Happy Holidays from the GCSW!
From all of us at the GCSW...Happy Holidays!
Thank you staying connected with us this year. Enjoy the season! 😀
From Silenced to Empowered: Confronting white supremacy work culture and anti-Blackness using our lived experience
Marcus Stanley, Masonia Traylor, Dean Alan Dettlaff, Dr. Samira Ali, and Venita Ray will host a panel discussion and presentation on how they are confronting white supremacy work culture and anti-Blackness using their experience with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) as an example.
They will outline how organizations, such as non-profit, for-profit, governmental, and non-governmental organizations, can perpetuate White Supremacy Work Culture using Marcus’ experience with the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) as an example and provide a framework/example of how to support and advocate for Black staff. Additionally, we will present the presentation that was accepted by the 2020 Texas HIV/STD Conference and then rescinded by Texas DSHS leadership and provide tools to amplify the voices of the Black staff that have been silenced through the White fragility and systems of oppression and outline next steps for supporting the advocacy of Black Liberation moving forward.
upEnding the Child Welfare System: The Road to Abolition
Join the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) on Facebook and YouTube for two days of virtual conversations with organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders. During panel discussions and keynote addresses, we will begin to strategize innovative ways to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable solution for families in need.
On Wednesday, October 21st from 1-4PM ET, we will hear from two panels (followed by audience Q & A) featuring: Hon. William A. Thorne, Former Tribal and State Court Judge (Trial and Appellate), Facilitator; Abby Abinanti, Yurok Chief Judge; Cheryl Fairbanks; Priscilla Day; Kimm Campbell, Assistant County Administrator, Broward County; and Ned Breslin, Chief Executive Officer, Tennyson Center.
These presentations will occur LIVE on the Graduate College of Social Work's Facebook and YouTube pages Tuesday and Wednesday, October 20-21, from 1-4PM ET.
upEnding the Child Welfare System: The Road to Abolition
Join the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) and the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work (GCSW) on Facebook and YouTube for two days of virtual conversations with organizers, activists, scholars, and community leaders. During panel discussions and keynote addresses, we will begin to strategize innovative ways to create a society in which the forcible separation of children from their families is no longer an acceptable solution for families in need.
On Tuesday, October 20th from 1-4PM ET, we welcome Lisa Sangoi, Co-Founder and Co-Director, Movement for Family Power as our opening keynote speaker. We will also hear remarks from Alan Dettlaff, Dean of the GCSW as well as a lively panel discussion featuring Dr. Alan-Michael Graves, Director of National Programs, Good+Foundation; Tymber Hudson, Youth Organizer; and Joyce McMillan, Parent Advocate, and Founder, PLAN (Parent Legislative Action Network).
These presentations will occur LIVE on the Graduate College of Social Work's Facebook and YouTube pages on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 20-21, from 1-4PM ET.
Eyes on Abolition - Amplify Your Voice with Keynote Speaker Derecka Purnell
Join us on Facebook and YouTube for the second in our series of virtual events exploring abolition as a critical framework for change. Scholars, activists, and organizers will lead these community conversations about challenging systems and reimagining ways to achieve justice and liberation.
Human rights lawyer, writer, and organizer Derecka Purnell will give a keynote for the annual Amplify Your Voice event, our annual community forum offering information and informed analysis of social justice issues. She will share her work to end police and prison violence by providing legal assistance, research, and trainings to community based organizations through an abolitionist framework. The discussion will continue as she joins a panel of experts on criminal (in)justice (Liya Brown), child welfare (Kristen Weber), and immigration (Dr. Jodi Berger Cardoso) for a moderated discussion to examine those systems with respect to harm as well as highlighting efforts to reimagine how to address the societal problems those systems purport to address.
This presentation will occur LIVE on the Graduate College of Social Work's Facebook and YouTube page Friday, October 16th at 3:00 PM (CST)
SUBMIT A QUESTION
If you have a specific question about abolition as a critical framework for change OR a question you'd like to ask our speaker, please submit your question via the link below. All approved questions will be asked during the live event.
Q & A Link: http://bit.ly/EOAQandAAmplify
PLEASE SAVE THE DATE FOR THE FINAL EVENT OF THE SERIES
upENDing the Child Welfare System: The Road to Abolition
Tuesday, October 20th 12 - 3 PM (CST)
and Wednesday, October 21st 12 - 3 PM (CST)
DEREKA PURNELL | EYES ON ABOLITION
DERECKA PURNELL | EYES ON ABOLITION:
"A lot of the people who are organizing against police killings, particularly in the movement for Black lives and are connected to movements around the world, are looking at the historical foundations of policing in this country and they're exposing its origins and are saying, "Hey, these problems aren't necessarily new, they're just new manifestations and we have cameras.""
RSVP NOW for Amplify Your Voice with Derecka Purnell TOMORROW October 16 at 3PM CST as part of our Eyes On Abolition series: https://bit.ly/Abolition-GCSW2020
SUBMIT A QUESTION:
We want to hear from our community! If you have a question about abolition as a critical framework for change OR a question you'd like to ask our speaker, please submit your question here: http://bit.ly/EOAQandAAmplify
EYES ON ABOLITION
Join us on Facebook and Youtube for a three-part series of virtual events exploring abolition as a critical framework for change. Scholars, activists, and organizers will lead these community conversations about challenging systems and reimagining ways to achieve justice and liberation.
The first event will feature Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Professor, renowned activist, public scholar, and cofounder of many grassroots organizations, including Critical Resistance, she is the author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, & Opposition in Globalizing. She will lay the groundwork for an understanding of abolition for Social Justice Solutions event, our annual event which invites activists, thought leaders, and the community, to explore action-oriented strategies to affect social change.
This presentation will occur LIVE on the Graduate College of Social Work's Facebook and YouTube page Monday, October 5th at 3:00 PM (CST)
SUBMIT A QUESTION
If you have a specific question about abolition as a critical framework for change OR a question you'd like to ask our speaker, please submit your question via the link below. All approved questions will be asked during the live event.
Q & A Link: http://bit.ly/EOAQandA
Please SAVE THE DATE FOR OUR TWO REMAINING EVENTS
Amplify Your Voice - Keynote Derecka Purnell
Friday, October 16th @ 3 PM (CST)
upENDing the Child Welfare System: The Road to Abolition
Thursday, October 21 1 - 4 PM (CST)
and Friday, October 22 1 - 4 PM (CST)
RUTH WILSON GILMORE | EYES ON ABOLITION:
"Abolition is not simply decarceration--put everybody out on the street--it is reorganizing how we live our lives together in the world."
RSVP NOW for Social Justice Solutions with Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore tomorrow, October 5 at 3 PM CST as part of our Eyes On Abolition series: https://bit.ly/Abolition-GCSW2020
SUBMIT your questions for the event: https://bit.ly/EOAQandA
WATCH more of this interview between her and Democracy Now!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HWqYANmWLY
Ruth Wilson Gilmore-Interview
RUTH WILSON GILMORE | EYES ON ABOLITION:
"Prison abolition is a way of imagining a world in which interpersonal harm, economic need, social and health vulnerability are a thing of the past. Prison abolition is a way of imagining a world in which people don't solve problems by raising their hands at one another."
RSVP NOW for Social Justice Solutions with Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Monday, October 5 as part of our Eyes On Abolition series: https://bit.ly/Abolition-GCSW2020
SUBMIT your questions for Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore that you would like answered during the livestream: https://bit.ly/EOAQandA
WATCH more of this interview with Dr. Ruth on The Laura Flanders Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39Axc3FIu9A
DERECKA PURNELL | AMPLIFY YOUR VOICE
DERECKA PURNELL | AMPLIFY YOUR VOICE:
"The abolition and defunding conversation are being amplified so much because so many people are at home and they have room to pay attention to resist and they are mad that the demands we have put on the table have not being taken seriously. As long as people continue to listen and to imagine, all they need is the will power to implement the more transformational things we've been wanting."
RSVP NOW for Amplify Your Voice with Derecka Purnell on Friday, October 16 as part of our Eyes On Abolition series: https://bit.ly/Abolition-GCSW2020
WATCH more of this online conversation featuring Derecka Purnell and Frank Barat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eii5WqeOHlA
RUTH WILSON GILMORE | EYES ON ABOLITION:
"The relationship between slavery and race, race and unfreedom, unfreedom and labor is one that we constantly try to untangle and, at our peril, we ignore it but, also at our peril, we make it too simplistic because the complexity of it matters for what we do in the current moment to undo the catastrophe of mass incarceration.”
RSVP NOW for Social Justice Solutions with Dr. Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Monday, October 5 as part of our Eyes On Abolition series: https://bit.ly/Abolition-GCSW2020
WATCH this brief video from The Antipode Foundation featuring Ruth Wilson Gilmore discussing Geographies of Racial Capitalism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CS627aKrJI
DEAN'S SUMMER READ 2020 | REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS:
"I’m a lawyer, and my first introduction to the law was reading the Bill of Rights and my right to a jury of my peers as a 16-year-old and contemplating the fact that going to prison at 16 meant that there’s no way I would ever have a jury of my peers."
WATCH author Reginald Dwayne Betts as he discusses his history serving time in prison and finding his artistic voice on Amanpour and Company: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr3sJj78nT4
LEARN more about Reginald Dwayne Betts whose book "Felon" was chosen as one of this year's Dean's Summer Reads: https://bit.ly/deanssummer2020read
Dean Dettlaff and Kristen Weber discuss upEND movement to abolish the child welfare system as we know it.
Join us in wishing our fearless Dean @AlanDettlaff a Happy Birthday! 🎊
Here he is speaking truth to power about the racist origins of the #childwelfare system with Kristen Weber and Isiah Carey FOX 26 on the Isiah Factor.
Follow @upendmovement on Twitter to learn more about the movement to abolish the system as we know it.
DEAN'S SUMMER READ 2020 | REGINALD DWAYNE BETTS:
"The truth is I am also my brother. When you get into the world and to be an exceptional Negro, means you have to cast aside all the characteristics of the unexceptional Negro."
WATCH author Reginald Dwayne Betts read a selection from his collection of poems, "Felon" for Inprint's virtual event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYzh6cP7RAI&feature=youtu.be
LEARN more about Reginald Dwayne Betts whose book "Felon" was chosen as one of this year's Dean's Summer Read: https://bit.ly/deanssummer2020read
Conversations on COVID-19 featuring Marie Arcos, (MSW '96)
Conversations on COVID-19 continues as GCSW Dean Alan Dettlaff interviews Marie Arcos (MSW '96), Executive Vice President, Government and Community Affairs at YMCA OF GREATER HOUSTON about how the pandemic is influencing her work and the social work values and perspectives that inform his response.
Conversations on COVID-19 | Social Work & Social Justice Perspectives is a series of interviews featuring alumni of the UH Graduate College of Social Work who are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
RESPONDING TO RACISM:
"White Fragility" as defined by author Robin DiAngelo, PhD
HAPPENING NOW:
#Justice4GeorgeFloyd Houston protest. GCSW’s Dean, students, faculty, staff, and alumni represent!
#BlackLivesMatter
Conversations on COVID-19 featuring Casey Malish, (MSW '19)
Conversations on COVID-19 continues as GCSW Dean Alan Dettlaff interviews Casey Malish (MSW '19), Outreach Specialist at the Association for the Advancement of Mexican Americans, and Vice President, Houston Harm Reduction Alliance about how the pandemic is influencing his work and the social work values and perspectives that inform his response.
Conversations on COVID-19 | Social Work & Social Justice Perspectives is a series of interviews featuring alumni of the UH Graduate College of Social Work who are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 Quarantine Bingo
For better or worse, the stay at home order has expired in Texas.
So we want to know, how did you spend your quarantine? 🤔
Would you win at COVID-19 Quarantine Bingo? 🤣
COVID-19 Quarantine Bingo
FUN FRIDAY | COVID-19 Quarantine Bingo
For better or worse, the stay at home order has expired in Texas.
So we want to know, how did you spend your quarantine? 🤔
Would you win at COVID-19 Quarantine Bingo? 🤣
Conversations on COVID-19 | Social Work and Social Justice Perspectives featuring Melanie Toarmina Pang (MSW '12)
Conversations on COVID-19 | Social Work & Social Justice Perspectives is a series of interviews featuring alumni of the UH Graduate College of Social Work who are responding to COVID-19 pandemic.
GCSW Dean Alan Dettlaff interviews Melanie Toarmina Pang (MSW '12), Government Relations Officer at the Houston Food Bank about how they are responding to the pandemic and the social work values and perspectives that inform her work.
#SOCIALWORKMONTH | TBT GLOBAL JUSTICE 2019:
We're throwing it back to last year when students enrolled in Global Justice with Jody Williams and Aahba Brown held an outdoor project that sought to engage participants in a simulation experience called "DO U CARE?"
The goal of the simulation was to develop empathy for those attempting to cross the southern border as refugees.
#socialjusticeUH
HAPPENING NOW:
Closing out #BlackHistoryMonth with a screening of @FilmPushout with community partners Change Happens and the GCSW Association of Black Social Workers.
#socialjusticeUH
HAPPENING NOW | BLACK LIKE US 2020:
We’re very moved by the performance from these two dancers.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#socialjusticeUH
HAPPENING NOW | BLACK LIKE US 2020:
The singers and band just brought all the emotion to our standing room only audience.
We’re ready to hear Tarell Alvin McCraney speak shortly.
#socialjusticeUH
SELF CARE SUNDAY:
If we may, here's a little inspiration for your next Self Care Sunday courtesy of the GCSW reception at Council on Social Work Education #APM19.
Here we have two clear examples of:
a) Social workers dancing as self care. 💃🏽
b) Collective effervescence and joy as described by Prof Brené Brown
But we may need to confirm through more research next year at #APM20. :)
Thanks to all took part in our little soiree to celebrate social work scholarship, leadership, and contributions to the profession from our GCSW faculty, staff, students, and alumni AND our social work colleagues and collaborators.
Hope to see you again next year! You know, for research purposes. :)
ps. Stay tuned for additional news and pics from GCSW at #APM19
Today, students in Prof Jody Williams and Aabha Brown's Global Justice course want to know... Do U Care?
Today, students in Jody Williams and Aabha Brown's Global Justice course want to know, Do U Care?
Stay tuned for more on their on campus demonstration today from 10am=12pm.
WATCH the preview video: https://youtu.be/k-HdmMxhytM
#socialjusticeUH
ON ACHIEVING RACIAL JUSTICE:
In the next hour Patrisse Cullors will grace the stage to deliver the Day of Perspective keynote on her New York Times bestseller When They Call You A Terrorist, A #BlackLivesMatter memoir.
We will be sharing excerpts from the event, a collaboration with HCAH this evening.
#socialjusticeUH