Embarking on an Anti-Racist Journey as an Organization

 10:00am to 11:30am ET

LIVE WEBINAR

Presenter: Lyrica Fils-Aime, LCSW-R, RPT-S

NASW-NYS Members: FREE

NASW Other Chapter Member: $30

Non-Members: $37.5

NASW-NYS Student and Transitional Members: FREE

This workshop is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists and licensed psychologists

Workshop Description
For the first time in decades, a large number of organizations have made a commitment to addressing racism in their practices. The instructor will address the following questions: What are the phases to becoming an anti-racist multicultural transformed institution? What areas of your organization need to be addressed and how will you get there? What are strategies for doing and maintaining this, even when those at the top and those on your team are not yet on board?   The instructor will describe how Anti-Blackness and the Model Minority Myth show up in institutions and outline the activities that are actually promoting belonging. This workshop offers a leadership and administrative focus but will appeal to anyone who is interested in moving their organization in the direction of anti-oppression work. 

Learning Objectives

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

• Assess where their organizations lie in the continuum of becoming an anti-racist institution 
• Evaluate the activities of an organization as it relates to belonging and inclusion
• Analyze their own leadership and behaviors to align with anti-oppression
• Describe their complicity in the oppression of an institution.

This workshop is approved for 1.5 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), licensed marriage and family therapists (Provider ID #MFT-0037) and licensed psychologists (Provider ID #PSY-0088).

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Presenter:

Lyrica Fils-Aime, LCSW-R, RPT-S.

Lyrica Fils-Aimé, LCSW-R, RPT-S,  is a NY State Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Registered Play Therapist Supervisor, and founded a private practice in Harlem. Lyrica began working in equitable education and counseling while working at Children's Aid College Prep Charter School as a Community School Director. In this role, she created and designed equity teams, diversity councils, affinity groups, multi-cultural programming and supervised social workers with an anti-racist and anti-oppressive leadership focus. She specializes in Decolonizing Therapy and Leadership and integrating methodologies on Ancestral Trauma and Resilience.