Agenda
8:30-8:45
Welcome and Introductions
Dr. Kathryne Leak & Cindy Bautista-Thomas
8:45-9:45
Keynote: Building Cultural Humility: Skills and Structures for Racial Justice Work in Schools
Drs. Madeline Pérez De Jesús, and Anthony De Jesús
9:45-10:55
Break
10:00-10:30
Clearing the Air: Holding a Dialogue about Social Injustice
Alyssa Martinez & Tonika Boston
10:30-11:30
Cultural Humility and Strategies for Practice: Considering the impact of personal and professional conflict that inform and/or impede our cultural competency
Leigh Jeremy Britton, Momentum Education
11:30-12:45
Lunch
CONFERENCE RESUMES AT COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK 1255 AMSTERDAM AVENUE
12:50-2:20
Workshop A 1- 14
| Ariana Allensworth & Sara Minsky | Photovoice: A tool for engaging in critical investigation | A-1 |
| Cristina Melendez | Understanding and Embracing Multicultural Parenting Practices | A-2 |
| Diana Franco | Why is My Classroom Unsafe? Addressing Strategies for Reflective Pedagogy | A-3 |
| Evelyn Bautista-Miller | The Process of Solidifying Presence & Support with Students, Families, Community and Within Your School Building | A-4 |
| Julie Lance & Ana Murphy | Exploring the Multifaceted Reasons Contributing to School Absenteeism and Truancy | A-5 |
| Latisha Torres | Mindfulness and Race: Using Mindfulness to address Implicit Bias | A-6 |
| Leticia Villarreal Sosa | Cultural Humility: An Opening Dialogue For Practice in the Schools | A-7 |
| Madeline Alers | Effective and Evidence-Based Family Engagement | A-8 |
| Moncia X. Thompson | “I’m not a problem student; this is what Black burnout looks like”: Incorporating therapeutic methods into the classroom to address racial battle/trauma fatigue with youth. | A-9 |
| Monica Joseph | Can Motivational Interviewing be a Tool of Cultural Humility? | A-10 |
| Monique Sierra & Valerie Morel | Planting Awareness: Cultivating Ourselves and our Schools | A-11 |
| S.J. Langer & D. M. Maynard | Embodied and Interpersonal Experiences of Gender Diverse Youth | A-12 |
| Sarah Strole | Lessons from Working with Unaccompanied Minors | A-13 |
| Wendy S. Murad, Yeddi Park, Joan Petralia Greenberg, & Oana Scholl | Supporting ELL students: The role of school social workers | A-14 |
2:20-2:30
Break
2:30-4:00
Workshop B – 15-28
| Aisha Smith | How to Have Courageous Conversations | B-15 |
| Andrea Vazquez | Building Cultural Humility: Social Work in Schools | B-16 |
| Cristina Melendez | Understanding and Embracing Multicultural Parenting Practices | B-17 |
| Diana Feldman & Alicia Thompson | Casting the “Bad Student”: Using Theatre to Understand Our Assumptions | B-18 |
| Evelyn Bautista-Miller | The Process of Solidifying Presence & Support with Students, Families, Community and Within Your School Building | B-19 |
| Julia Colangelo | Mindfulness for the School Social Worker: Acknowledging yourself | B-20 |
| Julie Lance & Ana Murphy | Exploring the Multifaceted Reasons Contributing to School Absenteeism and Truancy | B-21 |
| Mariana Badillo | School Social Work and its Ethical Challenges | B-22 |
| Moncia X. Thompson | “I’m not a problem student; this is what Black burnout looks like”: Incorporating therapeutic methods into the classroom to address racial battle/trauma fatigue with youth. | B-23 |
| Monica Joseph | Can Motivational Interviewing be a Tool of Cultural Humility? | B-24 |
| S.J. Langer & D.M. Maynard | Embodied and Interpersonal Experiences of Gender Diverse Youth | B-25 |
| Shoshana Brown & Elana Blank | Student Created, Student Centered: A story of LGBT student power | B-26 |
| Steve Goodman, Kathy Marshall-Polite & Deborah Elsenhout | A Lesson on Cultural Humility: Learning With and From Students in Temporary Housing | B-27 |
| Tonika Boston | “Is this job really for me?” – Racial Trauma and social workers of color in educational settings | B-28 |
4:00-5:00
Reception
