Showing events starting from July 1, 2016 up to July 31, 2016

July 12, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Do you have any questions before you register? This session is designed for fall 2016 incoming MSW students and will be devoted to answering registration and course planning questions sent in by attendees. Registration is required.

This is an off-site, web-based session and may be attended via the Internet.

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July 13, 2016 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

This mini-course will acquaint students with the basic and advanced facts about AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), sensitize students to the multitude of public health, social policy and social service delivery issues that AIDS presents, and provide US and global perspectives to HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention. Students will be sensitized to the special challenges AIDS presents for social work practice. Students will be presented with an approach to evidence based practice, and will review the state of HIV related evidence based prevention practice from national and global perspectives.

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July 18, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Michelle Woods, Director of Career Services, will discuss the general rules for social work licensure and discuss what exams are utilized during the licensure process. Participants will learn about the licensure rules for Mi and other key states.

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July 19, 2016

Tuesday classes end.

July 19, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

This workshop will help you explore ways to translate your leadership skills on a resume, in an interview, or as you are networking. Hear how the Network for Social Work Management competencies can support you in articulating your skills as they relate to management and leadership areas of experience. 

Lunch will be provided.

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July 20, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Please join the Office of Field Instruction to celebrate YOU at our 6th Annual Ice Cream Social. 

Washtenaw Dairy Flavors: Coconut Almond Fudge, Moose Tracks, Orange Cream, Oreo Cookies & Cream, Raspberry Sorbet and Triple Chocolate Overload.

Staff and faculty welcome!

July 21, 2016 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

This course will address the sexual health needs of individuals and couples throughout the adult lifespan over diverse cultures and populations. This interpersonal practice minicourse can augment other interpersonal practice courses or can be taken independently. Building on basic sex therapy models and integrating these models with multicultural counseling theory and cultural and ethical competencies, course participants will examine their own cultural backgrounds, belief systems, and biases specifically with reference to sexual health. Utilizing the lifespan approach, key considerations in sexual health education and sexual health treatments will be described. Course participants will learn culturally appropriate assessment, diagnosis, and brief intervention approaches and will be challenged to think about the adjustment of interventions to include multicultural considerations and the intersectionality of clients' identities. The course will emphasize strengths-based adaptation and resiliency in...

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July 21, 2016 - 10:30am to 12:00pm

Student Presenter: Chassi Jensen

Social Justice Grand Rounds is the only structured event at U-M that formally unites graduate students in social work, field instructors, other social workers, and social work faculty in a collaborative effort to address social injustice through the use of an actual case illustrative of injustice in health care, as presented by a student in field at UMHS. Students from other health sciences schools are invited to attend.

In its intent and in its content, this event is highly relevant to Social Work ethics, practice, theory,  interprofessional education, standards, policy, & professional development.

*CE availability:  1.5 CE per event.  No registration is necessary (*Please note the SJGR count as ethics CEU’s)