Thursday, March 13, 2025
9:00 AM -12:00 PM (CDT)
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM (GMT)
Free Online International Conference
INTERSECTIONALITY: IS POVERTY THE MISSING LINK?
All are invited to attend this free virtual conference that will bring together speakers from Jamaica, Canada and the United Kingdom exploring themes of intersection and poverty as it relates to social problems.
This conference will be of interest to people with lived experience of social work and social care services, social work practitioners, social work students, field instructors, practice educators and social work academics.
Conference Speakers
Social Work and Poverty: Realigning to Social Work Values in Education and Practice
Warren Smith
University of Wolverhampton, England
Warren Smith teaches and contributes to social work modules covering sociology, social policy, communities in context, and children & families law and practice across the MA and BA programmes. Smith has experience in a variety of children and family and youth justice social work settings as a support worker, social worker, senior social worker and manager. He is undertaking doctoral studies exploring governance networks at the sub-regional level.
Localizing Poverty Eradication across Canada
Leila Sarangi
Family Service Toronto & Campaign 2000
Leila Sarangi, Senior Director of Strategy and Innovation at FST and National Director of Campaign 2000: End Child and Family Poverty, brings with her over 25 years of non-profit leadership, coalition-building, and government relations experience. She is a seasoned campaigner, community builder and facilitator with a deep passion for connecting lived experiences to social action and public policy development to achieve long-term systemic change using intersectional and trauma informed praxis.
Hannah Barrie
Family Service Toronto & Campaign 2000
Hannah Barrie, Social Action Researcher for FST and Campaign 2000: End Child and Family Poverty, was the Project Researcher for Campaign 2000’s three-year Localizing Canada’s Commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals project, which engaged communities across the country to propose a community-based indicator framework for SDG 1: No Poverty. She holds an MA in Gender Studies and Feminist Research from McMaster University, and her interests include community-based participatory research, rights-based and trauma-informed engagement, and social policy analysis.
From social capital to no capital: How alumni from group and residential care in Trinidad and Tobago join the poverty line
Dr. Petra Roberts
Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Petra Roberts, Assistant Professor, School of Child and Youth Care has over 25 years of practical experience in ‘child protection’, child and adolescent mental health, family therapy, rural and northern social work practice. Her main research interests pertain to gendered experiences of residential care and treatment services in the Caribbean, and narrative methodologies with respect to the experiences of people in institutional care over the course of their lifespan.
Examining the Intersection of Poverty, Youth, and Agriculture: How Do Intersectional Identities Affect Access to Agricultural Resources and Opportunities in Rural Jamaica?
Dr. Khadijah Williams
Moneague College, Jamaica
Dr. Khadijah Williams is a researcher, educator, psychotherapist and consultant. With a career spanning over three decades, she is dedicated to bridging academia with real-world applications to foster innovation and drive social change. Her research focus includes crime and violence prevention, women and youth in agriculture, HIV/AIDS, family violence, residential care, natural disasters, migration impacts, eco-social work and more. She currently heads the Research and Development at Moneague College and co-founder of a rural residential school in Jamaica.
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