Get Involved
Info and resources for celebrating diversity as well as ADEI related activities within the school and local community.
Celebrate Diversity
Cultural and Identity Celebration Months
Featured Monthly Celebration
Fall 2024 Welcome
“You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So ... get on your way!”
―Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”
As this new school year begins, I’d like to welcome everyone and ask that you reach out and share appreciation for someone in our community whether virtually or on campus!
(See more tips for connection below).
Stay Connected
- Please bookmark and visit the ADEI webpages (this is one of them!) for further details on resources, upcoming events, and ways to get involved!
- Add the SOWK Community Calendar to your USC Google calendar to stay updated on upcoming SOWK events!
If you would like to get involved in other ways or have community-building ideas, please reach out to Ann Marie Yamada.
Get Involved
- To support a professional and inclusive learning environment we have designed some school spirit Zoom backgrounds. The Zoom backgrounds in this Google Drive folder are a few to consider using during class.
Have your own design idea? Official school Zoom backgrounds must follow USC identity guidelines and be consistent with our student code of conduct. Send your designs in for consideration to be added to our selection!
Upcoming Events
Let’s Get Real! Virtual Book Club! - September 11, 2024 @7pm to 8pm
Join us for our next Social Justice Book Club Meeting! Our pick for September will be American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures edited by America Ferrera. America invited thirty-one of her friends, peers, and heroes to share their stories about life between cultures. We know them as actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, artists, and writers. However, they are also immigrants, children or grandchildren of immigrants, indigenous people, or people who otherwise grew up with deep and personal connections to more than one culture.
Registration Link: September Book Club Registration
"Real Talk," a monthly California Society for Clinical Social Work Clinical Consultation/Support Group For Social Workers Who Identify as BIPOC - September 17, 2024 @4:30pm to 5:30pm PST [Virtual]
"Real Talk", a clinical consultation/support group developed with the oversight of the CSCSW's Diversity, Equity and Transformation (DET) Committee, the purpose of which is to provide a space for clinical social workers who identify as being Black, Indigenous, Mixed Race, or Person of Color (BIPOC) to meet on a monthly basis. The focus of this group is to provide an opportunity for networking, building solidarity, exploring intersectionality, and decolonizing our practice.
Registration Link: https://www.clinicalsocialworksociety.org/event-5844378
USC Culture Survey Report Back Session for the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work - September 18, 2024 @1pm to 2pm PST [Virtual]
Staff, faculty, and students are invited to join us for this virtual webinar facilitated by trained USC Culture Facilitators. During the Report Back session, our community will learn more about the survey results specific to the Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and key values we selected for further exploration.
Registration Link: Report Back Session
Stay Tuned! Future Events
Let’s Get Real! Virtual Book Club! - October 9, 2024 @7pm to 8pm
Join us for our October Social Justice Book Club Meeting! Our pick for October will be Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario. A true story from award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounting the odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. It is an epic journey, one thousands of immigrant children make each year to find their mothers in the United States.
Registration Link: October Book Club Registration