Little White Lie: The Complexity of Race, Culture, Family, and Identity

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Lacey Schwartz Delgado, JD, & Laura Quiros PhD., LMSW

NASW-NYS Members: $60

NASW Other Chapter Member: $90

Non-Members: $120

This workshop is approved for 6.0 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapists

Workshop Description

This course is most relevant given the zeigeist of our times when our nation is dealing with complex trauma from the COVID-19 pandemic and the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. Social work in particular, is well positioned and has a responsibility to grapple with issues of race, racial identity and trauma. This course speaks to all of that and the social justice mission of the social work professional on personal and professional levels.

This course will use the personal and professional knowledge of two women of color and the documentary Little White Lie to help social work practitioners on the beginning, intermediate and advanced levels dive deeper in the nuances of race, culture, family and ultimately, identity. In addition, this course is a master model in the purposeful use of self in a person-in-environment framework.

This training will cover the complexity of identity by engaging with the experience of one’s personal journey. Perhaps most unique about this course will be the personal and professional connection between who we are and what we do. This connection will deepen the learning of social workers on every level. This will be achieved through the exploration of the ways in which race and culture impact our relationships with clients and supervisors, discussion about how risk and protective factors impact coping strategies related to race based trauma as well as self-care strategies for managing racial trauma.

Questions framing the day for participants include: Who am I? Who are you? Who and what makes us who we are? How much do our families control what we become? How much does our background influence the groups we join and where we feel a sense of belonging? How does the answers to these questions impact our social work practice 

Learning Objectives

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

• Assess and manage their personal feelings, attitudes and values in the professional helping process, within the context of social work values.
• Discuss the complexity and impact of family dynamics on identity.
• Describe the impact of race and culture on the supervisory and client relationship.
• Explain how risk and protective factors impact coping strategies related to race based trauma.
• Apply self care strategies related to managing racial trauma

This workshop is approved for 6.0 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:

Lacey Schwartz Delgado is an award-winning producer/ writer/ director/ outreach strategist who draws on her interdisciplinary background to create compelling stories that span documentary and fiction and work with innovative organizations and brands. She is the CEO of the production company Truth Aid, which produces inspiring and empowering multi-media content to affect social change, and the Director of Outreach North America for Be’chol Lashon, which works around issues of racial, ethnic and cultural diversity in the Jewish community. Schwartz Delgado directed, produced and co-wrote the critically acclaimed documentary “Little White Lie,” a top-rated broadcast on PBS’s “Independent Lens” which has been distributed worldwide, including screenings with the US State Department in Brasil, Israel and Taiwan. She also executive produced the narrative film “DIFRET” the first film to win audience awards at both the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. Lacey’s work stems from the belief that storytelling is the most powerful tool we can use to bridge societal divides in our world. Integral to her work is the development of public engagement campaigns that engage audiences to build on lessons learned in their films from inception to impact. A native of Woodstock, NY and resident of Rhinebeck, NY, Schwartz Delgado has a BA from Georgetown University, a JD from Harvard University and is a member of the New York State bar.

Laura Quiros, PhD., LMSW is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Adelphi University for the past eleven years. She teaches social work practice at the Doctoral, Masters level and undergraduate levels. Her research and scholarly interests focus on the social construction of racial and ethnic identity and trauma informed care from a social justice lens. The common thread in her consulting, teaching and scholarship is elevating complexity and furthering the mission of social justice, including diversity and inclusion. Dr. Quiros also coaches and trains executive level staff across higher education, corporate, non-profits, and the fashion industry; to dig deep and intimately connect to diversity and inclusion. Some of this work involves gently pushing the boundaries of overcoming the resistance to diversity and inclusion work.