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Equity and Justice for All? Examining Aspects of Race and Socioeconomics Within the Criminal Justice System

This webinar is live, real-time and interactive. Participants will earn 2 CE Credits. For many states, live, interactive webinars count the same as in person.

Presenter: Dr. Crystal McLeod, LCSW, DSW

Wednesday, May 26, 2021

8:00PM – 10:00PM EDT

Live Webinar

$39.99

 

We invite you to join an eye-opening dialogue, gaining a deeper understanding of the intersection of race and the criminal justice system with Dr. Crystal McLeod. Participants will study the direct impact of the criminal justice system on the mental health of black Americans, including community impact and financial limitations as a result of their involvement within this system. Dr. McLeod will also discuss social norms and labeling theories, along with their impact on recidivism, while exploring the concepts of rehabilitation vs incarceration.

 

Dr. McLeod is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who currently serves in the United States Air Force. She is also an instructor at the University of Kentucky, teaching Understanding Poverty, Inequality, and Injustice in the College of Social Work. As a clinician Dr. McLeod has over 13 years of experience working in the mental health profession where she initially started her career as a young social worker in child welfare. Her work also includes working in areas of family violence and substance abuse, with most of her clinical depth being trauma, depression, anxiety and culturally appropriated care.

 

As a trainer and facilitator, she has spent the last 10 years of her career in positions of leadership where she has impacted efficient delivery of quality patient care and disruption of team progression. She has excelled working in collaborative, cross functional environments as a thought leader. Eager to help other others, Dr. McLeod dedicates her time speaking life into audiences nationwide. Whether online or on stage, she uses wit and charisma to bring light to dark spaces and encourages others not to shrink at the sight of adversity but to rise to the challenge. In her spare time Dr. McLeod enjoys traveling, blogging, writing and tweeting.

 

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For Webinar participants, the link to enter your webinar will be emailed to you shortly after you register – If you do not receive this email within 1 hour of registration, please alert us at support@ceyou.org or call 929-352-3968.

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Learning objectives – Participants will gain enhanced insight surrounding:

• The intersection of race and the criminal justice system and
  direct impact of the criminal justice system on the mental health of black Americans
• Social norms and labeling theories, along with their impact on recidivism
• The concepts of rehabilitation vs incarceration

This presentation is open to:

• Social Workers
• Professional Counselors
• Therapists
• Psychologists
• Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
• Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services

and is beneficial for:

• New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
• Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
• Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
• Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

CE You LLC #1573 is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE You LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period 3/27/2021 – 3/27/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

CE You LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0437