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CLINICAL & COMMUNTY PRACTICE GRAND ROUNDS
Onaje Muid, MSW, LMHC, CASAC
Clinical Associate Director
Reality House, Inc.
Humanity at a New Threshold: Transcending Historical Trauma and Deconstructing The Power of Privilege
December 2, 2009
6:00-7:00pm Room C03
School of Social Work - 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
(between 121st & Morningside Drive)
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About the Presenter
As a social justice/human rights activist, Onaje Muid has a combined thirty four year history of community organizing, human services and human rights advocacy.
As a young adult he embraced the progressive Black Consciousness movements and used them as ideological canons to develop his role in the Black Liberation Movement. Malcolm X became the model for his development and the reason that he pursued the understanding of and commitment to human rights for African people. His human services career is directly linked to his human rights analysis, a relationship that he has lectured widely on, particularly how social services are in the fullest expression, a form of rehabilitation, one aspect of reparations.
His first human rights assignment was to serve as the Representative to United Nations for the non governmental organizations, International Human Rights Association for American Minorities. Later he served as the International Commissioner of N’COBRA from 1999 to 2002, a national grassroots reparations organization based in Washington, D.C. and chair of the Peoplehood Subcommittee of the Litigation Commission. As a NGO delegate to United Nations World Conference Against Racism in South African in 2001, Mr. Muid represented N’COBRA, the Malik Shabazz Human Rights Institute and the Coalition Against the War on Drugs.
His professional interest in trauma theory become crystallized in the early part of 2003 in the discovery of the work of Dr. Joy DeGruy Leary's research into post traumatic slavery syndrome and that of Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart's research on the topics historical trauma, historical trauma response and their transcendence. Both DeGruy Leary and Brave Heart influenced his thesis, "Then I lost my spirit: An Analytical Essay on Transgenerational Trauma Theory Applied to Oppressed People of Color Nations." He posits the concept of Nation Trauma Theory as an explanation of maladaptive social functioning in oppressed nations.
Mr. Muid is currently the clinical associated director of Reality House Inc. He holds a credentialed alcohol and substance abuse counselor by the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (O.A.S.A.S.) of New York State, a licensed mental health counselor, and a master’s degree in social work from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, School of Social Welfare. His Seminar in Field Instructions (S.I.F.I). was awarded by Columbia University, School of Social Work. He holds two post master’s certificates, one in trauma from Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health and the other from the National Association of Black Social Workers from the African Center Social Work Academy. He serves as a founding board member of Columbia University, School of Social Work, Community Collaborative Research Board; board member of the Association of Substance Abuse Providers of New York State; co-chair of the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) Talent Management Committee, Organization Culture and Work Experience (OWE) Subcommittee; and founding member of the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, Men of Color, NYC. He is also the co-founder of the Leadership Institute People of Color Advisory Group (NY/PA).
Mr. Muid has lectured throughout the Americas, Europe and Africa at United Nations, educational and community conferences on the topics of human rights, reparation, historical trauma and system transformation of human services. In June 2008, Mr. Muid was awarded the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment travel award to the College on Problems of Drug Dependence and the CSAT Satellite Session, Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS and other Infectious Diseases in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He believes in “Sankofa, standing on the shoulders of the ancestors and pay it forward”.
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