Doin’ The Work: Frontline Stories of Social Change
Society & Culture
Episode 22
Guest: Rachel Frome, MSW
Host: Shimon Cohen, LCSW
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In this episode, I talk with Rachel Frome, who is the Program Coordinator of Social Workers Against Solitary Confinement, a national task force dedicated to ending solitary confinement. Rachel discusses the negative impacts of solitary confinement, especially how it can cause and exacerbate mental health issues. She describes alternatives to solitary confinement, as well as the challenges of organizing for an end to solitary, and how lawmakers and those running prisons use wording such as “administrative segregation” as a way to deny that prisoners are held in solitary. We explore the connection between the work to abolish solitary confinement with the work to end mass incarceration, as well as the dialogue Social Workers Against Solitary Confinement has with social workers who work in these settings. Rachel shares the story of how she got into this work and urges all social workers to work to abolish solitary confinement and mass incarceration. I hope you enjoy the conversation.
Website: https://www.socialworkersasc.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SWASC/
Twitter: @end_solitary
Email: contactSWASC@gmail.com
Personal email: rachelfrome@gmail.com
Conference Info
Operation Stop CPS – Amanda Wallace, BSW
Liberation Health Model – Dawn Belkin Martinez, PhD, LICSW
Liberatory Lawyering to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline – Ashleigh Washington, JD & Ruth Cusick, JD
Constructing a White Nation: Social Work in the Americanization Movement – Yoosun Park, MSW, PhD
Paid Social Work Internships Part 2 FED UP – Beth Wagner, Claire Mancuso, Natalia Norzagaray & Parham Daghighi
Paid Social Work Internships Part 1 Payment 4 Placements – Matt Dargay, MSW & Arie Davey, LLMSW
Understanding Antisemitism and Racism – Kohenet Shoshana A Brown, LMSW & Autumn Leonard
Creating Culturally Safe Spaces for Indigenous Populations – Turquoise Skye Devereaux, MSW
Organizing to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline – Jewel Patterson, MS; Edgar Ibarria; Nicole Bates, JD
Race Doesn’t Exist Without Racism – Deadric Williams, PhD
Addressing Racism in Social Work Licensing #StopASWB – Charla Yearwood, LCSW; Cassandra Walker, LCSW, CCTP; Alan Dettlaff, PhD, MSW
Surviving Racism in Academia – Maxine Davis, MSW, MBA, PhD
Trans Rights and Justice in a Time of Anti-Trans Attacks – Daye Pope
Racial Equity in Psychiatry and Mental Health – Jessica Isom, MD, MPH
Stop Playing Diversity – Monica Cox, PhD
Abolish the Family Policing System (”Child Welfare”) – Joyce McMillan & Victoria, MSW
Exposing the Right-Wing & Corporate Takeover of Education & Democracy – Jasmine Banks
Stop Whitewashing Social Work History: Tell the Truth – Kelechi Wright, LCPC & Kortney Carr, LCSW
Decolonizing Mental Health & Supporting Indigenous Women – Tyra Wanatee-Flores, BSW
Taking Action on Social Determinants of Health – Armen Henderson, MD
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