Diane Oakes: notice of unprofessional conduct grievance

Diane Oakes/concerned parties:
This is to inform you that I am filing an unprofessional conduct grievance for the following:
1.) I sent you more than one email to contact regarding these issues to consult your professional opinion as a social worker entrusted with specific duties for my academic and professional development. As of this date, going on 4 months now, I have not heard from you. You simply chose to ignore my emails and everything going on within the department.
2. ) During the course of the semester, you had direct knowledge from emails I sent you about the clients I served in the community who are mostly people of color, elderly, and disabled, being abused and ignored by the Social Work department facing injustice. You saw emails and complaints from students in the program as well as professionals in the community testifying, decrying the Social Work department’s inability and carelessness in taking a stand or showing any leadership in the community as an institution who’s primary mission is to protect the vulnerable.

My field instructor, who has been practicing social work for over 40 years, also complained and personally came to the Social Work department to decry the abuse, but was ignored. Instead, you chose to ignore the suffering and abuse of these people, allowing the Social Work Department to accuse me of charges because I exposed these social issues. As a social worker, our professional and ethical obligation is to act in the presence of injustice.
According to NASW Code of Ethics, as a license social worker, I believe you violated the following:
1.01 Commitment to Clients
Social workers' primary responsibility is to promote the well-being of clients. In general, clients' interests are primary.
4.02 Discrimination
Social workers should not practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate with any form of discrimination on the basis of
race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, political belief, religion, or mental or
physical disability.

NOTE: I want a separate committee independent from the Social Work Department to conduct and handle all manners of this grievance process and investigation. Please forward this grievance to the appropriate department and concerned parties if you are not.

Best regards,
Andre