Anti-Racism
This approach calls on social workers to actively challenge structures and policies that perpetuate racial inequity.
What is anti-racist practice?
Diversity includes visible and invisible aspects of identity. Name one example of an invisible aspect.
What is sexual orientation, religion, or disability?
Unlike equality, this concept ensures people get the resources they need to reach fair outcomes.
What is equity?
What is inclusion?
This professional code guides social workers to challenge social injustice.
What is the NASW Code of Ethics?
This scholar coined the term intersectionality, showing how race, gender, and class interconnect in systems of oppression.
Who is Kimberle Crenshaw?
This social work competency requires students to engage diversity and difference in practice.
What is Competency 2?
Providing language interpreters for clients is an example of addressing with ADEI principle?
What is equity?
This term describes the sense that a person feels accepted, valued, and connected in their environment.
What is belonging?
Asking clients "How do you define your family?" reflects which ADEI-Informed practice?
What is honoring client self-determination and cultural definitions?
Policies like school segregation, and mass incarceration are examples of this type of racism.
What is systemic or structural racism?
Respecting cultural traditions around family, spirituality, or health care is an example of practicing this.
What is cultural humility?
A hospital that provides interpreters for patients who speak languages other than English is promoting this.
What is language access?
Inviting community members to help design programs is an example of this inclusive approach.
What is participatory practice?
Recognizing that marginalized clients may have experienced trauma in systems of care reflects this lens.
What is trauma-informed, equity-centered practice?
When a social worker examines their own racial identity and privilege, they are practicing this.
What is critical self-reflection?
A workplace that ensures staff reflect the communities they servie is demonstrating this practice.
What is representation?
This term describes policies that aim to repair past harms and create fair opportunities for historically marginalized groups.
What is restorative justice or reparative justice?
An agency that ensures meeting times accommodate both parents and caregivers is practicing this.
What is inclusion?
Social workers are expected to integrate ADEI into all nine of these.
What are competencies?
This theory emphasizes that racism is embedded in laws and institutions, not just individual bias.
What is critical race theory?
This principle reminds social workers that client identity cannot be reduced to a single factor like race or gender.
What is intersectionality?
Advocating for policy changes to expand affordable housing so that all families can access safe shelter reflects this broader goal.
What is social justice?
Transforming organizational culture so that marginalized people are not only present but also empowered to lead represents this.
What is belonging or structural inclusion?
This competency explicitly requires engaging anti-racism, diversity, equity, and inclusion in practice.
What is competency 2?