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• Diversity Book Meetup: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo

  • When
    Saturday, December 07, 2019
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    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    2312 Mount Vernon Ave Suite 201 Alexandria VA 22301
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  Date Change for Diversity Book Club Meeting: White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
  

  This event was mistakenly scheduled on the date of the Kassabian Conference.  The new date for this meetup is December 7, 2019 | 2:00-4:00. 

  Discussant: Tamara Pincus

  On behalf of the GWSCSW Diversity Committee meet-ups, you are invited to a discussion of White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo. We will explore issues around whiteness including why it is so hard for white people to own their experiences of racial privilege, how we can help white people become more open to accountability around things they may have said or done that are racist, and how we can identify white racial solidarity when it is enacted around us. We know that this discussion will not be comfortable but we will support each other through the difficult feelings that do come up.  Ideally, you’ll have read the book but if you didn’t get all the way through it’s OK. Come anyway.

  No cost to attend and snacks will be provided.

  Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414/ref=asc_df_0807047414/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312446862670&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=
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  Discussion Questions:

  1. What are some of the earliest racial messages you can recall?
  2. How have you seen white racial solidarity enacted around you or within you?
  3. What can you do to further your ability to talk about race and own the ways in which you have internalized society's racism? How can you learn to be less defensive and more accountable around these issues?

  Category: 2 | CEUs: 2.0
  

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• Social Work Licensing: DC, MD, VA (2019)

  • When
    Thursday, December 12, 2019
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    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Catholic University--Caldwell Hall 620 Michigan Ave. NE Washington , DC 20064
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  Description: 

  • Learn everything you want to know about social work licenses.
    
  • The information session will focus whats and hows of social work professional licensing.
    
  • The focus will mainly be for the three local jurisdictions but there will be general information for obtaining your license in other states/jurisdictions.
    
  • A Board representative from DC, MD, and VA will be present to answer your questions about general licenses, clinical licenses, as well as macro options.
    
  • We will have information to hand out as well as leave time for your individual questions.
    

  Other questions? Contact Melissa Grady:  grady@cua.edu

  CEU Credits: 2 Category ll
  

  OBJECTIVES:
  

  1. Participants will understand the rationale for licensing.
     
  2. Participants will understand and be able to access licensing information and know who to contact with questions.
     
  3. Participants will understand and be able to implement the process for obtaining licensure.
     
  4. Participants will understand and be able to implement the process for licensure renewal.
     
  5. Participants will understand and be able to implement the process for changing jurisdictions by endorsement or changing license levels.
     

  SPECIFIC AGENDA:

  10:00-10:20 Welcome, Introduction, Workshop Overview

  10:20-11:20 Panel Presentation

  11:20-11:55 Question/answer/discussion

  11:55-12:00 Wrap-Up

  A map showing the Caldwell Hall location can be found on the Catholic University website www.cua.edu. Refreshments will be served.
  

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• Executive Committee Meeting (December 2019)

  • When
    Sunday, December 15, 2019
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    RRUUC

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• Board Meeting (January 2020)

  • When
    Saturday, January 11, 2020
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    River Road Unitarian 6301 River Road Bethesda

  Full board meeting

  
  

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• Diversity Book Meet-up: The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker

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    Saturday, January 18, 2020
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    2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    9250 Limestone Place College Park, MD 20740
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  Host/Discussant: Nancy Harris

  Category: 2 | CEUs: 2.0
  

  On behalf of the Diversity Committee meet-ups you are invited to attend a discussion of The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker, book II of the Regeneration Triology. This book can be read alone and I can fill people in on any details that were covered in the first and third books of the trilogy. We will be exploring issues of gender, class and sexual identity in the context of this great anti-war novel, but generalized to our present time, as all of these issues are still with us. In addition to these issues so germane to our thoughts on diversity with ourselves and our clients, the book looks at the impact of childhood abuse, trauma recovery, and dissossiative states in an early example of psychotherapy, I encourage you to read the book (or the whole trilogy which isn’t long), but you are certainly welcome to join us if you haven’t read it.

  No cost to attend and snacks will be provided.

  Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Door-Pat-Barker/dp/0142180610

  Discussion Questions:

  1. It is clear in terms of events in the book how Billy’s symptoms are related to his war experiences. But how do we understand his symptoms in terms of class and sexual identity issues, as portrayed in the book?
  2. Billy at times struggles with his relationship to his therapist Dr. Rivers. How is their conflict related to class differences?
  3. Billy must hide aspects of his sexuality, both from his therapist, general society, and his fiancée Sarah. How does this affect him? How does this affect his recovery from PTSD?

  There are undoubtedly other questions that will arise as we talk. We might also think about how class differences are played out in our military.

  Finally we can think about our own and our client’s acceptance of our own and others’ sexual identity as well as class differences.

  Contact: Nancy Harris | (301) 385-3375

  Note: Nancy has a cat!

  
  

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• Executive Committee Meeting (February 2020)

  • When
    Sunday, February 09, 2020
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    RRUUC

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• Executive Committee Meeting (March 2020)

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    Sunday, March 15, 2020
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    RRUUC

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• Board Meeting (April 2020)

  • When
    Saturday, April 04, 2020
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    10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    River Road Unitarian 6301 River Road Bethesda

  Full board meeting

  
  

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• Executive Committee Meeting (May 2020)

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    Sunday, May 03, 2020
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    RRUUC

  Executive Committee Meeting

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