Showing events starting from February 28, 2019

March 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

Michelle Woods, Director of Career Services will discuss the pathway to social work licensure and how to best plan for the licensure process as a student.

March 18, 2024 - 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM ET

World Social Work Day is a celebration that aims to highlight the achievements of social work, raise the visibility of social services for the future of societies, and defend social justice and human rights.

In honor of World Social Work Day, please join the Global Social Work Pathway and the Office of Global Activities in this panel discussion to highlight the contributions of social workers across global contexts. During the panel discussion, practitioners and academics will share information about their specific roles and engagement in global social work. Time will be included for Q&A with the panelists.

The panel will be moderated by:

Ashley E. Cureton, Assistant Professor, PhD, MSW
School of Social Work and Marsal Family School of Education
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Michigan, USA)

2024 panelists include:

Masauso Chirwa, PhD, MSW, Senior Lecturer and Researcher
University of Zambia, Department of Social Work & Sociology (Zambia)

Ashley Marine, LMSW, Executive Director
GirlFoward, Chicago (Illinois, USA)

Claudia Reyes-Quilodran, PhD, MA, Associate Professor
School of Social Work, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile)

Prince Solomon, PhD, Associate Professor & Field Work Coordinator
Madras Christian College, Chennai (India)

Emel Genç, PhD
Couple and Family Therapist & Assistant Professor, Psychology Department
Bartin University (Turkey)

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March 19, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

Join alumni Lauren Davis, LMSW, Director of Diversity, Equity and Community at UM SEAS and Rhonda R. Sanders , LMSW, Senior Manager of Corporate Giving: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at General Motors for a discussion regarding working in DEI positions as a MSW and how to position yourselves for this line of work.

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March 19, 2024 - 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM ET

Join us for an engaging workshop on "Bridging Perspectives: Social Work and Lived Experience in Incarceration," where we aim to facilitate understanding and collaboration between social work professionals and individuals with lived experience in incarceration.

This workshop offers a unique opportunity to delve into the intersection of social work and incarceration, focusing on the importance of acknowledging and incorporating the perspectives of those who have been incarcerated into social work practice.

Throughout the session, participants will engage in interactive discussions, personal narratives, and skill-building activities designed to foster empathy, understanding, and effective intervention strategies.

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March 20, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

Want support on a class assignment? Join Betsy Williams, Writing Skills Coordinator, for an interactive writing workshop.

Bring an assignment, a rubric if you have one, a partial or complete draft, and your questions.

And feel free to bring your lunch.

No registration needed; just drop in.

March 21, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

This discussion will explore the rising use of facial recognition technology and its growing controversy - specifically in regard to frequently misidentifying people of color, women, and trans people in comparison to white men. Learn more about its use and local policies regulating it during this discussion. Panelists include:

Alejandro Navarrete, Research Director at Detroit Action

Molly Kleinman, Director of the School of Technology and Public Policy

Rami's Wadood, Staff Attorney of ACLU Michigan 

Eric Williams, Managing Director, Economic Equity Practice & Detroit Justice Center

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March 21, 2024 - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

Course Description

In the United States, federal policy and infrastructure fail to explicitly address the poor health of men, and particularly the poor health of marginalized men. This inattention to men’s health hinders the nation’s ability to improve population health, to achieve gender health equity, and to achieve health equity more broadly. Expanding efforts to consider gender in federal policy and infrastructure to include men, naming men as a population whose poor health warrants policy attention, creating offices of men’s health in federal agencies, and utilizing an intersectional lens to develop and analyze policies that affect health would likely yield critical improvements in population health and health equity in the United States. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, I illustrate the persistence of sex differences in mortality and leading causes of death, and how these patterns mask gender gaps in health that are driven largely by marginalized men whose health is worse than what can be readily discerned through our normal patterns of presenting data by sex and race separately. I utilize the case of Black men to illustrate the importance of an intersectional approach and the limitations of contemporary approaches to achieve gender and racial equity in health. While a gender mainstreaming approach has enhanced the nation’s ability to consider and address the health of women and girls, it has not expanded the notion of gender to be inclusive of boys and men. Including boys and men is necessary, but insufficient if our goal is to achieve health equity, which is driven by structural determinants beyond sex and gender related factors. Consequently, I argue that if our goal is to achieve health equity, it is critical to employ an intersectional approach that simultaneously considers the full range of factors that influence individual and population health and well-being.

Relevance to Social Work

In clinical practice, gender sensitivity and gender responsive approaches are rarely applied to men, much less marginalized men such as Black men. This presentation offers a perspective, data and tools to help social work practitioners consider the context, goals, and perspectives on health and well-being of Black men they serve. 

Objectives

By the end of this seminar, participants will be able to:

Describe and define men’s health and men’s health equity

Discuss Black men’s health patterns

Utilize the ABC2 framework to characterize a multi-part approach to improving Black men’s health and well-being

About the Presenter

Dr. Derek M. Griffith is a Founding Co-Director of the Racial Justice Institute, Founder and Director of the Center for Men’s Health Equity, Member of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Professor of Health Management & Policy and Oncology at Georgetown University. He also serves as the Chair of Global Action on Men’s Health – a global men’s health advocacy organization. Trained in psychology and public health, Dr. Griffith’s program of research focuses on developing anti-racism approaches to achieve racial, ethnic, and gender equity in health. He specializes in interventions to promote Black men's health and well-being and anti-racism interventions to mitigate and undo the effects of structural racism on health. Dr. Griffith is a contributor to and editor of three books and the author of over 170 peer-reviewed manuscripts. He has been the principal investigator of research grants from the American Cancer Society, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and several institutes within the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Griffith serves on the editorial boards of several public health and men's health journals. Last year, he received a citation from the president of the American Psychological Association, “For his extraordinary leadership in addressing the impacts of racism on the health and well-being of the nation and specifically for African American and Latino men”.

Click here for Dr. Griffith's faculty page at Georgetown University.

The Continuing Education option is free, but requires participation in interactive elements and completion of evaluation following the seminar.

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March 22, 2024 - 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM ET

Mental health professionals are often taught a wide variety of clinical skills while in training and experience an array of situations in which they are able to apply and adapt their skillsets depending on what is needed for their clients. One area that has a profound need for these clinical skills are transgender & nonbinary individuals who are seeking medical interventions to alleviate gender-related distress. These clients in particular may come to therapy for short-term or long-term services, and face significant barriers to accessing hormonal or surgical interventions due to outdated beliefs, biases, and misinformation about what is necessary to approve them for care. Furthermore, therapists have historically not been provided necessary information to tailor their assessment skills to advocate for clients to access transition-related medical care, or face their own outdated beliefs & biases about providing support to these clients. ...

Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.