The Learning Center for (De)Carceral WELLBEING (LC4DW) prepares students for Anti-Racist Social Work (ARSW), and Interprofessional practice (IPP).  By  Attending to Suffering while seeking empathic Community Empowerment for their client-systems,  students have a unique experience of Reflective Learning.  Our LC4DW prepares students to address the “Just Society” practice suite of Grand Challenges for Social Work (GCSW): Researching, Teaching, and Practicing Interdisciplinary Collaboration.  Operating at the intersection of ARSW an IPP, this practicum links the Micro-to-Macro Social Work domains in support of the Seattle C.A.R.E. Department's mission of being a national model for appropriate, non-lethal, First-Responder, expansion.

Along with American Indian, Black Empowerment, Rural S.W. and more, Anti-Racist Social Work [named (De)Carceral #WELLBEING Social Work (DWSW) here] asserts the essential need to engage the DYSJUNCTURE of Dual Roles.  So--in places where Racism is prominent--the Core Work of most work will be seen by most people as distinct from the racism of its context AND thus, that the latter can be ignored. DWSW rejects this; concurrently crafting A) the doing of good Core Work within society’s institutions, while B) challenging the Racism at work that undermines society’s institutions. Seeking always to create and sustain Interprofessional relationship, DWSW also presumes the likely proximity of its Core Work to expressions of Racism. And—since these can be tactfully engaged and sometimes successfully disrupted—DWSW seeks to recognize these realities and repair the relationships they rupture.

Examples of Duties
• Provides immediate mental, behavioral, social, and/or emotional assessment and treatment.
• Assists and refers individuals with access to community resources based on their needs.
• Monitors communication equipment to maintain contact with dispatchers and other City personnel.
• Communicates with a wide range of individuals and service providers.
• Documents services provided to individuals.
• Performs other related duties of a comparable level/type as assigned.

Distinguishing Characteristics of the Class:
This is the first level in the Community Crisis Responder series.  This class is dispatched to emergency and non-emergency sites to help individuals from harm or abuse by providing immediate support and services. Deferring to the Community Crisis Responder II, in that the latter leads and provides guidance and advice to lower-level staff and handles the most complex requests for service, positions in this class require working knowledge of human behavior, sociology, psychology, and other social science disciplines using Motivational Interviewing, advocacy, empathy, communication, active listening, de-escalation, and crisis intervention skills to attend to individuals. While a decidedly smaller part of this work, some Community-engaged Practice can be infused into this work with Field Insructor approval.

While a decidedly smaller part of this work, some Policy & Polity-planning Practice can be infused into this work with Field Insructor approval.

Part-time employment at the City of Seattle; Salary : $23.40/hour

Minimum Qualifications
Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field; and one year experience working with individuals with mental, behavioral, social, and / or emotional health concerns (or a combination of education and / or training and / or experience which provides an equivalent background required to perform the work of the class).

Work Environment/Physical Demands
• Required to be exposed to adverse weather conditions.
• Exposed to toxic / hazardous / biohazard substances.
• Preferred that student can operate automotive vehicles.
• Required to lift up to 50 pounds.
• Work involves sensitive contact with people who are in crisis and / or may be utilizing substances.

License, Certification and Other Requirements
Current State of Washington driver’s license.
Comments
Class history: Effective July 1, 2023. Class adopted September 19, 2023. This description was prepared to indicate the kinds of activities and levels of work difficulty required of positions in this class. It is not intended as a complete list of specific duties and responsibilities.

Anti-Racist WORK— Explorations and Engagements
DWSW contends optimal learning attends to the cubed experiential, empowerment categories of A) Ourselves, B) our practicum site’s ecology & supervision, and C) our society. While engaging these across three (or more) 10-week time-frames, Students will correspondingly engage these through the three curriculum constructions of: “Carcerality” (21st C. Racism), “(De)Carceral #WELLBEING” (Anti-Racism), and “Identifying my DWSW, Interprofessional Practice (IPP) priorities.”
NOTE: The Corresponding ,Three Credit Elective Seminar is Required: Micro-to-Macro Seminar readings, consults and groupwork are a requirement of this practicum, as negotiated with LC4DW Coordinators and FI’s. These will include learning activities involving up to—but not exceeding—the equiveillance of one credit per quarter.

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