Steps for Social Workers on an Anti-Oppressive Advocacy Journey
Through our code of ethics, social workers are tasked with engaging in advocacy work. However, is our advocacy work grounded in an anti-oppressive framework? How can social workers create change with and for clients? Great clinical work includes strong advocacy for and with individuals and families. The best community programs and education systems include the voice of the community and make them heard to those who make the decisions. Advisory Councils, Empowerment Support Groups, and Collective Movements can make a huge difference to an organization and make it more effective. This program will provide steps for social workers to reflect and grow upon their advocacy practices for client populations in an anti-oppressive framework.
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define anti-oppressive advocacy work
- Evaluate and analyze if they are using a deficit mindset around advocacy
- Name ways to include and incorporate the community in advocacy work
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Time: 11:00am-1:00pm EST | 10:00am-12:00pm CST
Cost: $30
This program was approved by the National Association of Social Workers – Tennessee Chapter for 2.0 continuing education units
* Zoom details will be emailed to registrants on the morning of the event. This event is live and will not be recorded.
For alumni, field instructor, and faculty/staff discount codes, please email cswcep@utk.edu. Students: A limited number of discount codes are available for you—please contact your program staff member for access. One discount allowed per purchase.
- UTCSW Alumni: 25%
- UTCSW Field Instructors: 50%
- UTCSW Faculty/Staff and PhD/DSW students: 100%
- UTCSW BSSW/MSSW students: 100% (limited number available)
Please email cswcep@utk.edu with any questions, including those related to accessibility. There is space in the registration form to indicate accommodations required. Please allow adequate time for accessibility arrangements to be made.
To request a refund, please email cswcep@utk.edu. Full refunds will be granted up to 48 hours prior to the event. In the event this program is cancelled, full refunds will be issued to all registrants.
About the presenter
Lyrica Fils-Aimé, LCSW-R, RPT-S (She/Hers) Lyrica identifies as a cis-hetero, Black, Haitian, non-disabled, mixed adventurer. Lyrica is a therapist, private practice owner and non-profit leader who facilitates workshops about decolonizing leadership and healing justice, specializes in ways collectives can build care into systems while acknowledging harmful histories, and teaches clients to develop new narratives of ancestral wisdom as healing. She earned her BA from University of Richmond, MSW from NYU, and an MS in Nonprofit Leadership from Fordham University and has a registered play therapist-supervisor credential.
Lyrica has authored a childhood Racial Justice Curriculum for Sesame Street, Where We Go Wrong in Equity Work for NYU’s VUE journal, Ancestral Trauma, Wisdom & Resilience for Psychotherapy.net and writes The Gift of [Anti-Racist] Therapy for Psychology Today. She has most recently written a chapter in Supervision Can Be Playful titled Multicultural Supervision: Building Culturally Responsive Play Therapists. Lyrica has also published a Haitian children’s book titled T se pou TapTap to help the Haitian children in her life access the Kreyòl language.