Darryl Varlack-Butler, MSW, MPS, CASACT
Social Worker, Educator, and Small Business Owner in New York City
Darryl Varlack-Butler is a Co-founder of WORTHshop Inc, a Social Worker, Restorative Justice Trainer and Facilitator, and Reentry Consultant. He graduated from Fordham University with an MSW and a New York Theological Seminary Master's degree in Professional Studies focusing on urban ministry, ethics, and pastoral counseling. He holds a bachelor's degree from Nyack College in organizational management as well as a Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor Trainee (CASACT).
While at Fordham, he traveled to Haiti to study the resiliency of culture devastated by disasters, global discrimination, and social mapping. He volunteered with the Beck Institute on Religion and Poverty with public speaking, fundraising, and supporting social justice for Veterans, Homeless, Domestic violence, and Returning Citizens.
He believes that to affirm worth is the catalyst for changing lives. To be human is to know pain and suffering that often leaves people not developing a healthy sense of worth. When a person cannot and does not see a place for themselves in the world, it leaves them meagerly surviving and existing. Such thinking contributes to high rates of drug/alcohol abuse, high school dropouts, homelessness, domestic violence, crime, PTSD, gang involvement, incarceration, and episodes that trigger mental illness.
Darryl is a skilled clinician using evidence-based strategies to counsel, educate, empower, and help people overcome situations, circumstances, and injuries to build a life of quality, happiness, and meaning. He is known for challenging all to be their "Beautiful Self." The past does not define nor imprison when people forgive and choose to live. Darryl addresses issues that adversely impact a person's worth, view of the world, and how they engage it through a Worth CircleⓇ for racial healing, family conflict, returning citizens, survivors of domestic violence, and sexual abuse. In his spare time, he hosts a social justice media project, Unbranded- an "on-air" independent show.
Ubuntu I am because we are, we are, therefore I am.