Showing events starting from October 8, 2024 up to October 30, 2024
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Where does hope go? Collective Visioning Workshop (Electoral Wellness Session 2)
October 16, 2024 - 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM ET
The purpose of the Electoral Wellnes (Civic Engagement & Mental/Emotional Wellbeing) series is to invite the SSW DEI community into an ongoing conversation about power and hope during the Fall 2024 election cycle in a way that is meant to build trust and self-awareness. This experiential series will allow SSW students, faculty, and staff to build relationships in a setting that is grounded in restorative justice practices such as trust-building and active listening. This calendar of three sessions will use interactive activities to support participants in engaging in mindfulness and collective visioning as tools to protect hopefulness and plan for a socially just future in the face of uncertainty and political unrest.
Outcomes: Participants willExperience Restorative Justice values in practice
Engage in self-awareness by naming feelings through the use of art
Examine power checks and balances within National and State Governments
Explore electoral hopes and fears
Discuss practices for discussing the election with clients
Practice grounding tools in the space that can be used with clients in the field
Engage in a collective visioning exercise
Process emotions following the 2024 election
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Community Conversation: Supporting People Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
October 16, 2024 - 7:30 PM to 8:30 PM ET
We invite you to a Community Conversation around Supporting People in Our Lives Who Are Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence on October 16, 2024
More than 1 in 3 women and over 1 in 4 men experience intimate partner violence at some time during their lifetime. Due to the prevalence of intimate partner violence, we are likely to have friends, colleagues and relatives who disclose a current or past experience of intimate partner violence. In honor of Domestic Violence Violence Awareness month, let’s come together to discuss how we can support the survivors in our lives.
This is a time for conversation – to share feelings, raise concerns, and talk together as a school community. To aid the conversation, space will be limited. (We know it's coming up soon, so if you miss it, don't fear! If there is a lot of interest in this topic, we can hold another session soon.)
About the format. With these smaller Community Conversations, our hope is to explore restorative dialogue and build community, creating a space where we are all teachers and learners. We will draw heavily on practices from intergroup dialogue and restorative justice.
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Social Justice Changemaker Lecture
October 17, 2024 - 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM ET
Join us for a discussion with Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the 1619 Project and a staff writer at the New York Times Magazine. Hannah-Jones has spent her career investigating racial inequality and injustice, and her reporting has earned her the MacArthur Fellowship, known as the Genius grant, a Peabody Award, two George Polk Awards, and the National Magazine Award three times.
The Social Justice Changemaker Lecture was established by a generous gift from Dr. Neil C. Hawkins and Annmarie F. Hawkins and the Hawkins Family. This annual lecture focuses on important global social justice issues including race and nationality, immigration and refugees, income inequality, gender identity and sexual orientation, education, health, and mental and physical disabilities. The Lecture aims to bring prominent social justice experts and advocates from multiple disciplines, including social sciences, science, humanities, the arts, and the professions, to the University of Michigan Campus.
Event Schedule9:30 AM: Registration Opens
10 - 11:30 AM: Lecture
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Community Conversation: Communicating Across Political Differences
October 17, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
With the US elections less than a month away, we invite you to a Community Conversation around Communicating Across Political Differences at Work and Home on October 17, 2024 at noon.
Political differences can create tension in our relationships both at work and home. Let’s come together to discuss how we can navigate these tensions constructively and in ways that align with our values.
This is a time for conversation – to share feelings, raise concerns, and talk together as a school community. To aid the conversation, space will be limited. (We know it's coming up soon, so if you miss it, don't fear! If there is a lot of interest in this topic, we can hold another session soon.)
About the format. With these smaller Community Conversations, our hope is to explore restorative dialogue and build community, creating a space where we are all teachers and learners. We will draw heavily on practices from intergroup dialogue and restorative justice.
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SSW Meeting - Promotion and Tenure Committee
October 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Visit the SSW meeting calendar for full schedule information.
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Access Audit Training with Detroit Disability Power
October 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
This training is required if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power during the general elections.
A virtual option will also occur on 10/23, 6-7:30 pm.
All access audit volunteers: if you signed up to conduct access audits with Detroit Disability Power (DDP) during the general elections, this training is required. Advocacy Director of DDP, Eric Welsby, will be conducting a training in Room 1636 on 10/18, from 12 pm-2 pm, on conducting access audits and information on serving as an election observer. Lunch will be provided. Post-training, information will be shared with attendees on precinct locations, assigned partners, and precinct site assignments. A virtual training will also be provided on October 23rd, from 6-7:30 pm. Please check the SSW events calendar for more information.
Transportation is required to conduct access audits. Volunteers will conduct access audits either at ballot drop boxes prior to the election (but after attending this training), during the 9 days of early voting from 10/26 to 11/3, or on elections day, November 5th, 2024. To receive field credit for engaging in this opportunity, you must receive approval from your field faculty instructor.
Please reach out to [email protected] and [email protected] if you have any questions.
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Half-Baked Research (Wholly Baked Pizza)
October 21, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
The Associate Dean of Research is hosting a Half-Baked Brown Bag for Faculty and Doctoral Students to share their early-stage ideas with peers for feedback. Please join Elizabeth Evans (ISR Research Faculty and recent SSW Lecturer) and Sunghyun Hong (doctoral student) (15 min each) followed by a 30 min discussion (each). Pizza and drinks provided. Space for up to 20 attendees!
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CommuniTea with Justin Hodge
October 21, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Please join us for our October CommuniTea with Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Michigan, Justin Hodge! Hodge co-leads the Policy & Political Social Work Pathway, directs the Online Certificate in Political Social Work, and was elected to the Washtenaw County Board of Commissioners in November 2020. He focuses on addressing local inequities and promoting economic opportunity and serves in state and national roles to expand social workers' participation in policy, while also bridging clinical and macro social work for students.
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For Prospective Students - Connect Virtually with a Current MSW Student!
October 21, 2024 - 6:00 PM ET
What's the program really like? Where is your field placement? What do social work students do for fun? Join an MSW student as well as other prospective MSW students for a live webchat about the School of Social Work. Our MSW students are excited to answer any questions that you have and share their feedback about the program.
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Intimate Partner Violence Lecture with Ally Zenda
October 22, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM ET
Join us for a special presentation on intimate partner violence with Ally Zenda, Domestic Violence Legal Outreach Coordinator with the Washtenaw County Prosecuting Attorney's Office