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University Commencement
May 1, 2021
Address: University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 -
Grades due (or 72 hours after exam, whichever comes first)
May 1, 2021
Address: University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 -
School of Social Work Commencement
May 1, 2021 - 10:00am
The School of Social Work Spring Commencement ceremony will be a live ceremony which students and faculty join through Zoom. Staff and students' families, etc. will be able to view the ceremony via live streaming on the School of Social Work site. The ceremony will also be recorded and posted on the SSW site for those who need to watch at another time. More information will be shared as the date approaches.
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JCLP Virtual Graduation Celebration 2021
May 2, 2021 - 10:00am to 12:00pm
Please join us for the annual celebration of the graduates of the Jewish Communal Leadership Program at the University of Michigan School of Social Work in partnership with the Jean and Sammuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.
Sunday, May 2nd: 10 AM - 12 PM EST.
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Field Education begins and Registration for NCFD students
May 4, 2021
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For Admitted Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
May 5, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Congratulations! Newly admitted MSW Students can connect virtually with Current MSW students regarding the MSW program!
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? What is Ann Arbor like in the Winter? Join an MSW student as well as other admitted MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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Basic Skills for Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
May 6, 2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
DBT is an empirically supported treatment for individuals with severe emotionally regulation problems. Part of the treatment consists of teaching individuals specific skill sets in mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotional regulation and distress tolerance. Participants will learn an overview of these skills and how to integrate these skills into their clinical practice.
This workshop will present an introduction to DBT theory and skills with use of 2 clinical cases.Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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2021 PEG Michigan Association for Evaluation Workshop
May 6, 2021 to May 7, 2021
The Michigan Association for Evaluation is thrilled to announce Dr. Dominica McBride as the keynote speaker for the 2021 virtual conference. The theme for this year's conference is The Promise of Equitable Evaluation: A Journey From Theory to Practice.
Dr. Dominica McBride is a leading thinker on how we evolve beyond the current racial-equity paradigm, a champion of Culturally Responsive Evaluation, and a grassroots advocacy strategist.
Culturally responsive evaluation has evolved and the situation today requires a direct action approach with the communities we engage with. We need a liberated consciousness and the actions that come out of that consciousness to confront these times. How can we shape our inner and collective consciousness to create structural transformation? This talk is going to be about what that looks like. It'll be engaging with exercises to get us in that reflective mode and ready to be leaders in the transformation that could take place right now.
Learn more about the conference »
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Final Public School Placement Educational Agreement Due - All GRADUATING Students
May 6, 2021 - 5:00pm
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Evidence-based Parenting Interventions to Help Parents Reduce the Use of Physical Punishment
May 7, 2021 - 9:00am to 12:15pm
Note: This training is available for free to MDHHS-affiliated child welfare workers.
This course focuses on an issue that many social workers confront in their practice with children and families - the use of discipline and physical punishment in childrearing. This course examines research on the effectiveness of a wide range of parental disciplinary approaches. This course introduces a series of evidence-based parenting interventions, and discusses how these interventions approach parents' beliefs and behaviors related to child discipline. We will discuss how cultural norms and beliefs may influence parents' discipline choices, and how social workers can engage in productive dialogue with parents to help parents achieve their parenting aims. Content of this course is based on the book published by the instructor titled "Ending the physical punishment of children: A guide for clinicians and practitioners."Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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For Prospective Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
May 7, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? Join an MSW student as well as other prospective MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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Sexual Health Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Practice
May 7, 2021 - 2:00pm to 5:00pm
The objective of this training is to help mental health professionals develop confidence and a skill set for discussing sexual identity, health/wellness, and intimacy with their clients. Fundamentals of sex therapy from a biopsychosocial approach will be covered to ensure that participants feel well-equipped to incorporate sexual functioning into their core approach to assessment and treatment. The learner will understand the ramifications of relegating this topic to a "specialized" treatment approach and feel skilled and capable in addressing sex therapy topics as a foundational approach to assessment and treatment.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Classes begin Spring/Summer full term Residential Program
May 10, 2021
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For Admitted Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
May 10, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Congratulations! Newly admitted MSW Students can connect virtually with Current MSW students regarding the MSW program!
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? What is Ann Arbor like in the Winter? Join an MSW student as well as other admitted MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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For Prospective Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
May 12, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? Join an MSW student as well as other prospective MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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Consuming, Creating, and Collaborating: Social Media as a Tool for Engaged Scholarship
May 13, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Developing an online presence is an increasingly important task of social work scholars. Social networks encourage research dissemination, self-promotion, engagement, and visibility. These issues have important implications for scholars and practitioners. Join three social work scholars, Jonathan B. Singer, Jennifer Greenfield, and Justin Harty, as they talk about how they have harnessed technologies such as Twitter, Slack, podcasting and blogging for social good. Discussion moderated by Professor Shawna Lee.
Learning ObjectiveIdentify at least two uses of social media in social work scholarship.
Agenda12:00pm - 12:30pm | Introduction to use of social media
12:30pm - 1:00pm | Social media for engaged social work scholarship
CE Approval StatementThe University of Michigan School of Social Work, provider #1212, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The University of Michigan School of Social Work maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/15/2020-5/15/2023. Social workers participating in this course will receive 1 synchronous online continuing education contact hours.
Please see the CE Policies page for more information about continuing education.
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Online Program Semester Begins
May 18, 2021
Address: University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 -
For Prospective Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
May 18, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? Join an MSW student as well as other prospective MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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Community Conversation - Dean Search
May 19, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
We invite you to a community conversation about our search for the new SSW Dean. This will be a time to share where you think the school should be headed and what you think we should be looking for in a Dean to lead us there. This is a time for conversation - ask questions, raise ideas, and talk together as a school community. To aid the conversation, space will be limited. (If there is a lot of interest in this topic, we can hold another session soon.)
About the format. A few students and faculty have decided to try something different - smaller community conversations. Our hope is that this can take topics that lend themselves better to verbal dialogue off of email and into a face-to-face (or screen-to-screen!) environment. We will draw heavily on practices from intergroup dialogue and restorative justice.
Zoom link will be sent out the morning of the event.
Address: University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 -
Centennial Lecture Series: Sharon Parrott - Pandemic, Relief, and Building toward an Equitable Future
May 19, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm
Join us for our Centennial Lecture Series featuring Michigan Social Work Alumna, Sharon Parrott, MSW '92.
Pandemic, Relief, and Building toward an Equitable Future: The health and economic crisis shined a light on and exacerbated longstanding problems that were in plain sight for those willing to see them long before COVID-19. The crisis made clear the weaknesses in our economic and health security programs that are supposed to protect people when hard times hit while also showing in the starkest terms the stark inequities across lines of race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration that long pre-dated the pandemic. Parrott will talk about the impacts of the health and economic crisis across different groups, both the strengths and weaknesses of our public response to the crisis, the opportunity for long-term, systemic policy changes that could broaden opportunity, reduce poverty and inequality, narrow disparities, and move us toward universal health coverage, and the challenges to achieving these policy goals. Parrott will also reflect on the “long arc” of policy change and the forces that can create and stymie change.
Address: University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 -
Field Placement Verification Due
May 19, 2021 - 5:00pm
Address: University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 -
For Admitted Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
May 19, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Congratulations! Newly admitted MSW Students can connect virtually with Current MSW students regarding the MSW program!
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? What is Ann Arbor like in the Winter? Join an MSW student as well as other admitted MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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Building a Social Justice Informed Private Practice | Part 1: Foundation
May 20, 2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
This workshop is part one of a four-part series on social justice oriented approaches to offering private behavioral health services in a private practice setting. This section outlines the basic knowledge foundation social workers need to prepare to offer private outpatient behavioral health services. While we encourage participants to complete all four parts, you may also select those that best fit your needs and schedule...
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Building a Social Justice Informed Private Practice | Part 2: Skills
May 20, 2021 - 1:00pm to 5:00pm
This workshop is part two of a four-part series on social justice oriented approaches to offering private behavioral health services in a private practice setting. This section focuses on skills for outpatient behavioral health services. While we encourage participants to complete all four parts, you may also select those that best fit your needs and schedule.
This course will provide a foundational understanding of private and public behavioral health services so that participants are able to identify the skills needed to deliver outpatient services as a clinician with a social justice orientation. With increased access to behavioral health services through policies such as Health Care Parity and the Affordable Care Act, more community members with mild to moderate need for behavioral health services are seeking care and there is a greater need for non-public behavioral health care providers who deliver culturally-responsive and socially-just services.Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Job Market Series #1: Putting Together Your CV
May 20, 2021 - 3:00pm to 4:00pm
The Faculty Allies for Diversity Committee (FADC) is hosting a series of virtual events to support the professional development of doctoral students who identify as being members of underrepresented groups within the academic community from May through August. These monthly events throughout the Spring/Summer term will focus on topics specifically related to the job market process, with attention to navigating this process as an underrepresented student.
A zoom link will be sent out to all PhD Students the morning of the event.
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Building a Social Justice Informed Private Practice | Part 3: Practice Strategies
May 21, 2021 - 9:00am to 12:00pm
This workshop is part three of a four-part series on social justice oriented approaches to offering private behavioral health services in a private practice setting. This section focuses on practice strategies. While we encourage participants to complete all four parts, you may also select those that best fit your needs and schedule.
This series will provide a foundational understanding of private and public behavioral health services so that participants are able to identify the skills needed to deliver outpatient services as a clinician with a social justice orientation. With increased access to behavioral health services through policies such as Health Care Parity and the Affordable Care Act, more community members with mild to moderate need for behavioral health services are seeking care and there is a greater need for non-public behavioral health care providers who deliver culturally-responsive and socially-just services.Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Building a Social Justice Informed Private Practice | Part 4: Business Strategies
May 21, 2021 - 1:00pm to 4:15pm
This workshop is part four of a four-part series on social justice oriented approaches to offering private behavioral health services in a private practice setting. This section focuses on business strategies. While we encourage participants to complete all four parts, you may also select those that best fit your needs and schedule.
This series will provide a foundational understanding of private and public behavioral health services so that participants are able to identify the skills needed to deliver outpatient services as a clinician with a social justice orientation. With increased access to behavioral health services through policies such as Health Care Parity and the Affordable Care Act, more community members with mild to moderate need for behavioral health services are seeking care and there is a greater need for non-public behavioral health care providers who deliver culturally-responsive and socially-just services.Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Reflecting Back on Their MSW Experience and Looking Towards Community Change Employment
May 24, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
The Community Change Pathway Team and the SSW's Career Services are proud to be co-hosting "Reflecting Back on Their MSW Experience and Looking To Community Change Employment". This event focuses on entering the workforce as a community change/macro social work practitioner upon graduation. Four MSW alumni from the School of Social Work who graduated within the Community Organization and/or Communities and Social Systems Pathways will be sharing their experiences as young community organizing/macro social work practitioners. All of the panelists are within five years of MSW graduation.
The panelists are:
Though this event focuses on community change & macro social work, all SSW students are welcome to attend. Community organizing is a key element of our social work practice. This event can be utilized to support a Field Education Agreement competency and one hour of field education, if approved by your field supervisor prior.
Please RSVP here by Friday, May 21
If you have any questions, please email elebrown@umich.edu.
Thank you, and we hope you will join us!
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Social Workers’ Role in Addressing Current Social Justice Issues and the MasterTrack™ Certificate
May 24, 2021 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Learn more about the Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research MasterTrack™ Certificate from the University of Michigan School of Social Work on Coursera. During this session, you will hear from Dr. Jamie Mitchell who will discuss the role that social workers can play in addressing current social justice and diversity related issues in society. Barb Hiltz, MSW Program Director will provide an overview of the MasterTrack™ Certificate and Tim Colenback, Assistant Dean for Enrollment Management will discuss the application process for the Master of Social Work program.
*Please note: This session is informational only and does not provide a certificate of completion.Click here to view the recording »
Address: University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 -
For Admitted Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
May 25, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Congratulations! Newly admitted MSW Students can connect virtually with Current MSW students regarding the MSW program!
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? What is Ann Arbor like in the Winter? Join an MSW student as well as other admitted MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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SSW Book Club
May 26, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
The SSW Book Club will meet at noon via Zoom to discuss Reuben Miller's new book, Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration.
Zoom link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/96328070299
Passcode: MillerBookAll members of the SSW community are invited. Use your umich Zoom account to join. (If needed, contact 4-HELP for help with SSO authentication: 734-764-4357)
Address: University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106 -
For Prospective Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
May 26, 2021 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? Join an MSW student as well as other prospective MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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Memorial Day Holiday
May 31, 2021
Address: University of Michigan School of Social Work 1080 South University Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106