Showing events starting from January 21, 2020 up to January 30, 2020
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ENGAGE + CASC: Youth Organizing & Empowerment
January 21, 2020 - 5:00pm
Youth have the ability to lead and galvanize social and political movements for change. Both through their understanding of the importance of social media and use of technology, to their involvement in communities, and power to connect and drive their peers, youth are especially positioned to be great drivers of social change. Join us for a special joint discussion with CASC featuring local youth leaders and change-makers, as they discuss the impact of their work and the movements they are leading. CASC alumni working in youth organizing will be featured along with other panelists TBA.
Attending this session counts for field credit. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information.
CE Contact Hours for this session are pending.
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Field Placement Verification Due
January 22, 2020 - 5:00pm
All students currently enrolled in field (SW515 or SW691) must turn in the Field Placement Verification form by this deadline. This form is considered complete after your Field Instructor signs off on it.
This form only applies to students currently registered for field.
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Engagement in Mental Health Services Among Young Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses
January 23, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Join us for a talk with Professor Michelle R. Munson of the New York University Silver School of Social Work. She is a recognized expert in mental health services and interventions for adolescents and young adults and is the director of NYU Silver’s Youth & Young Adult Mental Health Group. A light lunch will be served.
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Evidence-based Parenting Interventions to Help Parents Reduce the Use of Physical Punishment (Part II)
January 23, 2020 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
This course focuses on an issue that many social workers confront in their practice with children and families - the use of discipline and physical punishment in childrearing. This course examines research on the effectiveness of a wide range of parental disciplinary approaches. This course introduces a series of evidence-based parenting interventions, and discusses how these interventions approach parents' beliefs and behaviors related to child discipline. We will discuss how cultural norms and beliefs may influence parents' discipline choices, and how social workers can engage in productive dialogue with parents to help parents achieve their parenting aims. Content of this course is based on the book published by the instructor titled "Ending the physical punishment of children: A guide for clinicians and practitioners."
Please note that although there are two parts to this course you do not have to attend both parts. The content of each webinar can stand alone.Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Using Photovoice for Individual and Community Empowerment
January 23, 2020 - 5:00pm to 8:00pm
Photovoice is a process in which people typically those with limited power due to poverty, language barriers, race, class, ethnicity, gender, culture, or other circumstances use video or photo images to document their environment and experiences and share them with others. It uses visual methods to communicate lived experience and to create a basis for discussion and action. The images are often used, with captions composed by the photographers, to bring the realities of the photographers lives home to the public and policy makers and to spur change. However, PhotoVoice can also be a method used direct practice, evaluation, and management settings...
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Women in Leadership
January 25, 2020 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Evidence suggests that women face unique leadership challenges. Marginalization based on gender, family and work priorities, and societal expectations create a system that hinders the maximization of leadership potential. In addition, women bring diverse capabilities and hold unique characteristics in the work world today. Community benefit organizations must leverage this diversity of leadership to improve decision making, tap into diverse points of view, and inspire social change.
This course will examine the social, structural and personal dynamics that differentially impact women and men as leaders. It will prepare all students to identify and harness the specific needs and capabilities of women. It will provide the knowledge and skills to succeed and contribute added value in their roles as leaders at any level.Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Assessment and Intervention with Preschool Children
January 25, 2020 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
Participants will learn about comprehensive assessment and evidence based interventions with pre-school children (ages 3-5). This course aims to increase developmentally relevant and effective practice with preschool children and their families. A particular lens will be assessment and intervention in the context of school, however, assessment and intervention strategies within other settings will also be discussed. Special attention will be paid to the needs of preschool children most likely to be under-served by, or expelled from, preschool (e.g. children with behavior problems, and children impacted by trauma, and children with developmental delays.)
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Towards Humanity: A Conversation on Humanism and Antiracist Organizing
January 28, 2020 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm
In honor of MLK Symposium Events and the Community Action and Social Change Undergraduate Minor Program, 10 Year Anniversary:
The following session will explore themes presented in Tawana Petty’s book Towards Humanity: Shifting the Culture of Anti-Racism Organizing. Through a lecture and panel discussion, the presenter will explore pressing issues facing antiracist organizing and her vision and approach to a humanistic philosophy. Following the lecture, the speaker will host a conversation with community development organizer Lauren A. Hood to discuss how Detroit based organizers navigate questions, themes, and challenges in ant-racist organizing, applications of humanism, and other guiding philosophical principles toward change. This event is co-sponsored by the Community Action and Social Change Minor Program, SSW Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Semester in Detroit Program.
Tawana Petty (Honeycomb): Tawana "Honeycomb" Petty is a mother, social justice organizer, youth advocate, poet and author. She is intricately involved in water rights advocacy, data and digital privacy education, and racial justice and equity work. She is Director of the Data Justice Program for the Detroit Community Technology Project (DCTP) and co-leads Our Data Bodies (ODB), a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Tawana is a convening member of the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition (DDJC) on behalf of DCTP, which organizes Data DiscoTechs (discovering technology) fairs and other initiatives to foster media and digital literacy. She recently co-produced with ODB, the Digital Defense Playbook, a workbook of popular education activities and tools for data justice and data access for equity, as well as the report, A Critical Summary of Detroit's Project Green Light and Its Greater Context, on Detroit's Project Green Light surveillance program. Tawana is a co-founder of Riverwise Magazine, a quarterly magazine which lifts up community stories by Detroit residents, which might otherwise be misrepresented or underrepresented in local and national media. Riverwise Magazine recently produced a special surveillance issue, Detroiters Want to Be Seen, Not Watched. She is a board member of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership (Boggs Center), a Detroit Equity Action Lab (DEAL) Fellow, and the organizer of an annual art festival and artist retreat in historic Idlewild, Michigan, which convenes over 30 artists, organizers, herbalists and innovators each year to create art, share healing practices and respirit each other and the communities they serve. Tawana is the recipient of several awards, including the Spirit of Detroit Award, the Woman of Substance Award, Women Creating Caring Communities Award, Detroit Awesome Award, University of Michigan Black Law Student Association's Justice Honoree Award, was recognized as one of Who’s Who in Black Detroit in 2013 and 2015, the Wayne State Center for Peace and Conflict Studies' Peacemaker Award, and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition in 2018.
Lauren Hood: Born & raised in Detroit, Lauren A. Hood brings double consciousness to the practice of community development. Being both a trained practioner and a lifelong resident, Hood serves as a translator/negotiator between development entities and citizen stakeholders. Through her work as an Equitable Development Strategist, Hood develops engagement frameworks, facilitates dialogues, and creates platforms that allow for the emergence and inclusion of often unrecognized place based expertise in city planning and neighborhood development processes. Through her consultancy Deep Dive Detroit, Hood produces workshops and events on community engagement, equitable development and racial justice for civic, philanthropic & institutional clients. Passionate about preserving the city's cultural heritage, Hood regularly writes and delivers keynotes on the value of placekeeping, preserving black spaces and how to authentically engage community. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of the City of Detroit Planning Commission and on the board of directors for Detroit Sound Conservancy, MoGo, and on the advisory board of the Urban Consulate. She holds an undergraduate business degree and Masters Degree in Community Development, both from the University of Detroit Mercy. To learn more about Lauren A. Hood visit her website at laurenahood.com/work
Please note that the RSVP For this program is closed. Additional overflow space will be available in the School of Social Work Building, McGregor Commons lobby.
The program will also be available for remote access through live stream. See link below
This event is co-sponsored by the Community Action and Social Change Undergraduate Minor, SSW Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Semester in Detroit Program.
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SSW Book Club
January 29, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
The SSW Book Club will discuss the memoir Ordinary Girls, by Jaquira Díaz.
You are welcome to join us, whether or not you have attended before, and whether or not you have finished the book.
All members of the SSW community are invited. Feel free to bring your lunch.
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National Book Tour & Signing
January 30, 2020 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Join us for lunch and a book talk with alumnus, Dexter Voisin. He will discuss the ideas in his book "America the Beautiful and Violent: Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago"
Professor Dexter R. Voisin, PhD, has served as dean of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto since July 1, 2019. He holds the Sandra Rotman Chair in Social Work. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor at the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago for two decades, and a faculty affiliate at the Center for the Study of Race, Culture, and Politics, and at the Center for Health and the Social Sciences. Voisin was also the director of the STI/HIV Intervention Network (SHINE) and co-director of the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination (CCHE). Voisin received his BA (psychology, cum laude) from St. Andrews College, MSW (practice) from the University of Michigan, and PhD (advanced practice) from Columbia University School of Social Work.
A central focus of Voisin’s scholarship is examining the impact of structural and neighborhood violence on a wide range of youth problem behaviors and the impact of gender on risk and protective youth trajectories. His research demonstrates that the problems of neighborhood violence exposure are correlated with youth mental health problems, school failure, negative peer networks and high rates of HIV-related risk behaviors, which are interconnected outcomes in the lives of adolescents, particularly those who live in urban communities. His latest project is a book entitled “America the Beautiful and Violent: Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago,” published August 2019.Voisin has more than 28 years of post-MSW clinical experience in the areas of substance abuse, adult psychopathology, and adolescent and family therapy. His expertise and research findings have been frequently cited by numerous members of the international, national and local media.