SCHEDULE
12:00pm - 1:45pm (CST) | Business Meeting
Zoom link to business meeting: umn.zoom.us/j/97681848906
Traci LaLiberte
Child Welfare Track Chair
Barb Pierce
Child Welfare Track Co-Chair
12:00pm- 12:15pm (CST)
Business Meeting
Traci LaLiberte - Child Welfare Track Chair
Barb Pierce - Child Welfare Track Co-Chair
Alan Detlaff
Presenter
Link to Bio
Jessica Pryce
Co-Presenter
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12:15pm - 1:15pm (CST)
Dismantling Racism in Child Welfare
Alan Detlaff and Jessica Pryce
Introductions: Katharine Cahn
Wrap up discussion; Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen
As people who teach, conduct research, provide agency training, and advance policy change in child welfare, we are well-situated to advance transformative systems change in the field of child welfare. This year's Child Welfare Interest Group meeting is designed to advance that work nation-wide with information, dialogue and peer-to-peer sharing.
Speakers Dr. Jessica Pryce and Dean Alan Detlaff are well-known for their scholarship in child welfare. Both have been out ahead articulating models of anti-racist, trauma-informed systems and suggested pathways to get there. You will have the opportunity to hear from and engage with these compelling speakers, and to be in dialogue with one another. We look forward to a rich, informative, and meaningful dialogue to advance anti-racist, transformative change in child welfare.
1:15pm - 1:45pm (CST)
Dismantling Racism in Child Welfare Discussion
Break Out Rooms
Break Out Rooms
Attendees will be randomly assigned to zoom break out rooms to hold discussions around dismantling racism in child welfare.
1:45pm - 2:15pm (CST)
Break Out Room Group Discussion
Attendees will be brought back to the main room for discussion wrap
5 Min. Break and Transition to Covid Round Tables: 2:15pm - 2:20pm
COVID-19 Round Table 1 | 2:20pm - 2:40pm (CST)
COVID-19 Round Table 2 | 2:40pm - 3:00pm (CST)
With over 200,000 deaths and over 7 million confirmed cases in the US, the sars-cov-2 (Covid-19) virus has taken a toll on client services and our ability to educate our social work students. Child welfare students and the workforce are dealing with increases stress in the workplace. They are coping in the field with fear, illness, and deaths of disproportionately affected African American, Latinx, and Indigenous people given their high numbers affected by the virus and requiring creative ways of doing child welfare in the field. Additionally, Asian-American students and professionals are experiencing harassment given the perception that the virus arose from Asia. Social work programs, faculty, staff and students have had to quickly transition to online education, make alterations in the field placements, accommodate disruptions in availability of services, process and live with death or illness in their own lives, and manage home life disruptions, new personal responsibilities and a seemingly impossible balance in personal/work/school life. Round table discussions provide a space for participants to discuss these impacts and share ideas about how agencies and schools are responding to the pandemic in novel and creative ways.
Barb Pierce
Child Welfare Track Co-ChairCOURSEWORK - TEACHING STRATEGIES
Covid-19 has produced the need for new knowledge dissemination including information about social determinants of health, staying safe on the job as a worker, and policy implications of working to keep clients safe. Social work and child welfare educators have had to develop their knowledge and skill set in these areas while also determining the best way to teach students including ways to deliver the information using virtual or other technological means while physically distancing or teaching from home. This discussion will focus on ways in which participants have developed new ideas and teaching strategies within the constraints of Covid-19. We want to know what has worked and what hasn’t including how do you avoid zoom fatigue in yourself and your students and how do you make this teachable moment meaningful? Both dilemmas and solutions are welcome.
Zoom Link; https://umn.zoom.us/j/95605966197
Katharine Cahn
Executive Director, Center for Improvement of Child & Family Services at Portland State University School of Social WorkECONOMIC AND PROGRAMMATIC IMPACTS
Budget Impacts of COVID. The economic impact of COVID has hit our university and state / county budgets. What issues have you faced, and how are your re-tooling to this new reality? Both dilemmas and solutions are welcome.
Zoom Link; https://umn.zoom.us/j/98792405802
Robin Hernandez-Mekonnen
Associate Professor of Social Work, Stockton UniversityETHICS
There are ethical implications for the adaptions that we have all created for professional social work education and child welfare. These implications overlay field, student well being, (title Iv-e), and the economic impact on programs. Both dilemmas and solutions are welcome.
Zoom Link; https://umn.zoom.us/j/94154439619
Caroline Long
Associate Professor, Chair of the Families and Children Specialization and Director of Global Engagement
Ellen Smith
UW Madison School of Social WorkIVE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT / INSERVICE TRAINING SYSTEMS
Training systems quickly pivoted and moved to an all virtual training this year. Come and talk with your peers about the challenges and innovations of delivering training virtually. We will also be discussing how the pandemic has influenced how training and professional development will be delivered in the future. Both dilemmas and solutions are welcome.
Zoom Link; https://umn.zoom.us/j/95533484180
Crystal Collins-Camargo
Associate Dean for Research at Kent School of Social Work, Louisville, KentuckySTUDENT MENTAL HEALTH / LIFE BALANCE
Like all of us, students are struggling to function during the pandemic. Dealing with issues associated with balancing work, school and caregiving, home schooling, illness and isolation increases stress. We will discuss how to balance promoting student mental health and wellness through flexibility with accountability for meeting learning objectives critical to preparation for child welfare work. Both dilemmas and solutions are welcome.
Zoom Link; https://umn.zoom.us/j/98833733329