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 SOCIAL JUSTICE WANTED | 2020-2021 The University of Georgia does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, color national Editor: Anna Scheyett or ethnic origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, Design/Production: Kat Farlowe, Griffin McNamara gender identity, genetic information, or military Copy Editor (writing and spelling styles of the authors were retained service in its administrations of educational policies, at the editor's discretion): Laurie Anderson, Kat Farlowe programs, or activities; its admissions policies; scholarship and loan programs; athletic or other Photo Credits: Amber Raines, Athens Banner Herald-Joshua Jones, University-administered programs; or employment. Harold Waters; UGA Photographic Services-Nancy Evelyn, Peter Inquiries or complaints should be directed to the Frey, Robert Newcomb, Chad Osburn, Dot Paul, Andrew Davis Equal Opportunity Office, 119 Holmes-Hunter Tucker; UGA School of Social Work-Laurie Anderson. Academic Building, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602. Telephone 706-542-7912 (V/TDD). Fax © 2020 University of Georgia School of Social Work 706-542-2822. https://eoo.uga.edu. 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 SOCIAL JUSTICE WANTED | 2020-2021 1 Introduction — Anna Scheyett 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 unani mously 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 informa tion. 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, incom ing 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 Initia tive 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