Putting Policy in its Place Fellowship Symposium

Social workers can help identify policy and structural issues that contribute to racial, educational, health, and income disparities experienced by their clients. This year's TSSW’s Putting Policy in its Place (PPIP) Fellowship program provided Master of Social Work candidates the opportunity to discover the ways that policy shapes their clients’ lives, understand how policy impacts practice, and more effectively utilize policy to inform their practice.

Please join us from 12 to 4 pm CT on Saturday, July 17, 2021 for the PPIP Fellowship Symposium, which will include a keynote speaker and seven fellow presentations as a culmination of the 2021 program. More information about the agenda is forthcoming.

Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) funding supports this program, which allows the fellows to connect their field work and policy work in real-time and in real-world situations.

Register for the virtual event here.

A small number of in-person registrations are available for TSSW students, faculty, alumni, and the presenter's community partners. If you would like to attend in person, please email cmoulder@tulane.edu.

The Keynote Speaker is Brian Mai (he/they), the Executive Office Coordinator at National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD). Brian is an advocate, educator, and researcher for equitable practices utilizing a trauma-informed, systems-based, and transformative justice approach. Brian specializes in anti-racist pedagogy and practices with individuals, communities, and policies to promote intersectionality, inclusion, leadership, and accountability.

And, the PPIP Fellows and their presentations are:

• Jaclyn Udell - Just Say Know
• Joanna Haug - No “Bad Kids:” A Trauma-Informed, Restorative Guide to Re-Shaping School Discipline
• Tabitha Aditi - Permitless Carry, Policy and Me
• Brittney Delaney - Bettering the Understanding of Concurrent Care for its Louisiana Community
• Margaret McFarland - Thrive DC's Real Opportunities Job Training Program: A Program Evaluation
• Abbie Sussman - A Policy to Integrate Psychosocial Education in a Reentry Setting
• Kaylen Sanchez - Mitigating Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities through Community Gardening