Decolonizing Social Work Practice: Reexamining How to Best Serve Marginalized Communities

9:00am to 11:30am

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Gordon Hakim Collier, LMSW

NASW-NYS Members: Free

NASW Other Chapter Member: $37.50

Non-Members: $50

NASW-NYS Student Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 2.5 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapists

Workshop Description

This workshop is an invitation to expand and interrogate your practice and the way we’re often taught how to serve marginalized communities. This workshop will focus on ways to build trusting and meaningful relationships with communities by understanding how systemic injustices impact the mental, physical and emotional health of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color communities. It is within this trusting relationship that the voiceless can be heard and the invisible, seen.

Participants will be able to identify how various types of stigma, implicit biases and microaggressions impact the overall health of marginalized communities.Through exploring the impact of historical and intergenerational trauma on the body, participants will be able identify specific tools to use with clients experiencing body-based trauma. This workshop will ultimately provide participants with the knowledge and skills to practice social work with BIPOC and marginalized communities through a trauma-informed and social justice informed care lens. 

Learning Objectives

After the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Describe the impact of Public, Self and Systemic stigma on marginalized communities.
• Understand the impact of implicit biases and microaggressions on mental health for BIPOC people.
• Explain the impact trauma (historical and intergenerational) has on the body and identify tools to utilize in the healing journey of body-based trauma for marginalized communities.
• Describe the importance of building a trusting relationship of different backgrounds, cultures, languages, ethnicities etc.
• Incorporate trauma-informed care and social justice informed care into their practice with BIPOC people.

This workshop is approved for 2.5 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), and licensed marriage and family therapists. (Provider ID #MFT-0037)

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Presenter:

Gordon Collier, born and raised in the Capital Region of New York, is the founder and therapist of Beyond Living- a practice that offers opportunities both on the micro and macro levels with individual and group counseling, organizational training and consultation, as well as public speaking. Gordon also currently works as a Provider Relations Specialist with the Care Design NY. Gordon holds a master’s degree in Social Work from the University at Albany and has experience working with individuals living and coping with HIV/AIDS, mental health, and substance use.

Gordon is a licensed social worker and is a certified Mental Health First Aid Trainer, Bridges Out of Poverty Trainer, Life Coach and lastly in The New York Model for Batterer’s Program related to Domestic Violence. He has received the In Our Own Voices’ LGBT POC Health and Human Service Award in 2018. He serves as a board member on the Board of Directors for the Albany Damien Center. He is also an 2019 alumnus of the New Leaders Council Fellowship- a national professional development organization created to recruit, educate, and prepare the next generation of progressive leaders. Gordon is also an adjunct professor of Social Work at Siena College. At Siena College, he leverages his experience as a social worker and his experience as a young scholar of color to teach his students to lead with an open mind and an open heart. Gordon enjoys spending time with friends and family, engaging in intellectual conversation, and offering an open ear to anyone in need.