Rojano to Discuss "Power Building Strategies for Effective Treatment of Urban Families"

Ramón Rojano, Human Services Director for the city of Hartford, Connecticut, will discuss "Power Building Strategies for Effective Treatment of Urban Families" at Smith College on Friday, July 23, at 7:30 p.m.

Rojano's presentation, which will take place in Wright Hall auditorium, will include an outline of Community Family Therapy (CFT), a framework of strategies and techniques developed by Rojano to provide therapists with effective tools for treating families and clients within urban and community-based environments. The event is part of the Smith College School for Social Work's 1999 Summer Lecture Series.

Rojano, who serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, devised CFT to provide a positive response to therapists' questions such as "Could community issues be brought into the clinical practice?" and "What are the techniques that could help therapists build a bridge between clinical and social matters?"

"CFT combines traditional family therapy techniques with case management, leadership development, and community mobilization," Rojano explains. "By developing their own therapeutic resource network, therapists are also able to coordinate/provide additional services to clients and families, reducing their hopelessness and preventing burnout."

Rojano, who is also a member of the clinical faculty of the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at Central Connecticut State University, received degrees in psychiatry and medicine in Colombia and a masters degree in public health from the University of Connecticut.

The presentation is the eighth installment of the School for Social Work's 12-part lecture series. All series events are free and open to the public. The Smith College School for Social Work, which was founded in 1918, enrolls 450 students each year in master's and doctoral programs.

July 15, 1999