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    7. ) While we participated in civil rights movements in the 1950s and 1960s, many Social Services agents referred many women of color to doctors who sterilized them against their knowledge.

    8. ) Ministers, Pastor and all Clergy; Our approach to diversity within our communities will influence whether we work toward social Justice exclusion or inclusion.

    9. ) Will we work toward the rejection, tolerance, acceptance, or celebration of the different groups that make up our communities?

    10. ) If we are to work toward social justice, we need to engage in the work involved in celebrating difference and diversity.

    Let us Consider Using the word celebrate based on its original meanings, which refers to honor, respect, or recognize.

    We must move beyond tolerating or accepting those who are different from ourselves to a position of cultural humility that requires us to question our own background and experiences to work in partnership with others.

    When working from this perspective, we, as social workers, must be engaged in ongoing self-assessment and awareness of how power differences affect our ability to be genuinely helpful.

    11. ) This process is an essential element of social justice work.

    Celebrating diversity means working as an ally and advocating for marginalized and oppressed groups.

    12. ) We are allies to others when we can recognize and use the sources of our privilege to advance the rights of those who do not share our own identities or backgrounds.

    We need to ask ourselves how we can use the knowledge we have of unjust practices toward individuals and groups in society to work toward changes to improve their situation.

    Our knowledge and unique experiences can be used to join with others and create new movements to reduce poverty, improve access to healthcare, support families, and eliminate discrimination on the basis of our social Justice identities.

    The United States is becoming an increasingly multiracial, multicultural, and multiethnic society.

    At the same time, conditions of economic inequality by gender and race have not improved nearly Enough.

    These trends in the substance and structure of society challenge our profession to evaluate how we address these demographic shifts.

    It is our responsibility as social Justice Advocates, and workers; to strategically use our position and privilege to work toward greater equality.

    There is no other ethical choice for us, As minsters of the gospel of Jesus Christ, nor as Community Leaders who provide a wide range of Social Justice Services.

    Respectfully Submitted; Dr. Tim Lucas Adams, Th. D.

    Member Social Justice Committee

    Copyright, 2013 T. Lucas Adams, Th. D.

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    From: Dr. Tim Adams, Th. D., Committee Member,

    Social Justice Committee

    1. ) A short, initial survey of some of our considerations to be social justice issues facing Our social Justice Committee and the Central Florida Community today.

    There were many diverse issues; but the issues that follow are some of the pressing concerns show up most frequently on the lists of our Community Needs Assessments.

    These are regarded as the most serious that our Central Florida society faces today and I, Dr. Tim Lucas Adams, ask that you compare these with your own list; and then courteously share your ideas and input; with all of the Committee members, Please..

    2. ) Seeking Constructive Diversity
    Our commitment to social justice and supportive work, that involves many of us in social Justice work and keeps us here.

    Growing up in the 1960s and early 1970s, the power of the people to transform society and work toward greater gender, racial, and ethnic equality was clear.

    During my undergraduate years, I learned that social Justice Advocates, who are workers active in the progressive movements were at the forefront of policies that;

    a. ) Reduced working hours,

    b. ) Restricted child labor, and

    c. ) Created public health clinics to improve conditions for low-income families.

    These models for how we can change our society shaped our involvement in organizations to end violence against women and work toward the empowerment of diverse groups.

    3. ) Our path as a social Justice Advocates and workers, is not unique. Regardless of our setting, all social Justice Advocates workers are engaged in work related to oppression and social injustice.

    We are more aware than most people of the challenges faced by children and families living in poverty, the inadequacy of our so-called: "safety net" of human services, the disproportionate incarceration of men of color, and the challenges experienced by those living with disabilities.

    We do this work while living and working in a society where groups have mobilized to restrict or eliminate existing rights such as public education for immigrants and the children of immigrants, considerations now being debated; concerning domestic partnerships, and access to reproductive healthcare for adolescent and mature women in society.

    4. ) Surviving and thriving as a social Justice advocate and worker requires that we have a true appreciation for human diversity and understand how social identities affect access to resources.

    5. ) Throughout our history, social Justice advocates, such as the members of our Committee; have been agents of both liberation and oppression. During the same era that we founded social settlements, we, as a Nation; were involved in the incarceration of Native American children in boarding schools.

    6. ) While Many of us were actively involved in crafting and Changing the Aspects the various sections and implementation, by our Community, of the Social Security Act, we, as a Nation; participated in the deportation of Mexican American families who were "public charges."

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