DEI & Social Work: Resources for Upcoming/Professionals

The following resources are for social workers in their professional development journeys towards equitable practice.

• Black Life Matters: Anti-racism resources for social workers and therapists
• Centering Equity: A Toolkit for Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration
  The authors of this guide co-created strategies and identified best practices for administrative data reuse for government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and data collaboratives that center racial equity and give power to community voice. Moreover they seek to help agencies acknowledge and compensate for the harms and bias baked into data and data structures, into practice, and into cultural understandings and perceptions of populations served by government agencies. This tool will be helpful for social workers in any organization.
• Council on Social Work Education: Center for Diversity & Social and Economic Justice
  The Center for Diversity & Social and Economic Justice provides social work education with the opportunity and the means to support greater diversity and social and economic justice in education, teaching, research, curricula, institutional arrangements, and leadership development. The Center is also a resource to prepare social workers with the knowledge and skills to engage in effective practice with diverse populations and to help transform social systems in pursuit of more humane and equitable conditions.
• NASW Racial Justice
  NASW provides racial justice trainings as well as continuing education opportunities related to racial equity.
• SWCAREs: Social Work Coalition for Anti-Racist Educators
  SWCARE’s mission is to dismantle white supremacy in social work education. Learn more about their commitment to professional growth and evolution.
• Social Workers: Allies for Justice
• The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw
  Learn more about the relationship between race and gender bias with one of the pioneers in critical race theory.
• 28 Ways to Make the World Less Hostile to Mad, Neurodivergent, and Psychiatrically Disabled (MNPD) People
  Dive into this resource to learn more about MNPD and best practices to support this community.
• SSW Office of Global Activities Identities Abroad Resources
  A resource designed to provide social work-specific guidance and help students think about how a global social work experience may impact their identities.
• Latinx Faculty and Staff Research and Practice Group
  An affinity group of self-identified Latinx faculty and staff at the University of Michigan School of Social Work who aim to provide a supportive space for discussing issues and challenges relative to Latinx identities in an academic environment as well as mentorship and support for faculty, staff, and students through scholarship, academic preparation, and networking students while at the University of Michigan and beyond.