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Community Social Work in the Post-COVID State: Recovery-oriented Social Policies and Possibilities for Anti-Oppressive Practice

Seminar|CCL22230033

Community Social Work in the Post-COVID State: Recovery-oriented Social Policies and Possibilities for Anti-Oppressive Practice
12 AUG 2022
Speaker(s)
Professor Donna Baines
Time
11:00 - 13:00
Venue
Online via Zoom
Language
English
Corresponding GA(s)
Citizenship; Learning; Knowledge
Fee
$0.00
Organizer
SOWK
Social Work Departmental Seminar Series 2022

Greetings from the Department of Social Work, Hong Kong Baptist University.

We are glad to announce that the online Seminar by Prof. Donna Baines on "Community Social Work in the Post-COVID State: Recovery-oriented Social Policies and Possibilities for Anti-Oppressive Practice" is scheduled on 12 August 2022 (Friday) from 11:00am – 13:00pm (HKT) via Zoom.

About Prof. Donna Baines
Prof. Donna Baines is Professor and former Director of the School of Social Work, University of British Columbia (Canada). Her teaching and research focus on social justice work in the nonprofit sector, paid and unpaid care work, and gender and social policy. She published recently in: the British Journal of Social Work; Work, Employment and Society; and Social Work Education, and is editor of the soon to be released 4th edition of Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice (Fernwood, 2022).

About the Seminar:
The era of COVID in North America and Europe saw activism around Black and Indigenous Lives Matter and partially defunding the police in order to shift funding back to community-based responses. Though this shift in funding presents an opportunity for community social work, it also presents the risk that social work will be unable to provide effective interventions in the context of government austerity policies. The paper argues that rather than austerity, in order to stabilize in the face of post-pandemic recession, governments will need to adopt programs of massive social intervention, similar to the Marshall Plan following WWII in Europe. As part of this, social work will need models of practice and theory that permit social work to be humble in the face of lived experience and grounded in the priorities of the community.

Please refer to the attached flyer for further details of the seminar.
Registration Link: https://forms.gle/A1NyQDyU1QAr6iZGA