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1st Annual Human Services for Social Justice and Sustainability Conference @ CCSU Integrated Views to Promote Wellness through Education, Health Care, Wellness, Counseling & Therapy, and Social Work in the Context of Social Justice and Restorative Sustainability Creating a 50-year Plan for Greater Sustainability and Social Justice in Our Communities

6/3/2017
When: Saturday, June 3, 2017
9:00 AM
Where: Central CT State University - Memorial Hall Constitution Room
New Britain, Connecticut 
United States
Contact: Kurt Love
[email protected]

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1st Annual Human Services for Social Justice and Sustainability Conference @ CCSU

Integrated Views to Promote Wellness through Education, Health Care, Wellness, Counseling & Therapy, and Social Work in the Context of Social Justice and Restorative Sustainability

Creating a 50-year Plan for Greater Sustainability 
and Social Justice in Our Communities

Love, Peace, Life, Justice, Freedom, Equality

Keynote Speakers

Nelba Marquez-Greene

Nelba Marquez-Greene, LMFT

Founder & Executive Director of The Ana Grace Project, Sandy Hook Mother

Bill Curry

Bill Curry

Former Counselor to President Bill Clinton, two-time democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut.

Welcome Address

 

Chris Murphy

Senator Chris Murphy
 
Conference Title

Social Justice and Restorative Sustainability from "Womb to Tomb": Education, Health Care, Wellness, Counseling, and Social Work as Vital Components of Social Justice and Restorative Sustainability for Current and Future generations

Conference Theme

The Human Services for Social Justice and Sustainability Conference is a space for people across professions and disciplines to come together to discuss how to face current and likely intensifying challenges social, cultural, economic, and ecological challenges. We are the generations who are confronted with humanity's greatest challenge. Climate change, sustainability, peace, and social justice issues are all intertwined, and we need to address them simultaneously. We need to quickly and intelligently make some very important decisions together in order to move forward and shape our society into one that can negotiate these challenges peacefully, supportively, and successfully, while being in solidarity with one another. This is an all-hands-on-deck situation, and this is a unique conference that invites people from all walks of life to listen to each other as we collectively begin to develop a plan that takes into account our current challenges, invites us to develop our society into one that fully supports people so that they can provide their greatest contributions. 

Session Topics Include:
  • Mindfulness and Trauma & School Communities

  • Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline

  • The Future of School Funding – CCJEF vs. Rell

  • Holistic Views and Multi-Modal Approaches in Modern Medicine

  • Critically Examining White Privilege & Affluence

  • Interconnections between Sustainability and Social Justice

  • Culturally Responsive Teaching

  • Music as a Tool for Transformation

  • Empowering Mothers as Sources of Societal Wellness

  • Rates of Racial Profiling

 

All sessions connect with and culminate in a final afternoon session:

 "Creating a 50-Year Plan for Greater Sustainability and Social Justice in Our Communities."

Register:  http://www.ccsu.edu/hssjsc/

Sponsored by the School of Education and Professional Studies Governance Council SEPS-GC, outreach provided by www.yellowbrick.me