How Can Social Workers Help Reimagine Community Safety? A Virtual Town Hall

8/25/2020

When: Tuesday, August 25, 2020
From 5:30-7 pm
Where:   
United States

Event Details
  How Can Social Workers Help Reimagine Community Safety? A Virtual Town Hall

Tuesday, August 25, 2020. 5:30-7pm

NASW-Michigan invites social workers to our third community forum to dialogue on the intersection of social work and racial justice. This conversation will focus on social works’ potential role with community safety and how we can reimagine a system that works for all.
  Social workers can be agents of change in efforts around deflection and diversion and lead the way for more effective community safety that promotes communities with resources for mental health, housing, education, and is inclusive of social workers, restorative justice and more.

Bring your recommendations and dreams of what could be? 
Free for all to attend! Click here if you would like to attend, but not get CE credits.  https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUpdeCoqj4qHNe-Zy6avf0gee1_tr_C8MWe
1.5 CEs also available ($15 for NASW members, $25 for future members). Please register at the link above to receive CE credits (you will be emailed the Zoom meeting link once you've registered)

Panelists:
    Senator Stephanie Chang, MSW. District 1 Kimberly Buddin Esq. Policy Counsel, ACLU Michigan Derrick Jackson, MSW. Director of Community Engagement, Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office Sheryl Kubiak, PhD. Dean of Wayne State University's School of Social Work Algeria Wilson, MSW. Director of Public Policy, NASW-Michigan
Tentative Agenda:
    Introductions Moment for Lives Lost
    Purpose of Call/Addressing Issue in Historical Context of Policing What NASW is Working on Related CJ Reform and Racial Injustice Ideas on How Racial Injustice and Police Reforms Could be Addressed Legislatively What has Worked and is Working in Michigan to Address CJ Reform and Racial Injustice with Policy and behavioral health models Other potential questions:
      Can work to put money back into the community via support systems and safety initiatives? If so how? Envisioning social workers in partnership with police in order to deflect individuals from jail. Is this something we need? Is this abolition focused? Should we as social workers, practitioners etc be focused on abolition? Is there a need to work more internally as a profession on our own implicit bias
    Social Work Community Questions Announcements for LEAD: October 29th Wrap Up and Close