Exploring the Impact of Implicit Bias

July 10, 2018, 9:30am - 4:30pm
2101 N Front Street, Governor's Plaza North, Bldg #2, Harrisburg, PA 17110

Audience

Victim advocates, law enforcement, prosecutors, and allied professionals.

Summary

nbsp; This training will increase the participant's understanding of implicit bias and how implicit bias may impact responses to sexual violence. Additionally we will explore the links between sexual violence and oppression, and outline ways multidisciplinary teams can work to mitigate the effects of implicit bias on victims and the criminal justice response to sexual violence.

Presenters

Sara Goodkind, PhD

nbsp; Associate Professor Sara Goodkind earned a PhD in social work and sociology, a graduate certificate in women’s studies, and an MSW, all from the University of Michigan. Goodkind’s research and scholarship focus on marginalized youth and the inequities they experience. Much of her work examines social service programs and systems that work with young people, concentrating on young people’s experiences in educational, child welfare, and juvenile justice systems and how these systems both construct and meet the needs of the young people they serve. Dr. Goodkind developed her scholarly interests as a result of working with youth, as a teacher, mentor, facilitator, and social worker. She utilizes a critical perspective in her work to examine understandings of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and age that shape service design and delivery and then to explore the effects of this service provision, with the aim of ensuring that interventions are culturally relevant, gender responsive, fair, and effective. Dr. Goodkind’s research also focuses on institutional biases and systemic inequities, tracing young people’s pathways through systems and providing evidence and advocacy for much-needed policy change. Much of this work is via community-based participatory research projects that engage youth as collaborators in effecting systemic change.

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