PART I:

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE

THURSDAY 11/12/2020 12:30 PM EST Welcome to the Symposium Laura S. Abrams, Sandra Crewe, Alan Dettlaff, James Herbert Williams 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST Race-Making Through The Child Welfare And Juvenile Courts Jenny Jones & Christin Haynes; Joan Blakely, Marva Lewis, & Rae Stevenson; Tanya Smith Brice 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST Social Work, Immigration and Displacement Yoosun Park; Benjamin Roth; Alicia Chaterjee FRIDAY 11/13/2020 12:30 PM -2:00 PM EST Reckoning with Coercion: Legacies of White Supremacy Kelechi C. Wright, Kortney Carr, & Beci Akkin; Jessica Toft; Melissa Murphy; 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EST Agents of Segregation: Social Workers and Urban Spaces Robert Cosby; Samantha Guz; Stephanie Boddie & Amy Hiller 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM EST Closing and Lessons Learned Laura S. Abrams

PART I: SOCIAL WORK’S HISTORICAL LEGACY OF RACISM AND WHITE SUPREMACY

NOVEMBER 12 AND 13, 9:30-1:30 PST | 12:30-4:30 EST

Thursday 11|12

Welcome to the Symposium 9:30-10:00am PST | 12:30-2:00pm EST

Organizers:

Laura S. Abrams, Alan Dettlaff, Sandra Crewe, James Herbert Williams

Panel 1: Race-making Through the Child Welfare and Juvenile Courts 10:00-11:30am PST | 1:00pm-2:30pm EST Presentations:

§ Institutional Racism in the Child Welfare System Jenny Jones and Christin Haynes

§ From Denied to Disproportionality: How Racism Has Shaped Child Welfare Practice

Joan M. Blakely, Rae Stevenson, and Marva Lewis § Grown-ish: Female Delinquency in Black and White (1890-1930)

Tanya Smith Brice

Discussant: Laura S. Abrams

Author Biographies Institutional Racism in the Child Welfare System Jenny Jones, PhD, MSW, ACSW, and Christin Haynes, PhD Candidate, MSW

Jenny Jones, Ph.D., M.S.W., A.C.S.W., Dean and Professor of Whitney M. Young, Jr., School of Social Work at Clark Atlanta University, and Graduate Faculty Affiliate at Florida State University. Dr. Jones has over 22 years of professional social work experience in higher education. She has served on the faculty at Florida A&M University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Tennessee. Her teaching and research experience include public child welfare service systems, HIV/AIDS community based multi-service organizations, and applied research. Additionally, her interests have expanded to include financial capability and asset building, which takes into account the integration of

financial and economic principles and interventions in direct practice with low-income families. Dr. Jones has sustained a well-respected research and community service career grounded in culturally responsive practices. She has authored or edited more than 45 scholarly publications, reports and monographs. Dr. Jones is nationally and internationally known for her work in Child Welfare and HIV/AIDS.

Christin Haynes, ABD, MSW, BS (Psychology) is doctoral candidate at Montclair State University in Montclair, NJ. in Family Science and Human Development. Her dissertation focuses on the Black mother/daughter relationship and Major Depressive Disorder. Ms. Haynes has professional experience in the social work field to include child welfare, mental health, hospital case management, and workforce development. Grounded in an Africana Womanist perspective, her focus is on working with the Black family as a collective unit, in efforts, toward holistic functioning. Ms. Haynes also uses various social media platforms to engage critical dialogue and disseminate Black family education resources for all

age demographics. Currently she hosts a podcast, “Black Family Scholar”, where she speaks with community members, researchers, and practitioners about salient issues impaling the holistic wellness of the Black family while celebrating the rich cultural traditions of Southern Blacks. Her latest project, Delicious Legacy Recipe Binder: A Black American Family Heirloom, provides Black American families the tools to archive family history through food. As an advocate for

intergenerational conversations, Christin promotes food as the perfect vehicle to discuss family history. From Denied to Disproportionality: How Racism Has Shaped Child Welfare Practice Joan M. Blakely, PhD, MSW, LMSW, Rae Stevenson, and Marva Lewis, PhD

Dr. Joan Blakey is a tenured Associate Professor and researcher at the Tulane School of Social Work. She received her doctorate from the University of Chicago’s School of Social Administration. She also attended the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities where she received both her Bachelor of Science degree in African American Studies, Sociology, and Youth Studies and Masters of Social Work degree. Dr. Blakey’s research agenda and consulting work focuses on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her work consistently has been about transforming systems to recognize and embrace peoples’ full humanity. Rae Stevenson is a second year PhD student in the City, Culture and Community program at Tulane University. Her research interests include anti blackness in K-12 education and critical inquiries of power in education policy. Rae’s research focus on education policy research as a way of influencing change for students of color. Prior to going back to school, Rae was an elementary school teacher.

Dr. Marva Lewis’ program of research focuses on the development of culturally valid research methods and measures of racism-based stress during pregnancy, Colorism in African American families, and parental acceptance or rejection of children. Specifically, her basic and applied research includes: Basic research on racism-based stress as an unrecognized factor in racial disparities in perinatal infant outcomes in African American women.

Grown-ish: Female Delinquency in Black and White (1890-1930) Tanya Smith Brice, MSW, PhD, Bowie State University

Dr. Tanya Smith Brice has most recently served as Dean of the College of Professional Studies at Bowie State

University in Bowie, MD. Previously, she was the Dean of the School of (Education) Health and Human Services at Benedict College in Columbia, SC. She has served on the faculties of the University of South Carolina, Abilene

Christian University (Abilene, TX), and Baylor University (Waco, TX). Her research centers on addressing issues of structural violence specifically as it relates to the impact of those structures on African American people. Her publications focus on the development of the social

welfare system by African American women for African American children and documents structural barriers to African American families. She provides consultation to community organizations, religious institutions, and educational institutions on the impact of their policies on African American families. She has taught and lectured all over the

USA, as well as in the countries of Ghana, Sweden, Uganda, Colombia and the Republic of Moldova. Dr. Smith Brice earned a PhD in Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; an MSW from the University of South Carolina; and, a BSW from South Carolina State University.

Panel 2: Social Work, Immigration and Displacement 12:00-1:30pmPST/3:00-4:30pmEST Papers:

§ Tracing Absent Critiques: Racism and White Supremacy in Social Work’s Discourses of

Immigration

Yoosun Park § From “Problem” to Mass Repatriation: Social Work Discourse on Mexican immigrants,

1917–1933 Benjamin J. Roth

§ Displacing a Community, Professionalizing a Practice: Race and Pathology in the

Eviction of Malaga Island

Alicia Chaterjee Discussant:

Alan Dettlaff

Author Biographies: Tracing Absent Critiques: Racism and White Supremacy in Social Work’s Discourses of Immigration Yoosun Park, MSW, PHD, Associate Professor, Smith College

Yoosun Park, PhD, MSW, is an Associate Professor in the School for Social Work at Smith College and Editor-in-Chief of Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. Dr. Park's scholarship, framed within the broad substantive area of immigration, is informed by poststructuralist theories of discourse and methods of inquiry. It pursues two overlapping lines: social work's history with immigrants/immigration and the study of contemporary issues

pertinent to immigrants/immigration. Her examinations of the current and past discourses of the profession aim to decenter the usual sites and modes of investigation, question formulation, and conceptualization. From “Problem” to Mass Repatriation: Social Work Discourse on Mexican Immigrants, 1917 –1933 Benjamin J. Roth, PhD, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina

Benjamin Roth is an associate professor at the University of South Carolina College of Social Work. His research focuses on immigrant youth and barriers to social mobility, particularly legal status. Currently he is writing a book on DACA (University of California Press) and conducting a national study of school social workers who work with immigrant students. He has also conducted research on immigrant-serving organizations in the U.S. and Latin America, examining how they redistribute resources and accelerate social inclusion for immigrants. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of

Chicago and his Master of Social Work at Hunter College. Displacing a Community, Professionalizing a Practice: Race and Pathology in the Eviction of Malaga Island Alicia Chatterjee, M.S. Ed, MSW, Doctoral Student, University of Pennsylvania

Alicia Chatterjee is an embodiment and mindfulness facilitator, anti-intimate violence organizer, and healer in training, living and working in Philadelphia. As a therapist, her work has focused on feminist and trauma-informed therapies, social justice and anti-racist praxis, and embodiment practice. She is currently training as a social welfare doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania,

where her research focuses on politicized healing work in queer communities and communities of color who have been impacted by intimate violence. She was born and raised in a mixed-race family in Maine, the ancestral lands of the Wabanaki peoples.

Friday, 11/13/2020 Panel 3: Reckoning with Coercion: Legacies of White Supremacy 9:30-11:00am PST | 12:30-2:00pm EST

§ Social Work’s Racialized Foundations: Recreating a More Equitable History of The

Field

Kelechi C. Wright, Kortney A. Carr, and Becci A. Akin § Mothers Who Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: A Citizenship

Accounting

Jessica Toft § Coercion and Institutional Racism in the Evolving Mental Health System: Social

Workers as both the Problem and the Solution

Melissa Murphy

Discussant: James Herbert Williams

Author Biographies: Social Work’s Racialized Foundations: Recreating a More Equitable History of The Field Kelechi C. Wright, LPC, LCPC; Kortney A. Carr, LCSW, LSCSW; and Becci A. Akin, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Kansas

Kelechi Wright is a doctoral student at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. Her research interests encompass criminal justice and immigration policy intersections, social welfare institutional and policy analysis and implementation science, qualitative and mixed methods research approaches. Her concentration on criminal justice is attributed to clinical experience serving formerly incarcerated individuals in co-occurring mental health outpatient services. Her hope is to generate greater research and practice methods where social work- based initiatives can influence criminal justice policy and practice. Her current focus is on immigrant disparities and inequalities in the criminal justice system.

Kortney A. Carr, LCSW, LSCSW, is an Associate Professor of Practice and Ph. D. student at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. Within her teaching, she focuses on assisting MSW students build advanced, competent, multi-system skills while infusing DEI, and social justice into every MSW course taught. Her scholarly interests include the health and well-being of Black men with trauma experiences. As the interests of Black men are often stereotyped or invisible, goals of her work and research include engaging Black men in research and amplifying their voices and experiences due to the unique challenges that they face.

Becci Akin is Associate Professor and PhD Program Director at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare. Her research focuses on understanding successful implementation and effective and equitable interventions for families involved in child welfare. Dr. Akin collaborates with public and private child welfare agencies on a variety of efforts to develop, implement, and evaluate evidence-informed/supported interventions that aim to improve child and family outcomes. She has served as principal/co-principal investigator on multiple federally-funded studies, including initiatives for trauma-informed child welfare services, court-led strategies, and strengths-oriented parenting interventions. Dr. Akin publishes and presents nationally and internationally on her work.

Mothers Who Receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: A Citizenship Accounting Jessica Toft, PhD, MSW, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Jessica Toft is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, School of Social Work where she chairs the Project on the Impacts of Neoliberalism on Social Work Practice in Minnesota. Her research, informed by critical race theory, feminist political economic theory, and democratic political philosophy, critically analyzes social welfare history, social policy, the social work profession, and social work practice. In 2020, she has published on these topics in Social Service Review, Social Work, and the Journal of Social Work Education. She is a former president of the Minnesota Chapter of National Association of Social Workers.

Coercion and Institutional Racism in the Evolving Mental Health System: Social Workers as both the Problem and the Solution Melissa Murphy, LCSW, PhD Candidate, College of Social Work at Florida State University

Melissa Murphy is a social work Ph.D. candidate at Florida State University. Melissa’s research examines the cognitive processes involved in social workers’ judgments and decisions around clinical depression. Melissa is particularly interested in applying clinical judgment and decision-making theories to illuminate diagnostic and treatment inconsistencies and/or disparities noted in the mental health literature. Before her doctoral studies, Melissa worked as a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in a variety of mental health practice settings; these experiences continue to inform her research. Melissa recently co-published an op-ed about the problem of implicit biases in the helping professions.

Panel 4: Agents of Segregation: Social Workers and Urban Spaces 11:30-1:00pm PST | 2:30-4:00pm EST

§ Gentrification and the History of Power and Oppression of Older African Americans

in Washington DC: Looking through a Social Welfare and Housing Policy Lens

Robert Cosby § The Response of School Social Work to Racial Segregation and Desegregation in

American Public Schools

Samantha Guz § Unveiling Racist Ideologies: W.E.B. Du Bois, the College Settlement, and

Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward

Stephanie Boddie and Amy Hillier

Discussant: Sandra Crewe

Author Biographies: Gentrification and the History of Power and Oppression of Older African Americans in Washington DC: Looking through a Social Welfare and Housing Policy Lens Robert Cosby, MSW, PhD, Professor, Howard University School of Social Work

Robert L. Cosby, Jr., PhD, MSW, MPhil is Assistant Dean of Administration, an Associate Professor, and Director of the Howard University School of Social Work Multidisciplinary Gerontology Center. The Center serves in three areas, research, community service and training. Dr. Cosby is a gerontologist and a policy specialist. Currently, Dr. Cosby teaches Social Welfare Policy and Services; Community Organization; Human Services Administration; and Race, Class and Gender. He has interests in Social Isolation and Older Persons; Racism; HIV-AIDs, Spirituality and Health Care Disparities and Inequalities. He has worked in Health and Human Services at the local, State and Federal levels with over twenty years of experience in health, public health, Medicaid, and Long-Term Care initiatives.

The Response of School Social Work to Racial Segregation and Desegregation in American Public Schools Samantha Guz, MSSW, LSW, Doctoral Student, University of Chicago

Samantha Guz is a doctoral student at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include public education, gendered Whiteness, school social work as well as critical feminist research and practice. Her current work is focused on alternative high schools and gendered Whiteness within the profession of social work. Samantha received a B.S. in psychology and sociology from Texas A & M University and a Master’s of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas at Austin, with a concentration in clinical practice. Samantha is a practicing social worker in Chicago, currently working with community-based youth-serving organizations.

Unveiling Racist Ideologies: W.E.B. Du Bois, the College Settlement, and Philadelphia’s Seventh Ward Stephanie Boddie, MSW, PhD, Assistant Professor, Baylor University and Amy Hillier, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Stephanie Clintonia Boddie, MSW, PhD, is an assistant professor of Church and Community Ministries with affiliations at the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, the George W. Truett Theological Seminary, and the School of Education at Baylor University. Boddie’s research explores congregation-based social services and trends in faith-based initiatives as well as social entrepreneurial approaches to address disparities in wealth, health, and food insecurity. Her most recent project is multimodal research exploring our unfinished business related to race. She is co-director of the research, teaching and public history project, The Ward: Race and Class in Du Bois’ Seventh Ward.

Dr. Amy Hillier, MSW, PhD, is an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Social Policy & Practice and holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Department of City & Regional Planning. She teaches courses on racism and geographic information systems (GIS). Her research has explored geographic disparities in health and housing with specific attention to historical mortgage redlining, access to healthful foods, park use, and exposure to outdoor advertising. Her most recent research focuses on transgender children and youth and their families. With Dr. Boddie, she co-directs The Ward: Race and Class in Du Bois’ Seventh Ward.

CLOSING AND LESSONS LEARNED 1:00-1:30PM PST | 4:00-4:30PM PST

Laura S. Abrams, University of California, Los Angeles,

Luskin School of Public Affairs