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 Presented by our B.O.L.D. Committee:

B.O.L.D. Continuing Education is a dynamic means to engage social workers around systemic racism in our field and the impact that it has on the clients that we serve. This opportunity for continuing education empowers practitioners to exercise their clinical skills in mental health service delivery, while having difficult conversations about vaccine hesitancy with clients. In the process we will explore the intersectionality of race, culture, gender expression, justice, community economics, immigration status, spirituality, and more. In this specially curated webinar, we will provide actionable steps for professionals and students to engage in social work practice while acknowledging the underpinnings of institutionalized racism and trauma in client communities. Moreover, we will engage in strategies to discuss vaccine hesitancy in regards to client mental health and for clinicians and students in the parallel process.

In this 2-hour virtual workshop participants will have the opportunity to develop a safe space through community contracting. Participants will gain insight into the varied discussions, perceptions and attitudes regarding vaccine hesitancy, such as fear of immigration status being revealed, disparity in health care, and systemic mistrust in the midst of the pandemic.

We will explore and address the implications that racial reckoning and environmental degradation have on attitudes about vaccine hesitancy. Participants will complete the program equipped with tools for navigating difficult conversations around mental health and vaccine hesitancy in BIPOC communities and tools for their own self-care on the journey. Moreover, participants will be equipped with strategies for community organizing and advocacy in advancing large scale mental health supports in regards to vaccine hesitancy in communities of color and immigrant communities.

With this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Explore their continuum of identities through self-reflective, interactive activities and engage in exercises dedicated to the importance of practicing self-care, self-reflection and fostering a mental health support network for clinicians and students especially those practicing in BIPOC and marginalized communities amidst the parallel process of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Explore perceptions and attitudes regarding vaccine hesitancy, such as fear of immigration status being revealed, disparity in health care, and systemic mistrust in the midst of COVID-19 in marginalized communities.
• Identify at least one (1) strategy to engage clients around grief and loss related to COVID-19 in communities of color and marginalized communities.
• Identify at least one (1) strategy to engage clients around mental health in regards to vaccine hesitancy in BIPOC and marginalized communities.
• Identify at least (1) strategy to exercise community organizing and advocacy in social work practice around mental health and vaccine hesitancy in communities of color and marginalized communities.

NASW-NYC Member: $38 | Other Chapter Member: $48 | Non-Member: $57

2 SW CE Contact Hours

Pia J. Raymond, LMSW earned a B.A. in psychology from Boston University and an MSW from New York University as an honors graduate, Lucretia Jett Phillips fellow and Nia Award recipient. Her NYU Social Work Study in Puerto Rico especially equipped her for practice within diverse Spanish speaking communities. Working with cultural humility, Pia has deeply engaged children and families through social work practice at the Jewish Board of Family and Children’s Services and the New York City Mission Society.

As a community and political activist, Pia ran for NYC Council in 2017 and continued community organizing through leadership in several civic organizations. A champion for literacy with an emphasis on social emotional learning, Pia’s notable children’s book, Celebrate Smiles teaches self-esteem, love and thankfulness. She founded Creating Legacies, a nonprofit organization inspiring community building through nurturing entrepreneurs and offering families diverse social and educational experiences. 

As a speaker, Pia engages diverse audiences around race and cultural humility, political agency, collective trauma and healing, and the importance of self-care. She continues to share her expertise as a professor of social work at NYU Silver with a particular emphasis on the needs of immigrant communities and those reflective of the African Diaspora.

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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

All refund requests must be submitted by e-mail to accounting.naswnyc@socialworkers.org. Refund e-mails must include the subject line "Refund Request" as well as the attendee's name, workshop date and title in the body of the e-mail. Valid requests must be received no later than three business days prior to course date. NASW-NYC reserves the right to refuse any refunds requested later than three days prior to the course date.

• All refunds are subject to a 30% 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.

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

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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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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.