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This webinar is provided in partnership with:

and is featured as an event in the first NASW-NYC Social Work Month Series.  

Please ensure that your e-mail is correct in registration as all correspondence for the webinar will be sent via e-mail. If you have not received any e-mails, please check your spam/junk folders first.

The New York City Commission on Human Rights (NYCCCHR) is charged with the enforcement of the Human Rights Law, Title 8 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, and with educating the public and encouraging positive community relations. 

In partnership with NYCCCHR, this free, two-hour webinar educates social work professionals on the legal protections and obligations under the NYC Human Rights Law. This presentation will provide an overview of the New York City Human Rights law along with the five areas covered under the law: employment, housing, public accommodations, discriminatory harassment and bias-profiling by law enforcement; as well as provide social work practitioners with the skills and resources to recognize and report instances of discrimination and harassment, including resources to assist clients through instances as such.

To request an assistive listening device, interpretation, or another accommodation, please email Christelle N. Onwu, MSW at conwu@cchr.nyc.gov by February 25th, 2021. 

With this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Have a general understanding of protections afforded under the NYC Human Rights Law to better assist clients or persons seeking services.
• Recognize discrimination, harassment, and bias when they occur in the areas covered by the law.
• Recognize the Commission as a resource available to clients or persons that have encountered discrimination, harassment, and/or bias.
• Guide clients and persons seeking services about the Commission’s complaint process and different ways to contact the Commission when discrimination in the areas of jurisdiction occur.

Free Webinar (as part of the NASW-NYC Social Work Month Series) 

2 SW CE Contact Hours

Christelle N. Onwu, MSW is the Director of Social Work Unit, Lead Advisor for African Diaspora Communities, and Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the New York City Commission on Human Rights. She was a 2017 graduate of the Coro Immigrant Civic Leadership Program (ICLP) and serves as an Adjunct Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, where she teaches courses on Justice in the Africana World and Environmental Racism in the Africana Department. She is a fierce advocate for under-served populations with a focus on African communities in New York City. Christelle is also a 2021 CUP NY Fellow. She earned her bachelor’s degree at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a Masters’ of Science in Social Work Policy at Columbia University School of School Work, where her article titled “Understanding Female Genital Cutting in the United Kingdom within Immigrant Communities” was published in the Social Work Review. She is a proud New Yorker, lives in the Bronx with her family, and hails from Cameroon. She is fluent in French, pidgin, and Eton.

Vanessa Ramos, Esq. is the Managing Director of Education and Compliance of NYC Commission on Human Rights. Prior to joining the Commission, she was the Sr. Director for Policy at the Committee for Hispanic Children and Families, focusing on bilingual education, quality childcare and immigrant rights. In 2013, she was awarded the Dr. Antonia Pantoja Bilingual Education Advocacy Award by the New York State Association for Bilingual Education (NYSABE). She was an international observer in elections in Ecuador and El Salvador. She studied at the University of Puerto Rico, obtaining a BA in Political Science and a juris doctor.

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NASW-NYC is happy to try and fulfill any reasonable special accommodations requests following NYS laws, submitted in writing to workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org at least  fifteen business days prior to the workshop date. Requests received after the deadline may not be able to be processed or fulfilled in time for the event.

NASW-NYC Certificates Policy

As per New York State Continuing Education guidelines, attendees must arrive on time and attend the ENTIRE workshop to receive their Continuing Education Contact Hours. Any attendees who arrive late or leaves early to a workshop will not receive their certificate, is not allowed admittance into the workshop and is also not eligible for a refund in any way. 

Please ensure that your registration information is accurate as this may impact your continuing education certificates.  NASW-NYC is not responsible for the accuracy of your registration information. To receive your certificate of completion, you must be present for the entire webinar and complete an evaluation.

NASW-NYC Refund Policy

As a free workshop, there is no refund policy for this webinar.

If the workshop is cancelled, you will be informed ahead of time.

NOTICE OF FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Please be advised that photography, and audio and video recording of participants at NASW-NYC events may occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to interview(s), photography, audio recording, and video recording (referred to as the “Recordings”) and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction for promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose reasonably related to the mission of the National Association of Social Workers.

You release NASW-NYC, its officers, employees and agents from any liability connected with such use of the Recordings and waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with such use of the Recordings. You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken by NASW-NYC or the person or entity designated to do so by NASW-NYC.

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For any questions or issues, please contact workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org

NASW New York City Chapter is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0027, and the Office of Addiction Services and Supports as an approved provider of CASAC credits #0288.