Showing events on May 28, 2020
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Spirituality: Assessment and Intervention in Social Work Practice
May 28, 2020 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET
This minicourse will explore contemporary issues in spirituality and social work focused on what it means to competently integrate spirituality into one's social work practice. In adopting a holistic perspective to guide practice, spirituality will be viewed as a vital and essential dimension in the biopsychosocial assessment and treatment planning process. This course will explore the rationale and need to integrate assessment and interventions related to spirituality in social work in a manner that supports cultural humility and competent practice. It will examine spirituality as rooted in the history of social work practice as well as exploring how to best define, integrate, and use spiritual assessment and interventions in addressing presenting client issues in clinical setting today. The relationship between spirituality and issues of race, gender and social class as well as spirituality across the life cycle will be addressed. Specific methods and interventions will be highlighted and applied to...
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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ENGAGE SSW: The Impact of COVID-19 on Detroit, Featuring Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Jamila Martin
May 28, 2020 - 12:00 PM ET
Join ENGAGE SSW on Thursday, May 28 at 12 PM, for a special session focused on how COVID-19 is impacting racial and economic equity in Detroit. Special guest Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib of Michigan’s 13th congressional district will join us to share how the pandemic is affecting her community and what residents are doing to advocate for their needs.
Jamila Martin, Michigan State Advisor of Movement Voter Project and cofounder of 482forward, will also join the conversation to share how social justice organizations have responded by creating MI COVID-19 Community Response a mutual aid resource network to help organizations minimize the impact of the pandemic. Members of Common Roots are invited to join and ask questions during the online event.
Attending this session will count towards field credit.
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Impact of COVID on Substance Use and Misuse
May 28, 2020 - 3:00 PM ET
This week our guests will address issues affecting populations affected by myriad drug addictions and how COVID has exacerbated substance use/misuse prevention, treatment, and peer-supported sobriety, such as in 12-steps programs. We will discuss COVID with a focus on individual, peer and family relations, and community organizing. Our overarching theme, Identity and Vulnerabilities, will be used to frame reports and discussions.
Guests:
Lisa Gaskin: Counselor, Women’s Recovery, Integrity House
Cristina Bares: Professor, Social Work, University of Michigan
Phil Luttrell: Clinical Social Worker, Addiction Counselor
Jeannette Ruffins: Executive Director, West End Residences
Darris Hawkins, North Jersey Community Research Initiative (NJCRI)
This follows on conversations the Faculty Allies for Diversity have been having for the past two months on social consequences of the pandemic.
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Tired of Being Tired: A Space to Acknowledge and Plan Action
May 28, 2020 - 5:30 PM ET
The Association of Black Social Work Students invites you to join together this afternoon for a gathering and conversation on Zoom.
We feel the pain, frustration and anxiety of all of our peers and Black folx across the country and world.
Today we will hold a safe space to acknowledge the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. We will also hold space to reflect on the email shared with the SSW community, and to voice what we want and need to see from the School in the future.