Tag: racism
SSWAA Solidarity Statement With Black Lives Matter
As school social workers, we must all step into the discomfort of this conversation as this impacts every one of us when we serve children and teenagers in the schools. If we serve Black youth and other youth of color, we must be willing to assess where we are in our own journey of anti-racism. If we work with white youth, we are equally responsible for breaking the legacy of white supremacy and model for white youth what anti-racism looks like. We need to assess our own spheres of influence and our skill sets, thinking about how we can use our strengths, develop new skills, and be willing to be courageous and take risks in order to enact anti-racist and anti-oppressive practices.
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Chicago Students Strike Back & FIght For School Social Workers
We wrote a biography of the group and zine — Students Strike Back is a student-led group created during the Chicago Teachers Union one day strike in 2016. Students are neighborhood high school students in Chicago Public Schools from the southwest side. Students are determined to have their voice in education issues. “No decisions about us without us”. As students who must endure the conditions of Chicago Public Schools, the group is determined to fight for education equity. For far too long, students have endured budget cuts after budget cuts. It is time for education to be taken seriously.
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SSWN Open Access 2020 Call for Papers: Applying a Social Justice Lens to Trauma-Informed Approaches in Education
Due to the strong positive response to this presentation and article I did at the National Center for School Mental Health in November 2019 (pictured), Trauma-Informed Care In Schools: What We Know (And Still Don’t Know), And Why That Matters For Marginalized Youth In K-12, we’re creating a Call for Papers (CFP) for a special issue at our journal the International Journal of School Social Work (IJSSW) on this topic–abstracts are due by March 15th.
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(Updated) Trauma-Informed Care in Schools: What We Know (And Still Don’t Know), And Why That Matters for Marginalized Youth In K-12
This year on SSWN (and our sister social media platform SSWNetwork) we’re going to delve into a complicated and we believe necessary conversation about trauma-informed care (TIC), racial inequity, and evidence-based practice (EBP). These three concepts, themselves worthy of extensive study and exploration, are coming together in dynamic and powerful ways as school clinicians, researchers, and K-12 schools reckon with how to do trauma-informed care in school contexts.
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A Call to Action from SSWAA: School Social Workers Stand Up for Migrant Children’s Human Rights
Editor’s Note: Here at SSWN, we’re proud to post this statement from Dr. Leticia...
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