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In this session, we will explore how fatphobia plays a role in the field of social work, including how it intersects and has roots with racism. We will also identify opportunities for personal healing from fatphobia and accountability with the field of social work.

This session will first review the basics of fatphobia, including the definition, laws surrounding weight discrimination, and the internalized stigma associated with fatphobia. We will then discuss how the stigma is often erroneously disguised as a concern for health and how the stigma of fatphobia may impact the daily lives of ourselves and our clients. The second half of the session will focus on fatphobia’s root in anti-Blackness, what social workers can do in the face of fatphobia, and how we - as individuals and a profession - can heal from fatphobia.

With this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Know how fatphobia may be impacting their social work practice
• Examine the roots of fatphobia within racism
• Identify at least one opportunity for healing from the impacts of fatphobia
• Know how to hold the social work field accountable for the fatphobia it may perpetuate

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

2 SW CE Contact Hours

Jennifer Meyer, LMSW, MPH is a social worker and public health practitioner. Jenn’s work has focused on various issues related to public health including mass incarceration, gender-based violence, social determinants of health, and internally displaced persons. She is currently the Global Health Program Coordinator at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University School of Social Work, and a freelance writer and consultant. She also volunteers as an advocate for Mount Sinai’s Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program and serves on Manhattan Community Board 11.

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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.