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In-Person Workshop

S24 SHARP Framework Workshop Series: Day 2

Total Credits: 5 including 5 Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practices CEs

Instructors:
A. Adar Ayira |  Dana Polson |  Rebecca Hade Pobee
Duration:
7 Hours
Location:
University of Maryland School of Social Work 3E08 - Baltimore, Maryland
Dates
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Description

This workshop will provide further exploration of the racialized history of the U.S. and the messaging of the human services industry and trace how that is affecting service delivery and the outcomes of Black and other non-Black families of color. Participants will develop a better understanding of terms related to antiracism/anti-oppression and how to recognize the four levels upon which racism operates in the United States. 

 

Instructor

A. Adar Ayira Related Seminars and Products

A. Adar Ayira is Director of Contract Services at Baltimore Racial Justice Action (BRJA). A Founding Member of BRJA, she has been on staff since September 2020. Adar has more than 30 years of management and organizational development,  membership, and fundraising experience gained through her tenure in both locally- and  nationally focused nonprofit, community-based, social justice organizations. She received  degrees in Public Communications and Sociology from American University in Washington,  DC. 

Prior to her tenure with BRJA, Adar was on the senior leadership team at a Baltimore public  foundation. Prior to that, she was Founder and Principal Consultant of Core Concepts, a  nonprofit specialist consulting firm that provided skills development; strategic planning; technical assistance; organizational, board, and program development; and project  management for nonprofit organizations. Adar also has experience as an Interim Executive  Director (IED) in the field of Interim Executive Leadership, working with grassroots organizations to provide effective leadership during times of organizational transitions.

Since 2020, Adar has operated as Principal Consultant of Ayira Core Concepts LLC, a boutique consulting firm, that  has expanded the services offered by the original Core Concepts.

Dana Polson Related Seminars and Products

Dana Polson is an anti-racism/anti-oppression facilitator, executive coach, and client project manager at Baltimore Racial Justice Action. With a 20-year background in public education as a teacher and administrator, she has a strong interest in helping individuals and organizations combine learning, self-reflection, and new practices into transformative change. She earned her PhD in 2012 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County from the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program. Her dissertation Longing for Theory focused on the ways that Black Baltimore students were using theory from Black studies to transform their participation in the formerly
white-dominated space of policy debate.

She continues to use the theoretical background in Black studies as a resource in her work at BRJA as it provides both an explanatory look at our white supremacist, anti-Black society and an imaginative look towards racial justice.

Rebecca Hade Pobee Related Seminars and Products

Rebecca Hade Pobee is an antiracism/anti-oppression facilitator, executive coach, and client project manager. She has been working at Baltimore Racial Justice Action for five years and is passionate about working with individuals and organizations on seeing the historical and structural landscape of racism surrounding and impacting them and deconstructing the ways their individual actions and institutional policies, practices, procedures, and cultures can uphold racism or promote inclusion.
Prior to joining the staff at BRJA, Rebecca spent a decade working as a social studies curriculum developer of K-12 content. She brings this expertise to her work at BRJA, developing new activities and learning experiences for BRJA facilitators. Rebecca also brings her history background into her facilitation and coaching, contextualizing her
facilitation with the 400 plus years history of racism, white supremacy and anti-Blackness in the United States. As a white woman, she uses her experience to illuminate ways that whiteness shows up in individuals and organizations and to support and challenge white people in various places in their anti-racism journeys.

Dates

S25 SHARP Framework Workshop Series: Day 1
Tue, Feb 04, 2025 - 09:00am to 04:00pm EST
Baltimore, Maryland
S24 SHARP Framework Workshop Series: Day 3
Tue, Feb 11, 2025 - 09:00am to 04:00pm EST
Baltimore, Maryland
S25 SHARP Framework Workshop Series: Day 4
Thu, Feb 13, 2025 - 09:00am to 04:00pm EST
Baltimore, Maryland

Agenda

8:30 am-9:00 am Registration

9:00 am-9:30 am 

Opening Reflections 

9:30 am-12:30 pm 

BRJA History of Social Services  

12:00 pm-12:30 pm 

Lunch Break 

12:30 pm-2:15 pm 

BRJA History of Here 

2:15 pm-2:30 pm 

Break 

2:30 pm-3:45 pm 

BRJA Tools for Looking at History and Today 

3:45 pm-4:00 pm 

Closing Reflections 

Learning Objectives

Participants should be able to: 

  • Identify dominant narratives surrounding the history of social services and critique the racialized history of social services.   

  • Describe the history of institutions and race within their local area and connect the local history of race and racism and the current work of their institution.   

  • Practice using a common set of anti-racism/anti-oppression terms to discuss issues of race and racism and recognize the four levels upon which racism operates in the United States. 

Bibliography & References

BIBLIOGRAPHY & REFERENCES

 

Braveman, P. A., Arkin, E., Proctor, D., Kauh, T., & Holm, N. (2022). Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling. Health Affairs (Project Hope), 41(2), 171–178. https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2021.01394 

Ericson, E., & Contributed Content. (2015, April 24). What happened to Freddie Gray? former cops and arrestees shed light on the question tearing Baltimore apart. Baltimore Sun. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2015/04/24/what-happened-to-freddie-gray-former-cops-and-arrestees-shed-light-on-the-question-tearing-baltimore-apart/ 

Hansen, M. (2022, November 14). 8 types of power for today’s leaders to harness. Y Scouts. https://yscouts.com/types-of-leadership-power/ 

Jones, C. P. (2000). Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener’s tale. American Journal of Public Health, 90(8), 1212–1215. https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.90.8.1212 

Leckrone, B. (2022, May 5). An estimated 85,000 occupied housing units in Baltimore have “dangerous lead hazards,” report says. Maryland Matters. https://www.marylandmatters.org/2022/05/05/an-estimated-85000-occupied-housing-units-in-baltimore-have-dangerous-lead-hazards-report-says/   

McCoy, T. (2015, April 29). Freddie Gray’s life a study on the effects of lead paint on poor ... The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/freddie-grays-life-a-study-in-the-sad-effects-of-lead-paint-on-poor-blacks/2015/04/29/0be898e6-eea8-11e4-8abc-d6aa3bad79dd_story.html 

Moore, W. (2019, October 16). A toxic legacy: Confronting lead poisoning in Baltimore. WYPR. https://www.wypr.org/show/future-city/2019-10-16/a-toxic-legacy-confronting-lead-poisoning-in-baltimore   

“Power.” Racial Equity Tools Glossary, Racial Equity Tools, https://www.racialequitytools.org/glossary. Accessed 5 Apr. 2024. 

“Reciprocity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reciprocity. Accessed 5 Apr. 2024. 

Sarkhel S, Singh OP, Arora M. Clinical Practice Guidelines for Psychoeducation in Psychiatric Disorders General Principles of Psychoeducation. Indian J Psychiatry. 2020 Jan;62(Suppl 2):S319-S323. doi: 10.4103/psychiatry.IndianJPsychiatry_780_19. Epub 2020 Jan 17. PMID: 32055073; PMCID: PMC7001357. 

Shaia, W. E., Avruch, D. O., Green, K., & Godsey, G. M. (2019). Socially-engineered trauma and a new social work pedagogy: Socioeducation as a critical foundation of social work practice. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 89(3–4), 238–263. https://doi-org.proxy-hs.researchport.umd.edu/10.1080/00377317.2019.1704146    

Shaia, W. E. (2019). SHARP: A Framework for Addressing the Contexts of Poverty and Oppression During Service Provision in the United States. Journal of Social Work Values & Ethics, 16(1), 16–26.  

Simmons, Richard, 'Mutuality in the public, private and third sectors', in Adrian Bonner (ed.), Local Authorities and the Social Determinants of Health (Bristol, 2020; online edn, Policy Press Scholarship Online, 20 May 2021), https://doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447356233.003.0018, accessed 5 Apr. 2024. 

U.S. Department of Justice. (2017, September 12). Federal Officials Decline Prosecution in the Death of Freddie Gray. Office of Public Affairs. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/federal-officials-decline-prosecution-death-freddie-gray 

Course Completion & CE Information

Category I Maryland BSWE Requirement

The Office of Continuing Professional Education at the University Of Maryland School Of Social Work is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education programs. This workshop qualifies for 5 Category I Continuing Education Units. The Office of Continuing Professional Education is also authorized by the Maryland Board of Psychologists and the Maryland Board of Professional Counselors to sponsor Category A continuing professional education.


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Target Audience

Social Workers, LCPCs, and Psychologists

We welcome anyone interested in the topic!

 

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Location

University of Maryland School of Social Work 3E08

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525 W. Redwood St. , Rm 3E08, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, United States
(410) 706-7790
www.ssw.umaryland.edu

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