Showing events starting from June 1, 2017 up to June 30, 2017

June 2, 2017 - 9:00am to 12:15pm

This workshop will help participants gain a deeper understanding of suicide prevention and interventions in clinical practice. With the goal to become more comfortable and confident identifying and helping address suicidal ideation, plan(s) and intent in communities, this training will offer opportunities to engage in role-plays and review case examples.

Ethical and legal responsibilities as social workers exist when working with consumers. It is essential to understand the complexity of responses in clinical practice when suicide is present and needs to be addressed. This workshop will allow participants they opportunity to explore their beliefs regarding suicide at different stages of the lifespan and how one's beliefs do and do not influence our practice.

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June 2, 2017 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

This minicourse will examine practice theory and techniques relevant to social work in a rural setting. There are many definitions of what might be considered a rural community. For the purposes of this course, we will define communities as rural that have a population size of 2,500 to 20,000 with no major metropolitan area within hour of the community. Rural communities are often plagued with similar problems as vast metropolitan areas such as high poverty rates, inadequate housing, and inadequate access to health care. However, the scarcity of resources and professionals including medical providers, socioeconomic underdevelopment, and physical distance from services and lack of public transportation are frequently identified as compounding factors of living in a rural community. The impact of differences in the key diversity dimensions such as ability, age, class, color, culture, ethnicity, family structure, gender (including gender identity and gender expression) marital status, national origin, race...

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June 2, 2017 - 2:00pm to 5:00pm

This mini-course will start with an orientation webinar on Friday June 2 from 2-5pm. Webinar attendance is required to attend the in-person portion on Saturday...

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June 5, 2017 - 9:00am to 10:00am

In this Webinar, you will learn about information related to arrival logistics, campus resources, and important dates for various items before your arrival. It will last about an hour or slightly longer for additional Q&A. 

Please feel free to watch a recording of the Webinar at youtu.be/O2ASNWtQJE0.

June 5, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Michelle Woods, Director of the Office of Career Services, will discuss tips to conducting a strategic and targeted job search. Resume and Cover Letter Writing, Interviewing and Salary Negotiation tips will be discussed. 

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June 6, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Join the DE&I Office for a lunch conversation to discuss relevant Diversity, Equity and Inclusion topics. This will also be a community building space to support each other as we work together to strengthen DE&I in the School of Social Work.

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June 7, 2017 - 9:00am to 1:00pm

This mini course 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 bio-psycho-social 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...

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June 7, 2017 - 5:00pm

Field Educational Agreement due for review to the Office of Field Instruction.