NewsFlashs : 10th Biennial conference of Caribbean and International Social Work Educators

Acts of congress Acts of congress will be published at the end of september in " All the abstracts"...
Acts of congress Acts of congress will be published at the end of september in " All the abstracts"...

PROGRAMME

Running comittee

Conference organizers :

The congress running board is chaired by Mr Daniel Bardet, president of the U.R.A.S.S and among the team are:

Gilles DUPIN de MAJOUBERT: URASS Vice chairman and associate administrator

Gilles JEAN-BAPTISTE: URASS Executive director

Pierre MONTLOUIS CALIXTE : IFMES Executive Director

France-Lyne FANON: URASS secretary

Marguerite BOURGEOIS : URASS treasurer

Jacques TRESDOIS : A.A.R.P.H.A chairman

Frantz REMY : A.M.D.O.R director

Yvette EBION : Assessor

Dassa BLEGNE: educational head

Bertrand FRANCOIS-LUBIN: I.F.M.E.S trainer and coordinator of the research unit

Mme Marie Chantal CYRILLE : A.M.E chairman

Stephen De THORE: executive director

Emilie MARIE : Project manager

In association with the members of the ACSWE executive:

Letnie Rock, President, UWI, Cave Hill Campus
Starla Acosta, Secretary, University of Belize
Kimberly Hinds, Treasurer, UWI, Mona Campus
Monica Miller, Member, University of Guyana
Khadija Williams-Peters, Member at Large, Trinidad
Keith Carlo, Member at large, Curacao
Frantz Remy, Coopted member, Martinique
Peta Anne Baker, Coopted, immediate Past president
Jennifer Holder Dolly, past President

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Sub – themes

Youth and community development

Social Work and social exclusion within the Caribbean region

Accreditation and employment accessibility within the Caribbean and other countries

Student exchanges

Cultural and professional identity of social workers within the Caribbean

Minority groups:
- Elderly     - Poor
- Persons with HIV and AIDS  -Street children
- Physically and/or mentally challenged -Mentally ill
- Immigrants    -Deportees

Social policies of the Caribbean

Environment and vulnerability

Social Work and sustainable development

Culture and social issues (using the nuances of Caribbean culture to solve social is sues)

Impact of globalisation on Social Work

Millennium Development Goals and the Caribbean

Social Work and human rights

Social work responses to social issues (poverty, inter-regional migration, immigration, child abuse and neglect, homelessness, intimate partner violence, crime and violence, human trafficking, HIV and AIDS, etc.)