District Meeting | I live there. I never knew!” Learning your local community’s social welfare & social justice history is vital clinical work.” Thursday, March 21, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM @ Online WEBINAR

Description: Knowing L.A.'s history of social justice movements led by BIPOC & LGBTQ Angelinos gives practitioners contextualized competencies. By acknowledging L.A.’s Eurocentric, racist & colonialist social work history, clinicians understand the origins of suspicion held by members of the communities we serve. Clinical Social Workers must understand our complicated history in order to practice competently. Each of us should possess a working knowledge of the history of local social justice movements led by those who didn’t possess an MSW as well as the work conducted by marginalized MSWs.