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Community Conversation - Embracing Matrescence: Navigating the Journey and Sharing Diverse Experiences
April 12, 2024 - 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Join us for a community conversation on matrescence, the life phase transition experienced by birthing people when they become parents. This transformative process encompasses the physical, emotional, and psychological changes with parenthood after birth. Like a second adolescence, the birthing person's body can feel foreign, hormones have an outsized effect, and they are at greater risk of mood disorders like depression, anxiety. Let's explore together the challenges of matrescence, raising awareness, and discover how we can support others and ourselves through this profound transition.
This is a time for conversation – to share feelings and experiences and talk together as a community.
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. -
Connection in Chaotic Times
April 14, 2024 - 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET
We welcome you to join us as we grow our Restorative Justice practice skills! We will use a mixture of individual reflection and group work to understand our conflict styles and build plans for working through conflict using Restorative Justice practice tools.
Please come prepared for an interactive workshop that includes work in small groups, individual reflections, and large group shareouts.
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SSW Meeting - Recruitment, Admissions, Student Services and Financial Aid Committee (RASSFA)
April 15, 2024 - 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM ET
Visit the SSW meeting calendar for full schedule information.
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Winter 2024 Final Education Agreement Due
April 15, 2024 - 5:00 PM ET
All students currently enrolled in field.
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The Creative's Showcase!
April 15, 2024 - 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
**This event has been postponed and will be on Tuesday, April 16th, from 12-3 pm and Wednesday, April 17, from 4-8 pm**
"The Creatives Showcase" is a two-day celebration of diversity in artistry, curated by artists with disabilities/neurodivergent individuals from our university's staff, faculty, and student body. Join us Monday, April 15, from 5-8 pm and Tuesday, April 16th, 12-3 pm as we celebrate the transformative power of art!
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The Creative's Showcase!
April 16, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET
**This event has been postponed and will be on Tuesday, April 16th, from 12-3 pm and Wednesday, April 17, from 4-8 pm**
"The Creatives Showcase" is a two-day celebration of diversity in artistry, curated by artists with disabilities/neurodivergent individuals from our university's staff, faculty, and student body. Join us Monday, April 15, from 5-8 pm and Tuesday, April 16th, 12-3 pm as we celebrate the transformative power of art!
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The Creative's Showcase!
April 17, 2024 - 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM ET
"The Creatives Showcase" is a two-day celebration of diversity in artistry, curated by artists with disabilities/neurodivergent individuals from our university's staff, faculty, and student body. Join us Tuesday, April 16th, from 12-3 pm and Wednesday, April 17, from 4-8 pm as we celebrate the transformative power of art!
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We Need You: Volunteer Management in Nonprofits
April 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Volunteers play an important role in non-profit organizations, often supplementing the work of paid staff in order to improve or expand services to communities. This course will review the current state of volunteerism in the United States, which has been greatly changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This course will also discuss volunteer recruitment, training, management and retention practices. The course will explore the use of volunteer personas in the above areas and discuss strategies for managing challenging behaviors and termination.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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Engage: The Case for Reparations
April 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM ET
Our society has discussed reparations for Black Americans due to their enslavement, exploitation, and intergenerational oppression for a long time, but not much has manifested. As we become a more race-conscious society, examining and finally accepting the ways in which institutionalized discrimination has disseminated wealth, education, health outcomes, and other quality of life indicators for so many of our marginalized communities, we don’t talk enough about the free enslaved labor of Black people that built this country into one of the most powerful and rich democracies in the world - laying the foundations of capitalism and its view of human bodies as “units of production.”
With so many Black Americans continuing to be left behind in wealth and educational attainment - how do we make amends? How do we repay the many families who have paid the price, intergenerationally, for the rest of Americans to prosper? Join us for a virtual discussion on the need and movement for reparations for Black Americans, and local exploratory efforts happening both in Detroit and Washtenaw County. Speakers include:
Chris Watson, Ann Arbor City Council Member
Cynthia Harrison, Ann Arbor City Council Member
Lauren Hood, Assistant Professor at the Taubman College for Architecture & Urban Planning and former Co-Chair of Detroit’s Reparations Task Force
Michael Steinberg, Professor and Director of the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative at the University of Michigan Law School, Justice InDEED, and the Washtenaw County Advisory Council on Reparations
Stacey Deering, Political Science Department at Eastern Michigan University
University of Michigan’s Mellon Foundation- funded project on reparations, “Crafting Democratic Futures,” will also be discussed.
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Global Social Work Career Panel
April 18, 2024 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
Join the Office of Global Activities and the Global Social Work Pathway for an alumni panel focused on global social work careers! During the panel, U-M MSW graduates will share information about their current jobs, the job search process, and their advice for current students. Time will be included for Q&A with the panelists. This year's panel will feature:
Sebastian Vidal, MSW
Program Officer for Community Engagement- Children's Services
Church World Service
New York City, New YorkKaity Nicastri, LMSW
Social Services Manager
Freedom House Detroit
Detroit, MichiganThird panelist TBA.