11/16: Dialogue on Human Rights: Human Rights in Human Services

Dialogue on Human Rights
The 4th in a Series of Presentations/Discussions
hosted by Social Welfare Action Alliance - Rochester Chapter
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Human Rights in Human Services
Support for clients and workers

a round-table discussion
Fred Newdom, ACSW, facilitator

Fred Newdom is Chair of the Social Welfare Policy
sequence and Coordinator of Community Practice
at the Smith College School for Social Work


Friday, November 16, 2012 at 6:30 pm
Location - Rochester Friends Meeting House
84 Scio St. (entrance at Charlotte St.), Rochester 14604
parking in East End Garage or on Charlotte Street
This event is not affiliated with the Rochester Meeting of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)


“Social work can defend its standards only if it
realizes the organized nature of the opposition to it,
why these interests are opposed, and where its own
allies are to be found.”
Bertha Capen Reynolds
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Who should participate - Anyone concerned about human rights, including but
not limited to SWAA members and friends, human service workers, social workers,
social work students, people in support of civil and human rights for traditionally
excluded groups.

For more information about SWAA or the event contact us at
swaa@swaarochester.org or visit our website at www.SWAARochester.org
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SWAA is an organization of progressive social workers and individuals involved
in human services dedicated to activism for social and economic justice.
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FRED NEWDOM, ACSW, is Chair of the Social Welfare Policy sequence and Coordinator of Community Practice at the Smith College School for Social Work. He is co-author of Clinical Work and Social Action: An Integrative Approach: an approach to bridging the artificial division between these two aspects of effective clinical work. His work at Smith also includes advising students in their thesis projects in the areas of anti-racism, social justice and social policy. His additional work includes serving as a lobbyist on behalf of New York’s WIC Program, advocacy training with the Independent Living movement, and consulting with social justice organizations such as The NY AIDS Coalition, the NYS Black Gay Network and the NY Community Action Association. He was a founding member and long-time chair of the Social Welfare Action Alliance (formerly the Bertha Reynolds Society), a national organization of progressive workers in social welfare. Fred also has served in a number of staff and volunteer leadership roles with the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), nationally and in New York.