Presenter: Mark Laster, LCSW-R and Adeline Medeiros, LMSW
For the initial lecture in the series, the focus will be some basic skills for social workers to begin to politically engage. After introductions and an overview of the course, there will be a small group break out to discuss reasons why political engagement is important.
There will then be a lecture about the history of social work political engagement with a power point presentation provided. After this presentation, there will be a small group discussion on the Political Engagement within Nonprofits and Mapping Out Engagement.
The workshop will conclude with a lecture and discussion: How can social workers be politically engaged? A pretest will be emailed out prior to the beginning of the workshop to facilitate a more targeted course and then a post test will be distributed at the end of the workshop.
Presenter: Joan Serrano Laufer, LMSW and Harry Schiffman, LMSW
For the second lecture in the series, the focus will be on reinforcing skills for political engagement; translating social work skills to the political process; and how to engage in civic and political institutions. After introductions and a review of why social workers should be engaged in the political process, there will be a discussion of the skills required to engage in the political process, showing how social workers already possess some if not all these skills.
There will be a small group activity entitled, “Mapping Out Engagement” where there will be case scenarios presented to give participants an opportunity to develop an action plan utilizing the skills discussed.
The workshop will conclude with a presentation regarding specific community institutions that can serve as beginning steps to civic and political engagement (e.g., getting appointed to a community board, joining a local political club) and then a review of steps required to run for political office and/or to be appointed to or run for civic office.
Presenter: Alicia Fry, LMSW and Glen Ladner, LCSW
For the third lecture in the series, the focus will be on real life examples of political engagement. After introductions, there will be a presentation by a well-known social worker(s) reviewing the steps they took to be involved in the political process; what their successes were through this involvement and recommendations on how today’s social workers can learn from these experiences.
Additionally, this workshop will focus on expanding the borders of political engagement by sharing examples of how communities have organized to creatively modify their relationship to the “system”.
There will be a small group activity where specific real life cases of dealing with community concerns will be presented and participants views of the outcomes.
This workshop will conclude with a review of what was discussed in all three workshops and ideas on how participants can politically engage.
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