April 6, 2022
2:00-3:30pm CST
Zoom Webinar
1.5 CEU's available for LCSW/LSW and LCPC/LPC
This lecture addresses social injustices and systemic racism inherent within the child welfare system, inclusive of a discussion that provides nuance to the narrative about child neglect, race, and poverty-related to the social impacts on Black families. There is a salient and warranted distrust of social service systems among those with histories of structural oppression, discrimination, and racism. The distrust is based on histories of social and economic disenfranchisement, and racially disproportional Child Welfare System (CWS) oversight, thus impacting viable parental choices and behaviors. The lived experiences and voices of CWS-impacted Black moms is an overlooked or unacknowledged evidence base useful to all baseline primary prevention efforts. This lecture furthers the conversation by centering the lived experiences of stigmatizing oversight with acknowledgment of structurally racist system-level barriers to parenting and highlighting ways in which families have agency in determining what works for them.
Presenter: Darcey Merritt, Associate Professor, NYU Silver School of Social Work
Register: https://socialwork.illinois.edu/news/15th-annual-brieland-visiting-scholar-lecture/
