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his interactive virtual workshop will begin with a personal and professional reflexive experience. Participants will receive foundational definitions of pertinent concepts, as well as the tenants of the AOP, Anti-Oppressive Practices, framework. Participants will receive information on the role of social identities and assumptions in social practice. During small break out group responses to case studies, participants will interact with peers and colleagues for best practice responses using the AOP framework. There will be an exploration of best practices for inclusive and AOP to minimize and mitigate ruptures during social work practice. This workshop will conclude with a final personal and professional reflective experience.

This workshop meets the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners requirements for 3 Anti-Oppression CEUs.

 

Workshop Objectives / Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants should be able to:

• Define foundational definitions of pertinent terminology and concepts such as assumptions/implicit biases, cultural competence/humility, microaggressions, and social identities, and the role they play in social work practice.

• Describe the tenants of the AOP framework.

• Explore one’s own social identities, as they relate to personal and professional experiences, to better understand how to use oneself and one’s own identities during social work practice.

• Implement the tenants of the AOP framework during their own social work practices.
 

Speaker Biography

Shari L. Robinson (she/her) is the sole proprietor for The Traveling Diversity Professor which, for nearly three decades, has developed and provided strategic and equity-based knowledge and skill building educational opportunities for non-profit organizations across the United States. With educational training and degrees in social work and anthropology, Shari was a professional social worker working, primarily, with older adults which included a private practice before retiring from direct practice. She also has decades of experience in higher education in full time and adjunct faculty roles developing and teaching social work and anthropology focused courses on anti-oppressive clinical practices, TBLGQIA+ and older adults. Additionally, she has held positions in faculty development, curriculum design, critical community service-learning, DEI, and Inclusive Excellence at universities and colleges in Michigan, Massachusetts and Minnesota, where she now resides.

 
If you have any questions, please email Kayleigh Poulsen