What's Always Been at Stake:
Examining the Impact of the Socio-Political Climate on the Social Work Practice
VIRTURAL WORKSHOP
This event will not be recorded.
Content from this LIVE WEBINAR will not be available at a later date. You will need to attend this event on the scheduled date and at the scheduled time.
Presenter: Lee Westgate, MSW, MBA, LCSW-C, LCSW
Sign-in/Registration: 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm (CT)
Workshop: 5:30 pm – 8:45 pm (CT)
Cost: Member - $50.00/ Non-member - $80.00
3.0 CEUs
Please note that NASW-Iowa Chapter charges a $25.00 administrative fee for all cancellations.
Program Description:
The exponential rise in harmful and overtly discriminatory bills in state legislatures across the country coupled with efforts to erode the fundamental rights and freedoms of historically marginalized people continues to harm population-wide health and wellbeing. There remain relentless efforts to compromise individual legal and human rights as evidenced in the systematic targeting of structurally vulnerable populations to include people of color, LGBTQIA+ people, and children. Social workers practice at what has become a complex intersection evidence-based, bio-ethical practice and politically motivated interference in and the delivery of care. Parallel to this, the social work profession must continue to work toward embracing an anti-oppressive approach to practice through reckoning with its own problematic professional roots. This session will examine the phenomenon of criminalization of social care and underscore the critical need for political action by the social work profession.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this presentation, attendees will be able to:
- Provide an overview of the unique social and legal challenges faced by social workers within this current socio-political environment.
- Highlight key ethical challenges related to the provision of care to include the interplay of practice, legal, and cultural ethics.
- Recognize the critical roles that social workers must play in social and political advocacy.
- Employ strategies to enhance individual and macro-based advocacy aimed at ensuring justice and equity in the delivery of care.
Relevant NASW Ethical Codes:
- 5.01 Integrity of the Profession
- 6.01 Social Welfare
- 6.02 Public Participation
- 6.04 Social and Political Action
Lee Westgate, MSW, MBA, LCSW-C, LCSW (he/ him/ his) is a transgender advocate with extensive professional experience in social work policy, practice, research, and education. He has held numerous organizational leadership roles and has served as an educational consultant to a variety of associations and organizational clientele. He has served as a medical social worker in the fields of oncology, critical care, as well as in integrated behavioral health settings. Mr. Westgate has participated in a CSWE-sponsored National Trauma Task Force workgroup that focused on the intersection of ethics and trauma-informed practice and he was awarded an immersion fellowship through Boston University to study addiction and behavioral health. He has participated in AIDS Education and Training Center on behalf of the University of Maryland, School of Social Work, Baltimore, MD since 2017 and participated in the MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Workgroup on COVID and HIV. Mr. Westgate continues to serve as a Clinical Instructor at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work and his scholarship includes integrated behavioral health, clinical work with LGBTQIA+ populations, working with individuals with chronic and life-threatening illness, healthcare policy, and health equity. He has been published in The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, The Social Worker, The Journal of Employee Assistance,
NOTE ON ACCOMMODATIONS: If you require accommodations to permit your attendance or participation, please email a written request to education.naswia@socialworkers.org along with a completed registration form and event payment at least 30 days before the event begins. It may not be possible to timely process requests received after this deadline.
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