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4.5 CEUs in your hand! Permit No. 58183 Non-Profit Org. U.S. Postage Boston, MA Social Work PAID CE Institute FOCUS continuing education courses Earn CEUs On Your Own Time, From Earn the Safety of 4.5 CEUs inside! Your Home Inside: 1.5 CEUs! 1.5 CEUs! 1.5 CEUs! Leadership: Racial and Herbs, Energy, Latinx Social Work Over Cultural Considerations Aromatherapy… the Lifespan Center for the Study of Diversity Oh My! The Ins and Outs and Social Change of Complementary and Angela Wangari Walter, PhD, MPH, LCSW; Robbie Alternative Medicine (CAM) Tourse, PhD, MS, LICSW; Yvonne Ruiz, PhD, LICSW; Helene Kress, MSSS; Betty Morningstar, for Social Work Practice PhD, MSW; and Bet MacArthur, LICSW Pam Szczygiel, DSW, LICSW Yvonne Ruiz, PhD, LICSW P. 2 P. 8 P. 15 Upcoming Continuing Education Offerings: Nursing Home Webinars for School Social Work Conference Symposium and Conference Older Adults in Residential Care: School Social Work Under Pandemic A Social Work Crisis Response Intensives Registrants Conditions: Navigating Our Roles Up to 6.5 CEUs! Up to 10.5 CEUs! 5.5 CEUs! June 11, 2020 September 2020 October 9, 2020 Virtual! Virtual! College of the Holy Cross, Worcester Welcoming Remarks: As you may know, Symposium 2020 has been postponed to This annual conference brings together April 15-16, 2021. If you were registered for Symposium or State Senator Patricia D. Jehlen, an Intensive, and will be sticking with us into 2021, you will be school social workers and adjustment Chair, Joint Committee on Elder Affairs eligible for a free virtual program worth 1.5 CEUs in September counselors from across the state who work 2020. Those not previously registered for Symposium with youth in all levels of schools. will also be able to register for the following: Keynote: Maximizing Social Work After a keynote, participants will then have Expertise in Residential Care in • Making the State House Work for You the opportunity to choose among morning Ordinary and Extraordinary Times • Providing Gender-Affirming Clinical Care and afternoon workshops that cover a wide range of topics related to working with Lisa Sobhian, MSW • Misery or Mastery: How to Write an Insurance Friendly and Clinically Relevant Treatment Plan children and adolescents in school settings. Workshops: Social Isolation | Dementia • Wired to Connect: The Surprising Link Between Brain Care | Alcohol and Substance Use Science and Strong, Healthy Relationships • The Power of Shame, Self-Care Intensive: Social Work Tools for Self-Care in Trauma Response • The Art of Diagnosis Details and registration will be available soon: • Suitcase Stories: Amplifying Immigrant and Refugee Voices naswma.org/NHConf naswma.org/CEwebinars naswma.org/events Register: naswma.org/events 2 2020 Social Work CE Institute – FOCUS Continuing Education Courses YOU ARE HOLDING 1.5 CEUs IN YOUR HAND! How it works: Read this CE program, complete the Post-Test and Evaluation, and mail to the Chapter office with your check. Score 80% or better and NASW-MA will mail you a certificate for your CEUs. It is that easy! Leadership: Racial and Cultural Considerations Center for the Study of Diversity and Social Change and expressing the focus of an organization in its Theories of Leadership Learning Objectives quest to measure and embrace the many dimensions of culture, especially race. Leadership in the social work profession is essential to At the completion of this program, participants should ensure that social workers promote social and economic be able to: justice and enhance human well-being. Leaders must Defining Leadership understand historical and contemporary contexts 1. Understand leadership theories and the concept of that marginalized populations have and continue to In the 1960s, leadership became an extensive area of leadership within the context of culture experience, and how these experiences inform the analysis. Since then, many institutions and researchers ways individuals interact in the workplace and in 2. Identify the challenges in effective leadership, across industry and organizations have invested their communities. Leaders also need to recognize including racism, microaggressions, blind spots, resources to formulate and describe leadership theories, contemporary theories of race and ethnicity such as and biases including leadership models, styles, and approaches. critical race theory (Tate, 1997), social dominance More specifically, differentiating leadership from 3. Identify avenues for engaging empowered theory (Pratto, Stewart, & Zeineddine, 2013), model management became an area of focus in the 1970s, leadership minority theory (Osajima, 2000; Wong, Lai, Nagasawa, with an emphasis on effective characteristics, traits, & Lin, 1998), implicit bias theory (Greenwald & Banaji, and skills in leading organizations and providing 1995) and institutional racism (Stokley & Hamilton, vision and motivation for followers and populations About the Authors 1969; NASW, 2007). Effective and successful leaders (Araque & Weiss, 2019). Since the 1980s, much of need to adapt, modify, and improve their leadership the research on leadership has been based on theories This course is provided by the Center for the Study styles and approaches to diverse populations. of Diversity and Social Change. Contributing of transformational and charismatic leadership (Yukl, members include Angela Wangari Walter, PhD, 2012). Yukl (1989) states, “Leadership is defined MPH, LCSW; Robbie Tourse, PhD, MS, LICSW; broadly to include influence processes involving Leaders must understand historical Yvonne Ruiz, PhD, LICSW; Helene Kress, MSSS; determination of the group’s or organization’s and contemporary contexts that Betty Morningstar, PhD, MSW; and Bet MacArthur, objectives, motivating task behavior in pursuit of marginalized populations have and LICSW. The vision of the Center is to enhance the these objectives, and influencing group maintenance continue to experience, and how power for knowledge to create social change. The and culture” (p. 5). However, a major difficulty in these experiences inform the ways Center engages in a variety of ways of learning and discussing leadership arises from the lack of consistency individuals interact in the workplace teaching about cultural diversity that emphasize race and in defining leadership. As Lawler (2007) reiterates, and in their communities. other social justice issues. The Center strives to integrate leadership has many definitions and is constantly critical thinking, research, and creativity to promote evolving. social change. It is necessary to distinguish between the concept of Despite the need for exemplary leadership skills in leadership and management. Leadership extends beyond the social work profession, leadership curriculum in About the Center: https://diversityandsocialchange.org/ the management of daily operations to encompass social work education is lacking and little research a greater functionality related to a guiding vision, has assessed leadership capabilities in the profession influence, and power within the organization. Managers Contact Us: [email protected] (Fisher 2009; Haworth, Miller & Schaub, 2018; Peters, are responsible for the everyday activities, tasks, and Hopkins & Meyer, 2015). However, Sullivan (2016) routines that are necessary for an organization to remain notes that core elements of leadership in social work are viable and function smoothly (Sullivan, 2016). Brilliant comparable to those in other professions, and thus opens (2001) argues, the opportunity to learn from other sectors. Theories of Managers may solve problems and keep organiza- leadership seek to explain how and why people become tions functioning, but leaders have special qualities. leaders and provide a foundation for individuals to Leaders are creative, take risks, and promote innova- identify and improve their own leadership abilities. tion and organizational growth. Thus, managers There are several ways to categorize leadership theories, can be “good managers” without being leaders, but including behavioral-based leadership related to the leaders go beyond this framework bringing entrepre- individual and theories that focus on relationships and neurial abilities that may be particularly needed at organizational processes (Peters, Hopkins & Meyer, Left to Right: Betty Morningstar, Helene Kress, times in an organization’s history. (p. 326) 2015). Other theories and models of leadership focus on organizations as the unit of analysis taking into account Robbie Welch Christler Tourse, Angela Wangari Walter, Some depictions of leadership emphasize the leadership complexity, distribution, and team structures and Bet MacArthur. Not Pictured: Yvonne Ruiz. importance of ideal individual traits and suggest (Peters, Hopkins & Meyer, 2015). It is important a level of concentration of power at the top of the to point out that theoretical underpinnings inform organizational chart (Sullivan, 2016). Thus, a formal leadership styles and that theories are not synonymous leader is someone who holds one of the top positions in with leadership styles (e.g. authentic, servant, and social Course Structure an organization who focuses on agency improvement entrepreneurship styles of leadership). The leadership and change, looks to the future, and seeks innovative styles that individuals adopt may utilize one or more Being a leader is a multifaceted task, and the leader ideas (Araque & Weiss, 2019). Descriptions of formal theoretical underpinnings. While there are many theories must have