Social Work Global Conference Report 2017

Overview The 6 th Annual Conference on Social Work in the Global Environment was held on Friday November 17, 2017 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the McFarland Student Union, 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 2017 conference was “How do we build a fair, just, and peaceful world? Local efforts with global implications.” 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 Moravian Academy and ten juried paper 6th Annual Conference on Social Work in the Global Environment Event Summary • • • Event Name Annual Conference on Social Work in the Global Environment Theme “How do we build a fair, just, and peaceful world? Local efforts with global implications” Date Friday, November 17, 2017 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Venue McFarland Student Union at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania Number of Attendees 380 Conference Chair Dr. Barth Yeboah, Professor, Department of Social Work, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania yeboah@kutztown.edu Conference Coordinator Cate Gorham, BSW, MSW Candidate 2018, Graduate Assistant, Department of Social Work Kutztown University of Pennsylvania cgorh834@live.kutztown.edu 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. McFarland Student Union Department of Social Work November 17, 2017 How do we build a fair, just and peaceful world? Local efforts with global implications