Invitation: 5th Annual Social Work and Ecological Justice Symposium

Adelphi University School of Social Work Continuing Education and Professional Development and the Institute for Social Work and Ecological Justice are pleased to invite you to the 5th Annual Ecological Justice and Social Work symposium. This event is FREE for all participants, with 2 CEUs being available for $25.

As social, environmental, and political crises deepen, social workers and allied practitioners are called upon not only to witness injustice and oppression, but to refuse silence and inaction. Amid this ongoing mutual harm to minoritized peoples, species, and planet our work must confront grief, uplift resilience, and reimagine pathways for building sustainable futures and practice.

This symposium will offer space to reckon with our current reality and discuss essential tools aimed at resisting interlocking systems of oppression and environmental degradation. Presenters will share emerging approaches that honor embodied experience, community wisdom, trauma-informed care, and political engagement. Join us in this vital conversation, a space for reckoning with ecological and social trauma and for galvanizing resistance rooted in care, connection, and collective action.

We will have three exciting presentations:

Keynote: Joanne Cacciatore, School of Social Work at Arizona State University (ASU). Her area of research and practice is traumatic grief.

Voices of Impact Presentations:

• Sandra Engstrom, School Social Work at University of Stirling, & Amy Krings, College of Social Work Ohio State University Presenting on their Framework for Trauma-Informed Climate Research.

• Nathaniel Stinnett, Founder of the Environmental Voter Project.

Additionally, we have three opportunities for participation amongst attendees:

• Poster submission: Deadline, May 16th

• Blog post submission: Can be submitted through this link until the day of the symposium. Examples of Prior Posts

• Help us curate a collective playlist: Please share a favorite song so we can create a playlist for the Adelphi University School of Social Work & ISWEJ Virtual Symposium. Contribute songs that foster a sense of motivation and solidarity within the current political and planetary climate. We look forward to a dynamic playlist that will help move us from reckoning to resistance.

This event is FREE for all participants, with 2 CEUs being available for $25. Please visit our website for the full event description, and to register and/or submit content. We hope to see you there!