Presented by Isabel Logan, EdD, LCSW
Executive Director and Co-founder of the Social Work & Law Enforcement Project

A Virtual Event – ZOOM ID: 724 869 4971
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This presentation begins with a brief history of the evolution of police social workers within the context of discrimination, social policies, and their most recent call to address the mental health crisis, and build community trust, particularly of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and People of Color (BILPOC). Drawing from Columbia University Professor Derald Wing Sue’s taxonomy on microaggressions, the challenges encountered by police social workers will be highlighted. The impact of those challenges professionally and personally will also be discussed at the micro, mezzo, and macro level, as well as policy and practice implications.

In this presentation, Isabel Logan will share information about the history of police social work within the context of discrimination, social policies, mental health, and community trust. She will cover the different concepts of microaggressions encountered by police social workers. A goal of the presentation is for participants to be able to identify the impact of microaggressions experienced by police social workers personally and professionally at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels, and find ways to navigate them when working with BILPOC.

Logan is an associate professor of Social Work at Southern Connecticut State University. She maintains a small consulting and clinical practice. Logan began her career in academia as a professor of Social Work at Eastern Connecticut State University in 2016. Before working in academia, she worked 20 years as a social worker for the Connecticut Division of Public Defender Services in New Haven (Conn.) Superior Court and Superior Court for Juvenile Matters in Hartford.

This event is free and open to the Springfield College community and the public.

Questions? Please contact Jacqueline Lehoullier at jlehoullier@springfield.edu or (413) 748-3001.

The Department of Social Work’s THRIVE Scholars Program is funded in part thanks to a $300,000 grant received from Boston Children’s Hospital’s Collaboration for Community Health in spring 2022.