Voting as a Social Work Intervention

9:00am to 10:00am EST

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Tanya Rhodes Smith, MSW, Director Nancy A Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work

NASW-NYS Members: $15

NASW Other Chapter Member (Including NYC): $25

Non-Members: $30

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 1.0 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

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Workshop Description

Healthy democracies, where people vote in higher numbers, lead to healthy communities because elected officials are accountable to voters.  This session will present voting as a social determinant of health and intervention in social work practice; the benefits of voting to individuals,  communities, and organizations; the negative outcomes associated with low voter turnout; and ways social workers can support the voting rights and political power of the clients, staff, and the communities we serve.

Learning Objectives

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

• Voting as a social determinant of health.
• The importance of local and state elections to racial, economic, political and social justice movements
• Nonpartisan voter engagement as an important and powerful intervention for all social workers.
• Easy ways social workers can integrate nonpartisan voter registration, education and outreach into their organizations and/or practice legally, ethically, and effectively.

This workshop is approved for 1.0 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:

Tanya Rhodes Smith is the Director of the Nancy A. Humphreys Institute for Political Social Work and Instructor in Residence at the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Her work examines voting as a social determinant of health and social work intervention.  As Director, Tanya leads the Institute’s programming, including the Campaign School for Social Workers, which has trained more than 3,000 students, social workers, and advocates to engage and lead in electoral campaigns. In 2015, she co-founded the National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign to integrate voter engagement into social work education and practice. Her advocacy focuses on expanding voting rights and access, including overturning all forms of felony disenfranchisement.  She serves on the Hartford Votes~Vota Coalition and the Board of the Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy.  She is a member of the Scholars Strategy Network and a current grantee in their Election Protection and Enhancement Program. Find more information about the Institute’s research, publications, and work at ssw.uconn.edu or connect with her on LinkedIn at Tanya-Rhodes-Smith.