Showing events on September 21, 2018
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ACEs, Resilience, and Prevention: Research-Practice Intersections
September 21, 2018 - 9:00am to 12:15pm
This course will provide an overview of research on adverse childhood experiences and resilience in children, youth, and families. Participants will learn about goals for prevention and intervention programs designed lessen risk and to improve the life chances of those who are vulnerable because of ACE exposure. Content presentation, discussion, and small group work will focus on ways to integrate current research into practice settings. Material covered in the course is relevant to those entering or working in child welfare, health care, school systems, and juvenile justice.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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26th Annual UMBC McNair Scholar's Conference
September 21, 2018 - 10:30am to September 22, 2018 10:30am
An admissions representative will be coming to the 26th Annual UMBC McNair Scholar's Conference to share information on U-M's MSW & PhD programs.
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SSW Book Club
September 21, 2018 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Join us for our next Book Club meeting, to discuss The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander.
Learn more about the book from the book website and trailer.
Learn more about the SSW Book Club.
All members of the SSW community are invited. Feel free to bring your lunch.
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Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change - Launch Celebration
September 21, 2018 - 2:30pm to 4:30pm
Our team is excited to invite you to the public launch of Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change, a new massive open online course (MOOC) opening on edX in September!
Come hear from project team members and students, see the finished product, and learn ways you can take the course or use it in your context, such as a program, course, education abroad, engaged learning experience, student or non-profit organization, and more. What’s the course about? Now more than ever, people are seeking ways to affect change in their communities — both local and around the world. Community Engagement: Collaborating for Change is for anyone who wants to work more effectively with community members and organizations, be it through community-academic partnerships, community service and learning, education or work abroad, social change projects, community-based participatory research, non-profit internships, public scholarship, or civic performance, just to name a few.
Key concepts and strategies:valuing community context and expertise;
understanding how social identities, power, and privilege impact your interactions;
approaches to collaborative leadership, such listening effectively, resolving conflicts, and building mutually-beneficial partnerships;
reflecting on your work, and transitioning in and out of communities; and
effectively managing community-engaged projects
Developed by an interdisciplinary team of content experts from U-M, this course is designed to be both engaging and challenging, offering an accessible entry into foundational topics as well as a jumping off point to pursue work and further learning in effective community engagement. It is also a toolkit and a roadmap, providing concrete takeaways and resources to bring to practice in the field.
Who’s on the course development team?Jennifer Chizek, Global Engagement Team
Christie Donahue, Engineering
Ludmila Ferrari, LSA
Amanda Healy, LSA
Kelly Kowatch, Information
Katie Lopez, Social Work
Carrie Luke, Provost's Office
Danyelle Reynolds, Ginsberg Center
Mary Ruffolo, Social Work