SWSD 2024

Key - Work - Symp Sessions - En Sesiones Esp- Port Virtual

Wednesday 03 de April

Thursday 04 de April

Friday 05 de April

Saturday 06 de April

Sunday 07 de April

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Friday 05 de April

01_Symposium/Simposios

09:00 - 09:40 Actividad Plenaria / Plenary Activity

Anayansi Theater / Teatro Anayansi

09:50 - 10:30 Actividad Plenaria / Plenary Activity

Anayansi Theater / Teatro Anayansi

10:40 - 11:20 Actividad Plenaria / Plenary Activity

Anayansi Theater / Teatro Anayansi

11:30 - 12:30 Poster Presentation

1 - Democracia, Derechos Humanos, Construcción de la Paz y Justicia Ecosocial

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

ATLAPA Islands Room / Salón Islas de ATLAPA - The Global Social Services Workforce Alliance

14:05 - 15:05 Presentation of the Global Agenda

Global Agenda

Speaker

Antoinette Lombard - International Association of Schools of Social Work(IASSW)

Speaker

Professor Tapio Salonen - International Council on Social Welfare(ICSW)

Speaker

Professor Shajahan P.K - International Council on Social Welfare(ICSW)

15:05 - 16:05 Sub_17c

ICSW North East Asia Symposium: Social Actions for Supporting Mental Health in the Communities

#0366 | ICSW North East Asia Symposium: Social Actions for Supporting Mental Health in the Communities

Fen-Ling Chen ¹ ;

Soung-yee Kim ² ;

Tsz Man Chan ³ ;

Pei-Yuen Tsai ¹ ; Sukh-Ochir Batchuluun ⁴ ;

Shih-Yu Chu ⁵ ;

Jui-Chi Keng ⁵

1 - The Council of Social Welfare, Taiwan. 2 - Korea National Council on Social Welfare. 3 - New Life Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association. 4 - Mongolian united association for social welfare. 5 - Child Welfare League Foundation.

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Summary

With the implementation of The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the United Nations, independent living and social inclusion have been important issues that governments need to address. Therefore, how to take social actions to provide sufficient support for people with mental health issues in the communities is an important task for many organizations and individuals. In order to establish a supportive residential community, it may need inter-system collaboration networks that integrate various sectors and professions such as social work and welfare, mental rehabilitation, psychological counselling, medical services, education and employment services, police support, legal services, the court and so on. The actions for supporting mental health is a complicated task that could involve many matters like the allocation of financial resources, the work division between various professional workers and their training and the administrative integration between government departments and between central and local authorities. The practices could trigger some debates such as different perspectives between workers from diverse professions and trainings, the reconciliation between the protection of the rights of the mental disabled and the concern for community safety and the diverse needs and interests between community residents, family members and people with mental disability. In order to promote the welfare of people with mental health issues, it is crucial to exchange the experiences of policy formulation and implementation. The North East Asia (NEA) Region of ICSW has a long tradition to exchange experiences from one another and thus the NEA regional office organizes this symposium for NEA members to present their backgrounds and experiences in actions, policies and practices to support mental health in the communities. Through this symposium, the organizer expects the communication can facilitate the learning of good practices and further collaboration between NEA members and all participants of the SWSD conference.

Keywords (separate with commas)

mental health, community, independent living, social inclusion, North East Asia

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Title of Symposium: ICSW North East Asia Symposium: Social Actions for Supporting Mental Health in the Communities.\\\\\ Name of Coordinator: Pei-Yuen Tsai\

16:10 - 17:10 Area_03

Enganging Social Workers in Global Advocacy at the UN for Justice

#0327 | Engaging Social Workers in Global Advocacy at the UN for Justice

Shirley Gabel ¹ ;

Lynne Healy ² ;

Rebecca Thomas ² ;

Martha Bragin ³

1 - Fordham University. 2 - University of Connecticut. 3 - Hunter College, CUNY.

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Summary

Advocating at the United Nations (UN) is a daunting task for many social workers. The UN is so extensive, its system of agencies and relationships is complex and overlaid by politics, and there is no clear entry point for affecting change at the UN. However, as more of the social issues social workers confront in their local practices have global roots and international implications, it becomes imperative that social workers seeking justice learn how to shape policies and decisions made at the UN. IASSW and its sister organizations, IFSW and ICSW, have consultative status at the UN and regularly advocate on issues important to social work. One of the ways that IASSW has engaged in UN deliberations is through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs reach their midpoint in 2023 and to the disappointment of many, will not achieve the expected progress due to the COVID pandemic and other challenges. The pandemic added 75 million more people to those living in extreme poverty. Since 2020, the richest one-percent have captured almost two-thirds of all new wealth.This symposium tackles the possibilities available to social workers to accelerate progress toward the achievement of the SDGs by 2030. Collectively, this symposium will present an overview of IASSW’s involvement at the UN historically and in the present using ongoing examples of IASSW representatives to UN experiences advocating for more humane migration experiences including mental health supports, child protection during humanitarian crises, and opportunities for social workers to engage in antipoverty efforts – the highlighted SDG for 2024. An interactive experience will tie participants' experiences in local advocacy, community building, and inequality to the SDGs.

Keywords (separate with commas)

United Nations, advocacy, Sustainable Development Goals, global social work, migrants, humanitarian crises, child protection

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Fighting Poverty through the UNThe UN High-level Political Forum (HLPF) is the central United Nations platform for the review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global level. Each year several of the SDGs are selected as the theme to review progress across all countries. In addition, a cohort of nations are selected for voluntary national reviews (VNRs). VNRs aim to facilitate the sharing of experiences and lessons learned, as well as to strengthen the policies and institutions of governments, and to mobilize multi-stakeholder support for the SDGs. In 2024, the theme of the HLPF will be “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises.” As a result of the COVID pandemic, the war in the Ukraine, and disasters, more than four years of progress against extreme poverty was erased and nearly 700 million people are living in extreme poverty globally. Efforts to fight poverty are critical to social work. The presentation will demonstrate ways in which social workers can get involved in influencing knowledge and advocacy efforts at the UN on this topic by directly participating in proceedings, working with NGOs and UN Major Groups or Commissions, working within their own countries, nationally or locally, and lobbying other member countries. While annual HLPF meetings take place at the UN, typically in July, months of preparation go into these meetings, and there are many opportunities for advocacy. The presentation will highlight how local experiences affect global advocacy strategy through an interactive exercise. The 2024 HLPF will also review the effectiveness of the current UN process in achieving the SDGs. This is an opportunity for social workers to affect changes in the process to increase the participation of those whose voices are often not heard.

#0329 | Fighting poverty (SDG 1) through the UN High-level Political Forum

Shirley Gabel ¹

1 - Fordham University.

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Summary

The UN High-level Political Forum (HLPF) is the central United Nations platform for the review of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at the global level. Each year several of the SDGs are selected as the theme to review progress across all countries. In addition, a cohort of nations are selected for voluntary national reviews (VNRs). VNRs aim to facilitate the sharing of experiences and lessons learned, as well as to strengthen the policies and institutions of governments, and to mobilize multi-stakeholder support for the SDGs. In 2024, the theme of the HLPF will be “Reinforcing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and eradicating poverty in times of multiple crises.” As a result of the COVID pandemic, the war in the Ukraine, and disasters, more than four years of progress against extreme poverty was erased and nearly 700 million people are living in extreme poverty globally. Efforts to fight poverty are critical to social work.The presentation will demonstrate ways in which social workers can get involved in influencing knowledge and advocacy efforts at the UN on this topic by directly participating in proceedings, working with NGOs and UN Major Groups or Commissions, working within their own countries, nationally or locally, and lobbying other member countries. While annual HLPF meetings take place at the UN, typically in July, months of preparation go into these meetings, and there are many opportunities for advocacy. The presentation will highlight how local experiences affect global advocacy strategy through an interactive exercise. The 2024 HLPF will also review the effectiveness of the current UN process in achieving the SDGs. This is an opportunity for social workers to affect changes in the process to increase participation of those whose voices are often not heard.

Keywords (separate with commas)

Sustainable Development Goals, antipoverty, United Nations

#0530 | Social Work Advocacy at the United Nations to Challenge Global Inequality: Looking Back and Preparing for the Future

Lynne Healy ¹

1 - University of Connecticut.

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Summary

The social work profession has a long history of advocacy at the United Nations (UN). The International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) gained consultative status as a non-governmental organization (NGO) in 1947, one of the earliest NGOs to do so. Since then, representatives have worked in New York and Geneva to advocate for social work values in areas where professional priorities and UN priorities mesh. Consultative status allows organizations access to UN meetings and ability to issue statements and organize workshops at major UN commission sessions. There are also opportunities to meet with government missions in New York and Geneva to advocate for policy positions. This paper will provide an overview of the history of the profession’s involvement at the UN. It will then discuss IASSW advocacy efforts on the adoption and implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 10 (SDG10) from 2014 to the present to illustrate effective use of consultative status. SDG10 is “to reduce inequality within and among countries.” This is perhaps the most important goal for social work as the gap between rich and poor in most nations and growing episodes of bias and hate crimes have increased dramatically in the early 21st century and increased further in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. SDG10’s broad view of inequality encompasses all forms of discrimination and unequal life chances in addition to poverty. From negotiations leading to adoption through implementation to date, IASSW has worked in coalitions with diverse NGOs to argue for inclusion of SDG10 in the final 2030 agenda, to conduct research on progress, and to use this research for mission advocacy and special workshops at meetings of the Commission for Social Development. The paper concludes with recommendations for improved social work impact, especially as the UN prepares for a 2025 World Social Summit.

Keywords (separate with commas)

United Nations, IASSW, consultative status, SDG10, inequality, advocacy

#0539 | Strategies to protect the rights of migrants

Rebecca Thomas ¹

1 - University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus.

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Summary

IASSW has active representatives’ faculty and students to the NGO committee on Migration. This committee has a consultative relationship with the United Nations. Target 10.7 of the SDGs focuses on the facilitation of the orderly, safe regular and responsible migration and mobility of people including the implementation of planning and well-managed polices. An important avenue for global advocacy to ensure justice. This presentation will highlight some of the initiatives, advocacy efforts, engagement and policy statements made to address the rights of migrants. For example, in response to the Global Compact for Migration (2016), the UN global agreement on a common approach to international migration, the NGO committee developed polices and practices to ensure that the Compact has practical and concrete suggestions for migration governance that can be implemented by social workers, practitioners and students advance safety, justice, and engage in anti-poverty efforts. This presentation will facilitate a discussion on the discourse on migration, economic, social development, and justice/human rights. Content will highlight who migrants are, why they move, and what they contribute to their communities, upholds the dignity and identities of migrants, strengthens social cohesion, and works to eliminate xenophobia and discrimination against people on the move. Awareness of the use of negative language and images used have real impacts on migrants and their families. Race and ethnicity, and the systemic link between migration and racial injustice, are central to the human rights and non-discrimination principles of the Global Compact for Migration.Finally, this presentation will share an innovative initiative that is collecting positive migrant stories. The goal of this project is to share, inspire and collect stories of migrants and their contributions to their new local communities. iTAC (It takes a community), a social media campaign of the Civil Society Mechanism of the Global Forum on Migration and Development.

Keywords (separate with commas)

Global advocacy, Global Compact for Migration, advocacy initiatives, advocacy efforts, engagement and policy statements

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#0327: Engaging social workers in global advocacy at the UN for justice.

#1217 | Envisioning Wellbeing: An empowering strategy enabling communities to design, monitor and evaluate psychosocial programs to designed to heal and transform from violence and disaster

Martha Bragin ¹

1 - Silberman School of Social Work, Hunter College, CUNY.

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Summary

When disaster strikes, the social work community is often called in to support psychological and social wellbeing. In recent years there has be an emphasis on the need to recognize suffering and to make space for mourning in order to heal. We may be pressured to work quickly, as the suffering before us can be easily seen. We may also be members of the affected communities ourselves. \ We may find ourselves ignoring those who have been marginalized prior to the emergency, As a result, we may find ourselves basing our assessments more on lacks and suffering, than on strengths and ignoring community aspirations as we focus on loss. This talk will describe and give examples of a methodology that focuses on community ideas of and aspirations for psychological and social well-being,\ One way to address these issues and still provide inclusive, psychosocial support and insure accountability to affected communities is the SEE_PET. The SEE-PET is a published, participatory method that enables the design, monitoring, and evaluation of psychosocial programs undertaken during humanitarian emergencies. \ Community members work with social work researchers to identify domains of well-being, how they were addressed in the past, what is possible now, and how to create transformative systems where essential elements are missing. In several instances, this exercise allowed disparate community members to find commonality in seeking a better life togetherThis talk will describe the SEE_PET and provide an example of its use in situations of disaster and armed conflict, including the development of specific mechanisms for program design, monitoring and \ evaluation.\

Keywords (separate with commas)

inclusion, \ community, well-being, psychosocial support, \ disaster, participatory monitoring and evaluation, trauma, \ transformation

17:10 - 18:10 Area_03

Mandates, interventions and extremism - perspectives on the intersection between Politics and Social Work in Germany and Switzerland

#0399 | Mandates, interventions and extremism - perspectives on the intersection between Politics and Social Work in Germany and Switzerland

Matthias Kachel ¹ ;

Tobias Kindler ² ; Eva Maria Loeffler ³ ;

Katrin Degen ⁴

1 - BayWISS Promotionskolleg Sozialer Wandel / Graduate School "Social Change" at the Bavarian Academic Forum. 2 - Ostschweizer Fachhochschule / Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 3 - Technische Hochschule Köln / Köln University of Applied Sciences. 4 - Georg Simon Ohm University of Applied Sciences Nuremberg; University of Bamberg, BayWISS Promotionskolleg Sozialer Wandel / Graduate School "Social Change" at the Bavarian Academic Forum.

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Summary

Social workers are constantly in touch with politics - political decisions that lead to the implementation or the dismantling of social services, political movements and issues that influence their clients' or their own lives or social and political circumstances that lead to discrimination or exclusion. Social workers therefore have a unique perspective on all three dimensions of politics - policy, polity and politics - and need to be able to discern how to influence change or how to help others to make their own changes. Social workers have, through their education, some academic privilege and their professionalism is imbued with a certain amount of power towards clients. This presents the question of how these two dimensions are viewed and used by social workers and how they attain knowledge about the political system and the possibilities of influencing it. Furthermore, social work as a profession needs to be aware of the exclusionary tendencies of far right extremist movements and the logics that lead to the inclusion and exclusion of LGBTQIA+ people in order to prevent said exclusion.In our symposium, we are going to shed a light on four projects from Germany and Switzerland that concern themselves with the role of civics education in the education of social workers and with the question of how and at what level social workers become active themselves in the political arena as well as questions of how the far right in Germany normalizes certain aspects of queerness within their ranks in order to seem more appealing.

Keywords (separate with commas)

social work, social workers, social policy, politics, social policy engagement, policy engagement, direct democracy, democracy, social activism, advocacy, politics as a job, profession, holding elected office, political mandate, biographies, civics education, political education, social work study programme, content analysis, learning, far right movements, political extremism, right wing extremism, discourse analysis, inclusion, exclusion, LGBTQIA+, lesbian, gays, queer, non-heteronormative, processes of normalization

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Matthias Kachel