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Monmouth University launched its Doctorate of Social Work (DSW) Program in 2022. This cutting-edge DSW Program at Monmouth University focuses on the area of human rights leadership. This is an advanced practice social work degree program focusing on a professional area of practice. Social work as a profession is experiencing tremendous growth, even now during a global post pandemic. The US Department of Labor predicts a 13% growth in the profession between 2016 and 2026. The three areas in social work that will see the largest growth is health care, child welfare, and mental health.\ Educating and preparing students to realize their potential as leaders and to become engaged citizens in a diverse and increasingly interdependent world is a core component of Monmouth University's mission. This program envisions to offer practicing social workers a program where they can distinguish themselves in the profession as leaders by championing human rights and acting as agents of change across local, national, and global communities. There is a clear and pressing need for leadership development in the social work field. Students in the DSW program will be able to: develop expertise in an area of human rights leadership in social work that encompasses diversity, equity and inclusion; create and disseminate practice-relevant human rights leadership scholarship through multiple modalities and digital technologies; apply ethical decision making from a human rights and social justice perspective; use and critically evaluate scholarship in human rights evidence-based practices; and design, evaluate and implement effective human rights programs and policies. It also provides a very unique focus on human rights leadership that no other DSW program offers currently. This presentation will highlight how higher educational program could prepare graduates for professional social work practice that strives to secure Human Rights by advancing social, economic, and environmental justice for vulnerable populations.\ \ 

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Hispanic adolescents are over involved in the juvenile justice system. In 2019, they had been 60% more involved in incarceration than white youth (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2019). The juvenile court of the United States is aware of the importance of the rehabilitation for delinquent youth (Grisso, 2013). Functional Family Therapy (FFT) is an evidence-based therapeutical technique and a combination of systemic and cognitive-behavioral theories that focus on both risk and protective factors to treat delinquency behaviors (Dehghani \& Bernards, 2022). The impact of the FFT on the Hispanic population has rarely been explored.\ \ A culturally appropriate intervention implemented to reduce adolescents’ maladaptive behaviors, empower them and their families to manage their emotions and behaviors and release the adolescents from the juvenile justice system.Edinburg, Juvenile Court referred 15 Hispanic adolescents, and their parents/guardians (P/G). Six adolescents and 12 P/G completed 10 sessions intervention. The adolescents completed a pre and post-test of The Sorensen Self-Esteem test and Grasmick Self-Control Scale. The P/G also completed the pre and post-test of the Interpersonal Relationship Family Questionnaire.The result indicated that all adolescents’ self-esteem increased. \ The result of the One-tailed Wilcoxon signed-rank Test (OWT) showed no statistically significant changes in adolescents’ Self-control. The result of the OWT showed no statistically significant changes in the interpersonal relationship of the P/G. However, a follow-up interview with P/G three months after the intervention revealed that their interpersonal relationship improved. Four P/G reported that their adolescents returned to the system, two of which did not attend the training sessions.\ The results indicated that FFT intervention had positive impact on the family system of the delinquent Hispanic adolescents, improved the family interpersonal relationship and reduced the rate of recidivism\ in the juvenile justice system in the city of Edinburg and could have preventive outcomes.\ 

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Delinquent Hispanic adolescents, Functional Family Therapy (FFT), Family interpersonal relationship

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The University of Cincinnati School of Allied Health Sciences leads semiannual cross-cultural learning programs for Social Work and Health Science students in Costa Rica. \\\  The University began working with community partner Viva Nicaragua Abroad twelve years ago in Nicaragua and now sustains this partnership through study abroad programs that support the Nicaraguan asylum-seeking and refugee community in Costa Rica. This long-standing partnership is a model for ethical and sustainable study abroad programs that benefit both students and community partners. \  The University collaborates with Viva Nicaragua to facilitate needs-based activities that support the efforts of Nicaraguan asylum seekers and refugees to integrate into Costa Rica. \  This unique program brings together Nicaraguan immigrants and refugees, \ Costa Ricans, and international students to engage in cross-cultural activities that promote cultures of peace, tolerance, and acceptance. \  \ This tripartite global approach provides multiple benefits for Social Work and Health Science students and community members. Students and community partners collaborate on workshops that focus on topics including nonviolent conflict resolution, trauma-informed care, self-care, gender equity, health disparities, diversity, and inclusion. \  \ All participants engage in rich discussions about global topics including human displacement and social justice. \  \ Students work alongside community members to facilitate activities that promote cultural competence, inclusion, and tolerance and provide tangible products that support the needs of the Costa Rican and Nicaraguan communities.\\\ \  Students gain a greater understanding of global topics and facilitate activities that support integration efforts with Costa Rican and Nicaraguan immigrant communities. \ Similar efforts can be reproduced locally and internationally to incorporate global perspectives in social work and promote dialogue and action about social inequities, tolerance, and inclusion.

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social work, cross-cultural learning, cross-cultural collaboration, experiential learning, interdisciplinary programs, immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees, tolerance, inclusion, social integration, diversity, cultural competence, human rights, global social work, human displacement, ethical study abroad, sustainable study abroad, Costa Rica, Nicaragua.\\ 

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Symposium overviewIn the backdrop of on-going political conflicts across the globe, it is important for social workers to explore and find ways to support individuals, families and communities who are affected by such extreme experiences. While there is a growing body of social work knowledge on complex emergencies such as natural disasters, less is known about the professional role in relation to different political conflicts. Furthermore, local activists, practitioners and scholars – particularly from countries which are labelled as developing - rarely have a chance to generate knowledge and shape social work interventions in such contexts. This is, in part, due to the perceived priority of aid and development interventions, funded and implemented by international efforts, with knowledge developed in other contexts.\ This Symposium aims to open the space for IFSW engagement in this field, by offering examples from three different contexts – Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, and Cyprus. The Symposium will also be an announcement for the forthcoming IFSW book titled ‘Local Perspectives on Social Services and Social Work in the Context of War and Conflict – an International Rader’, which will be available as a free download via the IFSW website in mid 2024.\ Presentation 1: Towards a Social Work for Critical Peace: Insights from the Case Study of Cyprus (Ioakimidis)Presentation 2: Eurocentric standards, anti-colonial discourse, social work and political conflict – a case study of Burkina Faso (Ouedraogo)Presentation 3: Madness after the war – lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina on supporting people who experience distress after political conflict (Maglajlic)\ \ 

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Social work, political conflict, peace building, adult services, mental health