Name: Creating Safer, Braver Spaces for our Kids: Allyship, Parenting, and Professionalism
SKU: 16911
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Families impacted by adoption face a world that is charged with racial injustice, persistent disparities and unsure futures. Many adoptive families are transracial, and all adoptive families are transcultural. How do we as parents and professionals create safer, braver spaces for our kids and ourselves to confront the biases and systemic injustices that have suppressed the futures of so many?

In this webinar, we will explore the vital importance of confronting systemic bias as parents and professionals who work with system-involved children and their families. Through lecture, video and personal reflection, we will discuss how systemic bias places limits on our children, how it works to exclude them from many areas of society, and how we can be vital links in changing the narrative. Join us to learn about the latest research and testimony regarding the role of parents and professionals in championing more just societies, and leave with concrete strategies to create more peaceful, compassionate spaces our communities.

Ed Morales, MSW, MPP, LICSW

Since 2011, Ed Morales has worked with more than 1,000 kids and their families, first as a school social worker, then as a school-based therapist, and now as a trainer, parent, and educator who has partnered with more than two dozen agencies and organizations across the United States to provide training and consultation on children’s mental health, managing challenging behavior, and implicit bias.

Ed works as a Trainer with the Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy and as a social worker with Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, serves on the Minnesota Subcommittee on Children’s Mental Health, and is a member of the community faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Ed is the founder of Socorro Consulting and Training, an organization dedicated to creating a more peaceful, compassionate world for young people and their families.

The transracially adoptive parent of two remarkable sisters, Ed lives in North Minneapolis with his family.