2024 JV Caprez Social Work Field Day
Friday, April 12, 2024
9:00am - 4:00pm CST
Memorial Union Ballroom and Zoom
Title: Female Genital Mutilation-A Local Problem
Speaker: Sean Callaghen and Michele Hanash, The AHA Foundation
Sponsored by: Social Work Club
6 Ethics CEUs available
Objectives:
- Understand the definition of female genital mutilation (FGM)
- Recognize the serious health risks caused by the practice of FGM
- Understand the federal and local laws against the practice
- Recognize the reasons for FGM
- Understand the role of the social worker/psychologist in tackling FGM
- Understand how to manage a referral when a child is at risk of FGM or may have experienced the practice
- Understand how to use FGM risk assessment tool
- Understand how to manage casework
- Know where to signpost women and girls to appropriate support services
Presentator Information
Sean Callaghan is Head of Research and Programmes at Orchid Project, a UK- and Kenya-based anti-FGM organisation. He holds an MPhil and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Leicester, where his research is focused on FGM in the immigrant population resident in the United States.
Callaghan, S. (2023) recently published a report with AHA Foundation entitled: Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in the United States. A study of the prevalence, distribution, and impact of FGM/C in the U.S., 2015-2019 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/7a9c3)
Michele Hanash is an experienced attorney and women’s and children’s rights advocate. As the Director of Policy and Women’s Programs at the AHA Foundation, Michele leads the foundation’s advocacy efforts and women’s rights programs. Michele trains professionals around the country on FGM awareness and prevention and works to enact policy and legislation to end FGM on the federal and state level. She serves on the Steering Committee of the U.S. Coalition to End Child Marriage.
JV Caprez Social Work Field Day Information
This event is free, open to the public, and offered face to face as well as zoom. If you wish to attend and do not need CEUs, email socialwork@fhsu.edu your name, email address and if you are attending in person or via zoom, so we can register you.
If participants are requesting CEU for the event, the cost is $50. Registration is non-refundable. If participants register as a zoom attendee, the zoom link will be emailed one day prior to the event. Attendees will receive CEU certificates after the event.
Parking: please park in lot A2 or lot A3 by the Memorial Union and behind the President’s House/Stroup Hall.
Click on the registration link below to complete your registration if you are receiving CEUs.
Any questions about Field Day? Email socialwork@fhsu.edu
Resources (TBA)