Social Work Global Conference Report 2016

Environmental and Ecological Justice, Human Rights and Socio-Economic Justice: Local and Global Response Overview The 5 th Annual Conference on Social Work in the Global Environment was held on Friday November 11, 2016 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Academic Forum, at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. The aim of the Social Work in the Global Environment Conference is to contribute to the local-global perspectives in social work, utilizing the strategy: Thinking globally and acting locally. The theme for the 2016 conference was “Environmental and Ecological Justice, Human Rights and Socio-Economic Justice: Local and Global Response.” The conference program focused on Globalization, industrialization, environmental injustice and racism and judicial recourse, grassroots environmentalism, global conflicts, and local-global responses in building ecological and environmental literacy. T he conference featured an invited keynote speaker from Texas State University 5th Annual Conference on Social Work in the Global Environment - Evaluation Report Kutztown University Department of Social Work 610-683-4235 11/11/2016 Academic Forum Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Event Summary • • • Event Name Annual Conference on Social Work in the Global Environment Theme “Environmental and Ecological Justice, Human Rights and Socio-Economic Justice: Local and Global Response” Date Friday, November 11, 2016 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Venue Academic Forum at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Number of Attendees 265 Conference Chair Dr. Barth Yeboah, Professor, Department of Social Work, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania yeboah@kutztown.edu Conference Coordinator Brittany Fritchman, BSW, MSW Candidate 2017, Graduate Assistant, Department of Social Work Kutztown University of Pennsylvania bfrit737@live.kutztown.edu 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.