The Practice of Mattering: Honoring the Dignity and Worth of Persons and Families in Marginalized Status - Wednesday, May 22, 2024

This workshop will be conducted live through an online platform called Zoom. The evening before the event you will receive an email with a link to the Zoom meeting, and other important information. Any updates or changes will be shared via email.

Workshop Description:

In today’s social climate, marginalization can leave a person or family feeling lost and disconnected from who they are, struggling with mattering and feeling a sense of dignity and worth. According to relational personhood, one’s personhood is constructed and maintained in social environments rooted in relationships. A caring relationship and support from frontline social workers who advocate with and for persons in marginalized status can provide a transformative experience to help persons and families reconceptualize who they are and reconnect to a sense of mattering, dignity, and worth. In this 3-hour webinar, participants will learn about personhood and the person-centered approach, identifying strategies to create valuing and mattering experiences for persons and families in marginalized status.

Learning Objectives

  1. Examine the connection between marginalization, disconnection, and struggle for a sense of mattering and dignity in today’s social climate.
  2. Define and discuss marginalization and relational personhood.
  3. Explore how the use of a caring and supportive relationship frontline social workers provide can help a person of marginalized status and have a transformative experience that can help them reconceptualize who they are and reconnect to a sense of mattering, dignity, and worth.
  4. Define and discuss the person-centered approach and strategies.
  5. Discuss the role of respect, call of action to be agents of dignity, and use of kindness supporting persons and families in marginalized status.

CEUs: 3 General CEs
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Location: Zoom
Requirements: Webcam (participants must be on camera)
Presenter: Tawanda Hubbard, Ph.D. (cand.), DSW, MSW, LCSW

Presenter Information:

Tawanda Hubbard, Ph.D. (cand.), DSW, MSW, LCSW, is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at Rutgers University School of Social Work (RUSSW). She has her LCSW and over 19 years of clinical practice and case management experience. She is a trained family therapist and certified REBT and child sexual abuse therapist with two post-masters in clinical practice with adolescents and social work and spirituality. Dr. Hubbard presents statewide, regionally, and nationally on her scholarship interests. She is a past president of the NASW-NJ Chapter and serves on various councils, advisory boards, and coalitions, and belongs to associations focused on social work, family relations, child/adolescent development, and child welfare. Dr. Hubbard is the current president of the RUSSW Alumni Council. She is also pursuing her second doctorate at Montclair State University, a Ph.D. candidate in the Family Science and Development program.

Price:

$60.00