Showing events starting from March 1, 2022 up to March 31, 2022

March 14, 2022 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

The Certificate in Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care - Pediatric Track is designed for direct practitioners -- social workers, nurses, care managers, psychologists and physicians -- who provide services in an integrated health care setting serving children, youth, adolescents and families, or those interested in providing care in a pediatric integrated health care setting. Participants will gain the knowledge and skills associated with providing consultation, screening, assessment, and interventions in primary care settings that serve the distinct developmental and systems of care needs for the pediatric population...

Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.

March 16, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Self-care is a professional and ethical obligation for social workers. What does it look like to engage in regular, intentional, effective self-care? In this 60-minute workshop, we will explore what self-care looks like in practice and share specific strategies to manage stress and improve well-being.

This workshop is for enrolled students in the School of Social Work only.Students who attend this session may count this workshop as field hours with approval from their field instructor.

For more information please contact the CAPS Embedded therapist Jamie Boschee, LLMSW at jboschee@umich.edu

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March 17, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

One of the Grand Challenges of Social Work practice is to reduce the harm caused by extreme economic inequality. From housing, employment, internet access, to healthcare - economic inequality is pervasive, and affects how we participate in the policial, social, and economic spheres. 

How do benefit programs like the Child Tax Credit, housing vouchers, etc., impact extreme economic inequality? Does Universal Basic Incomes (UBI) work, and how does it help? What other forms of assistance are needed? 

Join us for a discussion with scholars and activists on how labor and economic inequality and social service programs work and affect our lives. This session will be moderated by Dr. Trina Shanks, Professor of Social Work and Founding Director of the Center for Equitable Family and Community Well-being at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Speakers include Reverend  Joan C. Ross, Director of the North End Woodward Community Coalition (NEWCC), among others.

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March 17, 2022 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm

The Advances in Child Maltreatment Prevention speaker series was created by Todd Herrenkohl, Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Children and Families. The speaker series features the work of leading prevention and child welfare scholars engaged in efforts to strengthen and reform child‑serving systems. The series provides a forum for new and emerging knowledge from the social sciences and the helping professions that can improve the health and well-being of vulnerable children and their families.

Maximizing  the Possibility

The abuse and neglect of our nation’s children is one of the pressing public health and social justice issues of our time.  The events of the past year and a half, including a global pandemic and acute racial and civil unrest, have placed additional stressors on children, families, and communities.  And, while risk factors have increased for millions of families, opportunities for social connection and other protective contexts have decreased.  As we work to assure the conditions and contexts for health and wellbeing for children and families, it will be critical to integrate lessons from the past, the best available scientific evidence, and intentional strategies to forefront equity, and community and family expertise into our system design.   In this presentation, Dr. Merrick will review the history of child abuse and neglect as a field, including the numerous opportunities that exist for truly prioritizing prevention, including the collective and comprehensive efforts that are required to assure health, wellbeing, and prosperity for our nation.

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Melissa T. Merrick, PhD, is President and CEO of Prevent Child Abuse America (PCA America), the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit organization dedicated to the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect. She has more than 20 years of clinical, research, and leadership experience related to the etiology, course, and prevention of child abuse and neglect.

Previously, Dr. Merrick was a senior epidemiologist at the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in Atlanta. She is recognized as one of the country’s foremost experts on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs): in partnership with the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Child Abuse and Neglect, she served for 8 years as the lead scientist for the ACEs study at CDC and is the lead author of CDC’s Vital Signs: ACEs, the most nationally representative report on the topic.

Dr. Merrick successfully leverages her significant clinical and research experiences to communicate and disseminate the critical public health importance of preventing early adversity to key stakeholders with diverse priorities, backgrounds, and knowledge, including legislators, business and civic leaders, and members of the academic and medical communities. She is one of the principal architects of Thriving Families, Safer Children: A National Commitment to Well-being, an effort that aims to reshape child welfare in the United States by focusing explicitly on equity and prevention. Thriving Families unites PCA America, the Children’s Bureau, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Casey Family Programs, among numerous other local partners, to proactively create the conditions and contexts for strong families and communities across the country.

Dr. Merrick received her BA in psychology, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and her master’s and doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from the San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego, joint doctoral program in clinical psychology, where she served as a program coordinator for the San Diego site of the Longitudinal Studies on Child Abuse and Neglect consortium. Dr. Merrick was a National Institutes of Health-funded postdoctoral fellow at the University of Miami Child Protection Team (CPT), where she was involved in a multi-site program of research that examined child maltreatment risk and protective factors in families evaluated by CPTs across the state of Florida.

Dr. Merrick is married and has two young children who are still enthralled by the novelty of snow in Chicago.

March 17, 2022 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

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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March 18, 2022 - 9:00am to 12:00pm

This course introduces budgeting and fiscal management as a decision tool and provides specific technology for participants' future use, including the index of difference, the MacMillian Matrix, and the Cafeteria Compensation tool. Various kinds of budgets and their presentation will help participants to develop an understanding of fiscal management in social work practice settings.

Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.

March 18, 2022 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm

This event will now take place from 12:00 - 2:00 PM.

Join us as the U-M School of Social Work Glocal Village celebrates the exceptional academic work of social work students through a showcase of students’ research, academic, field experiences, and creative projects. Inspired by the theme of this year’s World Social Work Day, “Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind," the U-M SSW is hosting its first annual Glocal Village Event to provide an opportunity for students to share the results of their field experiences, research, and creative academic activities that use a global lens.

Presenters and attendees may count their participation as field hours with the approval of their field instructor. Please be sure to include the learning activities associated with the conference in your justifications on the educational agreement. The Glocal Village event will be hosted by the U-M School of Social Work and co-sponsored by the Global Social Work Practice Pathway, the Office of Global Activities, and the Office of Field Education.

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March 21, 2022 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

The School of Social Work and CASC will be hosting three advanced organizing sessions with The Highlander Education & Research Center (a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee).

January 17 - REMOTE - Interview with top Community Organizer, Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, Co-Executive Director, Highlander Research and Education Center

January 24 - REMOTE - Organizing 101, Ash-lee Woodard Henderson, Co-Executive Director, Highlander Research and Education Center

March 21 - IN PERSON - Advanced training and skill share in Community Organizing

Every participant will receive a digital or print organizing handbook and set of organizing skills and principles from expert organizers. You may attend one or all three unique sessions.

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