Courses & Workshops

The JBFCS Multicultural and Anti-Racism Consultation and Training Service contracts with nonprofit human service agencies, educational institutions, community groups, government agencies, and corporations to provide consultation and training aimed at improving the effectiveness of services to people from all backgrounds, and actively undoing systemic racism within the organization and improving the work environment for staff from all backgrounds.

The Service

The Service team collaborates with an organization to design a customized menu of services that may include:

• Assessment of institutional needs
• Assessment of structures that may exist in your organization which support systemic racism
• Training for various levels of staff and students
• Train the Trainer
• Consultation re: developing and achieving organizational diversity, cultural competency and anti-racism goals
• Crisis intervention and management re: inter-group conflict
• Outcome evaluations

The Service Team

Director: Joan Adams, LCSW is a clinical social worker with experience as a therapist, clinical administrator, and as trainer and consultant about social identity, multiculturalism and anti-racism. Ms. Adams has taught and consulted in human service, educational, hospital, professional association and other settings.

Members of the team are multi-cultural, multiskilled JBFCS facilitators with expertise in mental health; graduate and post-graduate training; foster care; trauma treatment; and domestic violence services. The team consists of JBFCS clinicians; faculty; staff from Human Resources, inter-group relations, program evaluation and review; visiting scholars who are experts on anti-racism; and executive management.

One Day Workshop

Race, Culture and Other Aspects of Social Identity: Implications for Mental Health Practitioners in Relation to Self, Clients and other Workers

Understanding Whiteness: Applications of White Racial Identity Theory in Clinical Social Work