Social Work Responds to Racism SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK STATEMENT ON RACISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE The School of Social Work condemns racism and the callous acts of violence behind the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and other African Americans. We mourn their deaths. We are committed to seeking racial justice and to actions that make positive change happen. We are committed to these actions with broad input and ongoing collaboration and dialogue. We are committed to ensuring that “social justice” is more than a phrase on our website. It is the focus of our mission. We strongly support our professional organization, the National Association of Social Workers, and its condemnation of lethal police force against unarmed African Americans. We also strongly support our educational accreditation body, the Council on Social Work Education, and its Statement of Social Justice and the Society for Social Work and Research’s Call and Commitment to Ending Police Brutality, Racial Injustice, and White Supremacy.
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