Systemic Racism in Child Welfare Certificate Program
Systemic Racism in Child Welfare Certificate Program
In response to APSAC’s commitment to work towards ending racism and implicit bias in the field of child maltreatment, an Anti-racism Commission was formed. The APSAC Cultural Diversity Committee decided its contribution to the Commission would be to develop a Systemic Racism in Child Welfare Certificate Program. It will be a Virtual Cultural Institute focused on supporting child maltreatment professionals and improving their response in working with African American children and families.
The committee acknowledges that racism for Blacks in the United States takes many forms and targets different groups such as Black descendants of African slaves, Blacks from other countries, as well as Africans whose experiences closely align with the immigrant perspective. The series will focus more on the first group, the African American perspective.
Participants will receive a certificate after attending 8 hours of sessions. Participants have the option to attend the sessions live or to view recordings on APSAC’s Learning Management System (LMS). Only individuals who join the live session will be eligible to earn CE credit.
Currently scheduled sessions are described below. More sessions will be added soon, so please keep checking back. If you have any questions about the program, please contact onlinetraining@apsac.org.
APSAC online program offer a total of 1.00 contact hours each per 60 minutes of programming. Continuing education credit is awarded based on live attendance for APSAC virtual education programs. Partial session credit is not offered.
Participants must attend the full live, interactive virtual education program and live Q&A session at the time of the event in order to receive credit. Credit cannot be awarded for partial or delayed attendance, or for viewing a recording of an online training.
The following information applies to APSAC’s individually-sponsored live, interactive virtual education programs, currently consisting of Zoom Chats, Certificate Programs, and Virtual Forensic Interview Clinics. For information on APSAC/Foundling Webinars, please click here. If you are not sure which policies apply to a given program, please contact onlinetraining@apsac.org.
Instructions for Access
Participants may register for each program prior to, or up to the time of the event via APSAC’s MemberLeap portal. Registration for attendance and payment for continuing education credit applies to a single event, and can only be transferred to a different event by request on a case-by-case basis. Refunds are also available upon request. Links to the MemberLeap registration portal for each event are made available on the APSAC website and in all digital marketing materials. Payment is collected at time of registration via the MemberLeap portal. Check payment may be allowed for some virtual education programs. All registrants receive instructions for attendance and a link to access the live meeting platform via a registration confirmation email. Should participants have difficulty accessing their link, they are encouraged to contact APSAC. If attendance and broadcasting is disrupted for any reason by the Zoom video platform/meeting host, internet access of the host or attendant, power failure etc., APSAC will transfer registration and credit to a similar event or hold a make-up presentation at another time.
Distance Learning Description
Participants join national experts for a live presentation/discussion and Q&A hosted through Zoom or a similar live meeting platform. Attendance pricing varies based on the program and registration links are available on the APSAC website and in all digital marketing materials. CE credits can can also be purchased at the time of registration. To receive either psychology or social work credit, registrants must attend the full presentation. All attendees are invited to participate in an evaluation and to share their thoughts via live chat and live Q&A. In order to receive CE credit, participants will receive a link to participate in a graded 10-question post-test, on which they must answer at least 7 out of 10 questions correctly. They must also participate in a comprehensive evaluation. The post-test and evaluation will be sent to all registrants who purchased continuing education credit and attended the full 60-90 minute event after the time of the event.
Psychology
The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. APSAC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Social Work
The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC), provider #1622, is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB ), www.aswb.org, through the Approved Continuing Education ( ACE ) program. APSAC maintains responsibility for the program. ASWB Approval Period: 7/27/22-7/27/25 . Social workers should contacttheir regulatory board to determine course approval for continuing education credits. The Social worker participating in this conference received 1continuing education clock hours.”
Certificate of Attendance
Continuing education certificates will be generated and sent via email following the completion of each program, completion certificates for proof of attendance for attendees who have not purchased CEs are also available upon request. All certificates will be sent via email to the address used for registration. Participants are encouraged to communicate with APSAC via phone or email (224) 269-1033; e-mail: onlinetraining@apsac.org)
should they have any issues receiving their certificates.
Commercial Support
APSAC receives no funds from any commercial organization for financial support of its activities in providing continuing education sponsorship of the live, interactive virtual education programs. The Institute’s sponsorship of this educational series does not imply endorsement of featured exhibits.
Skill Level
Please check individual event descriptions for skill level. Participants are urged to review module descriptions for appropriateness for professional and personal development.
Instruction Methodology
APSAC live, interactive virtual education programs consist of individual minute lectures, discussions, and a Q&A session delivered by national experts. Lectures are composed of slides, graphics, recorded videos, references and discussion. All references and citations are available to participants via the APSAC website and in the MemberLeap registration portal for each event.
Ethics Hours / Academic Credit
At this time APSAC live, interactive virtual education programs provide no “ethics hours”. APSAC online programs offer no “academic” credit and CE hours awarded are not eligible toward fulfillment of an academic degree.
Conflict of Interest Statement
All presenters, planners or anyone in a position to control the content of this continuing education activity have indicated that neither they nor their spouse/legally recognized domestic partner has any financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this activity.
ADA
For accommodations on the basis of disability please contact: jcampbell@apsac.org.
Cancellations
If you would like to request a refund or a transfer of registration for any APSAC online program, please contact onlinetraining@apsac.org.
Questions: If you have questions regarding continuing education, the program, faculty, grievance issues, or for a listing of learning objectives, comprehensive speaker bios, please contact APSAC at: (224) 269-1033; e-mail: onlinetraining@apsac.org.
Register for Past Lectures
Recordings available for purchase via the APSAC Learning Management System $25/ members, $75 non-members
Please select the links below to purchase past lectures.
Lectures must be purchased together
Lecture 1: Applying the Social Ecological Model (SEM) to Promoting Child Well-Being in Black Families
Presenter: Denese Shervington, MD, MPH
This presentation will address how societal inequities contribute to the intergenerational trauma and resultant child maltreatment, and how an assets building approach that uses the SEM model can promote child-well being.
Lecture 2: Hip Hop as Prevention and Intervention for Youth in Child Welfare
Presenter: Debangshu Roygardner, PhD
Hip Hop is a global cultural medium that evolved from African American literary and musical forms from both the United States and the Caribbean as well as Pan-African cultural forms in Latin American and Africa. This workshop will focus on the historical roots of Hip Hop as an artistic medium, posit its use as an anti-racist and youth-centric art form within both prevention and intervention and provide empirical evidence of social-emotional, clinical, educational, and civic outcomes associated with Hip Hop. This session will be experiential, and include poetry, lyrics, music, and music videos.
Lecture 3: The Impact on Black Children and Families
Presenter: Darcey Merritt, MSW, PhD
This session will address the prevalence of disproportionality within the child welfare system as a result of systemic racism and oppression embedded in such institutions. Participants will be introduced to ways in which systemic racism impacts Black child welfare involved children and families and will brainstorm ideas for improving outcomes.
Lecture 4: The Intersection of Race, Religion, and Region in America’s Welfare System
Presenter: Darrel Armstrong, M.Div., Ed.S.-MFT, D.D.
Darrell Armstrong, M.Div., Ed.s., MFT, D.D., is pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church (Trenton, NJ) a thriving multicultural and multigenerational community of faith, which under Armstrong’s leadership became the first house of worship in the US to officially declare itself a No-Hit Zone. His policy training at Stanford University (BA in Public Policy), training at Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div.), and therapeutic/ clinical training at The College of New Jersey (Ed.S. in marriage & family therapy) have uniquely prepared him to be a respected voice in the national and international child welfare/family strengthening communities. He is a certified master-trainer in NPCL’s Fatherhood/Responsible Male Involvement. In 2016, he was appointed the Chief Administrative Officer to the United Nations by the Baptist World Alliance where he advocates for Human Rights and espouses Family Strengthening policies and practices on a global level. Service to APSAC includes as a 2017 founding member of the National Initiative to End Corporal Punishment and 2018 Colloquium keynote speaker. He continues to actively serve on multiple committees, including the Faith Committee.
Breaking Down Barriers for Engagement with Families of Color to Achieve Racial Equity
Presenter: Marva L. Lewis, PhD
New relationship-based tools are needed to engagement, assessment and intervention with families of color in the child welfare system. In many communities there is often a racial divide between predominately white administrators and providers and the predominately Black and Brown children and families they serve. (Ghosh-Ippen & Lewis, 2011). This webinar presents anti-racist tools based on a trauma-informed model that assesses: 1) the perception of of the quality of the working relationships from both sides of multicultural divides; 2) recognize cultural risks and vulnerabilities, and 3) build on cultural strengths and resilience through a partnership approach to child welfare services.
Participants will have the option to purchase to watch the lecture live or view them later on the APSAC LMS.
Psychology and Social Work CE credits are available for this session. Participants must attend in-person to receive credits.
Lecture 6: Talking to Children and Teens
Presenters: Kristin Washington, PsyD, PMP & Pearl Berman, PhD
This 90-minute workshop is designed to help parents and other concerned adults talk to children and teens about the historical trauma faced by African-Americans and how this has influenced current civic unrest over police brutality and racism. It takes a psychoeducational approach and provides practical ideas to stimulate adult thinking about what strategies might work best with a particular family. Ideas are discussed that can support resilient development and a sense of agency for ending racial trauma. There will be a 30 minute question and response section at the end of the workshop.
Lecture 7: The Impact of Institutional Racism on Mental Health Services for Children Involved in the Child Welfare System
Presenters: Gimel Rogers, PsyD, ABPP & Marina Bassili, PsyD
This training will review statistics regarding the ethnically diverse population and its overrepresentation in the Child Welfare System (CWS). A review of institutional racism and structural discrimination in the CWS will be explored. In addition, historical factors as they relate to mental health treatment and outcomes will be discussed. Lastly, this training will provide practical implications at the individual and systemic level to address these disparities.
This registration will cover both lectures.
Lecture 8: The Impact of Implicit Bias on Mental Health Service Delivery
Presenter: Akeem Marsh, MD, FAPA
Social determinants of mental health are directly correlated to extensive history of structural and systemic racism. This course provides a context for current racial disparities in mental health and reviews the source of so-called risk factors that disproportionately affect communities of color. Grounded in principles of social justice and racial equity, clinicians will understand the influence of biases and be encouraged to examine their role in both the mental health field and their own clinical practice. Through the use of clinical vignettes, practical applications for engagement on issues of race and racism will be explored.
Lecture 9: Working with Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
Presenter: Amy Russell, MSEd, JD, NCC
This session will focus on building awareness of the context and experiences of sexual and gender minority victims of sexual violence, and offer training participants strategies for providing forensic interviews, services and advocacy in a meaningful and culturally sensitive manner. In this session, we will examine the factors that place sexual and gender minority youth at greater risk for maltreatment and barriers these youth may face following victimization and trauma. This session will offer training participants an opportunity to examine current practices and learn practical skills to improve responses for sexual and gender minority survivors of violence.