February 21, 2025: Asset-based Policies for Delivering Black Reparations

Friday, February 21, 2025
1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Pre-register by February 14, 2025

This course will be in-person on SLU Campus at:
Il Monestaro
3050 Olive St.
St. Louis, MO 63103

3 CEHs

$45.00 SLU Alumni and pre-registered SLU practicum instructors

$65.00 All others

Course Description
Presenter: Jin Huang, Ph.D., MSW

Title: Asset-based Policies for Delivering Black Reparations
*Meets Diversity Requirements

Learning Objectives:
  • Assess the policy and practice development of Black reparations
  • Explore the policy delivery mechanism of Black reparations
  • Describe the potential of asset-based policies as a policy delivery mechanism for Black reparations

Course Description: This session will discuss how to design policy vehicles for delivering Black reparations to support asset protection and asset growth for Black families. The session will discuss the recent development of Black reparations and will use empirical evidence to investigate the effective and sustainable policy options for the reparations goal. 

Bio: Jin Huang, Ph.D., MSW, is Professor at Saint Louis University School of Social Work and Research Professor at Center for Social Development, Washington University in St. Louis. He is interested in global social policies, with a particular focus on structural and institutional strategies to build financial capability and assets for all families to achieve financial inclusion and equity. Dr. Huang is one of the co-leads of the network to “Build financial capability and assets for all,” which is one of the 13 grand challenges for social work. He has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including JAMA Pediatrics, American Journal of Public Health, Social Science & Medicine, Social Science Research, and Social Service Review. Dr. Huang has collaborated with researchers on multiple international financial capability and asset-building and Child Development Account policy projects, including mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Israel, and others. He is one of the co-editors of the book, “Inclusive Child Development Accounts: Toward Universality and Progressivity” (2020, Routledge).

Price:

$65.00