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SWK311: Diversity in a Multicultural Society: Websites & Videos

In this course, students use a diversity framework to examine the lived realities of populations-at-risk in The Bahamas. Emphasis is on the importance of enhancing diversity consciousness and cultural competence and models for engaging different populatio

Web Resources

Diversity Journal

Diversity Journal is dedicated to promoting and advancing diversity and inclusion in the corporate, government, nonprofit, higher education, and military sectors. 

 

International Multicultural Institute

The International MultiCultural Institute (iMCI) mission is to work with individuals, organizations, and communities to facilitate personal and systemic change in order to build an inclusive society that is strengthened and empowered by its diversity. 

 

Multicultural Resource

The Multicultural Resource Center (MRC) engages in cultural and systemic transformation by building with our communities to eliminate barriers to racial justice, cultural dignity, equity and inclusion, and indigenous rights. We conduct and support grassroots participation and activities that lift up underrepresented narratives and work centering people of color, indigenous peoples, low-income, and LGBTQ+ people.

 

National Association of Social Workers

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world. NASW works to enhance the professional growth and development of its members, to create and maintain professional standards, and to advance sound social policies.

 

National Center for Cultural Competence

The National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC) provides national leadership and contributes to the body of knowledge on cultural and linguistic competency within systems and organizations. Major emphasis is placed on translating evidence into policy and practice for programs and personnel concerned with health and mental health care delivery, administration, education and advocacy.

 

Understanding Prejudice

UnderstandingPrejudice.org is a website for students, teachers and others interested in the causes and consequences of prejudice. In these pages you will find more than 2,000 links to prejudice-related resources, as well as searchable databases with hundreds of prejudice researchers and social justice organizations. 

 

 

 

Videos

This training video on how to facilitate difficult conversations on multiculturalism and social justice was created by MSPP’s Clinical Psychology doctoral students, Fatin Alhadi and Sarah Tannenbaum, under the supervision of Jodie Kliman, Ph.D. This training video includes interviews with four experienced facilitators. Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Ed.D., MPH, Shani Dowd, B.A., LHD(hc), LCSW, Rick Pinderhughes, Psy.D., David Trimble, Ph.D. 

Source: ​Alhadi, Fatin and Sarah Tannenbaum,. "Facilitating Conversations on Multiculturalism & Social Justice." YouTube, uploaded by William James College, 18 Mar. 2015, https://youtu.be/q709-YvjDN8.

Eastern Kentucky University's Dr. Roger Cleveland, Ed. D. gives a focused organizational diversity lecture at the University of Kentucky sponsored by the College of Social Work.

Source: Cleveland, Roger. "University of Kentucky College of Social Work - Dr. Roger Cleveland, Ed. D. Lecture - 02/17/16." YouTube, uploaded by College of Social Work University of Kentucky, 22 Feb. 2016, https://youtu.be/X0cduLSN4qw.