Episode 28: Social Work as Social Justice: Working with Unhoused Women
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Listen in as Professors Arturo Baiocchi and Susanna Curry talk with the Executive Director of Wellspring Women's Center, Genelle Smith, to discuss how she deploys an explicit social justice perspective when working with unhoused women sleeping on the streets of Sacramento. Learn how social workers can, and should, pursue advocacy, resiliency, and human dignity in their daily practice with individuals facing personal crises but also multiple, and intertwined, social injustices (e.g., inequality, historical traumas, sexism, racism etc)
Find the transcript at www.csus.edu/crisj/buildingjustice
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