Social Work Precon: Race, Racism, and Implicit Bias: What can we do about it?

Moderators:

Betsy Boegeman, MSW, LGSW, LADC
Social Worker
Children’s Minnesota Cancer & Blood Disorders Program

Amanda Stahl, MSW, LICSW
Clinical Social Worker
Boston Hemophilia Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Speaker:

Ed Morales, MPP, MSW, LICSW
Principal
Socorro Consulting Minneapolis, MN

After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

• Recognize race as an independent factor in health equity.
• Discuss the barriers to health equity, including how racism affects health.
• Explain how implicit bias and stereotyping on the part of health care providers impacts racial disparities in health care, especially for children.
• Identify how education on issues of race, racism and ethnicity can provide a critical lens for health care providers.
• Develop concrete tools for moving towards health equity and improving our self-efficacy in treating patients from a wide diversity of racial and ethnic backgrounds.