The SSW Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is excited to welcome everyone back for the Winter 2020 semester! Hopefully you all are feeling rejuvenated and looking forward to a new year.
Check out this month's newsletter to learn more about some of the upcoming DEI related activities for January in the SSW.
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21 Day Equity Challenge
January 6 - January 26
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Join us in kicking off of the
21-Day Equity Challenge
in a commitment to deepening your understanding of and willingness to confront racism for 21 consecutive days.
During every morning of the Challenge, you'll receive an email "prompt" with readings, videos and/or podcasts.
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Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Symposium Activities
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2020 Theme: The (Mis)Education of US
Be involved in one of the largest University celebrations honoring the life and work of Dr. King.
Attend, lectures, exhibitions, workshops and community service projects, throughout campus from January through March.
Throughout the entire month of January, the MLK Symposium provides the community with over 40 opportunities to participate in lectures, live performances, exhibits, workshops and community service projects sponsored by academic and non-academic units, student and staff organizations and community groups.
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Monday,
January 20, 2020
10 - 11:30 AM
Hill Auditorium
Angela Davis has been deeply involved in movements for social justice around the world, through her activism and scholarship over many decades. Her work as an educator – both at the university level and in the larger public sphere – has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice.
Doors open at 9:30 am. Free and open to the public, not ticketed.
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Monday, January 20, 2020
1 - 3 PM
University Hospital Dow Auditorium - Towsley Center
Dr. White-Newsome is a senior program officer at The Kresge Foundation, responsible for the Environment Program's grant portfolio on Climate Resilient and Equitable Water Systems (CREWS). She is a researcher on climate, health, and equity, and is also a core team member of Kresge's Climate Change, Health and Equity Initiative, supporting grantmaking across the public health sector. Dr. White-Newsome earned her PhD from the University of Michigan School of Public Health.
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020
12 - 2 PM
1840 SSWB
This session will explore themes presented in Tawana Petty’s book Towards Humanity: Shifting the Culture of Anti-Racism Organizing. Through a lecture and panel discussion, the presenter will explore pressing issues facing antiracist organizing and her vision and approach to a humanistic philosophy.
Following the lecture, the speaker will moderate a panel with Detroit based organizers navigating questions, themes, and challenges in ant-racist organizing the role of humanism and other guiding philosophical principles toward change.
This event is co-sponsored by the Community Action and Social Change Minor Program, SSW Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Semester in Detroit Program.
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Join the Social Justice Dialogue Program!
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This Winter, students have an opportunity to engage in the Social Justice Dialogue Program. Over the course of six weeks in the program, participants will learn dialogue skills, reflect on social identity, gain skills for navigating difference, and engage in ongoing dialogue utilizing the topic of Mass Incarceration in the U.S. Dialogue is a useful tool that all social workers will benefit from having in their tool belt to engage people at all levels and to advocate within systems.
This six-week program provides MSW students an opportunity to select from one of two ongoing dialogues for two hours each week.
Winter 2020 Dialogue Groups
Topic: Mass Incarceration in the U.S.
Dialogue Group #1: Mondays 12-2 PM
MSW Dialogue Co-Facilitators: Trevor Little & Jamie Simmons
Dialogue Group #2: Tuesdays 5:30-7:30 PM
MSW Dialogue Co-Facilitators: Chidimma Ozor & Cecelela Tomi
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Call to Action - Black Excellence Display
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Let's Celebrate Black Excellence!
In celebration of Black History Month, the DEI Office will highlight the contributions of students, staff and faculty that are doing work within the Black/African-American community. The DEI Office will compile your submissions and display the achievements within the SSW.
Please submit your nominations by
Monday, January 27, 2020. Please include a photo and a brief description of their contributions. Self-nominations are welcomed.
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Resources for Social Workers
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This guide was created as part of an independent study project for SW 556 during the Fall 2019 semester by UM MSW students. This guide compiles informational resources to educate ourselves about various identities, as well as strategies for approaching inequity. While it is currently organized by separate identities, the importance of intersectionality is recognized as a framework where multiple intersecting positionalities influence how we navigate the world.
This is a living document that will evolve over time and we hope you will use this document to both learn AND to contribute resources around topic areas where you have lived experiences and knowledge to share.
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