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Despite the large number of children and families affected by incarceration, there has been very limited research conducted to explore the effects of parental incarceration on children and, in particular, the role that anti-black racism has on treatment practice. Literature finds that parental incarceration is associated with numerous negative effects for children such as increased likelihood of future criminal justice system involvement, educational under-attainment, dropout, and grade failure, and significant feelings of shame and stigmatization. Many children impacted by parental incarceration experience complex trauma through repetitive exposure to traumatizing events that are compounded by poverty and racism, and the loss of a parent or family member to incarceration adds additional levels of discrimination, often in the forms of stigmatizing behaviors derived from discriminatory stereotypes. 

The presentation will cover the best practices for working with children of incarcerated parents, including the use of trauma-focused evidence-based treatment modalities in responding to parental incarceration as a major traumatic event in the lives of children. The facilitators will provide practitioners with a comprehensive discussion around the historical oppression, specifically of children of incarcerated parents, by defining “anti-blackness” within the realm of social services from a micro, mezzo, and macro-practice level to enhance therapeutic relationships for practitioners treating children of incarcerated parents. Furthermore, the course will utilize an anti-oppressive lens by contextualizing present-day parental incarceration within the political history of mass incarceration in the United States.

With this workshop, participants will learn how to:

• Understand historical oppression and mass incarceration through the lens of anti-blackness in clinical practice on a micro, mezzo, and macro level
• Identify parental incarceration as a newly recognized form of trauma and the post-traumatic symptoms exhibited by children of incarcerated parents
• Speak to the efficacy of evidence-based and evidence-informed treatment models, including trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), trauma systems therapy, narrative therapy and community psychiatry as best practices for clinical treatment with children of incarcerated parents
• Develop an increased capacity to interrupt the profound impact of mass incarceration on children, families, and communities and identify the skills necessary to target and dismantle anti-blackness in clinical practice
• Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of mass incarceration on clinical services, supervision and social work and mental health education programs 

NASW Member: $120 | Non-Member: $210

6 SW/LMFT Contact Hours

Dr. Morgan-Mullane, LCSW-R serves as Vice President of Mental Health Services for Children of Promise, NYC (CPNYC) where she conducts an extensive training program that allows everyone to gain critical culturally responsive therapeutic skills needed to support children impacted by parental incarceration. Dr. Morgan-Mullane is also an adjunct lecturer in the NYU Silver School of Social Work where she teaches a course she developed on the intersectionality of criminal justice reform and mental health implications for those impacted by mass incarceration.

In 2012, Dr. Morgan-Mullane supported her CEO Ms. Sharon Content in the successful establishment of the first Article 31 mental health clinic in the United States for children of incarcerated parents at CPNYC. Dr. Morgan-Mullane has also developed clinical policies and practice guidelines and launched an evidence-based treatment model which includes the employment of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Narrative Therapy, complex trauma systems theory, and Mitigation Practices, which are all at the forefront of trauma-informed clinical practices for children of incarcerated parents. With over a decade of clinical practice, Dr. Morgan-Mullane’s work explores the intersection of clinical social work, social policy, and criminal justice. 

Joshua Ware, LMSWis a clinical social worker for Mental Health Services Corp. and is placed at SUNY Downstate’s Family Health clinic. Mr. Ware’s focus is on dismantling the stigma of depression and anxiety within the Black/Caribbean community in order to foster healing and self-love, and his work primarily involves psychotherapy with adults who would not be able to afford mental health services otherwise. Mr. Ware has also done meso and macro work around dismantling the system of hyper incarceration through co-creating a curriculum for a college level course at Sing Sing Correctional Facility as well as co-creating MICS (Mass Incarceration Conversation Series) events.

Mr. Ware has presented his work around dismantling anti-blackness in social work with Children of Promise, at NASW-NYC Chapter’s Annual Conference as well as the National Conference in D.C., and has also co-conducted training for nonprofits.

Paul Silverman, LMSW is a clinical social worker at the Children of Promise, NYC Wellness Center. His focus area is the trauma-focused psychotherapeutic treatment of children and families impacted by incarceration. Through a holistic treatment approach that encompasses clinical practice alongside policy and legal-advocacy work and case management support, Mr. Silverman’s work with children impacted by incarceration provides a breadth of environmental support aimed at breaking cycles of intergenerational mass incarceration.

Mr. Silverman’s work with incarcerated populations began as a writing tutor in the Wesleyan University’s college in prison program, following which he continued his work in education as a teacher in the Brooklyn school system. 

NASW-NYC Refund Policy

All refund requests must be submitted by e-mail to workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org. Valid requests must be received no later than five days prior to course date. NASW-NYC reserves the right to refuse any refunds requested later than five days prior to the course date.

All refunds are subject to a $20.00 administrative processing fee.

Refund requests typically require 1-2 weeks processing time.

Refunds ONLY. Credit cannot be issued toward a future program date or substituted for another workshop.