TABLE OF CONTENTS SOCIAL JUSTICE WANTED | 2020 – 2021
INTRODUCTION, Anna Scheyett...... 1 RACISM continued
FACULTY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL JUSTICE...... 3 Historical Trauma, Social Work and Social Justice, Jennifer Elkins...... 23 THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK RESPONDS TO: From Social Apartheid to Social Justice: Social COVID-19 Work’s Journey, June Gary Hopps...... 24
Care, Social Justice and Compassion in Parham Policy Day Highlights the Impact on Response to COVID-19, Llewellyn J. Cornelius..... 5 Social Policy on Society, Laurie Anderson...... 29
Clinical Response to COVID-19, INJUSTICE AND EXPLOITATION Kate Morrissey Stahl...... 7 Human Trafficking, Social Justice and Social Ni Buena Salud Ni Buena Vida: The Erosion of Work, David Okech...... 31 Social Capital Among Latino Day Laborers During the Time of COVID-19, Social Justice and Gender-Based Violence on Javier Boyas, Larry Nackerud...... 9 College Campuses, Adrienne Baldwin-White...... 33 Protecting Survivors During a Pandemic: Domestic Violence Residential Services To Build a Better World: Now is the Time for a Response to COVID-19, Rights-Based Approach to Social Work Practice, Y. Joon Choi, Elyssa Schroeder...... 13 Jane McPherson...... 35
The Intersection of Ageism and Racism in a The Social Worker Engaged in Social Policy, COVID-19 Era, Tiffany Washington...... 15 Yosha Dotson...... 39
RACISM Social Justice Common Book Initiative, Tiffany Washington, Jennifer Elkins...... 41 School of Social Work Statement on Racism and Social Justice...... 17 PrOSEADTM Syllabus...... 42
Addressing the Policing Crisis: Michael SOCIAL JUSTICE RELEVANT FACULTY PUBLICATIONS Robinson Looks at the Lethal Use of Force and (BY TOPIC)...... 44 Needed Changes, Laurie Anderson...... 18 CALL FOR PAPERS, JOURNAL OF POVERTY...... 57 A Personal (Re) Dedication to Social Justice Efforts in Black/African American Mental Health, Rosalyn Denise Campbell...... 21
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Introduction — Anna Scheyett
SOCIAL JUSTICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK: AN INTRODUCTION
Anna Scheyett, PhD, Dean and Professor
core commitment at the University change. Several notable efforts come to of Georgia School Of Social Work mind. First was the revision of the MSW A is to promote social justice and curriculum, re-grounding our teaching in oppose injustice in all its forms. Our roots our social justice mission. The foundation in social justice work go deep. Founded in of this curriculum is a course entitled the 1960s during the civil rights movement, Addressing the Bases of Power, Oppression, our commitment to social justice began Social Justice, Evidence-Informed Practice, with the School’s inception and continues Advocacy, and Diversity (affectionately to this day. Among our most notable social known as PrOSEAD). The description and justice endeavors are the longstanding Foot learning objectives for this course are Soldiers of the Civil Rights project, led by found later in this document. Maurice Daniels, and the establishment of the Center for Social Justice, Human and A second effort was the creation of the Civil Rights, led by Lee Cornelius. Faculty Social Justice Statement. This statement was crafted over many months. Over the past four years, the faculty of the It began with an open discussion of social School of Social Work have been impelled justice, where we raised the question to action by the strife and injustice in “How can we work for social justice if our communities, and particularly by the we don’t have a common understanding recent crises of racial violence, pandemic, from which to build?” This was followed and economic downturn. We have engaged by facilitated card-storming and concept- deeply with the construct of social justice, sorting sessions. Faculty worked in working together to create a clear vision groups to complete the sentence “At the of what social justice means to us. This UGA School of Social Work, social justice reflection and co-construction created is…” and sorted the resultant phrases great energy and resulted in significant into conceptual categories. Later, each
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category of phrases was given to a group of The dual crises of the COVID-19 pandemic faculty, who integrated the concepts into a and the ubiquitous violence against Black statement sentence. These sentences were people have spurred us to ever-growing then gathered and synthesized into a draft action. We have focused our service and statement on social justice. Three iterations research on work in the community, on of this statement were revised, amended, addressing disparities and racial injustice, and enriched by faculty until a final version on antiracist activities. We have just was completed. Faculty voted unanimously begun—there is so much more work to in support of the statement at our faculty do to dismantle social and racial injustice. meeting of September 15, 2017. The Faculty Our faculty are committed to the ongoing Social Justice Statement is found on the work, and you will be hearing more in next page of this document. the months to come. Some of our faculty have reflected on their work as it relates to Last year we launched a new project, the COVID-19, to racism, and to other forms of Social Justice Common Book Initiative, injustice and exploitation. These essays as reading We Need to Talk: How to Have well as citations for articles, chapters, and Conversations That Matter by Celeste books, are also included in this document Headlee. During orientation, we held small for your information. They are not simply group discussions where students made a compendium of the past, but a guidepost connections between the book’s content for the way forward. We share these and social work’s mission, and used the resources with you and hope they will help book’s ideas to discuss difficult topics in us all in our ongoing work for social justice. the classroom throughout the year. This year, incoming students across all of our Peace, programs are reading Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman, looking at voting rights and issues—particularly important in an election year. More about the Social Justice Anna Scheyett, PhD, MSW Common Book Initiative can be found later Dean and Professor in this document.
2 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU UGA SSW Faculty Statement on Social Justice
University of Georgia School of Social Work FACULTY STATEMENT ON SOCIAL JUSTICE
Developed through a collaborative and synthetic faculty discussion process.
At the UGA School of Social Work, we believe social justice occurs when systems of all sizes (individuals, families, communities) are able, safely and dependably, to obtain the civil and human rights and resources they need to thrive. These include but are not limited to health, economic growth, social rights, equity, inclusion, safety, freedom to move about the world; social support, food security, a clean environment, education, employment, childcare and housing. Eliminating social injustice is central to our work as social workers, requires brave and assertive action and effort, and must be present in all we do and say. The School of Social Work advocates for social justice by fighting for the rights of people and communities, partic- ularly those who have experienced marginalization, stigma, discrimination, and oppression of any form. We partner with communities in Georgia and around the world to embrace and speak truth to power and privilege and to promote change for social justice in our classrooms, our research, and our service.
Approved unanimously by the faculty of the School of Social Work, September 15, 2017
Photo by Laurie Anderson
3 Social Work Responds to COVID-19
4 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Care and Social Justice in Response to COVID-19 — Llewellyn J. Cornelius
CARE, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND COMPASSION IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19
Llewellyn J. Cornelius, PhD Donald L. Hollowell Distinguished Professor of Social Justice and Civil Rights Studies Director, Center for Social Justice, Human and Civil Rights
write this essay honor of the spirit that they and others in their community of Langston Hughes' character "feel awful that they can’t be with their I Jesse B Semple (also known as loved ones who are isolated by themselves Simple), who spoke plainly in the 1940s in hospitals or a quarantine site.” Chicago Defender—an African American newspaper—about what was on the During the same week, I heard another cry everyday persons’ mind. In that vein, this for help. I was on a 90 minute regularly essay focuses on what everyday people are scheduled monthly conference call with crying out to us about, what they need from more than 50 mostly older adults across us NOW as they are coping with COVID-19 the U.S. that focused on planning cultural as well as what all of us can do to help. activities in their communities. After 83 minutes passed on this Zoom call, without What am I hearing from everyday people? a single question or comment from the Or to quote Chris Tucker, "Do you hear leadership team about how individuals on the words that are coming out of my the call were dealing with COVID-19, an mouth?" This is what I recently heard from upset community partner interjected: “I just someone living in a small low resource had five people die in my community, and rural community that is highly impacted I can't believe we are on this call carrying by the coronavirus. “What are you doing on like business as usual.” What ensued right now to help me eat, help me keep my was 10 minutes of defensive responses from job and help me not get evicted from my the leadership team, followed by deflecting apartment?” In the same conversation, from the issue presented by the upset caller, they said that they were “afraid to answer which clearly showed that the leadership their phone because of COVID.” Because team was far more concerned about their they are afraid, they will hear that “yet organizational planning activity then they another person they personally know of” were about the pain that everyday people has just died from the coronavirus. At the were feeling then. same time, “they can’t go to that funeral” and “will never get to see their body.” When I know these observations are not unique I asked further, they responded by saying to me as we hear these same cries for help
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in our work, on the TV media, and on social In response to these cries, maybe we need media. The underlying message being to ask ourselves as helping professionals, conveyed is this is NOT business as usual. are we balancing basic mindfulness/ self-nurturance with being “present” for In effect, we are ALL being asked by these others? Are we also telling other everyday everyday people: Are we listening with people that WE all need to take care of our hearts instead of our heads??? What ourselves and each other? When someone appears to be coming out of these cries for is being evicted, they do not want to hear help is that people are afraid, overwhelmed, about our next project, peer review article, and stressed out, and worried about their grant, or presentation. Around the world, basic human needs. They are worried about WE are being tested to “do” as opposed to going hungry. They are worried about “theorize, conceptualize and talk.” Yes, being evicted or worried about getting sick. while social justice is about empowerment, They are overwhelmed by the loss of those liberation, advocacy, agitation and so on, it dear to them or being hindered from being is also about being emotionally present and with them in the hospital or nursing home compassionate in response to the tidal wave and overwhelmed by the loss of many of of requests for our compassion and concrete the priceless things that we all take for basic assistance that we are experiencing. granted like simple hugs, real live three- dimensional encounters, like simply being able to congregate anywhere.
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Center for Social Justice, Human & Civil Rights is providing resources for our community partners. Click on the following community resources link to find information on COVID- 19 and behavioral health resources, particularly for vulnerable groups such as children, the elderly, non-English speakers and others. COVID-19 COMMUNITY RESOURCES.
6 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Clinical Response to COVID-19 — Kate Morrissey Stahl
CLINICAL RESPONSE TO COVID-19
Kate Morrissey Stahl, PhD, LCSW, CST Clinical Assistant Professor
As the COVID-19 crisis hit, the School of Social Work faculty decided that our social justice mission meant that we had a responsibility to consider how best to respond in ways that would be supportive to our students and our communities.
e began to appreciate the array of social work faculty, the dean, and a of specialties in our community, representative from the chamber discussed W how we might learn from one ways to support the business and nonprofit another, and how each could be mobilized communities. We gathered names of to serve the wider community. Clinical sliding-scale providers for small business social work is my specialty, so I will share owners, the field office considered creating some of the work we did in this capacity. small support groups, and others reflected on employee assistance programs. COVID-19 made even more obvious deep disparities in healthcare access and As the pandemic wore on, there was challenges for well-being. In Athens, the increasing need for clinical referrals and behavioral health community rallied Employee Assistance Program referrals. around three groups: medical workers, In my clinical life, I made time to expand small business owners, and vulnerable support for vulnerable populations, populations. Early efforts on a local clinical including healthcare providers. In the therapist listserv included gathering a list of field, clinical work shifted by moving providers to support healthcare workers on online. This shift happened quickly even a sliding scale as needed. at larger clinics and at a training clinic that I supervise. This shift to online was In a second wave, the suicide of a prominent especially important for providing support Athenian businesswoman galvanized to another group I serve extensively: the reflection on how to support small business LGBTQ population. Suddenly, my clients owners. That week, there was significant receiving gender affirmation treatment discussion on a local therapist page. In were slowing down the treatment as some addition, the dean called a meeting with services were considered elective. Clients the local chamber of commerce. A group who had moved away from home or had
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tenuous relationships with their families problem of white supremacy with white were considering whether and how to clients, they are missing out on a crucial connect. On the other side, people who had element of addressing human suffering. been single for years were seeking out sex therapy services during the pause provided It is also an ethical responsibility of social by the pandemic as the isolation they workers to respond to social justice issues experienced in social distancing made them in our communities and countries. For that realize they did want sexual relationships reason, clinical social workers in Athens in their lives. COVID-19 impacted different and faculty members circulated petitions groups differently, shifting life in both and spoke at a town hall in support of a welcome and unwelcome directions. proposal by two commissioners in Athens to increase social service options and decrease Students also have been worried about police interventions so that relatively the job market. I explored the question of minor infractions would be less likely to hiring students after graduation and hired escalate to violence. The School of Social a graduate to provide sliding scale therapy Work provides a clinical education that under my supervision at the clinic I own. emphasizes the impact of social oppression In addition, we offer donation-based yoga and need for social responsibility while in this space, and spent time as a group also understanding the individual becoming more educated on trauma- manifestations of these forces. informed approaches to yoga, including active anti-oppressive approaches in the As protests move through the country; as definition of trauma-informed. A current the drumbeat of violence against people MSW student interested in trauma and yoga of color grows louder; as a white woman joined the book club after he expressed his threatens a Black man in Central Park with overall interest to me. The yoga side of the calling the police and emphasizing his race; clinic works primarily by donation, so as as police suffocate George Floyd in full view; we worked to decide about when to safely as Rayshard Brooks is killed by police in open, we also considered how to continue Atlanta: the need for change is obvious. We our mission to share valuable mindfulness see a unique opportunity and responsibility practices in affordable and safe ways with to provide support and community as we the community. We also listed our clinic on work toward that change. a design site shared by Associate Professor Kristina Jaskyte. Thanks to our diverse faculty, we received much helpful advice about how to pivot in response to the pandemic.
With all of these upheavals, I considered and discussed with colleagues how to expand questions of healthcare disparities and cultural trauma in the class on behavioral methods. If clinicians are offering services that do not situate the individual in their social context in meaningful ways, including addressing the
8 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Social Capital Erosion among LDLs — Boyas, Nackerud
NI BUENA SALUD NI BUENA VIDA: THE EROSION OF SOCIAL CAPITAL AMONG LATINO DAY LABORERS DURING THE TIME OF COVID-19
Javier F. Boyas, PhD, Associate Professor and Javier Boyas MSW Program Director
Larry Nackerud, PhD, Professor
sizable body of literature now exists that highlights the relationship A between social capital resources and health status as a result of the positive health returns associated with social ties. These studies have established that increased levels of social capital are essential determinants of better Larry Nackerud health. We refer to social capital as the notion of social growth being cultivated through relationship building.1,2 Given that health differences among racial and is why we maintain that the loss of social ethnic populations are tied to economic capital for LDLs has occurred as a result and social conditions, which are potential of social policies and a politically hostile byproducts of social capital, it is essential environment. Policies and ordinances that consideration is given to the impact enacted during this pandemic have reduced the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) social capital levels that may lead to has had on the undocumented Latino day inadequate resources that promote and laborer (LDLs) community. This paper sustain a better health condition. Social addresses how this virus has eroded the capital resources influence health outcomes social capital resources on which LDLs rely through four health-related pathways: on for better health and health outcomes. social support, social influence, social engagement, and access to resources and The development of social capital has to material goods.3,4 These pathways have be placed within the context of social class, been diminished in several ways. For power struggles, and positionality,1 which example, stay-at-home orders have shut
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down the most valuable asset for LDLs— The pandemic has hurt LDLs socially; the street corners and parking lots of however, it has also diminished their home improvement big box stores. That is economic opportunities. The corner is a significant loss given that the physical where jobs are secured but also where spaces provide LDLs valuable fellowship, LDLs exchange valuable information support, engagement, and access to critical about which jefes (employers) are hiring, job-related information.4 In the process of which jefes have exploited workers, and interacting with one another, LDLs have the which ones are notorious for wage theft.4 potential to combine and utilize resources Typically, day labor is negotiated outside in to help each other.5 However, this is not public spaces where day laborers congregate possible given that shelter-in-place orders to look for work.6 Due to COVID-19, many discourage LDLs from going outdoors. Some of the industries in which LDLs work, such have interpreted social distancing and self- as landscaping, renovation, gardening, quarantine orders as social isolation and roofing, and construction, have been avoiding socializing with others outside of closed or temporarily suspended. Only the their immediate social circles. Closing this construction industry is considered an physical space has also diminished LDLs’ essential business in many U.S. regions, ability to share their personal narratives, which is where LDLs have found some which is how they typically foster a stronger financial reprieve. However, they have really sense of community. been hurt economically by the absence of
Latino day laborers wear face masks donated by the women of #MujersLiderando, a group of immigrant women that are part of La Colmena, a community nonprofit organization working with day laborers, domestic workers and other low wage workers in Staten Island, New York. Photo retrieved from https://bit.ly/38FRbEB.
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homeowners, who constitute the largest The omission of LDLs in policies that could group that hires LDLs.7 Many homeowners have supported their health and economic have avoided taking on projects around condition is directly tied to the current the house that require the assistance of a political climate. day laborer because of shelter-in-place, social distancing, and quarantine orders. Political Climate Homeowners do not want to risk having someone enter their home without really While the toxicity of the current political knowing that person’s COVID-19 status. climate directed towards documented immigrants and undocumented persons Policies passed to combat COVID-19 have in the country is attributed primarily to further exacerbated the loss of social capital. President Trump, past administrations are Many of the LDLs who are undocumented also to blame. President Obama authorized are also uninsured. They, along with other deportations for more persons than undocumented persons, were not included all previous presidents combined. The in the virus-response aid package passed Affordable Care Act, “Obama Care,” failed by Congress.8 For LDLs, not having health to include coverage for undocumented insurance coverage will be a barrier in persons. When the COVID-19 arrived terms of being tested for the virus, which in early 2020, 50% of undocumented can hurt the communities in which they live. persons lacked any health insurance They will be a segment of the population coverage. Economic impacts also arose that remains undetected and unchecked, as an estimated seven million workers thus potentially increasing the risk of were without legal status, one million of transmission as the communities across whom were farmworkers and the rest in the country begin to reopen. LDLs will stay the health care, food and construction undetected and unchecked because they industries.9 Thousands of “Dreamers,” are not likely to seek testing because of were also in societal and political limbo. As fear of deportation. The U.S. president has President Obama prepared to leave office not eased this fear. He has yet to publicly in 2016, the unemployment rate, which denounce deporting undocumented persons peaked at 10% in 2010 and stayed high for should they interface with the healthcare months, had receded to 4.8%.10 Disdain system for testing. for undocumented persons was a bit diminished with these economic gains, but COVID-19 shut down the economy, and did not disappear. economic relief was needed by many in the U.S., including LDLs. However, the But it would fall to President Trump Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic and his associates, particularly Attorney Security (CARES) Act of 2020 excluded General Jeff Sessions, and Mr. Stephen undocumented persons from receiving Miller, to create a toxic political climate federal stimulus checks. Further for recent documented immigrants and intensifying being excluded from receiving millions of undocumented persons. Even stimulus funds, undocumented LDLs do not as the unemployment rate held steady at qualify for unemployment benefits. Thus, 3.5% and set record lows for particular during a time when the economy in the U.S. populations, the assault on immigration has come to a standstill, they do not have and refugee populations was swift and anywhere to turn to for financial reprieve. comprehensive. President Trump actualized
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an anti-immigrant sentiment that rivaled the and stressful life conditions. However, we bigotry of the 1920’s. Rather than southern underscore that social capital as a tool and eastern Europeans, the Chinese, and for anticipated success by undocumented members of the Jewish and Catholic faiths, day laborers is greatly diminished, if not this time the bigotry was focused on completely eradicated, by the current persons from Central and South America, policies and toxic political climate. Africa, and Asia.11
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12 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Protecting Survivors During a Pandemic — Y. Joon Choi, Elyssa Schroeder
PROTECTING SURVIVORS DURING A PANDEMIC: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE RESIDENTIAL SERVICES RESPONSE TO COVID-19
Y .Joon Choi, MSW, PhD Associate Professor and PhD Program Director Y. Joon Choi Elyssa Schroeder, MSW PhD Student
istory has shown that in times of societal crisis, such as natural H disasters and financial downturns, intimate partner violence (IPV) tends to rise. Recent events, such as Hurricanes Katrina and Harvey and the Australian Black Saturday fires, elucidated this phenomenon by demonstrating increased IPV incidences up to four years after the natural disaster (Schumacher, 2010; Serrata Elyssa Schroeder & Hurtado Alvarado, 2019; Parkinson & Zara, 2013). Other studies have found that rapid increases in the unemployment rate and unstable economic conditions, as seen calls during the pandemic, including calls in the Great Recession of 2008, increased from first-time reporters, have increased abusive partners' controlling behaviors 42-79% (Braverman, 2020; Burns, 2020; (Schneider, Harknett, & McLanahan, 2016; Evans, 2020). Lucero, & Santiago, 2016). The COVID-19 pandemic created distinctive conditions Domestic violence shelters represent a that overlap the increased risk factors of foundational service intervention that both a natural disaster and an unstable fulfills IPV survivor needs that cannot economy for increased IPV while also be met with other services (Lyon, Lane, further isolating survivors through social & Menard, 2008). These residential distancing practices. The United Nations programs provide 24/7 housing assistance estimates suggest that three months of for survivors fleeing IPV while providing quarantine could increase global domestic additional wraparound supports such violence by 20% (United Nations Population as therapy, legal advocacy, and case Fund, 2020). In Georgia, domestic violence management. Shelters typically seek to
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create safe and healthy environments for gaps and best practices in shelter service to survivors, and the COVID-19 pandemic has inform future infectious disease response caused unprecedented changes to those planning for domestic violence agencies. standard operating procedures. Shelter The COVID-19 pandemic represents an environments are communal by nature, unprecedented challenge in providing with survivors often sharing rooms and residential services. This study will shed common spaces, which increases the light on how domestic violence agencies can risk of spreading the virus. Additionally, continue to deliver life-saving services in survivors typically exit shelter services these exceptional times and further their when they can be financially independent. commitment to equitable access for all With mass unemployment and reduction survivors. of income for many Americans, the impact on survivors currently living in domestic References violence shelters can be monumental. This creates a bottleneck effect where survivors Ignatieff, M. (Ed.) (2005). Introduction: American are unable to exit shelter services into a safe exceptionalism and human rights. American exceptionalism and human rights. Princeton, NJ: and stable environment, preventing new Princeton University Press. residents from entering. The intersections Braverman, J. (2020, May 11). APD says domestic violence crimes up 42% while other crimes down of increased need for shelter services significantly during COVID-19 pandemic.11Alive . with an increased risk in housing people Accessed on 25 May 2020. Retrieved from communally and decreased economic https://bit.ly/3dXDaTA. Burns, A. S. (2020, April 28). Stay-at-home order poses options for survivors exiting shelters new problems for family violence victims, shelters. creates an unprecedented challenge for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Accessed on 25 May 2020. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/2YSOrAe. these programs. Campbell, A. M. (2020). An increasing risk of family violence during the Covid-19 pandemic: Our current research study seeks to Strengthening community collaborations to save lives. Forensic Science International: Reports, 2. understand how shelters are responding https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsir.2020.100089 to the COVID-19 pandemic, given these Evans, S. (2020, April 22). CCPD, SPD report recent rise in domestic violence calls. WTOC11. Accessed 25 constraints and an initial vacuum of May 2020. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/2BnHJJW. information. The study targets both Lyon, E., Lane, S., & Menard, A. (2008). Meeting domestic violence shelter staff and shelter survivors' needs: A multi-state study of domestic violence shelter experiences. Hartford: School of leadership to obtain a multi-pronged Social Work, University of Connecticut. picture of how policies and decisions were Lucero, J. L., Lim, S., & Santiago, A. M. (2016). Changes in economic hardship and intimate partner enacted. This study utilizes an online survey violence: A family stress framework. Journal of with questions surrounding changes in family and economic issues, 37(3), 395-406. everyday operations of domestic violence Serrata, J., & Hurtado Alvarado, M. G. (2019). Understanding the impact of Hurricane Harvey on shelters. Specifically, it inquires how family violence survivors in Texas and those who serve domestic violence shelter leadership made them. Texas Council on Family Violence. https://bit.ly/3iBiqE5. decisions affecting survivors and shelter Schneider, D., Harknett, K., & McLanahan, S. staff during the pandemic and subsequent (2016). Intimate partner violence in the Great shelter-in-place policies. It also examines Recession. Demography, 53(2), 471-505. https://bit.ly/2XvXYMJ domestic violence shelter staff's perceptions United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). (2020, April of how particular policies affected their 27). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family planning and ending gender-based violence, ability to respond to survivor needs and how female genital mutilation and child marriage. their health concerns impacted their work. United Nations Population Fund. Accessed on 25 May The ultimate goal of the study is to identify 2020. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/2YRrpdd.
14 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Agesim and Racism in a COVID-19 Era — Tiffany Washington
THE INTERSECTION OF AGEISM AND RACISM IN A COVID-19 ERA
Tiffany Washington, PhD, Associate Professor
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored two issues that social workers must address with urgency: ageism and racism.
Ageism represents biased beliefs or hanging out on beaches and enjoying attitudes toward an individual or a group of their spring breaks totally oblivious to the people based on age. As cases of coronavirus COVID-19 risks. Indeed, their behaviors in the U.S. first emerged, so did a very went against stay-at-home and social concerning narrative that only “old people” distancing recommendations, and it’s were the at-risk group of COVID-19. Indeed, unfortunate that some college students the CDC reports “Older adults and people tested positive after going on spring of any age who have serious underlying break.3 However, younger adults were medical conditions may be at higher risk not the only individuals defying those for more serious complications from recommendations, and they expressed their COVID-19.”1 We also know that “8 out of frustration against older adults on social 10 deaths reported in the U.S. have been in media for weeks.4 Meanwhile, media reports adults 65 years old and older.”2 However, are capitalized on this contention by pitting the problem was the narrative gave people Millennials against Baby Boomers and vice the impression that just older adults were versa.5 susceptible to coronavirus. Such a narrative likely influenced the behaviors of younger Further complicating risk-related people who did not see themselves at risk myths is what scholar and law professor for the disease (i.e., largely influenced by Kimberlé Crenshaw referred to as the early reports on the fatality rate of the virus “fatal intersection of racism and ageism” in China). The fact that “boomer remover” in a coronavirus era. African Americans as a COVID-19 moniker was trending on and older adults began to represent a social media is a reflection of ageist beliefs disproportionate number of coronavirus people hold toward older adults. cases.6 Instead of acknowledging the social determinants that relate to health But there was also ageist language toward disparities, the narrative shifted once again younger adults. For several days, headlining to older African Americans as the sole the media were reports of younger adults at-risk group.
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Ageism and racism are injustices. Exposing tendency to make assumptions about one’s society’s ageist and racist beliefs is an value based on age or race. Social workers important call to action for social workers. play an important role in facilitating As a starting point, social workers must discussions and pursuing policies toward examine their own age- and race-related ending these pervasive issues. biases, and consider how these biases are barriers to equity in health care. Also, social workers are positioned to shift References conversations to focus on the many social 1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020, determinants (i.e., the social and economic June 25). People who are at increased risk for severe 7 illness. https://bit.ly/3gw0Gco conditions of one’s environment) that 2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2020, exacerbate health-related disparities and July 30). Older adults and COVID-19. injustices. I am currently examining these https://bit.ly/39TnBMx 3. O'Kane, C. (2020, March 23). Florida college students topics in a qualitative study with health care test positive for coronavirus after going on spring break. social workers about their scope of practice CBSN. https://cbsn.ws/2DtcQEp 4. Jacobo, J. (2020, March 18). The frustration millennials during COVID-19. Among the questions have with older people not taking coronavirus asked include their perspectives about precautions seriously. ABC News. observed injustices during the COVID-19 https://abcn.ws/3gvRpRJ 5. Peterson, A. H. (2020, March 12). How millennials are pandemic (e.g., the potential rationing of talking to their boomer relatives about the coronavirus. healthcare based on age). BuzzFeed News. https://bit.ly/2XpqjEc 6. Waldstein, D. (2020, April 10). C.D.C. releases early demographic snapshot of worst coronavirus cases. NYT. Ageism and racism are not new issues. Still, https://nyti.ms/2DwvSd1 the COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the 7. HealthyPeople.gov. (2020). Social determinants of health. https://bit.ly/3a1UhDt
Characteristics of COVID-19 associated hospitalizations displayed by race/ethnicity and age.
Source: COVID- 19 — Associate Hospitalization Surveillance Network (COVID-NET) https://bit. ly/2PnUzen
16 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Social Work Responds to Racism
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK STATEMENT ON RACISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
The School of Social Work condemns racism and the callous acts of violence behind the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and other African Americans. We mourn their deaths. We are committed to seeking racial justice and to actions that make positive change happen. We are committed to these actions with broad input and ongoing collaboration and dialogue. We are committed to ensuring that “social justice” is more than a phrase on our website. It is the focus of our mission.
We strongly support our professional organization, the National Association of Social Workers, and its condemnation of lethal police force against unarmed African Americans. We also strongly support our educational accreditation body, the Council on Social Work Education, and its Statement of Social Justice and the Society for Social Work and Research’s Call and Commitment to Ending Police Brutality, Racial Injustice, and White Supremacy.
SOCIALSOCIAL JUSTICE JUSTICE WANTED WANTED || 2020-2021 17 Addressing the Policing Crisis — Michael Robinson
ADDRESSING THE POLICING CRISIS: MICHAEL ROBINSON LOOKS AT THE LETHAL USE OF FORCE AND NEEDED CHANGES
by Laurie Anderson
Michael A. Robinson, MSW, PhD Associate Professor and MSW Admission Coordinator
ven after the Ferguson riots, it on the subject. Of 18,000 police agencies in didn’t occur to Michael Robinson the U.S. only 2%-3% reported to any type of E to research the frequency of police database, and did so voluntarily. killings of unarmed Blacks. The African American academic was not studying law “The only way to find out about it was enforcement practices, but a brief encounter through the newspapers,” he said. with a total stranger changed the direction of his research. Two newspapers – the Washington Post and the United Kingdom’s Guardian – were “A student who I’d never seen before, a tracking police-involved deaths in the U.S., young African American male, came up to but their data differed for the same periods. me and said, ‘What are you doing about It took Robinson and two student assistants these police killings of Black men?’ months of comparing the data and combing through other news sources to get a “And I said, ‘What do you mean?’ reasonably reliable accounting for a single year – 2015. “He said, ‘That’s what I thought.’ And then he walked away.” The data showed that unarmed African American men were being killed by police at Robinson never saw the man again, but the almost five times the rate of unarmed white conversation bothered him so much that men, despite being roughly 7% of the U.S. after he joined the faculty of the School of population. Social Work at the University of Georgia in 2015 he began a new line of inquiry. “Then I started noticing a pattern,” said Robinson. The largest number of killings of Robinson wondered how the incidence of unarmed Blacks by police were in former police killings of civilians compared across slave-holding states. The deaths were races. He started looking for statistics, but highest in Maryland and Virginia, states could not find a reliable database anywhere that originated restrictive laws known as
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Black Codes. The laws were directed at Is such reporting mandatory now? newly freed Blacks after the Civil War and enforced by white police. I am not aware of any national legislation to make mandatory reporting of deaths In the North, police historically focused of citizens by police. This January the on the impoverished communities of FBI launched the National Use-of-Force immigrants, but they also targeted Blacks. Data Collection program, which invites For more than a century in both regions, participation from all law enforcement law agencies chose physical force first to agencies, but participation is voluntary. maintain control over poor areas. Today’s law enforcement practices still reflect this Should police departments be abolished? mindset to various degrees, said Robinson. I don’t believe they should be abolished, but The Council on Social Work Education’s I do believe that instead of spending a lot of Conference on Racial Ethnic and Cultural money on militarizing police departments, Diversity recognized Robinson’s 2017 funding should go into social programming paper, “Black Bodies on the Ground: in the neighborhoods. Funding should Policing Disparities in the African American be put into after-school programs for Community,” with its Most Impactful kids. There should be incentives to have Article award. With Sharon E. Moore and companies build businesses in poor A. Christson Adedoyin he co-edited the areas and hire residents. You need more 2018 book “Police and the Unarmed Black community policing that puts police of color Male Crisis: Advancing Effective Prevention in neighborhoods of color, walking or biking Strategies” (Routledge). a beat as opposed to driving, because then
Here Robinson explains his research- grounded recommendations for change.
In your 2017 study, you recommended that police departments report any police-involved deaths to a national database. Why?
A national database can shed light on racial bias in police use of lethal force and indicate where external reviews of police procedures may be needed. It shouldn’t take months to get accurate numbers.
Protester at the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement Justice for Black Lives Rally, Athens, Georgia, June 6, 2020. Photo by Joshua Jones/Athens Banner Herald. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/3gDi1zK.
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you’re forced to have conversations. If you What other recommendations would you make? get to know the community you’re policing, then maybe you’re less likely to mistreat Make body cameras mandatory. someone. More mental health services should be You’ve recommended implicit bias training for available to officers and their families. officers. What is implicit bias? Basically it is a stressful job and assistance, if needed, should be available to the police Implicit bias is prejudice you may not be officers and their families. aware of. You may give more weight to what someone in a business suit says, or less There should be a national “use of force” weight to something that an adolescent tells policy that has been heavily researched, you. Those are implicit biases. We all have instead of jurisdictions coming up with their them. In policing, they can affect impartial own policies. treatment under the law, and even adversely escalate situations. Some police agencies De-escalation training should be mandatory. provide evidence-based training on Many situations can be de-escalated if police strategies to recognize and reduce implicit are properly trained. De-escalation basically bias. The training isn’t standard practice gives the officers strategies to calm situations, but it should be. especially folks who are experiencing mental health issues and also individuals who are How does knowing about 19th century policing armed and unarmed. Above all, unarmed practices help today? citizens should not be given a death sentence on the street because they are experiencing a Current policing tactics reflect policing mental health crisis or resisting arrest. of the past. As with implicit bias, if we’re aware of that past we can better address These are just a few recommendations. problems related to it.
Protesters in downtown Athens, Georgia during the Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement Justice for Black Lives Rally for the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery on Saturday, June 6, 2020. Photo by Joshua L. Jones, Athens Banner Herald. Retrieved from https://bit.ly/3gDi1zK.
20 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Mental Health — Rosalyn Denise Campbell
A PERSONAL (RE) DEDICATION TO SOCIAL JUSTICE EFFORTS IN BLACK/ AFRICAN AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH
Rosalyn Denise Campbell, PhD, LMSW Associate Professor
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
f I had to sum up why the fight for and outreach, about my own challenges justice is so important, it would be with mental health, particularly as a I through these words of Martin Luther Black woman, which simultaneously King, Jr. Too many spaces in our society destigmatizes mental illness and offers are rife with abuse, oppression, and hope to others who struggle. unnecessary struggle. One place where these injustices are felt very strongly is While most of my work, to-date, has in health and health care. We read stories focused on informing clinical social work daily about the precarious position of the practice with Black/African Americans and marginalized, underserved, and/or under- destigmatizing mental illness in general, resourced who receive few or substandard I will be adding a new dimension to my services if they are able to access services research where I investigate the impact at all. My work in the area of Black/African race and racism have on the mental health American mental health focuses on these of Black/African Americans. Now this is inequities and seeks to improve mental not a new area of research by any means. health and promote wellness among Black/ Scholars like Nancy Boyd-Franklin, African Americans. On this quest, I have James Jackson, and David R. Williams conducted, published, and presented have built careers on examining the role research aimed at better understanding race, racism, and discrimination play in the depression experiences of a diverse the health and health outcomes of Black/ population of Black/African Americans. I African Americans. What is new is the have explored and shared innovative ways reach (ie. audience) these incidents of to engage Black/African Americans in racism and discrimination have and the mental health care, namely by exploring distance and pace at which they can be the role Black churches, historical sources disseminated. With the advent of the of help in Black communities, can play internet and social media platforms, and in encouraging and administering this the inability to effectively filter and control care, thereby making interventions this vitriol, people now experience and/ more culturally-informed, -responsive, or witness a greater volume of racist and and –appropriate. I have also been very discriminatory content. Whether it is by vocal, through my research, instruction, reading an anonymous comment on a post
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or watching an individual be treated unfairly validate-empathize" technique where or violently due to their race, the extent to they do these things to build rapport and which someone can be victimized and/or trust with the client so that the client traumatized is great. feels safe(r) to share, or vent, troubling racist experiences. I have also spoken out What is equally troubling is that our social through a podcast with the UGA Center work curricula do not prepare students, for Social Justice on how individuals can nor do many training programs equip go about the work of social justice while instructors and practitioners, to address the attending to their own self-care. But these mental, emotional, physical and spiritual actions, helpful as they may be, do not problems people of color experience as a attack the problem at its root. I, as well as result. We discuss how to adjust, amend or all others who say they are committed to create interventions that address cultural social justice, must (re)focus my efforts differences, but we offer very little in the on not simply documenting, but better way of helping people deal with being understanding the impact of racism and culturally different. In other words, we discrimination on health and designing, know how to help clients combat the testing and implementing interventions symptoms they may experience after racist that help individuals, communities and our encounters (the effect) but we know little society as a whole heal from racism while about how to combat racism itself (the simultaneously eradicating it in all its cause). I have tried to bring attention to forms. this in some respects through a course I created entitled Direct Practice with African By continuing to focus on the relationship American Adults, Children, and Families. In between race, racism, health and wellness, this class, I name racism/discrimination as I hope to contribute effectively to efforts a social determinant of health, attempt to that erase racism, help people heal and raise the consciousness of students around replace structures corrupted by injustice. matters of race and intersectional identity, Whether it is through my research, and instruct students around how they teaching, or service work, I will always be can best intervene with clients—namely dedicated to rooting out and destroying any through an intervention I call the "listen- threats to wellness and justice.
Rosalyn Denise Campbell speaks about mental health with participants of the Because You Matter: Self-Care Conference for African Americans, Progressive Outreach Coalition, Inc., Athens, Georgia UGA School of Social Work Social of School UGA
2222 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Historical Trauma — Jennifer Elkins
HISTORICAL TRAUMA,SOCIAL WORK, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
Jennifer Elkins, PhD Associate Professor and Coordinator of the MSW/JD Program
istorical trauma is understood over the life course. Increasingly, grassroots to be the collective trauma organizations such as California’s RYSE H exposure within and across Center have been a leader in pushing an generations, including interpersonal interdisciplinary field of professionals losses and unresolved grief. Recognizing to incorporate the centrality of historical and responding to the intergenerational trauma, structural racism and white transmission of trauma is integral supremacy into our understanding of to facilitating the process of healing, ACEs and trauma informed care. Building reconciliation and restoration associated culturally responsive and trauma-informed with historical and ongoing systemic healing systems requires a paradigm shift racism, oppression and social injustice that uses what we know about trauma and experienced by Indigenous peoples, African its impact to do our work differently. Americans, Latinxs and other historically marginalized populations. The social work profession is ideally poised to provide leadership in this area. It is "It is imperative that the social imperative that the social work profession incorporate culturally responsive and work profession incorporate trauma-informed strategies with(in) our culturally responsive and classrooms, research and the populations trauma-informed strategies we serve. This includes ensuring that with(in) our classrooms, research our teaching, research and practice also and the populations we serve." emphasizes and nurtures a more culturally inclusive understanding of resilience and the culturally specific values, beliefs, Over the past decade, there has been a traditions, practices and ways of knowing groundswell of federal, state, and local that may mitigate risk. efforts to translate research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) into trauma- Reference informed practices across multiple systems. ACEs are associated with enduring Dhaliwal, K (2016, October 24). Racing ACEs gathering neurobiological, physiological, relational, and reflection: If it’s not racially just, it’s not trauma informed. ACEs Connection. Retrieved from behavioral and emotional consequences http://bit.ly/2dVDNS0.
SOCIAL JUSTICE WANTED | 2020-2021 23 Social Apartheid to Social Justice — June Gary Hopps
FROM SOCIAL APARTHEID TO SOCIAL JUSTICE: SOCIAL WORK’S JOURNEY (OR STRUGGLE)
June Gary Hopps, PhD Thomas M. “Jim” Parham Professor of Family and Children Studies
June Gary Hopps has dedicated her life to issues of race, inequality, social justice and human and civil rights. In 2017 she was awarded the Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). The following is the address she delivered at the annual program meeting (APM).
y childhood was in a small, education was difficult or nearly impossible rural, central Florida town, for most African Americans and much of M Ocala, in Marion County. my life, even into the latter half of the 20th Plessey v. Ferguson was the law of the land, century. In fact, our education in the South spewing a philosophy of "separate but had once been criminalized. equal," which was always “separate and 1 unquestionably unequal.” During my first My family was active in the push for social year at elementary school, there were six justice. Our parents knew and supported racially motivated lynchings nationally the key players in civil rights across central documented. There were also bombings, and other parts of Florida. At Spelman beatings, and other domestic terrorist acts. College in Atlanta, Georgia, my interest My elementary school secretary’s parents— grew and I was taught by and associated Mr. & Mrs. Harry Moore—were killed by a with many who were in the Black vanguard, 2 bomb on Christmas night in 1951. as well as White and Jewish faculty. More than anyone, Whitney M. Young, the first In our home on Gary Farms, my Black president of NASW, recruited me to grandfather’s place, the illegality of voter social work, and specifically community suppression and the positive force of voting practice, and he suggested that I consider a rights were always discussed. There, we doctorate. My personal ambition at the time learned that Blacks stood up for their rights was to go to law school. While finishing and drew on their historical knowledge college and continuing my graduate and wisdom regarding survival strategies, education at the Atlanta University School including protest. Achieving a decent of Social Work, I remained active in the
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Atlanta Student Movement. That is where I Americans and Latinos. The profession marched and was arrested with many others engaged in service delivery apartheid. The for protesting for our human rights and civil separate but unequal pattern of social rights, as I prepared to enter professional life in much of the country existed in our social work. profession. It is the history that we deny since we sanitized the narrative; one that we Although social work might not have are not necessarily proud of, especially now embraced social justice enthusiastically when we profess a commitment to justice or completely, friendly assistance and driven values. social control, two contradictory stances that guided the nascent profession, were If social justice had been an implicit value, extended to the disadvantaged. The children it did not become explicit until the 1983 of enslaved Blacks were not targeted CSWE Educational Policy Standard.4 There is recipients, neither were poor southern still not a working definition of the subject; Whites.3 Two parallel systems of delivery however, there are signs that the profession emerged: one for Euro-Americans and has moved toward greater consideration of one for others, indigenous people, Afro- the concept. Nonetheless, the profession
June Gary Hopps delivers her address and accepts the Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award at the 2017 CSWE Annual Program Meeting.
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is surely challenged as it addresses social These principles were embedded in the justice in the context of greater diversity, Constitution when only White men were changing demographics and a geopolitical given the right to vote, and later own context that is increasingly intolerant of property; the origin of affirmative action. justice based values and social rights and In their "community," there was little if more accepting of neo-liberalism, racism, any inequality. Of course, their women, anti-Semitism, homophobia, xenophobia slaves, indentured servants and indigenous and other isms. people were not viewed as equals. However, the ideals expressed were unique among Given this reality, the profession must constitutional governments of the time commit to a deeper understanding of the in a world that knew feudalism and impact of inequality and how it created authoritarianism.6 historical unfairness and privileged certain cohorts. This is especially true of economic Second, the profession should develop a inequality which has grown exponentially broader curriculum which would include over the last generation.5 There can be no content on economic structure and process.7 unity until inequality is defeated. This is a This would help prepare professionals challenge that social work faces and must for understanding the angst stemming address. from groups who feel alienated and the emergence of new political movements. So, What Should the Profession Do? Social workers deal with the impact of inequality, but we do not address First, the profession should accept the prevention. Instead of advocating equal and meaning of privilege (or whiteness) and exact justice8; we merely speak of macro- the reality of reduced privilege and the injustices and call for economic justice,
"There can be no unity until inequality is defeated. This is a challenge that social work faces and must address. "
resistance that all have witnessed via environmental justice, and social justice. increased polarization and various alliances Then we structure the curriculum around of hate. Charleston and Charlottesville are micro-interventions which locate structural examples. The inability to comprehend the problems within the individual, family and meaning of whiteness and the privilege that small groups. What a contradiction. By not is associated with it did not redound to poor giving more attention to macro content, Whites. That is a basis for their anger. A do we inadvertently suggest our own consequence of inequality is the increasing powerlessness? class division which also fuels discontent relative to race, gender, sexual orientation Third, the profession should develop the and national origin. capacity to participate more effectively in the political environment. The dual efforts Let's be clear, the founding fathers to engage in voter suppression and curtail wanted the country to be White. They demographic changes owing to xenophobia advocated white supremacy and elitism. in vogue from the nation's high office is not
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just rolling the clock back over fifty years cohorts will certainly not be similar to with particular harm targeted toward People Jane Addams in terms of what they bring of Color and new immigrants, but with in human capital investment relative to threats to democracy itself. Social work's wealth and education. Thus, the challenge voice could be stronger, now. is to provide them the best education we can since they will be looking for Too few of us hold elected office in upward mobility for themselves and their Congress and in state legislatures and families as well as their clients and their exert too little influence in major policy communities. In this regard, new innovative debates. The curriculum can be reshaped models or designs for professional study,
"...the profession should understand that messaging and language must become more inclusive and emphasize social rights — for all. "
to include content that can better facilitate i.e., online programs, second language knowledge about civic participation and offerings, simulated practice and distance build confidence in students so that they supervision and robotic technology will are not afraid to become effective change be imperative given costs, language, and agents and social justice warriors. We might transportation barriers. revisit that old reformer, Jane Addams. And while we are at it, also visit W.E.B. Finally, the profession should understand Du Bois (who gave us the basis for the that messaging and language must become strengths perspective, empowerment, and more inclusive and emphasize social mixed methods) and Ida B. Wells-Barnett rights—for all. We have to stop dodging (research and anti-lynching advocacy), certain concepts and deal with them Whitney Young, Jr. (advisor to Dr. M.L. although that will produce some discomfort. King, three U.S. presidents, and the Atlanta Examples include: race (not just diversity); Student Movement).9 injustice (not disparities—injustice causes disparities) and equal and exact justice (not Fourth, the profession should learn that just social, environmental and economic leadership matters. Look to those just justice). I have personally witnessed our mentioned (Addams, Wells Barnett, profession’s movement from apartheid Du Bois, Young, and others) as models. when Black and other social workers of Predictions are that women will maintain color could not provide service to White their dominance in the profession, although clients. And I know that some agencies their numbers will continue to decline in would not serve certain immigrants, for the national workforce.10 They will hail example, the Irish in Boston. And yet, we from immigrant and refugee status, poor have overcome these realities, but I suggest population groups and both inner-city and that there is still much to be done. rural communities. Social work is a great profession. Let’s make By 2020, half of children will be People it greater. Thank you. of Color, and soon the majority of the population.11 New professionals from these
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Special Thanks – Dean Anna Scheyett from the University of Georgia and Dean Jenny Jones from Clark Atlanta University for nominating me for References this award. I would like to thank Deans Bonnie Yegidis and Maurice Daniels, both formerly of 1. Plessey v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896). UGA and Drs. Harold Briggs, Tony Lowe, Waldo 2. Clark, J. (1994). Civil rights leader Harry T. Moore and the Ku Klux Klan in Florida. The Florida Johnson, and Deans James Herbert Williams, Historical Quarterly, 73(2), 166-183. and Daryl Wheeler for their support. I also https://bit.ly/39XQya9 3. Bowles, D. D., Hopps, J. G., & Clayton, O. (2016). thank my colleagues at Boston College, where I The impact and influence of HBCUs on the social served as Dean for 24 years, and the University work profession. Journal of Social Work Education, 52, of Georgia, where I have served as a faculty 118–132. https://bit.ly/3igi3yD 4. Council on Social Work Education (2001). Education member for 17 years. policy and accreditation standards. https://bit.ly/30u41TP 5. Karageorge, E. (2015, April). The growth of Sincere appreciation is extended to CSWE for income inequality in the United States. Monthly establishing and presenting the Awards that Labor Review, 138(4). https://bit.ly/2DxEYpX have been acknowledged today. 6. Sitaraman, G. (2016, September 16). Our constitution wasn’t built for this. NYT. https://nyti.ms/31mEPOl 7. Morris, R. (2000). Social work's century of evolution I share this award with my sisters (Drs. Faye as a profession. In J. G. Hopps & R. Morris (Eds.), Social work at the millennium: Critical reflections on the Gary, Gladys Gary Vaughn, Ollie Gary Christian) future of the profession (pp. 42-70). Free Press. and brother (Homer Gary II), my late parents 8. Peters, G., & Woolley, J. T. (n.d.). Thomas Jefferson (Ollie and Homer Gary) and grandfather Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801. The American Presidency Project, Santa Barbara, CA: University of (William P. Gary). My family is represented California. https://bit.ly/3gz6gL5 today by my granddaughter Jasmine, and 9. Bowles, D. D., Hopps, J. G., & Clayton, O. (2016). The impact and influence of HBCUs on the social nephew William, and several other relatives work profession. Journal of Social Work Education, 52, and friends. And foremost, I share this day and 118–132. https://bit.ly/3igi3yD award with my late husband, Dr. John H. 10. U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2015, December). Women in the labor force: A databook (Report No. Hopps, Jr. 1059). https://bit.ly/3fBFVL3 11. U. S. Census Bureau (2015, March 3). New census bureau report analyzes U.S. population projections (Report No. CB15-TPS.16). https://bit.ly/30u4pSh
28 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Parham Policy Day with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
PARHAM POLICY DAY of Social Work students as part of Parham HIGHLIGHTS THE IMPACT OF Policy Day. The annual School of Social Work event highlights the impact of social SOCIAL POLICY ON SOCIETY policy on society. This year’s activity also was supported by the Donald L. Hollowell Professorship, held by Llewellyn “Lee” by Laurie Anderson Cornelius, director of the UGA Center for Social Justice, Human and Civil Rights.
tlanta City Hall’s Old Council Hopps said she hoped the students came Chambers turned into a lively away from the experience with a better A classroom on November 14, 2020 understanding of how public policy when more than 100 social work students responds to social needs. met with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. “Students heard firsthand how the lack of resources, e.g., funding, can be a barrier The mayor answered questions about policy to policy initiatives; why it is essential to issues for nearly an hour. Students showed develop allies to facilitate change or prevent particular interest in how she addressed unwanted change, and how to work with disparities of access to resources, including other government units and a variety of housing, mental health services and interest groups,” she said. services for the differently abled. Students said they were impressed with the The mayor, an Atlanta native, also spoke mayor’s confidence and openness. frankly about her difficult childhood and how her father’s incarceration impacted “The experience … was helpful in many her life. “I carried a lot of shame and pain, ways to me as I prepare for graduation and but it helped shape me into the leader that next steps as someone that hopes to work I am today,” she said. “I’ve since learned in policy advocacy and public interest,” said so much about people and the choices they Simone Moonsammy, one of the student make when they feel they don’t have any organizers. “The experience also was other choices.” helpful in reminding me to stay engaged and intentionally make time to contribute to The interaction was organized by June Gary issues that I am passionate about and to not Hopps, Thomas M. “Jim” Parham Professor stop doing that, even if it’s just a few hours of Family and Children Studies, and Master here and there.”
UGA School of Social Work students meet with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (center) at Atlanta City Hall. Photo by Dot Paul.
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HUMAN TRAFFICKING, SOCIAL JUSTICE, AND SOCIAL WORK
David Okech, MSW, PhD Associate Professor
he trafficking of persons around manufacturing and the commercial sex the world, also known as modern industry (IOL, 2017). Although the majority T day slavery, is a serious violation of victims are trafficked across international of human rights and a manifestation of borders, 42% are victimized within their social injustice. Human trafficking is own countries (UNODC, 2016). Trafficking defined as “the recruitment, harboring, disproportionately affects women and transportation, provision, or obtaining of a children-of the current global victims, 71% person for labor or [sex] services through are female and 28% are children (UNODC, the use of force, fraud, or coercion for 2016). the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, [sexual The Code of Ethics of the National exploitation] or slavery” (U. S. Department Association of Social Workers affirms the of State, 2000). It is caused by micro- and profession’s responsibility to pursue social macro-level factors: macro-level factors change and human rights, particularly include economic injustice, poverty, wars on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed and natural disasters, globalization of the people, and toward the liberation of all consumer market, discrimination against people. Similarly, the Council on Social women, and global sex tourism. Micro- Work Education maintains that “social level risk factors include family breakdown, work’s purpose is actualized through its poor family relations, child abuse and quest for social and economic justice, the neglect, mental illness and substance use prevention of conditions that limit human among parents, and homelessness among rights, the elimination of poverty, and children (Roby, 2005). Though valid and the enhancement of the quality of life reliable trafficking data remain a challenge for all persons” (CSWE, 2015). A social and born of contention, a recent report work perspective on the issue of human estimated that 24.9 million individuals trafficking is therefore critical in anti- around the world are currently victims trafficking efforts, not only because of the of some form of trafficking. These men, professional guiding principles and values, women and children are exploited in but also because of the holistic nature of economic activities such as agriculture, social work interventions with oppressed fishing, domestic work, construction, populations.
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Social justice for trafficking survivors language interpretation, and supports with must go beyond the prosecution and immigration issues. In addition, community punishment of perpetrators, it must awareness programs are also key in include provision of necessary services preventing or reducing the problem. that help survivors restart their lives in conducive circumstances. There are several However, the effectiveness of these important implications for the profession important applications hinge on rigorous in dealing with the problem of trafficking. research that is informed by the social, Applications to policy include advocating health, and behavioral sciences as well as the Fredrick Douglass Trafficking Victims the humanities. Clearly, one area of research Prevention and Protection Reauthorization is the collection of valid and reliable data [HR 2200] bill of 2017, which is yet to on the issue. Research in the area is very become law and expires very soon. The much in its infancy and there is opportunity precursors to this law have provided to collaborate both transdisciplinarily and funding for anti-trafficking efforts transnationally in order to build a body of since 2000. Programmatic applications research that will lead to the provision of include providing specialized and the best services for trafficking victims and comprehensive services to trafficking survivors. The UGA School of Social Work is survivors, including psychosocial, economic presently involved in research whose goal is empowerment, legal representation, to provide evidence-informed intervention and reintegration services for female survivors of trafficking. The transnational research team represents scholars from social work, medicine, sociology, public health and family studies. The intervention will be designed in a sustainable manner and replicable across various countries in the world.
References
U.S. Department of State. (2000). Victims of Traffick- ing and Violence Protection Act of 2000: Public law 106-386. https://bit.ly/2XwPbdf Roby, J. L. (2005). Women and children in the global sex trade: Toward more effective policy. International The African Programming and Research Initiative to Social Work, 48(2), 136-147. https://bit.ly/2DAFMdG International Labour Organization [ILO]. (2017). Global End Slavery (APRIES) is an international consortium estimates of modern slavery: Forced labour and of anti-slavery researchers and policy advocates forced marriage. Geneva: Author, https://bit.ly/3gAvLM4 from the University of Georgia (UGA) and the UNODC. (2016). UNODC report on human trafficking University of Liverpool (UoL). Their goal is to reduce exposes modern form of slavery. https://bit.ly/3fxLB94 the prevalence of modern slavery in Sub-Saharan Council on Social Work Education. (2015). Educational Africa (SSA) by transforming the capacity of policy and accreditation standards. Alexandria, VA: Author. community-engaged agencies to implement prevention, prosecution, and protection strategies. For more infomation visit https://apries.uga.edu/.
32 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Gender Based Violence — Adrienne Baldwin-White
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND GENDER BASED VIOLENCE ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES
Adrienne Baldwin-White, MSW, PhD Assistant Professor
ender based violence is a social norms influence how they communicate justice issue. Gender inequality leads about sex and how they interpret each G to the maintenance of gender norms other’s behavior. and expectations that influence how college students communicate about sex and give College women have inherently different consent. My own qualitative research lives because of the violence they may exploring college students’ attitudes experience. Some sexual assault prevention and beliefs concerning sexual assault programs continue to place the onus revealed that they are still vulnerable to the on women to prevent sexual assault by influence of harmful norms that mandate emphasizing steps they can take like women be timid and “nice”, therefore socializing in groups, making sure there is agreeing to unwanted sexual activity in a “babysitter” (someone whose job it is to order to not cause drama. Men are also watch out for everyone else), creating text vulnerable to norms that mandate they be chains to check in on everyone throughout aggressive and persistent, even with acts the night and even carrying pepper spray. of resistance from their partner. Men in My qualitative research looking at college particular perceive, often incorrectly, that women’s experiences has confirmed that their male peers are engaging in sex with many of them feel a burden their male multiple partners; therefore, to fit in, they peers do not experience to prevent their must do the same. My research examining own assault. College women do not have the how college students negotiate prior to same experience as men because they do and during sexual interactions confirms not have the freedom to embrace all of the that even when they know how to establish potentials of campus life due to the threat and respect boundaries, these norms of sexual assault. A pilot study I conducted prevent them from engaging in healthy, looking at sense of belonging and sense of fully consensual sex. Gender norms also community among college women found influence how college students give consent that their concern for experiencing sexual and know it has been given. My quantitative assault and harassment reduced their sense research examining how college students of belonging and had a negative effect on perceive consent has revealed that gender their mental health.
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It is also important to consider system training include police officers, rape changes that need to be made in order to advocates, college students and researchers. prevent sexual assault and help survivors. The research includes stakeholders and Campus police, in particular, have the skills includes those that would be influenced by to interact with survivors when they report the proposed changes. Changing a system an assault in a trauma-informed way that like police can positively influence other encourages survivors to continue through university level systems to fully embrace the reporting process. I am currently addressing the problem of campus sexual developing an online training for patrol assault. officers to address this concern. One key element of this process is community Finally, it is important that any approaches engagement; the team developing this to sexual assault prevention be inclusive. Current sexual assault prevention does not address the specific needs of marginalized groups, including sexual minorities, gender minorities and people of color. Therefore, sexual assault prevention programs need to include the experiences of these communities that take into consideration the intersection of their gender, sexual orientation and race. My current research developing a sexual assault prevention program for college campuses utilizes technology and digital gaming so that students in these groups feel their unique experiences are addressed. Other research I am conducting will look at how the racial, gender and sexual orientation of survivors affects how they are perceived as victims and the type of care they receive after reporting a sexual assault.
At the core of my research in sexual assault prevention on college campuses is an understanding that gender inequality is at the core of campus sexual violence. It has created norms and expectations that have negatively impacted college students’ behavior and contributed to the continued perpetuation of sexual assault. These gender norms also intersect with norms surrounding race and sexual orientation that require research that attempts to include everyone’s voice in deciding how
Peter Frey the problem of campus sexual violence should be addressed.
34 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Rights-Based Social Work Practice — Jane McPherson
TO BUILD A BETTER WORLD: NOW IS THE TIME FOR A RIGHTS- BASED APPROACH TO SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE
Jane McPherson, MSW, MPh, PhD Assistant Professor and Director of Global Engagement
ack on April 3rd, 2020, Arundhati alive, enjoying their families, and adjusting Roy, the Indian novelist and human to the changes along with everyone else. B rights activist, wrote of the current pandemic as a catastrophic rupture in our The unequal impact of the disease quickly lives from which we might build a new and became obvious. As Asha Jaffar observed better society: from Nairobi, “The coronavirus has been anything but a great equalizer. It’s been a Historically, pandemics have forced great revealer, pulling the curtain back on humans to break with the past and the class divide and exposing how deeply imagine their world anew. This one is unequal this country is” (Dahir, 2020). no different. It is a portal, a gateway Jaffar was describing Kenya, but in the U.S., between one world and the next. We can the view is the same: corona thrives where choose to walk through it, dragging the racism, ageism, ableism, and other forms of carcasses of our prejudice and hatred… discrimination thrive; it takes aim at those Or we can walk through lightly, with who live on the economic edge, who lack the little luggage, ready to imagine another space in which to self-isolate, who live with world. And ready to fight for it. diseases exacerbated by stress and poor nutrition, and whose work does not easily In early April, as Roy was writing, our translate online; it particularly menaces lives in the U.S. had been newly upended people of color, migrants and refugees, the by pandemic. At the University of Georgia, homeless, and the imprisoned or detained. our activities had just moved online and those of us who could afford to do so were Assessing the depths of our national crisis staying largely at home. Individually and in late June after the police killings of collectively, we were adjusting to the new George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks (and realities that the virus had brought our way. others), I am called back to Roy’s gateway. The world’s millionth case of COVID-19 We are not yet walking lightly through her had been identified and, in the U.S., 6,257 portal; no, we are most definitely “dragging individuals had died from the disease. the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred” George Floyd and Rayshard Brooks, two with us. If the coronavirus has the power to African American men, both fathers, were “bare the underlying weaknesses” of the
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societies it ravages (Horowitz, 2020), in the work to dismantle unjust systems in U.S., our weaknesses are clear: inequality, order to build the world as it should be. embedded structural racism, and a white- As professionals who work shoulder-to- supremacist founding ideology that has shoulder with individuals experiencing shaped our social institutions, including the injustice, we must use our skills—both police, healthcare delivery, and yes, social micro and macro—to address people’s services. Meanwhile, the pandemic marches immediate needs while also insisting on on: nearly 9 million global COVID-19 a redistribution of privilege, wealth, and cases have been identified and, in the U.S., power in our societies. In other words, now families are mourning the deaths of 120,000 is the time for social workers to commit to loved ones. More people are dying every day. taking a rights-based approach to social work practice (Mapp et al., 2019). So, what is a social worker to do? To paraphrase both Saul Alinsky (1971) and What can a rights-based approach bring to Barack Obama (2018), we need to work in the current moment? the world today—as it is—and we must
Pillars of Practice Components of Practice
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36 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Rights-Based Social Work Practice — Jane McPherson
Rights-based practice sees the world respect serve to deconstruct traditional through a human rights lens; it employs power dynamics based on profession, race, rights-based methods; and it aims at income, or other social status (McPherson, rights-based goals. Through a rights- 2015). This practice of building respectful based lens, we see that access to healthcare, and engaged partnerships that question unemployment benefits, housing, social the usual distribution of authority creates security, education, etc.—the social and expectations—within service users and economic rights first promised in the social workers—that all will be listened to Universal Declaration of Human Rights and treated with dignity. Everyone’s voice (1948)—are actually privileges reserved for matters. the lucky rather than rights guaranteed to all. Shifting the focus from human needs Rights-based practice with its ambitious to human rights requires social workers to and aspirational goals is necessarily see clients’ concerns in larger sociopolitical collaborative. To create the justice-focused context and to assess for political issues changes, social workers must engage beyond the standard social or psychiatric clients, communities, and political leaders. ones. Further, it challenges us to work in Other professionals are needed: lawyers, solidarity with our clients in the fight for certainly, but also organizers, doctors, justice. Seeing problems through a rights- educators, researchers, faith leaders, and
"Today, we address the fallout from the coronavirus in a time of deep social unrest and reckoning with racism, while also contending with reduced social spending and increasing social inequality."
based lens leads social workers to set more. Rights-based practice, which requires ambitious, justice-focused goals. A client’s attention to both micro- and macro-level need for a roof over her head may be met by concerns, demands skills and energy that go referring her to a shelter, but securing her beyond what a single human being (even a human right to housing will require a long- social worker!) is likely to possess alone. term commitment to social and political change. Rights-based practice is political. It requires advocacy and activism, and this A rights-based approach guides is surely a time when political action intervention. Rights-based social is needed to address the human rights workers root their practice in the human violations that we see all around us. George rights principles of human dignity, Floyd and Rayshard Brooks experienced antidiscrimination, participation, violations of their right to life; peaceful transparency, and accountability protestors have experienced violations of (McPherson & Abell, 2020). Living by their rights to free speech and assembly; these principles, we cultivate democratic people of color incarcerated in U.S. and transparent engagement with service prisons, jails, and detention centers are users. Relationships built on equality and experiencing violations of their right to
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nondiscrimination, and gaps in care for *Author note: An earlier version of this coronavirus and rising unemployment editorial appeared in the Journal of Human violate people’s right to healthcare and Rights and Social Work (June 2020) as “Now Is the Time for a Rights-Based Approach to employment. Rights-based practice Social Work Practice.” https://bit.ly/3kjl7vq requires social workers to stand up for human rights. Social workers may feel uncomfortable with this call to political References action. Indeed, evidence shows that social Alinksy, S. D. (1971). Rules for Radicals. New York: workers are less comfortable with activism Random House. than they are with other aspects of the Dahir, A. L. (2020, April 22). ‘Instead of Coronavirus, the rights-based practice model (McPherson & Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms. NYT. https://nyti.ms/3kjgwcE Abell, 2020). Farmer, P. (2005). Pathologies of power: Health, human rights, and the new war on the poor. University of California Press. This discomfort is something we must Freire, P. (1984). Pedagogy of the oppressed. Continuum. examine critically. Professional neutrality Horowitz, J. (2020, June 3). Venice glimpses a future with simply serves to ally professionals with fewer tourists, and likes what it sees. https://nyti.ms/31p2aPy the powerful against the interests of the Mapp, S., McPherson, J., Androff, D. A., & Gatenio underserved and disenfranchised (Farmer, Gabel, S. (2019). Social work is a human rights profession. Social Work, 64(3), 259-269. 2005; Freire, 1984). We must return to the https://bit.ly/3gCfBlu activism that built our profession and revive McPherson, J. (2015). Human rights practice in social our long and brave tradition of campaigning work: A U.S. social worker looks to Brazil for leadership. European Journal of Social Work, 18, for civil, social, and economic rights (Piven 599-612. https://bit.ly/3gOiC2n & Cloward, 1978; Reisch, 2013). McPherson, J., & Abell, N. (2020). Measuring rights- based practice: Introducing the Human Rights Methods in Social Work scales. British Journal of A human rights-based approach to social Social Work, 50, 222–242. https://bit.ly/3fsJdjL work understands our service users Obama, M. (2018). Becoming. Crown Publishing. Piven, F. F., & Cloward, R. A. (1978). Poor people’s as experts and partners, rather than movements: Why they succeed and why they fail. passive recipients of charity and services Vintage. Reisch, M. (2013). What is the future of social work?. (Mapp et al., 2019). It also empowers— Critical and Radical Social Work, 1(1), 67-85. and challenges—us to promote our core https://bit.ly/3fwsT1u professional values, even (and especially) Roy, A. (2020, April 3). The pandemic is a portal. FT. https://on.ft.com/2DDvxFD when those values are threatened by structural racism and austerity-driven social policy. Today, we address the fallout from the coronavirus in a time of deep social unrest and reckoning with racism, while also contending with reduced social spending and increasing social inequality.
Arundhati Roy asks us to imagine the world on the other side of the portal. We must not return to a “normal” that accepts the oppression of Black people and the social exclusion of the poor. We need to pass through that door envisioning an ambitious expansion of a human rights access for all. And we must be willing to work for it.
38 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Social Worker and Social Policy — Yosha Dotson
THE SOCIAL WORKER ENGAGED IN SOCIAL POLICY
Yosha Dotson, MSW Academic Professional and Graduate Recruitment Coordinator
his year the state of Georgia passed and reopening the state with a disregard for its first hate crimes bill. More than federal guidelines. T half a century after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and almost as long since the What does that say regarding the first federal hate crimes legislation was importance of social justice and the action signed, Georgia was one of only four states required to bring about change? Social work in the country that did not have a bill that was founded on the principle of taking increased penalties for crimes based in action. The first social workers challenged discrimination and hatred of “the perceived the system. Trash collection was the other.” catalyst for movement and community organization. This bill (HB426) was tabled by the Senate Judiciary Committee during the first half So what is our obligation as social workers of the session and was expected to sit on today? Social workers are positioned to the table (not move) for the remainder of utilize the dual perspectives of macro and session. It only passed amidst pandemic, micro practice to foster change in systems peaceful protests, violent unrest, the slow that are resolved to maintain the status apathetic suffocation murder of George quo. I would pose that there are still system Floyd by police officers, and the stalking problems that must spur us to action. death of Ahmad Arbery in rural Georgia – both of which were broadcast on television In the current session, this action for and in social media worldwide. change helped restore funding for maternal health, peer services and crisis beds for Simultaneously, Georgians experienced youth. However, there are challenges that voter disenfranchisement, extensive remain. budget cuts to direct services for those with mental, physical and substance use As social workers, we have the statistics, challenges, the refusal to use big business the research and the organizing capacity to bring additional capital into the state to confront issues of discrimination,
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disenfranchisement, racism, tokenism, and what legislators learn in their districts. institutional and structural oppression head Presenting issues to legislators creates on. It is time to act. “champions” for those causes.
My research and practice expertise is in 3) Testimony - Understand both sides of an education and mobilization of communities issue and call, submit comment or plan to to engage in the policy space. This includes testify in committee meetings. Providing strategy and advocacy messaging. This testimony can be effective in bringing same messaging is crucial in my own forth positions that have been unheard or professional community—social work. reaffirming points for legislators. To that end, here are some ways social workers can engage in the current social 4) Advocacy in Groups – Join or find policy landscape: organizations focusing on your interests that participate in advocacy and lobbying 1) Elections – Volunteer to participate in at the state level. These organizations the upcoming election. This can include often create legislative agendas and real working at polling locations and phone time legislative updates and alerts so that banking. Contact the Secretary of State to members know when to take action. Actions ensure that complaints are logged. Post can include advocacy days, placing calls, important voter dates/deadlines on social sending emails or testimony. media or throughout your organization. As social workers it is our responsibility 2) Programs/Research - Educate yourself to define what we see and speak up. If we regarding programs and models that are remain silent, we permit opportunities best practices. Share this information with for increased injustice, including your legislators before sessions. Let them disenfranchisement and trauma, to persist. know what is important to you and the We have an opportunity to set the tone for community you are representing. Most generations to come. legislation is brought forward because of
Yosha Dotson training community advocates on how to speak with their state legislators at the Black Infant Health Summit sponsored by Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies. Photo by Amber Raines, https://www.murphyraines.com/.
4040 Common Book Initiative — Washington, Elkins
SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMON BOOK INITIATIVE
Tiffany Washington, PhD, Associate Professor
Jennifer Elkins, PhD, Associate Professor Tiffany Washington
For a second year, the School of Social Work is engaging in a Common Book Initiative. This effort, whereby all entering students read and discuss the same book on a social justice topic, encourages students to think critically about the roles and responsibilities of social work as a social justice profession. This year, Drs. Tiffany Washington and Jennifer Elkins are again leading this effort. Here is their message. Jennifer Elkins
ocial workers have an obligation to serve marginalized people. Creating pathways for individuals to participate in democracy through voting is one way social workers S can promote the rights of vulnerable and oppressed groups. Voting in the 2020 presidential election is a central way to increase social justice, effect social change, and increase community empowerment. Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic has created an unprecedented barrier to voter engagement. What avenues must social workers take to promote a safe and accessible election in light of the pandemic? Students will contemplate this question and others as they read this year’s selection for the Social Justice Common Book Initiative. Drs. Tiffany Washington and Jennifer Elkins selected Give Us the Ballot by Ari Berman, past featured speaker at the annual Social Work Day on the Hill. This book models the importance of having a solid foundational understanding of voting rights in the U.S. by chronicling the gains and setbacks of voting rights since the 1960s. We expect this book to expand students’ definition of social justice, engage their intellectual curiosity about voting as a political and civil right, and challenge their critical thinking about the role of social workers in removing barriers to voting.
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The University of Georgia School of Social Work Masters of Social Work Program
SOWK 7118: Power, Oppression, Social Justice and Evidence-informed Practice, Advocacy, and Diversity in Social Work (PrOSEAD)
MSW CURRICULUM STATEMENT (Appears at top of every syllabus):
Beginning 2017, the UGA SSW faculty has adopted a focus on addressing power and oppression in society in order to promote social justice by using evidence based practice and advocacy tools and the celebration of diversity. This philosophy, under the acronym, PrOSEAD, acknowledges that engagement, assessment intervention, and evaluation with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities requires an understanding of the historical and contemporary interrelationships in the distribution, exercise, and access to power and resources for different populations. And, that our role is to promote the well-being of these populations using the best and most appropriate tools across the micro, mezzo and/or macro levels of social work practice. In short, we are committed to:
Addressing Power and Oppression, Promoting Social justice, Using Evidence-informed practice and Advocacy, & Celebrating Diversity
a. Power - Certain sections of populations are more privileged than others in accessing resources due to historical or contemporary factors related to class, race, gender, etc. Our curriculum will prepare students to: (i) identify and acknowledge privilege issues both in society as well as at the practitioner/client level; (ii)have this understanding inform their practice In order to competently serve clients who experience disenfranchisement and marginalization. b. Oppression - Social work practice across the micro-macro spectrum should work to negate the effects of oppression or acts of oppression locally, nationally and globally. Our curriculum will prepare students to enhance the empowerment of oppressed groups and prevent further oppression among various populations within the contexts of social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental frameworks that exist c. Social Justice - Social workers understand that human rights and social justice, as well as social welfare and services, are mediated by policy and its implementation at the federal, state, and local levels. Our curriculum will prepare students to engage in policy practice at the local, state, federal, or international levels in order to impact social justice, well- being, service delivery, and access to social services of our clients, communities and organizations. d. Evidence Informed Practice – Social workers understand that the clients’ clinical state is affected not only by individual-level factors but also by social, economic, and political factors. We are also cognizant that research shows varied levels of evidence for practice approaches with various clients or populations. Our curriculum will prepare students to engage in evidence-informed practice. This includes finding and employing the best available evidence to select practice interventions for every client or group of clients, while also incorporating client preferences and actions, clinical state, and circumstances. e. Advocacy – Every person regardless of position in society has fundamental human rights to freedom, safety, privacy, an adequate standard of living, health care, and education. Our curriculum will prepare students to apply their understanding of social, economic, and environmental justice and their knowledge of effective advocacy and systems change skills to advocate for human rights at the individual and system levels f. Diversity - Social workers need to understand how diversity and difference characterize and shape the human experience and are critical to the formation of identity. Our
42 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU PrOSEAD Syllabus
curriculum will produce students who are able to engage, embrace, and cherish diversity and difference across all levels of practice
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This required course encapsulates the entire philosophy of our MSW curriculum. It examines the interrelationships between Power, Oppression, Social justice, Evidence informed practice, Advocacy and Diversity in social work practice. The overall framework focuses on understanding the barriers to and the enablers of social change (see figure in pg. 2). Students learn about the UGA SSW’s initiatives on social justice and human rights. The course will help students to focus on critical self-reflection and the arduous and often painful trajectory to recognize their privileges or power and how it shapes their lives and interactions; how it might be oppressive to others; how diversity in its various forms may be understated; how to advocate at all levels of practice for the under-privileged, and how to base practice on the social work tenets of social justice, human rights, and choosing the most appropriate interventions.
STUDENT OUTCOMES
The overarching objective of this class is to help students move from basic self-awareness to critical consciousness, from practice skill and assessment to intervention and social action in addressing power and oppression, promoting diversity, advocacy, social justice and in basing appropriate interventions in evidence and applying the best available evidence for various groups and problems. Upon completion of this course, students will: • Understand the historical and contemporary involvements of the SW profession, including the NASW & IFSW, and the UGA SSW in empowerment efforts. • Develop an understanding for the philosophy and spirit of the MSW curriculum at the UGA SSW • Develop a level of understanding about social justice and its connection to privilege, power, oppression. • Deepen their understanding of their personal social and cultural identities and biases, and how these relate to clients diverse clients and communities. • Understand and articulate concepts of culture, identity, privilege, power, ally behaviors, oppression, social justice, and “differentness” and integrate these concepts into their practice framework (micro or macro). Understand how these concepts operate in a global context and relate to human rights. • Gain skills in having honest conversations about the intersection of social work and race, class, gender, ability, sexuality, gender, national origin, difference, oppression and privilege. • Utilize skills to combat social injustice, which is necessary for competent practice in diverse communities, including self-reflection, self-assessment, and consultation, and use these skills to understand and build ally relationships. • Apply theories of oppression (social injustice) to assess the impact of systemic/ institutionalized oppression on clients, develop culturally congruent services to reduce its negative effects, and empower client to challenge existing oppressive conditions by intervening at multiple systems levels. • Identify and discuss the extent and nature of economic and social inequality, discrimination, self-governance and social capital, especially as it relates to race, gender and sexual orientation, age, religion, disability status, ability to vote, class and ethnicity.
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Social Justice Relevant Publications by UGA School of Social Work Faculty 2010-2020
AGING Wideman, E., Dunnigan, A., Jonson-Reid, M., Kohl, P., Constantino, J., Tandon, M., & Recktenwald, A., & Tompkins, R. (2020). Nurse home Beer, J. M., & Owens, O. L. (2018). Social agents for aging-in-place: A focus visitation with vulnerable families in rural areas: A qualitative case file on health education and communication. In R. Park and A. McLaughlin (Eds.) review. Public Health Nursing, 37(2), 234-242. Aging, Technology, and Health (pp. 237-259). Elsevier Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1111/phn.12699 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-811272-4.00010-5 BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Caplan, M. A., & Washington, T. (2017). Beyond income: A social justice approach to assessing poverty in older adults. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, Allen, J. L., & Mowbray, O. (2016). Sexual orientation, treatment utilization and 60(6-7), 553-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2017.1344174 barriers for alcohol related problems: Findings from a nationally representative sample. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 161(1), 323-330. Cross-Denny, B., & Robinson, M. A. (2017). Using the social determinants of https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2016.02.025 health as a framework to examine and address predictors of depression in later life. Aging International. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12126-017-9278-6 Briggs, H. E., Miller, S. E., & Campbell, R. D. (2014). Introduction: Disparity inducing social determinants of behavioral health: Future directions through best Mois, G., Washington, T. R., & Beer, J. M. (2019). The influence of tech- practices in mental health. [Special issue on social determinants of behavioral nology on quality of life and aging in place. Innovation in Aging, 3(Supple- health]. Best Practices in Mental Health, 10(2), xi-xvii. ment_1), S330. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.1201 Brockelman, K., & Scheyett, A. (2015). Faculty perceptions of accommodations, Morrissey Stahl, K. A., Gale, J., Lewis, D. C., & Kleiber, D. (2019). strategies, and psychiatric advance directives for university students with mental Pathways to pleasure: Older adult women’s reflections on being sexual illnesses. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 38(4), 342-348. http://psycnet.apa. beings. Journal of Women & Aging, 31(1), 30-48. org/fulltext/2015-24702-001.html https://doi.org/10.1080/08952841.2017.1409305 Friesen, B., Koroloff, N. M.,Walker, J., &Briggs, H. E. (2011). Introduction: Family and youth voice in systems of care [Special edition]. Best Practices in Mental Health, 7(1), viiii-xi. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice Flanagan, M., & Briggs, H. E. (2016). Substance abuse recovery among homeless everywhere.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. adults in Atlanta, Georgia, and a multilevel drug abuse resiliency tool. Best Prac- tices in Mental Health, 12(1), 89-109.
Glass, J. E., Mowbray, O., Link, B., Kristjansson, S., & Bucholz, K. (2013). Alco- Morrissey Stahl, K. A., Gale, J., Lewis, D. C., & Kleiber, D. (2018). Sex after hol stigma and persistence of alcohol and other psychotic disorders: A modified divorce: Older adult women’s reflections. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, labeling approach. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 133 (2), 685-692. 61(6), 659-674. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2018.1486936 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2013.08.016
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Pettus-Davis, C., Howard, M., Dunnigan, A., Scheyett, A., & Roberts- Scheyett, A., Vaughn, J., Taylor, M. F., & Parish, S. (2009). Are we there Lewis, A. (2015). Using randomized controlled trials to evaluate social yet? Screening processes for intellectual and developmental disabilities support interventions for prisoners and their loved ones: Challenges and in jail settings. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 47(1), 13-23. recommendations. Research on Social Work Practice, 26(1), 35-43. https://doi.org/10.1352/2009.47:13-23 https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731515579203 Taylor, M., Scheyett, A., & Vaughn, J. (2010). Experiences of consum- Pettus-Davis, C., Lewis, M., & Scheyett, A. (2014). Is positive social ers with mental illnesses and their families during and after incarceration support available to re-entering prisoners? It depends on who you ask. in county jails: Lessons for policy change. Journal of Policy Practice, 9(1), Journal of Forensic Social Work, 4, 2-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/19369 54-64. https://doi.org/10.1080/15588740903389723 28X.2014.893549 Valera, P., & Boyas, J. F. (2019). Perceived social ties and mental health Robinson, M. A., Moore, S. E., & Adedoyin, A. (2020). Mass incar- among formerly incarcerated men in New York City. International Journal ceration: The politics of race, gender, and U.S. prison industry. In L. A. of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, (10),63 1843-1860. Ricciardelli (Ed.), Social work, criminal justice and the death penalty: A https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X19832239 social justice perspective. Oxford University Press. Veeh, C., Pettus-Davis, C. Tripodi, S., & Scheyett, A. (2018). The inter- action of serious mental disorder and race on time to reincarceration. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 88, 125-135. https://psycnet.apa.org/ doi/10.1037/ort0000183 “Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND GENDER circumstances of economic injustice that make philanthropy necessary." Briggs, H. E., Bank, L., & Briggs, A. C. (2014). Behavioral health and — Martin Luther King, Jr. social-cultural determinants of corrections involvement among vulnerable African American females: Historical and contemporary themes. Journal of Forensic Social Work, 4(3), 176-202. https://doi.org/10.1080/19369 28X.2014.999851
Scheyett, A. (in press). Social work in the criminal justice system: Ratio- Fogel, C., Gelaude, D., Carry, M., Herbst, J., Parker, S., Scheyett, A., & nale and evidence-informed practices in the United States. Japanese Journal Neevel, A. (2014). Context of risk for HIV and sexually transmitted infec- of Forensic Social Services, 20. [Invited paper]. tions among incarcerated women in the South: Individual, interpersonal, and societal factors. Women and Health, 54(8), 694-711. https://doi.org/1 Scheyett, A., Morgan, C., Lize, S., Proescholdbell, S., Norwood, T., 0.1080/03630242.2014.932888 & Edwards, D. (2013). Violent death among recently released prison inmates: Stories behind the numbers. Journal of Forensic Social Work, 3(1), Scheyett, A., & Pettus-Davis, C. (2013). “Let momma take ‘em”: Portray- 69-86. https://doi.org/10.1080/1936928X.2013.837419 als of women supporting male former prisoners. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, ,57 578-591. https://doi. Shdaimah, C., Bryant, V., Sander, R. L., & Cornelius, L. J. (2011). org/10.1177/0306624X12438367 Knocking on the door: Juvenile and family courts as a forum for facilitat- ing school attendance and decreasing truancy. Juvenile and Family Court CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND HEALTH Journal, 62(4), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-6988.2011.01065.x Haley, D. F., Golin, C. E., Farel, C. E., Wohl, D. A., Scheyett, A., Garrett, CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH J. J., Rosen, D. L., & Parker, S. D. (2014). Multilevel challenges to engage- ment in HIV care after prison release: A theory-informed qualitative study Crawford, K., & Scheyett, A. (2020). The death penalty for persons with comparing prisoners' perspectives before and after community reentry. serious mental illnesses. In L. Ricciardelli (Ed.), Social work, criminal BMC Public Health, 14, 1253-1265. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458- justice, & the death penalty: A social justice perspective. Oxford University 14-1253 Press. CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND RACE Cuddeback, G., Pettus-Davis, C., & Scheyett, A. (2011). Consumers’ perceptions on forensic assertive community treatment (FACT). Psychiat- Adedoyin, C., Robinson, M. A., Clayton, D. M., Moore, S., Jones-Ever- ric Rehabilitation Journal, 35(2), 101-109. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih. sley, S., Crosby, S., & Boamah, D. A. (2018). A synergy of contemporary gov/22020839/ activism to address police maltreatment of Black males: An intersectional analysis. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 28(8), Scheyett, A., Vaughn, J., & Francis, A. (2010). Jail administrators’ percep- 1078-1090. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2018.1513886 tions of the use of psychiatric advance directives in jails. Psychiatric Services. 61(4), 409-411. https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2010.61.4.409 Moore, S. E., Adedoyin, C., Brooks, M., Robinson, M. A., Harmon, D. K., & Boamah, D. A. (2017). Black males living in an antithetical police Scheyett, A., Vaughn, J., & Taylor, M. F. (2009). Screening and access to culture: Keys for their survival. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and services for individuals with serious mental illnesses in jails. Community Trauma, 26(8), 902-919. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2017.1295 Mental Health Journal, 45, 439-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597- 411 009-9204-9
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Moore, S. E., Adedoyin, C. A., & Robinson, M. A. (Eds.). (2018). Police ETHICS and the unarmed Black male crisis: Advancing effective prevention strategies. Routledge. Reeves, P. M. (2018). Methodological and ethical issues in conducting focus groups with adolescents [Abstracts, oral presentations for Qualitative Moore, S. E., Adedoyin, C. A., & Robinson, M. A. (2018). Introduc- Health Research Conference, 2017]. International Journal of Qualitative tion–A discourse on police shooting of unarmed Black males: Advancing Methods, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406917748701 novel prevention and intervention strategies. In S. E. Moore, C. A. Adedo- yin, & M. A. Robinson (Eds.), Police and the unarmed Black male crisis: GENDER Advancing effective prevention strategies. Routledge. Brave Heart, M. Y. H., Chase, J., Elkins, J., Nanez, J., & Martin, J. Moore, S. E., Robinson, M. A., & Adedoyin, C. A. (2018). Hands up— (2016). Women finding the way: American Indian women leading inter- Don’t shoot: Police shooting of young Black males: Implications for social vention research in Native communities. American Indian and Alaska work and human services, In S. E. Moore, C. A. Adedoyin, & M. A. Native Mental Health Research, 23(3), 24-47. http://dx.doi.org/10.5820/ Robinson (Eds.), Police and the unarmed Black male crisis: Advancing effec- aian.2303.2016.24 tive prevention strategies. Routledge. Brave Heart, M. Y. H., Elkins, J., Tafoya, G., Bird, D., & Salvador, M. Moore, S. E., Robinson, M. A., & Adedoyin, C. (2016). Introduction to (2012). Wicasa was’aka: Restoring the traditional strength of American the special issue on police shooting of unarmed African American males: Indian males. American Journal of Public Health, 102(S2), S177-S183. Implications for the individual, family, and the community. Journal of https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2011.300511 Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 26(3-4), 247-250. https://doi. org/10.1080/10911359.2016.1139995 Critelli, F. M., & McPherson, J. (2019). Women, trauma, and human rights. In L. D. Butler, F. M. Critelli, & J. Carello, (Eds.), Trauma & Moore, S. E., Robinson, M. A., Clayton, D., Boamah, D., & Adedoyin, human rights: Integrating approaches to address human suffering(pp. C. (2018). A critical race perspective of police shooting of unarmed Black 151-177). Palgrave McMillan. males in the USA: Implications for social work. Urban Social Work, 2(1), 33-47. https://connect.springerpub.com/content/sgrusw/2/1/33 GENDER AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Elkins, J. (2017). Long-term behavioral outcomes in sexually abused boys: The influence of family and peer context.Journal of Public Child Welfare, 12(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/15548732.2017.1298490 “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.” Elkins, J., Crawford, K., & Briggs, H. E. (2017). Male survivors of sexual — Ernesto Che Guevara abuse: Becoming gender sensitive and trauma informed. Advances in Social Work, 18(1), 116-130. https://doi.org/10.18060/21301
GENDER AND VIOLENCE Robinson, M. A. (2017). Black bodies on the ground: Policing dispari- ties in the African American community—An analysis of newsprint from Baldwin-White, A., & Bazemore, B. (in press). The gray area of defining January 1, 2015, through December 31, 2015. Journal of Black Studies, sexual assault: An exploratory study of college students' perceptions. Social 48(6), 551-571. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021934717702134 Work.
Smith-Lee, J., & Robinson, M. A. (2019). “That’s my number one fear Baldwin-White, A. (2019). “When a girl says no, you should be persistent in life. It’s the police”: Examining young Black men’s exposures to trauma until she says yes”: College students and their beliefs about consent. Jour- and loss resulting from police violence and police killings. Journal of Black nal of Interpersonal Violence. Advance online publication. https://journals. Psychology, 45(3), 143-184. https://doi.org/10.1177/0095798419865152 sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0886260519875552
CULTURAL COMPETENCE Choi, Y. J. (2015). Determinants of clergy behaviors promoting safety of battered Korean immigrant women. Violence Against Women, 21(3), Briggs, H. E., DeGruy, J. A., & Kiam, R. (2019). Infusing culture into 394-415. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801214568029 integrative practice in and for larger systems. In H. E. Briggs, V. G. Briggs, & A. C. Briggs Integrative practice in and for larger systems: Transforming Choi, Y. J. (2015). Korean American clergy practices regarding intimate people, organizations, and communities. Oxford University Press. partner violence: Roadblock or support for battered women. Journal of Family Violence, 30(3), 293-302. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-015-9675-0 Campbell, R. D. (2016). Rethinking culturally competent social work practice in health care settings. National Association of Social Workers Rai, A., Villarreal-Otálora, T., Blackburn, J., & Choi, Y. J. (2020). Health Section Newsletter, Spring/Summer 2016. Correlates of intimate partner stalking precipitated homicides in the United States. Journal of Family Violence. Advance online publication. Robinson, M. A., Cross-Denny, B., Lee, K. K., Werkmeister, L., & https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-020-00137-5 Yamada, A. M. (2016). Teaching note—Teaching intersectionality: Trans- forming cultural competence content in social work education. Journal of Rai, A., & Choi, Y. J. (2018). Socio-cultural risk factors impacting domes- Social Work Education, 52(4), 509-517. https://doi.org/10.1080/1043779 tic violence among South Asian immigrant women: A scoping review. 7.2016.1198297 Aggression and Violent Behavior, 38, 76-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. avb.2017.12.001
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Reeves, P. M. (2018). From romance to violence: An interview study Washington, T. R., Mingo, C. A., & Smith, M. L. (2019). Self-manage- of female high school seniors with a long trajectory of dating aggression ment interventions in dialysis facilities. Innovation in Aging, 3(Supplement [Abstracts, oral presentations for Qualitative Health Research Conference, _1), S69. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.267 2017]. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 17(1). https://doi. org/10.1177/1609406917748701 Wooten, N. R., Cavanagh, N. M., & Cornelius, L. J. (2019). Thematic analysis of guided reflective journal narratives on HIV/AIDS in the Son, E., Cho, H., Yun, S. H., Choi, Y. J., An, S., & Hong, S. (2020). Southern United States. SAGE Research Methods Datasets. https://dx.doi. Intimate partner violence victimization among college students with org/10.4135/9781526494696 disabilities: Prevalence, help-seeking, and the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and intimate partner violence victimization. Chil- Wooten, N. R., Nallo, B. S., Julious, C. H., Weeks, D., Lee, C., Singleton, dren and Youth Services Review. Advance online publication. https://doi. T. M., & Cornelius, L. J. (2018). Why are community stakeholders press- org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104741 ing for a call to action to curtail the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the South? Health & Social Work, 43, 253-260. https://academic.oup.com/hsw/arti- HEALTH cle/43/4/253/5113028.
Littleton, T., Choi, Y. J., & McGarity, S. V. (2020). Psychological and HEALTH AND GENDER social correlates of HIV stigma among people living with HIV. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 19(1), 74-89. https://doi.org/10.1080/15381 Choi, Y. J., Langhorst, D., Meshberg-Cohen, S., & Svikis, D. (2011). 501.2019.1699486 Adapting an HIV/STDs prevention curriculum to fit the needs of women with alcohol problems. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, McDonnell, K. K., Owens, O. L., Beer, J. M., Smith, K., Kennedy, 11(4), 352-374. https://doi.org/10.1080/1533256X.2011.619938 T., Acena, D., & Gallerani, D. (2019). Empowering lung cancer survi- vors and family members to “breathe easier”: Adaptation and evaluation Cornelius, L. J., Erekaha, S., Okundaye, J. N., & Sam-Agudu, N. (2018). of a mhealth intervention. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 37(Suppl. 15), A socio-ecological examination of treatment access, uptake and adherence e23046-e23046. https://ascopubs.org/doi/abs/10.1200/JCO.2019.37.15_ issues encountered by HIV-positive women in rural North Central Nige- suppl.e23046 ria. Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work 15(1), 38-51. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/23761407.2017.1397580 Morrissey Stahl, K., Bower, K.L., Seponski, D., & Lewis, D. C. (2020). Critical questions for support of sexual expression during the end of life: Hawkins, J., Campbell, R. D., & Graham, C. (2019). Diabetes health Exploring intimacy from an ecological perspective. In K. J. Doka & A. S. disparities in men: A brief review of the influence of gender on the onset Tucci (Eds.), Intimacy and sexuality during illness and loss. Hospice Founda- and progression of diabetes in men and implications for interventions and tion of America. practice. In D. M. Griffith, M. A. Bruce, & R. J. Thrope, Jr. (Eds.),Men’s health equity: A Handbook. (pp. 330-340). Routledge.
Langhorst, D., Choi, Y. J., Keyser-Marcus, L., & Svikis, D. (2012). “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Reducing sexual risk behaviors for HIV/STDs in women with alcohol use — Frederick Douglass disorders. Research on Social Work Practice, 22(4), 367-379. https://doi. org/10.1177/1049731512441683
Odiachi, A., Erekaha, S., Cornelius, L. J., Isah, C., Ramadhani, H. O., Rapoport, L. & Sam-Agudu, R. A. (2018). HIV status disclosure to male Nahar, V. K., Wilkerson, A. H., Martin, B., Boyas, J. F., Ford, M. A., partners among rural Nigerian women along the prevention of mother- Bentley, J. P., ... & Brodell, R. T. (2019). Sun protection behaviors of to-child trasmission of HIV cascade: A mixed methods study. Reproductive state park workers in the southeastern USA. Annals of Work Exposures and Health, 15(36). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-018-0474-y Health, 63(5), 521-532. https://doi.org/10.1093/annweh/wxz019 Sam-Agudu, N. A., Odiachi, A., Bathnna, M. J., Ekwueme, C. N., Sam-Agudu, N. A, Pharr, J. R., Bruno, T., Cross, C. L., Cornelius, L. J., Nwanne, G., Iwu, E. N., & Cornelius, L. J. (2018). “They do not see Okonkwo, P., Oyeledun, B., Khamofu, H., Olutola, A., Erekaha, S., Nii, us as one of them”: A qualitative exploration of mentor mothers’ work- W., Menson, A., & Ezeanolue, E. (2017). Adolescent Coordinated Transi- ing relationships with healthcare workers in rural north-central Nigeria. tion (ACT) to improve health outcomes among young people living with Human Resources for Health, 16(1), 47. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12960- HIV in Nigeria: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials, 018-0313-9 18(595). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-2347-z Sam-Agudu, N. A., Isah, C., Fan-Osuala, C., Erekaha, S., Ramadhani, Washington, T. R., Gitlin, L. N., & Smith, M. L. (2019). Promoting H. O., Anaba, L., Adeyemi, O., Manji-Obadiah, G., Lee, D., Corne- successful chronic disease self-management through community-based lius, L. J., & Charurat, M. (2017). Correlates of facility delivery for rural interventions. Innovation in Aging, 3(Supplement _1), S68-S69. https:// HIV-positive pregnant women enrolled in the MoMent Nigeria Prospec- doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.266 tive Cohort Study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 17:227. https://doi. org/10.1186/s12884-017-1417-2 Washington, T. R., Hilliard, T., Mingo, C., Hall, R., Smith, M., & Lea, J. (2018). Organizational readiness to implement the chronic disease Saasa, S. & Mowbray, O. (2019). Determinants of HIV-Risk Sexual self-management program in dialysis facilities. Geriatrics, 3(2), 31. https:// Behaviors Among Zambian Adolescents: The Role of Gendered Power, doi.org/10.3390/geriatrics3020031 Children and Youth Services Review, 106, Article 104484. https://doi. org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.104484
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Wall-Bassett, E., Robinson, M. A., & Knight, S. (2014). Food related Lee, H. Y., Choi, Y. J., Yoon, Y. J., & Oh, J. J. (2018). HPV literacy: behaviors of women in substance abuse recovery: A photo-elicitation The role of English proficiency in Korean American immigrant women. study. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment. 21(8), Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 22(3), E64-E70. https://doi. 951-965. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2014.923359 org/10.1188/18.CJON.E64-E70
Wall-Bassett, E. D., Robinson, M. A., & Knight, S. (2017). “Moving Matthew, R., Orpinas, P., Calva, A., Bermudez, J. M., Darbisi, C. (2020). toward healthy”: Insights into food choices of mothers in residen- Lazos Hispanos: Promising strategies and lessons learned in the develop- tial recovery. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 3. https://doi. ment of a multisystem, community-based promotoras program. Journal of org/10.1177/2333393616680902 Primary Prevention, 41, 229-243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-020- 00587-z Yates, H. T., Choi, Y. J., & Beauchemin, J. (2019). It's not just us...we ain't doing it alone: Development of the Solution Focused Wellness for Mingo, C. A., Washington, T. R., & Smith, M. L. (2019). Chronic HIV (SFWH) intervention for women. Families in Society, 101(1), 71-82. disease self-management program attendance among African Americans https://doi.org/10.1177/1044389419856749 with arthritis and comorbidities. Innovation in Aging, 3(Supplement _1), S69. https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.268 HEALTH AND RACE/ETHNICITY Odiachi, A., Erekaha, S., Cornelius, L. J., Isah, C., Omari, H. R., & An, S. O., Choi, Y. J., Lee, H. Y., Yoon, Y. J., & Platt, M. (2018). Predic- Sam-Agudu, N. A. (2018). HIV status disclosure among expert and tors of breast cancer screening among Korean American women: Is having non-expert HIV-positive mothers in rural Nigeria: A mixed-methods an annual checkup critical? Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, study. Reproductive Health 2018, 15(36). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978- 19(5), 1281-1286. https://dx.doi.org/10.22034/APJCP.2018.19.5.1281 018-0474-y
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San-Agudu, N., Odiachi, A., Bathmma, M. J., Ekwueme, C. N., Gwanne, G., Iwu, E. N., & Cornelius, L. J. (2018). "They don't see us as one of Calva, A., Matthew, R., & Orpinas, P. (2019). Overcoming barri- them": A Qualitative Exploration of Mentor Mothers' Working Relation- ers: Practical strategies to assess Latinos living in low-income commu- ships with Healthcare Workers in Rural North-Central Nigeria Human nities. Health Promotion Practice, 21(3), 355-362. https://doi. Resources for Health. Human Resources for Health. 16(47). https://www. org/10.1177/1524839919837975 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6131877/
Choi, Y. J., Lee, H. Y., An, S. O., Yoon, Y. J., & Oh, J. J. (2020). Predic- Sassa, S. K., Choi, Y. J., & Nackerud, L. (2018). Barriers to safe sex tors of cervical cancer screening awareness and literacy among Korean behavior change in Zambia: Perspectives from HIV/AIDS psychoso- American women. Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 7(1), cial counselors. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 17(4), 274-289. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-019-00628-2 https://doi.org/10.1080/15381501.2018.1519478
Valera, P., Boyas, J. F., Bernal, C., Chiongbian, V., Chang, Y., & Shel- HEALTH AND RELIGION ton, R. (2018). A validation of the group-based medical mistrust scale in formerly incarcerated Black and Latino men. American Journal of Men's Al-Mujtaba, M., Cornelius, L. J., Galadanci, H., Erekaha, S., Okundaye, Health, 12(4), 844-850. https://doi.org/10.1177/1557988316645152 J. N., Adeyemi, O. A., Sam-Agudu, N. A. (2016). Evaluating religious influences on the utilization of maternal health services among Muslim Erekaha, S.C., Cornelius, L. J., Bessaha, M.L., Ibrahim, A., Adeyemo, and Christian women in north-central Nigeria. BioMed Research Interna- G. D., Fadare, M., Charurat, M., Ezeanolue, E. E., & Sam-Agudu, N. A. tional, Article ID 3645415. https://doi.org/10.1155/2016/3645415 (2018). Exploring the acceptability of Option B plus among HIV-positive Nigerian women engaged and not engaged in the prevention of moth- Dodor, B., Robinson, M. A., Watson, R., Meetze, D., & Whicker, Jr., R er-to-child transmission of HIV cascade: A qualitative study. SAHARA-J: (2017). The impact of religiosity on substance abuse and obesity among Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS, 15(1), 128-137. https://doi.org/10. African Americans. Journal of Religion and Health, 57(4), 1315-1328. 1080/17290376.2018.1527245 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0523-9
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Choi, Y. J., Orpinas, P., Kim, I., & Ko, K. S. (2018). Korean clergy for Okech, D., Morreau, W., & Benson, K. (2012). Human trafficking: healthy families: Online intervention for preventing intimate partner Improving victim identification and service provision.International Social violence. Global Health Promotion, 26(4), 25-32. https://journals.sage- Work, 55(4), 488-503. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872811425805 pub.com/doi/10.1177/1757975917747878 Purser, G., O’Shields, J., & Mowbray, O. (2017). The relationship HUMAN TRAFFICKING between length and number of homeless episodes and engagement in survival sex. Journal of Social Service Review, 43(2), 262-269. https://doi. Balfour, G., Callands, T. A., Okech, D., & Kombian, G. (2020). Lifeline: org/10.1080/01488376.2017.1282393 A qualitative analysis of the post intervention experiences of human traf- ficking survivors and at-risk women in Ghana.Journal of Evidence-Based INTERNATIONAL AND IMMIGRATION Social Work, 17(3), 332-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1 729920 An, S. O., Lee, H. Y., Choi, Y. J., & Yoon, Y. J. (2020). Literacy of breast cancer and screening guideline in an immigrant group: Importance Barner, J. R., Okech, D., & Camp, M. A. (2018). “One size does not of health accessibility. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 22, fit all:” A proposed ecological model for human trafficking intervention 563-570. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-020-00973-z [Special issue: Research on human trafficking].Journal of Evidence-In- formed Social Work, 15(2), 137-150. Berthold, S. M., & McPherson, J. (2016). Fractured families: U.S. https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1420514 asylum backlog divides parents and children worldwide. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 1(2), 78-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41134-016- Barner, J. R, Okech, D., & Camp, M. (2014). Socio-economic inequal- 0009-9 ity, human trafficking, and the global slave trade.Societies, 4(2), 148-160. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc4020148 Chaumba, J., & Nackerud, L. (2013). Social capital and the integration of Zimbabwean immigrants in the United States. Journal of Immigrant & Camp, M. A., Barner, J. R., & Okech, D. (2018). Implications of human Refugee Studies, 11(2), 217-220. https://doi.org/10.1080/15562948.201 trafficking in Asia: A scoping review of aftercare initiatives centered on 3.775907 economic development [Special issue: Research on human trafficking]. Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, 15(2), 204-214. Choi, Y. J., Elkins, J., & Disney, L. (2016). A literature review of intimate https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2018.1435326 partner violence in immigrant populations: Engaging the faith commu- nity. Aggression & Violent Behavior, 29, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j. avb.2016.05.004
Lee, H. Y., Choi, Y. J., An, S., & Yoon, Y. J. (2020). Adherence to “I am no longer accepting the things I cervical cancer screening in Korean American immigrant women: cannot change. I am changing the things Identifying malleable variables for intervention development. Jour- I cannot accept.” — Angela Davis nal of transcultural Nursing. Advance online publication. https://doi. org/10.1177/1043659620914693
Lee, H. Y., Choi, Y. J., Yoon, Y. J., & Oh, J. J. (2018). HPV literacy: The role of English proficiency in Korean American immigrant women. Lowe, T. B., Okech, D., & Washingon, T. (2018). Preparing to intervene Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 22(3), E64-E70. https://doi. in child trafficking: Interdisciplinary Ghana Study Abroad Program. In org/10.1188/18.CJON.E64-E70 S. Chamos (Ed.) Creating successful bridges through study abroad: An inter- national social work and cultural competency approach (pp. 77-94). Nova McPherson, J. (2017). Notes from the field: It’s not about love: Brazilian Science Publishers. social work celebrates 80 years in the fight for social rights.Societies with- out Borders: Journal of Human Rights & the Social Sciences, 12(1). https:// Okech, D., Hansen, N., Howard, W., Anarfi, J. K., & Burns, A. C. scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/vol12/iss1/17/ (2018). Social support, dysfunctional coping, and community reintegra- tion as predictors of PTSD among human trafficking survivors.Behavioral McPherson, J., Villarreal-Otálora, T., & Kobe, D. (2019). Injustice Medicine, 44(3), 209-218. https://doi.org/10.1080/08964289.2018.143 in their midst: Social work students' awareness of immigration-based 2553 discrimination in higher education. Journal of Social Work Education. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2019.16 Okech, D., McGarity, S. V., Hansen, N., Burns, A. C., & Howard, W. 70303 (2018). Financial capability and sociodemographic factors among survi- vors of human trafficking [Special issue: Research on human trafficking]. Nackerud, L., & Barner, J. (2020). Immigration, foreign nationals, and Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, 15(2), 123-136. https://doi.org/ the U.S. death penalty. In L. A. Ricciardelli (Ed.), Social work, criminal 10.1080/23761407.2017.1419154 justice and the death penalty: A social justice perspective. Oxford University Press. Okech, D., Choi, Y. J., Elkins, J., & Burns, A. C. (2018). Seventeen years of human trafficking research in social work: A review of the literature. Negi, N. J., Roth, B., Held, M. L., Scott, J., & Boyas, J. F. (2018). Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, 15(2), 103-122. https://doi.org/ Social workers must stand up for immigrant rights: Strategies for 10.1080/23761407.2017.1415177 action. Social Work, 63(4), 373-376. https://academic.oup.com/sw/arti- cle/63/4/373/5085363
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Pezerović, A., McPherson, J., & Milić Babić, M. (2019). Hearing the Leviten-Reid, C., Matthew, R., & Mowbray, O. (2019). Distinctions voices of refugee parents: How do they evaluate the quality of humanitar- between non-profit, for-profit, and public providers: The case of multi-sec- ian assistance in Bulgaria? In M. Auferbauer, G. Berc, A. Heimgartner, L. tor rental housing. VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Rihter, & R. Sundby (Eds.), Social development: Ways of understanding soci- Nonprofit Organizations, 30(3), 578-592. https://doi.org/10.1007/ ety and practising social work. LIT Verlag. s11266-019-00120-9
Ricciardelli, L. A., Nackerud, L., Cochrane, K., Sims, I., Crawford, L., & Ricciardelli, L. A., & Jaskyte, K. (2019). A value-critical policy analysis Taylor, D. (2019). A snapshot of immigration court at Stewart Deten- of Georgia’s beyond a reasonable doubt standard of proof of intellectual tion Center: How social workers can advocate & advance social justice disability. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 30(1), 56-64. https://doi. efforts in the United States. Critical Social Work, 20(1), 46-65. https://doi. org/10.1177/1044207319828404 org/10.22329/csw.v20i1.5960 POVERTY
Brooks, F., Gibson, K., & Caplan, M. A. (2018). TANF leavers and economic self-sufficiency: Results from a study in Georgia.Journal of “No nation as rich as ours should have so many Poverty, 22(5), 454-470. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549.2018.1460739 people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth." — Andrew Young Caplan, M. A., Sherraden, M., & Bae, J. (2018). Financial capability as social investment. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 45(4,) 147-167. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jssw/vol45/iss4/9/
Caplan, M. A., Kindle, P., & Neilson, R. (2017). Do we know what we Risler, E., Kintzle, S., & Nackerud, L. (2015). Haiti and the earth- think we know about payday loan borrowers? Evidence from the Survey of quake: Examining the experience of psychological stress and Consumer Finances. Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 44(4), 19-43. trauma. Research on Social Work Practice 25(2), 251-256. https://doi. https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/jrlsas- org/10.1177/1049731514530002 w44&div=48&id=&page=
Sabino, J. N., Gertner, E, Cornelius, L. J., & Salas-Lopez, D. (2013). Caplan, M. A., Purser, G., & Kindle, P. A. (2017). Personal accounts of Bienvenidos: The initial phase of organizational transformation to enhance poverty: A thematic analysis of social media. Journal of Evidence-Informed cross cultural health care delivery in a large health network. The Inter- Social Work, 14(6), 433-456. https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1 national Journal of Organizational Diversity. 12(4), 25-36. https://pdfs. 380547 semanticscholar.org/5367/f179c7a41050ceefa368048f52b47e9514c5. pdf. Caplan, M. A. & Washington, T. (2017). Beyond income: A social justice approach to assessing poverty in older adults. Journal of Gerontological Saasa, S. K., Choi, Y. J., & Nackerud, L. (2018). Barriers to safe-sex Social Work, 60(6-7), 553-568. https://doi.org/10.1080/01634372.2017. behavior change in Zambia: Perspectives from HIV/AIDS psychoso- 1344174 cial counselors. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social Services, 17(4), 274-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/15381501.2018.1519478 Mallon, A. J., & Stevens, G. (2011). Making the 1996 welfare reform work: The promise of a Job.Journal of Poverty, 15(2), 113-140. https://doi. Washington, T., McClure, C., & Lowe, T. (2019, June). Reflections from org/10.1080/10875549.2011.563169 an interdisciplinary study abroad program in Ghana. International Sympo- sium on Global Community Engaged‐ Learning, Ho, GHA. Mallon, A. J., & Stevens, G. (2012). Children’s well-being, adult poverty, and jobs of last resort. Journal of Children and Poverty, 18(1), 55-80. POLICY https://doi.org/10.1080/10796126.2012.657047
Bae, J., Cho, H., & Caplan, M. A. (2018). Network centrality and perfor- McGarity, S. V., & Caplan, M. A. (2018). Living outside the financial mances of social enterprises: Government certified social enterprises in mainstream: Alternative financial service use among people with disabili- Seoul, South Korea. Asian Social Work and Policy Review, 12(2), 75-85. ties. Journal of Poverty, 23(4) 317-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875549 https://doi.org/10.1111/aswp.12140 .2018.1555731
Caplan, M. A., Ricciardelli, L. (2016). Institutionalizing neoliberalism: McGarity, S. V., Okech, D., Risler, E., & Clees, T. J. (2019). Assessing 21st century capitalism, market sprawl and social policy in the United financial capability among people with disabilities.Journal of Social Work, States. Poverty and Public Policy, 8(1), 20-38. https://doi.org/10.1002/ 20(5), 657-672. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468017319860308 pop4.128 Okech, D., Howard, W. J., Mauldin, T., Mimura, Y., & Kim, J. (2012). Granruth, L., Kindle, P., Burford, M., Delavega, E., Peterson, S., & The effects of economic pressure on the resilience and strengths of families Caplan, M. A. (2018). Changing social work students’ perceptions of the living in extreme poverty. Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political role of government in policy class. Journal of Social Work Education, 54(1), & Economic Inequalities, 16(4), 429-446. https://doi.org/10.1080/108755 110-121. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2017.1404524 49.2012.720659
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Okech, D., Miller, S. E., Tetloff, M. L., Beatty, S., Barner, J., Holosko, M. Campbell, R. D., & Winchester, M. R. (2020). Let the church say…: J., & Clay, K. S. (2013). Economic recession and coping with poverty: A One congregation’s views on how churches can improve mental health case study from Athens, Georgia. Journal of Policy Practice, 12(4), 273-295. beliefs, practices and behaviors among Black Americans. Social Work & https://doi.org/10.1080/15588742.2013.827089 Christianity, 47(2), 105-122. https://doi.org/10.34043/swc.v47i2.63
RACE Choi, Y. J., Orpinas, P., Kim, I., & Kim, J. H. (2018). Korean American clergy: Knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, and behaviors about prevention Briggs, H. E., Bank, L., Fixsen, A., Briggs, A.C., Kothari, B., & Burkett, of intimate partner violence. Social Work & Christianity, 45(4), 41-60. C. (2014). Perceptions of the African American experience (PAAX): A new https://doi.org/10.1177/1757975917747878 measure of adaptive identities among African American men and women. Journal of Forensic Social Work, 4(3), 203-233. https://doi.org/10.1080/19 Dodor, B., Robinson, M. A., Watson, R., Meetze, D., & Whicker, Jr., R. 36928X.2015.1029660 (2018). The impact of religiosity on substance abuse and obesity among African Americans. Journal of Religion and Health, 57(4), 1315-1328. Briggs, H. E., Kothari, B., Briggs, A. C., & Bank, L., & DeGruy, J. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-017-0501-2 (2015). Racial respect: Initial testing and validation of the racial respect scale for adult African Americans. Journal of Society for Social Work Moore, S. E., Adedoyin, C., Robinson, M. A., & Boamah D. A. (2015). Research, 6(2), 269-303. https://doi.org/10.1086/681625 The Black church: Responding to the drug-related mass incarceration of young Black males: “If you had been here my Brother would not have died!” Social Work & Christianity, 42(3), 313-331. https://pdfs.semantic- scholar.org/1fba/e18b1e5bda6f5f32e281cb6b192e7f225312.pdf
“Until the great mass of the people shall be Moore, S. E., Robinson, M. A., & Thompson, C. (2015). Suffering in filled with the sense of responsibility for each silence: Child sexual molestation and the Black church: If God don’t help other's welfare, social justice can never be me: Who can I turn to? Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environ- attained.” — Helen Keller ment, 25(2), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2014.956962 Robinson, M. A., Jones-Eversley, S., Moore, S. E., Ravenell, J., & Adedo- yin, A. C. (2018). Black male mental health and the Black Church: Advancing a collaborative partnership and research agenda. Journal of Briggs, H. E., Kim, I., Mowbray, O., Orellana, E. R. & Elkins, J. (2018). Religion and Health, 57(3), 1095-1107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943- Trusting and dependable relationships as social capital among African 018-0570-x American youth. Journal of Substance Use, 23(6), 557-562. https://doi.org/ 10.1080/14659891.2018.1451565 Robinson, M. A. & LaBelle, N. (2018). Black church, Black men(tal) health. Boston University School of Public Health Post. https://www.publi- DeGruy, J. A., Kjellstrand, J., Briggs, H. E., & Brennan, E. (2011). Racial chealthpost.org/research/black-mens-mental-health-black-church/ respect and racial socialization as protective factors for African Ameri- can male youth. Journal of Black Psychology, 38(4), 395-420. https://doi. RACE AND SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION org/10.1177/0095798411429744 Adedoyin, A. C., Moore, S. E., Robinson, M. A., Clayton, D., Boamah, Holosko, M. J., Briggs, H. E., & Miller, K. M. (2018). Do Black D., & Harmon, D. K. (2019). The dehumanization of Black males by lives really matter - to social work? Introduction to the special issue. police: Teaching social justice - Black life really does matter! Journal of Research on Social Work Practice, 28, 272-274, [Special issue: Prac- Teaching in Social Work, 39(2), 111-131. https://doi.org/10.1080/088412 tice, research, and scholarship on African Americans]. https://doi. 33.2019.1586807 org/10.1177/1049731517706551 Allen, J. L., Huggins-Hoyt, K., Holosko, M. J., & Briggs, H. E. (2018). Johnson, Z. M. (2018). African-American male initiatives: Creating African American social work faculty: Overcoming existing barriers and cultures of inclusion and climates of success at select prestigious research achieving research productivity [Special issue on practice, research, and universities. In L. Castenell, T. Granthan, & B. Hawkins (Eds.), Recruit- scholarship on African Americans]. Research on Social Work Practice, 28, ing, retaining, and engaging African-American males at select prestigious 309-319. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731517701578 research universities: Challenges and opportunities in academics and sports (pp. 211-226). Information Age Publishing. Banks, L., Hopps, J.G., & Briggs, H.E. (2018). Cracks in the ceilings? Historical and contemporary trends of African American deans of schools RACE AND RELIGION of social work [Special issue on practice, research, and scholarship on Afri- can Americans]. Research on Social Work Practice, 28, 288-299. https://doi. Bowles, D. D., Clayton, O., & Hopps, J. G. (2016). Spirituality and org/10.1177/1049731517706552 social work practice at historically black colleges and universities. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 27(5), 424-437. https://doi. Bowles, D. D, Hopps, J. G., and Clayton, O. (2016). The impact and org/10.1080/10911359.2016.1203384 influence of HBCUs on the social work profession.Journal of Social Work Education, 52(1), 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2016.11 Campbell, R. D., & Littleton, T. (2018). Mental health counselling in the 12650 Black American church: Reflections and recommendations from counsel- lors serving in a counselling ministry. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, Briggs, H.E., Holosko, M.J., & Miller, K.M. (2018). Editorial: 21(4), 336-352. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2018.1494704 Concluding remarks: Ten, nine, eight, seven six, five, four, three, two,
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one… [Special issue on practice, research, and scholarship on African Briggs, H. E., & McBeath, B. (2019). Integrative practice in and for Americans]. Research on Social Work Practice, 28, 346-347. https://doi. larger systems illustration: Transforming administration and management org/10.1177/1049731517725395 through blending science, community voice, family and consumer partici- pation. In H. E. Briggs, V. G. Briggs, & A. C. Briggs Integrative practice in Brown, S. L., Johnson, Z. M., & Miller, S. E. (2019). Racial microaggres- and for larger systems: Transforming people, organizations, and communities. sions and Black social work students: A call to social work educators for Oxford University Press. proactive models informed by social justice. Social Work Education, 38(5) 618-630. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2019.1594754 Cornelius, L. J., Afkinich, J., Hoffler, E., Keyser, D., Klumpner, S., Mattocks, N., & Nam, B. (2016). Reflections on engaging in social action Holosko, M., Briggs, H., Banks, L., Huggins-Hoyt, K., & Parker, J. against social injustice, while developing a survey to study it: Restorative (2018). How are African Americans currently represented in various social justice as a lived experience. Reflections: Narratives of Professional social work venues? Social Work Practice, 28(3), 275-287. https://doi. Helping, 21(3), 26-33. https://reflectionsnarrativesofprofessionalhelping. org/10.1177/1049731517706553 org/index.php/Reflections/article/view/1559
Holosko, M. J., Briggs, H. E., & Miller, K. M. (2017). Introduction: Do Leviten-Reid, C., & Matthew, R. (2018). Housing tenure and neighbour- Black lives really matter-to social work? [Special issue: Practice, research, hood social capital. Housing, Theory & Society, 35(3), 300-328. and scholarship on African Americans]. Research on Social Work Practice, https://doi.org/10.1080/14036096.2017.1339122 28(3), 272-274. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731517706551 Leviten-Reid, C., Matthew, R., & Wardley, L. (2020). Sense of commu- Huggins-Hoyt, K. Y., Holosko, M. J., Briggs, H. E., & Barner, J. R. nity belonging: Exploring the impact of housing quality, affordability and (2017). African American faculty in social work schools: The impact safety among renter households. Journal of Community Practice, 28(1), of their scholarship. Journal of Evidence-Informed Social Work, 14(3), 18-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2020.1718050 147-157. https://doi.org/10.1080/23761407.2017.1302861
Huggins-Hoyt, K. Y., Holosko, M. J., Briggs, H. E., & Barner, J. R. (2014). Citation impact scores of top African American scholars in social “The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In work: The story behind the data.Research on Social Work Practice, 25(1), 164-170. https://doi.org/10.1177/1049731514530004 too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.” — Bryan Stevenson Washington, T. R., Salm Ward, T., Young, H. N., Orpinas, P., & Corne- lius, L. J. (2017). Implementing and evaluating an interprofessional minority health conference for social work and healthcare professionals. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 31(6), 785-788. https://doi.org/10.1080/ Matthew, R. & Bransburg, V. (2017). Democratizing caring labor: The 13561820.2017.1346591 promise of community-based, worker-owned childcare cooperatives. Affilia, (1),32 10-23. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109916678027 RESEARCH Matthew, R. (2017). (Re)Envisioning human service labor: Work- Campbell, R. D., Dennis, M. K., Lopez, K., Matthew, R. &, Choi, Y. er-owned cooperative possibilities. Journal of Progressive Human Services, J. (in press). Qualitative research in communities of color: Five research- 28(2), 107-126. https://doi.org/10.1080/10428232.2017.1292490 ers share challenges experienced, strategies employed, and lessons learned. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. Matthew, R., Willms, L., Voravudhi, A., Smithwick, J., Jennings, P., & Machado-Escudero, Y. (2017). Advocates for community health and social Nackerud, L. (2019). Social work and the science of climate change. In justice: A case example of a multi-systemic promotores organization in L. Ginsberg, C. Larrison, L. Nackerud, J. Barner, & L. Ricciardelli (Eds.), South Carolina. Journal of Community Practice, 25(3-4), 344-364. https:// Social work and science in the 21st century (pp. 88-114). Oxford University doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2017.1359720 Press. Miller, K. M., & Briggs, H. E. (2019). Power and politics of organiza- SEXUAL MINORITIES tional system collaboration: Implications for social service autonomy, authority, accountability, and continuity. In H. E. Briggs, V. G. Briggs, & Gibbs, J., & Goldbach, J. (2020). Religious identity dissonance: Under- A. C. Briggs (Eds.), Integrative practice in and for larger systems: Transform- standing how sexual minority adolescents manage anti-homosexual reli- ing people, organizations, and communities (pp. 211-225). Oxford Univer- gious messages. Journal of Homosexuality. Advance online publication. sity Press. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2020.1733354 SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY ACTION AND RACE Sterzing, P. R., Gibbs, J. J., Gartner, R. E., & Goldbach, J. T. (2018). Bullying victimization trajectories for sexual minority youth: Stable Jones-Eversley, S., Adedoyin, A. C., Robinson, M. A., & Moore, S. E (in victims, desisters, and late-onset victims. Journal of Research on Adolescence, press). Black millennial activists: Accolades, reflections and concerns for 28(2), 368-378. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12336 Black social movements. Journal of Community Practice.
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56 UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK | SSW.UGA.EDU Call for Papers - Journal of Poverty Special Issue
JOURNAL OF POVERTY
Special Issue
Land and Cultural Dispossession and Resistance: Afrodescendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Editors: Stephen Haymes (DePaul University-Chicago, USA), Vladimir Nunez (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana-Bogota, Colombia), Llewellyn Cornelius (University of Georgia-Athens, USA)
Background/Rationale:
The historical legacy of Afrodescendent and indigenous peoples in the Americas has been shaped by what Anibal Qujano refers to as the “colonality of power” of Western capitalist modernity. This model of racialized power along with its ideals of development, nature, gender and knowledge has resulted in the annihilation of other worlds, specifically Afrodescendent and indigenous. Thus, for example, in Latin America at the hands of international finance, extractive industries; and governments these populations have disproportionatly been the victims of political and social violence, land and cultural dispossession, climate and water injustice, and environmental destruction. Likewise, the promotion of tourism as an industry in the Caribbean Basin, the Southern coast of United States, and also in Latin America, has created both a dependent economy and the dislocation of indigenous and Afrodescendent populations from coastal areas to support the development of seaside hotels and resorts which block access to beaches. The forced displacement, migration and dispossession of rural communities in the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States to isolated urban and suburban ghettos has resulted in, for example, food and socio-environmental injustice, and political, economic and geographical isolation.
This special double issue of the Journal of Poverty focuses on documenting the 21st century consequences of the coloniality of power, as it relates to, for example, extractivist and tourist industries, cultural and land dispossession, forced displacement and migration, climate, water and food injustice, cognitive injustice, and the environmental destruction of Afrodescendent and indigenous communities in the Americas. Along with this, the special double issue is especially interested in submissions that integrate as part of their analysis and discussion the forms of resistance by these communities.
Preference will be given to submissions theoretically and conceptually grounded in critically oriented perspectives in the social sciences and humanities and also in, for example, race and ethnic studies, Africana studies, Latin American studies, communication studies, critical intercultural studies, urban studies, women and gender studies, queer studies, educational studies, indigenous studies, environmental studies, political ecology, development studies, migration studies and decolonial and postcolonial studies.
Tentative Timeline:
Issue Call for Papers: April 2020 Submission Deadline. March 31, 2021 Publication: Fall 2021
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