Showing events starting from September 12, 2024 up to September 29, 2024
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New Field Instructor Training (Online)
September 12, 2024 - 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
This training is specifically geared towards new Field Instructors, however any Field Instructor is welcome to attend the training as a refresher.
The online session will be recorded and sent out after to those who registered, as well as the PowerPoints and any hand-outs or other material used.
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Undoing Racism Workgroup
September 12, 2024 - 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET
The Undoing Racism Workgroup invites you to open dialogue and exploration of moving forward towards an Anti-Racist way of being.
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Global Social Work Dinner
September 12, 2024 - 5:00 PM to 6:30 PM ET
The Office of Student Services and the Office of Global Activities are pleased to host incoming and second-year international students, Global Activities Scholars Program students, Master’s International Volunteer Program students, Coverdell Fellows, and Global Social Work Practice Pathway students. This event will be a chance to get to know fellow students who have an interest in global social work over dinner.
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Sexual Health Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Practice
September 13, 2024 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
The objective of this training is to help mental health professionals develop confidence and a skill set for discussing sexual identity, health/wellness, and intimacy with their clients. Fundamentals of sex therapy from a biopsychosocial approach will be covered to ensure that participants feel well-equipped to incorporate sexual functioning into their core approach to assessment and treatment. The learner will understand the ramifications of relegating this topic to a "specialized" treatment approach and feel skilled and capable in addressing sex therapy topics as a foundational approach to assessment and treatment.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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SSW Meeting - Promotion and Tenure Committee
September 13, 2024 - 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
Visit the SSW meeting calendar for full schedule information.
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Michigan Social Work Homecoming and Reunion Celebration
September 13, 2024 - 11:30 AM ET
Join us for the 2024 Michigan Social Work Homecoming & Reunion Celebrations!
Friday, September 13 Welcome Reception
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.Enjoy light refreshments while you meet and reconnect with fellow alumni, faculty, and students!
Reunion Luncheon
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.Join Dean Beth Angell for a special Homecoming & Reunion Luncheon.
Networking Reception
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.Join us for dessert! The traditional School of Social Work Art Tour will be available for those interested.
Saturday, September 14 Michigan vs. Arkansas State
Kickoff at 12 p.m. ESTIf you are interested in purchasing tickets in our ticket block, please email Madison Mariles at [email protected]. Tickets are limited. The deadline to purchase tickets in August 16.
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SSW Homecoming Networking + Dessert Social!
September 13, 2024 - 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM ET
Join us for an all-school networking dessert social at 1:30pm. All alumni, donors, faculty, staff and students are welcome to attend the dessert social at 1:30pm in the ECC.
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CommuniTea with Joe Galura
September 16, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Please join us for our first CommuniTea of the semester with CASC Advisor and Lecturer, Joe Galura! An graduate of the MSW program, Joe is also a lecturer in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and has developed, implemented and taught service-learning courses in Sociology, and American Culture. His classes, projects and publications draw on work in criminal justice, chemical dependency, community organization, urban schooling and the Filipino American community. Join us to enjoy lunch and learn more about Joe’s journey in social work and social change!
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Placement Verification Form Due to Field Instructor
September 17, 2024 (all day)
The student is encouraged to submit their PVF to allow sufficient time for your review and approval. PVF is due on 09/24/24.
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Virtual Book Talk: Abolition and Social Work
September 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Join a virtual discussion with the editors of Haymarket Book's popular new title Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care, hosted by University of Michigan students, staff, and faculty. This book is "a critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work—a profession that has often been complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state—abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field."
The book's editors, Mimi E. Kim, Cameron W. Rasmussen, and Durrell M. Washington, Sr., share how they came to publish this important text and explore whether and how abolitionist principles and politics can be incorporated into social work. Throughout the chapters, the book invites readers to consider whether it is possible for social work to bolster the work of abolition, the tensions and paradoxes with abolition given the social work profession's legacies and trajectories, and examples of social work praxis rooted in abolitionist principles.
As abolitionist organizer, educator, and curator Mariame Kaba writes in the foreword, "The promise of social work is often a carceral promise. The state and its representatives look to social workers when cops seem too violent or too expensive—when they need "someone else" to call or "somewhere else" to incarcerate people. Ida Wells-Barnett, though, and the contributors to this book, show that social work can do more than just tape some cushions to the bars. It can work to pull them down."