity Program was born. create a training program for Columbia, NYU and the Hunter students of color that would Schools of Social Work agreed to significantly begin to diversify partner with us and send us two 7 FEATURES families as co-therapy teams, of color and ongoing sharing their histories and
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