Advancing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) for AAPI through the lens of Asian Critical Race Theory

9:00 am to 12:00 pm EST

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Sangeun (Isabel) Lee, Ph.D.-C, MSW, LSW, CCM

NASW-NYS Members: FREE

NASW Other Chapter Member: $60

Non-Members: $75

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 3.0 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Workshop Description

The pandemic impacts marginalized populations far more negatively than dominant groups in multiple ways. As the fastest-growing racial or ethnic group in the United States for the past two decades, promoting and retaining bicultural and bilingual Asian social workers for the AAPI needs to be prioritized by advancing the current culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS). By visiting how CLAS is utilized in the field, this course will help course participants understand the working conditions of these workers through a recent qualitative study on them. After learning about the Asian critical race theory (Asian CRT), participants see the value of the theoretical application of this theory for both Asian workers and the AAPI populations. In the end, we will discuss what organizational support and policies can be created to help bicultural and bilingual Asian social workers in the future. 

Learning Objectives

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

• Describe the demographic shifts and the need for culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS)
• Understand culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) and how it is practiced in the field for the AAPI communities
• Understand bicultural and bilingual Asian human service workers and their working conditions during and beyond the pandemic
• Apply Asian critical race theory (Asian CRT) to the AAPI communities
• Create culturally and linguistically allied policies to promote and retain bicultural and bilingual Asian social workers in the future

This workshop is approved for 3.0 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), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Sangeun (Isabel) Lee, Ph.D.-C, MSW, LSW, CCM, has been working with Asian immigrant populations with limited English proficiency (LEP) since 2008 in the greater Philadelphia area. As a licensed social worker and certified case manager, Sangeun was selected as a national policy fellow at the Network for Social Work Management in 2019 and as an international doctoral scholar cohort of the Doctoral Scholar Institute (DSI) by the Rutgers University School of Social Work and Network for Social Work Management in 2021 and 2022 consecutively.