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Access Audit Training with Detroit Disability Power
October 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
This training is required if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power during the general elections.
A virtual option will also occur on 10/23, 6-7:30 pm.
All access audit volunteers: if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power (DDP) during the general elections, this training is required. Advocacy Director of DDP, Eric Welsby, will be conducting a training in Room 1636 on 10/18, from 12 pm-2 pm, on conducting access audits and information on serving as an election observer. Lunch will be provided. Post-training, information will be shared with attendees on precinct locations, assigned partners, and precinct site assignments. A virtual training will also be provided on October 23rd, from 6-7:30 pm. Please check the SSW events calendar for more information.
Transportation is required to conduct access audits. Volunteers will conduct access audits either at ballot drop boxes prior to the election (but after attending this training), during the 9 days of early voting from 10/26 to 11/3, or on elections day, November 5th, 2024. To receive field credit for engaging in this opportunity, you must receive approval from your field faculty instructor.
Please reach out to [email protected] and [email protected] if you have any questions.
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CommuniTea with Justin Hodge
October 21, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Please join us for our October CommuniTea with Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, Justin Hodge! Hodge co-leads the Policy & Political Social Work Pathway, directs the Online Certificate in Political Social Work, and was elected to the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners in November 2020. He focuses on addressing local inequities and promoting economic opportunity and serves in state and national roles to expand social workers' participation in policy, while also bridging clinical and macro social work for students.
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Half-Baked Research (wholey baked pizza)
October 21, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
The Associate Dean of Research is hosting a Half-Baked Brown Bag for Faculty and Doctoral Students to share their early-stage ideas with peers for feedback. Please join Elizabeth Evans (ISR Research Faculty and recent SSW Lecturer) and Sunghyun Hong (doctoral student) (15 min each ) followed by a 30 min discussion (each). Pizza and drinks provided. Space for up to 20 attendees!
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DDP Access Audit Virtual Training
October 23, 2024 - 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM ET
This training is required if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power during the general elections.
All access audit volunteers: if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power (DDP) during the general elections, this training is required. This training will be conducted by DDP's Advocacy Director, Eric Welsby, via zoom on 10/23, from 6 pm-7:30 pm. Needed information regarding the access audits and serving as an election observer will be provided. Another training for access audits is occurring at the school on 10/18, 12-2 pm. Students only have to attend one of these trainings.
Volunteers will conduct access audits either at ballot drop boxes prior to the election (but after attending this training), during the 9 days of early voting from 10/26 to 11/3, or on elections day, November 5th, 2024.
To receive field credit for engaging in this opportunity, you must receive approval from your field faculty instructor.
Please reach out to [email protected] and [email protected] if you have any questions about the access audits.
Please contact Ayesha Ghazi Edwin, [email protected], for questions about this training.
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Substance-Exposed Infants and the Risk of Subsequent Maltreatment
October 24, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Parental substance use disorders increase the risk of child maltreatment and placement in foster care in part by compromising appropriate parenting practices and creating an environment that is not responsive to the needs of children. Substance use was second only to mental health as the most frequently identified risk factor for child maltreatment. Estimates from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) indicate that the prevalence of parental substance use disorders as an identified condition of removal more than doubled between 2000 and 2019, and that 50% of children under the age of one placed in foster care were removed for reasons related to parental substance use...
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Subpoenas: What Social Workers Need To Know
October 25, 2024 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
This ethics-focused webinar looks at the following:
1. What subpoenas are and are not
2. What kinds of cases and settings where subpoenas may be used
2. Releases of information, which are outside of a subpoena but require social workers to respond ethically
3. How the NASW Code of Ethics guides us
4. When and how to respond to subpoenas
In addition, we will discuss several ethical dilemmas related to subpoenas and requests for information. -
SSW Meeting - Promotion and Tenure Committee
October 25, 2024 - 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
Visit the SSW meeting calendar for full schedule information.
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CASC Board Blankets of Hope Community Event
October 28, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
Please join the CASC Board in crafting tie-blankets for different Washtenaw County organizations! The CASC Board works hard each semester to build community engagement, community support, and be agents of change within each community they are involved in. We would love to have MSW and Undergraduate students collaborate to create blankets, notes, and spend time in community. Snacks, drinks, and all materials will be provided. We hope to see you there!
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SSW Meeting - Curriculum Committee
October 28, 2024 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
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SSW Meeting - Executive Committee
October 29, 2024 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
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