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  1. Certificate in Integrated Behavioral Health & Primary Care | Adult Track

    March 14, 2022 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET

    The Certificate in Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care - Adult Track is designed for clinicians -- such as social workers, nurses, care managers, psychologists, and physicians -- who deliver or plan to deliver integrated health services, and who serve populations often presenting with complex needs in physical health, mental health, and substance use. Participants will gain assessment, intervention, and consultation skills; will learn strategies to apply these skills in the workplace; and will link with a peer distance learning community to practice new skills and discuss ideas...

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

  2. Certificate in Integrated Behavioral Health & Primary Care | Pediatric Track

    March 14, 2022 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET

    The Certificate in Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care - Pediatric Track is designed for direct practitioners -- social workers, nurses, care managers, psychologists and physicians -- who provide services in an integrated health care setting serving children, youth, adolescents and families, or those interested in providing care in a pediatric integrated health care setting. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills associated with providing consultation, screening, assessment, and interventions in primary care settings that serve the distinct developmental and systems of care needs for the pediatric population...

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

  3. Self Care for MSW Students Self Care for MSW Students

    March 16, 2022 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET

    Self-care is a professional and ethical obligation for social workers. What does it look like to engage in regular, intentional, effective self-care? In this 60-minute workshop, we will explore what self-care looks like in practice and share specific strategies to manage stress and improve well-being.

    This workshop is for enrolled students in the School of Social Work only.Students who attend this session may count this workshop as field hours with approval from their field instructor.

    For more information please contact the CAPS Embedded therapist Jamie Boschee, LLMSW at [email protected]

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  4. Grand Challenges: Extreme Economic Inequality and Agents of Change

    March 17, 2022 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM ET

    One of the Grand Challenges of Social Work practice is to reduce the harm caused by extreme economic inequality. From housing, employment, internet access, to healthcare - economic inequality is pervasive, and affects how we participate in the policial, social, and economic spheres. 

    How do benefit programs like the Child Tax Credit, housing vouchers, etc., impact extreme economic inequality? Does Universal Basic Incomes (UBI) work, and how does it help? What other forms of assistance are needed? 

    Join us for a discussion with scholars and activists on how labor and economic inequality and social service programs work and affect our lives. This session will be moderated by Dr. Trina Shanks, Professor of Social Work and Founding Director of the Center for Equitable Family and Community Well-being at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Speakers include Reverend  Joan C. Ross, Director of the North End Woodward Community Coalition (NEWCC), among others.

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  5. Advances in Child Maltreatment Prevention

    March 17, 2022 - 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM ET

    The Advances in Child Maltreatment Prevention speaker series was created by Todd Herrenkohl, Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Children and Families. The speaker series features the work of leading prevention and child welfare scholars engaged in efforts to strengthen and reform child‑serving systems. The series provides a forum for new and emerging knowledge from the social sciences and the helping professions that can improve the health and well-being of vulnerable children and their families.

    Maximizing  the Possibility

    The abuse and neglect of our nation’s children is one of the pressing public health and social justice issues of our time.  The events of the past year and a half, including a global pandemic and acute racial and civil unrest, have placed additional stressors on children, families, and communities.  And, while risk factors have increased for millions of families, opportunities for social connection and other protective contexts have decreased.  As we work to assure the conditions and contexts for health and wellbeing for children and families, it will be critical to integrate lessons from the past, the best available scientific evidence, and intentional strategies to forefront equity, and community and family expertise into our system design.   In this presentation, Dr. Merrick will review the history of child abuse and neglect as a field, including the numerous opportunities that exist for truly prioritizing prevention, including the collective and comprehensive efforts that are required to assure health, wellbeing, and prosperity for our nation.

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    Keynote Speaker

    Melissa T. Merrick, PhD, is President and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America), the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit organization dedicated to the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect. She has more than 20 years of clinical, research, and leadership experience related to the etiology, course, and prevention of child abuse and neglect.

    Previously, Dr. Merrick was a senior epidemiologist at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in Atlanta. She is recognized as one of the country’s foremost experts on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): in partnership with the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Child Abuse and Neglect, she served for 8 years as the lead scientist for the ACEs study at CDC and is the lead author of CDC’s Vital Signs: ACEs, the most nationally representative report on the topic.

    Dr. Merrick successfully leverages her significant clinical and research experiences to communicate and disseminate the critical public health importance of preventing early adversity to key stakeholders with diverse priorities, backgrounds, and knowledge, including legislators, business and civic leaders, and members of the academic and medical communities. She is one of the principal architects of Thriving Families, Safer Children: A National Commitment to Well-being, an effort that aims to reshape child welfare in the United States by focusing explicitly on equity and prevention. Thriving Families unites PCA America, the Children’s Bureau, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Casey Family Programs, among numerous other local partners, to proactively create the conditions and contexts for strong families and communities across the country.

    Dr. Merrick received her BA in psychology, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and her master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego, joint doctoral program in clinical psychology, where she served as a program coordinator for the San Diego site of the Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect consortium. Dr. Merrick was a National Institutes of Health-funded postdoctoral fellow at the University of Miami Child Protection Team (CPT), where she was involved in a multi-site program of research that examined child maltreatment risk and protective factors in families evaluated by CPTs across the state of Florida.

    Dr. Merrick is married and has two young children who are still enthralled by the novelty of snow in Chicago.

  6. For Prospective Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student! For Prospective Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!

    March 17, 2022 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET

    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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  7. Introduction to Budgeting and Fiscal Management

    March 18, 2022 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET

    This course introduces budgeting and fiscal management as a decision tool and provides specific technology for participants' future use, including the index of difference, the MacMillian Matrix, and the Cafeteria Compensation tool. Various kinds of budgets and their presentation will help participants to develop an understanding of fiscal management in social work practice settings.

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

  8. Glocal Village Event: Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

    March 18, 2022 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET

    This event will now take place from 12:00 - 2:00 PM.

    Join us as the U-M School of Social Work Glocal Village celebrates the exceptional academic work of social work students through a showcase of students’ research, academic, field experiences, and creative projects. Inspired by the theme of this year’s World Social Work Day, “Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind," the U-M SSW is hosting its first annual Glocal Village Event to provide an opportunity for students to share the results of their field experiences, research, and creative academic activities that use a global lens.

    Presenters and attendees may count their participation as field hours with the approval of their field instructor. Please be sure to include the learning activities associated with the conference in your justifications on the educational agreement. The Glocal Village event will be hosted by the U-M School of Social Work and co-sponsored by the Global Social Work Practice Pathway, the Office of Global Activities, and the Office of Field Education.

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  9. Advanced Community Organizing Sessions

    March 21, 2022 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET

    The School of Social Work and CASC will be hosting three advanced organizing sessions with The Highlander Education & Research Center (a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee).

    January 17 - REMOTE - Interview with top Community Organizer, Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, Co-Executive Director, Highlander Research and Education Center

    January 24 - REMOTE - Organizing 101, Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, Co-Executive Director, Highlander Research and Education Center

    March 21 - IN PERSON - Advanced training and skill share in Community Organizing

    Every participant will receive a digital or print organizing handbook and set of organizing skills and principles from expert organizers. You may attend one or all three unique sessions.

    Register here »

  10. Social Work in a Global Context: Thinking Globally and Acting Locally (Panel Discussion)

    March 21, 2022 - 6:00 PM to 7:45 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 to 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 to highlight the contributions of social workers across global contexts. The panel discussion will take place via Zoom. 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 Dr. Ashley Cureton. Panelists include:

    Dr. Huang Chao-Hsing, Assistant Professor and Director of International Program for Sustainable Development at Chang Jung Christian University in Tainan City, Taiwan

    Ekram Hanna, Community Engagement Manager at Middle Eastern Immigrant and Refugee Alliance in Chicago, IL

    Soma Sarkar, PhD scholar in the School of Development Studies at Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai, India

    Dr. Prince Solomon, Assistant Professor and Field Work Coordinator at Madras Christian College in Chennai, India

    Dr. Justus Twesigye, Senior Lecturer and Program Coordinator at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda

    Click here to register for the panel discussion »

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