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In-Person Workshop

S25 SHARP Framework Workshop Series: Day 4

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

Instructors:
Wendy Shaia, EdD, MSW |  Chris Beegle, LCSW-C |  Stacey Wilson, LCSW-C
Duration:
7 Hours
Location:
University of Maryland School of Social Work 3E08 - Baltimore, Maryland
Dates
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Description

This workshop will outline the SHARP Framework components of Analysis of Role, Reciprocity & Mutuality & Power and provide participants an opportunity to practice and reflect on applying this approach to their work. Participants will reflect on their commitment to antiracist practice and explore their next steps for personal and organizational implementation.  

Instructor

Wendy Shaia, EdD, MSW Related Seminars and Products

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Dr. Wendy Shaia (she/they) is a Clinical Associate Professor and Executive Director of The Center for Restorative Change at the University of Maryland School of Social Work (formerly SWCOS), where she earned her Master of Social Work degree. Wendy obtained her Doctor of Education in Human and Organizational Learning from The George Washington University. She has more than 30 years of experience developing, implementing, and leading organizations and programs. In New York, she developed and operated a shelter for unhoused pregnant and parenting young women in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and built transitional and affordable housing in East New York, Brooklyn. Most recently, Wendy worked as a strategic planner for the Department of Defense, where she led change management efforts and developed strategies around Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity. Wendy is also the founder of the Positive Schools Center at the University of Maryland School of Social Work. Her work focuses on creating positive school climates and reducing the disproportionate suspensions and expulsions of children of color and children with disabilities from Maryland schools. She also developed the SHARP framework for providing services to people who have experienced poverty and oppression. She enjoys gardening, dancing swing, and writing fiction. Her first novel, The Black Cell, a work of Afro-futurism, was recently released.

Chris Beegle, LCSW-C Related Seminars and Products

Christopher S. Beegle, MSW, LCSW-C is the Director of Clinical Services at The Center for Restorative Change, directly leading and overseeing community-based, in-home services with children and families at Family Connections Baltimore. Direct and supervise clinicians implementing evidence-based model of Family Connections and adaptations of Grandparent Family Connections and Trauma-Adapted Family Connections. Co-facilitator in training and replication of Trauma-Adapted Family Connections. Prior to becoming the Director he was a counselor at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work, Family Connections program.  He provided in-home, family-based services, with caregivers and children participating in Family Connections, Trauma Adapted-Family Connections and Grandparent Family Connections.  Prior to Family Connections, he served as a social worker in Prince George’s County Department of Social Services providing clinical services to families and youth with plans of reunification, adoption, and reunification and independent living.  Trained in Family Finding, he assisted and helped children construct timelines in efforts to locate relatives, neighbors, and friends to serve as supports. Mr. Beegle facilitated family meetings to support family members’ efforts in re-establishing relationships with youth in foster care. He supported the implementation of Family Finding in Prince George’s County Department of Social Services and represented his jurisdiction, contributing to the state level implementation and intervention strategies.

Mr. Beegle is trained and a certified therapist in Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), The Road to Recovery Toolkit: Supporting Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities who have Experienced Trauma, PracticeWise Managing and Adapting Practice (MAP), and Youth Mental Health First Aid. He is a certified facilitator in Core Curriculum on Childhood Trauma (CCCT) with National Child Traumatic Stress Network, training providers and graduate level Interns on the core concepts influencing children and families when experiencing trauma. In his current role, Mr. Beegle provides clinical supervision to social workers in multiple settings including community-based family-centered services and school systems.  As a Faculty Field Instructor, he facilitates trainings, seminars, group supervision and individual supervision for graduate-level social work interns incorporating both macro and micro-level frameworks into their practices.

Mr. Beegle is currently a trainer and curriculum developer for the SHARP framework, participating in a Category II SAMHSA Grant, implementing anti-racist and anti-oppressive framework in human services. Mr. Beegle remains very interested in evolving human service systems approaches in addressing the safety and well-being of children and families, providing trauma-informed services with an antiracist and racial equity framework. 

 

Stacey Wilson, LCSW-C Related Seminars and Products

Stacey Wilson is employed by the University of Maryland School of Social Work, The Center for Restorative Change. As Lead "SHARP" trainer, she supports the development of SHARP training materials, facilitates training workshops, and helps execute the vision of expanding the framework. Stacey is a Title IV-E alumni and currently works as a clinician at Family Connections Baltimore, a neglect prevention program helping strengthen Baltimore Families, where she utilizes the SHARP framework to embed anti-racist and anti-oppressive principles in mental health services, case management and financial support, and advocacy to reduce blame and shame and increase power sharing.  

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 2
Thu, Feb 06, 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

Agenda

8:30 am-9:00 am Registration

9:00 am- 9:30 am 

Opening Reflections 

9:30 am-11:30 am 

Practicing Socioeducation 

11:30 am-12:00 pm 

Unpacking the “A” in SHARP- Analysis of Role 

12:00 pm-12:30 pm 

Lunch Break 

12:30 pm-1:45 pm 

Understanding “R” in SHARP – Reciprocity and Mutuality 

1:45 pm-2:00 pm 

Break 

2:00 pm-3:15 pm 

Understanding “P” in SHARP - Power 

3:45 pm-4:00 pm 

Re-envisioning the work & Final Closing Reflections 

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to: 

  • Practice utilizing socioeducation to name and address socially engineered trauma. 

  • Examine Analysis of Role in SHARP to recognize the impact of maintaining or disrupting the status quo on service relationships and family outcomes, institutional culture and operations, and the systemic impact of racism. 

  • Analyze the final two components of the SHARP Framework, Reciprocity and Mutuality and Power and apply a SHARPend lens to a Family Scenario. 

  • Determine commitment to antiracist practice and next steps for personal and organizational implementation. 

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

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Location

University of Maryland School of Social Work 3E08

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