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- Diversity Training in the Workplace
- Traditional Wisdom, Community Dialogues, Literature, Research
- Preparing Students to Practice in an Interconnected World
- Curricular Guide for Environmental Justice (2015)
- Social Work in the (In)Justice System
- The NAME Steps: Addressing Anti-LGBTQIA2S+ Microaggressions
- Online Teaching: Humanizing Immigration
- Leading the Transformation: Working With Latinx Communities
- Developing a Culturally Tailored Intervention
- Rethinking Practice With Multicultural Communities: Implications for Social Work Education
- Curricular Resource on Issues of Disability-Competent Care
- Social Justice 101: Teaching Empathy and Critical Thinking Using Books With Powerful Messages on Social Justice
- Shedding Light on Solitary Confinement
- Cultural Adaptation of Behavioral Interventions
Diversity Training in the Workplace
A website dedicated to educational resources related to cultural competency, implicit bias, and social justice. Free online trainings, articles and videos are available for download.
Traditional Wisdom, Community Dialogues, Literature, Research
Multilayered approaches to teaching about interculturality, intersectionality, and racial equity.
Preparing Students to Practice in an Interconnected World
The Diversity Center has teamed up with Words Without Borders Campus, known as WWB Campus (wwb-campus.org), an organization that makes contemporary international literature in translation and related multimedia learning resources accessible to students and educators. The resources include author and translator bios and representations of the socio-geographic-political and cultural context of the stories.
Curricular Guide for Environmental Justice (2015)
The curricular guide facilitates the integration of environmental justice content and pedagogical approaches across social work curricula and programming, including internship experiences in practicum education as well as other resources.
Social Work in the (In)Justice System
The resources include recommended books, articles, reports, films, podcasts, and websites. Links have been provided where available. To provide further insight into how to structure a class, links to syllabi that critically consider these systems of (in)justice are included.
The NAME Steps: Addressing Anti-LGBTQIA2S+ Microaggressions
The NAME Steps: How to Name and Address Anti-LGBTQIA2S+ Microaggressions in Social Work Classrooms. NAME steps provide flexible guidance for educators in naming and responding to microaggressions, encouraging collective responsibility for addressing diversity in social work classrooms.
Online Teaching: Humanizing Immigration
With a focus on immigrants, this resource offers strategies for developing online assignments that enhance students' ability to humanize the lives of immigrants and better understand the policies currently affecting them.
Leading the Transformation: Working With Latinx Communities
This resource invites the social work profession to think about innovative ways to increase the number of Latinx social workers and to implement new models that prepare social work professionals to work with Latinx communities.
Developing a Culturally Tailored Intervention
This resource offers tangible, research-based approaches to engaging with multicultural clients and presents a critical assessment of barriers and challenges posed by current models of social work practice.
Rethinking Practice With Multicultural Communities: Implications for Social Work Education
This resource offers tangible, research-based approaches to engaging with multicultural clients and presents a critical assessment of barriers and challenges posed by current models of social work practice.
Curricular Resource on Issues of Disability-Competent Care
Educators can draw from the various teaching resources provided here to fit their teaching objectives. Teaching resources include in-class exercises, fact sheets, media examples, assessments, slides assignments, personal stories, and readings, including a searchable database by type of resource and competency.
Social Justice 101: Teaching Empathy and Critical Thinking Using Books With Powerful Messages on Social Justice
A comprehensive course guide on teaching empathy and critical thinking using books with powerful messages on social justice. The course guide follows an interdisciplinary approach.
Shedding Light on Solitary Confinement
A comprehensive overview of solitary confinement that includes voices of those who have been affected by it, the ethical dilemma of health and social service providers who work in criminal justice facilities, and humane alternatives
Cultural Adaptation of Behavioral Interventions
A research database of cultural adaptions of behavioral health interventions as part of the Center's curriculum resources in Practice with Diverse Communities.