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Description
In the United States, there are an estimated 122,000 people in solitary confinement in our prisons, jails, and other correctional institutions. Most Americans, including healthcare professionals, remain largely uneducated about this torturous practice and the ways in which it is racialized. During this webinar, presenters will provide data, personal accounts, reflection, and discussion designed to illuminate myths and realities of race and solitary confinement in the United States.
Target Audience
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
PLEASE NOTE: At this time, we are only able to provide CE credit to professionals licensed in New York State.
This webinar is open to all- if you are a student or a directly impacted person who is interested in learning but does not need CE credit, please reach out to SWASC999@gmail.com.
Learning Objectives
Attendees will be able to articulate the historical movements to oppress Black people- enslavement, Jim Crow, mass incarceration, solitary-and their interconnections.
Develop a better understanding of the various impacts of oppression on Black people.
Understand these impacts from first person accounts.
Describe the reasons people can be placed in solitary and how these may be disproportionately inflicted on Black people.
Presenters
Dr. Earl Smith
Dr. Angela Hattery
Marvin Wade, Advisory Board Member, writer and spiritual activist
Presenter Bios
Earl Smith, PhD, is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and the Rubin Distinguished Professor of American Ethnic Studies at Wake Forest University. He is the author of several books, most recently Way Down in the Hole. Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement (2023).
Angela Hattery, PhD, is professor of women and gender studies and co-director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Gender Based Violence at the University of Delaware. She is the author of several books, most recently Way Down in the Hole. Race, Intimacy, and the Reproduction of Racial Ideologies in Solitary Confinement (2023).
Marvin Wade is a justice impacted individual who was released from prison in 2019 after 25 years incarcerated. He was born in 1970, Brooklyn NY, to a single mother of 3. Marvin is a gifted and accomplished writer of published work that you can read in publications such as the Project Mend Journal and Voices of fortune. As a Prison and Social Advocate, as well as a Spiritual Activist, Marvin believes that his purpose in life is to be that light for those to finding their true self and path in life.
CE Information
For LCSWs/LMSWs: MPG Consulting LCSW, PLLC, SW CPE 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 #0119.
For LMHCs: MPG Consulting LCSW, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0044.
For LMFTs: MPG Consulting LCSW, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0030.
For LCATs: MPG Consulting LCSW, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0024.
For LPs (Psychoanalysts): MPG Consulting LCSW, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #P-0034.
For Licensed Psychologists: MPG Consulting LCSW, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts. #PSY-0088
If you are interested in taking this webinar NOT for CE credit, or this presents a financial burden, please reach out to swasc999@gmail.com.