Showing events starting from September 1, 2022 up to September 30, 2022

September 21, 2022 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Introduction to Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care - In this module, participants will learn about the nature and implications of integrated care, and will become fluent in the key terms that have come to describe it. Topics will include key public policies affecting the integrated care movement, including the Affordable Care Act; successful models of integrated care; population health management and health disparities; and ethical challenges and opportunities in integrated care. The transition to integrated care will be framed as a paradigm shift from disease-oriented to recovery-oriented service delivery, resulting in new opportunities and challenges, and direct implications for consumers and their families...

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September 21, 2022 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Introduction to Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care - In this module, participants will learn about the nature and implications of integrated care, and will become fluent in the key terms that have come to describe it. Topics will include key public policies affecting the integrated care movement, including the Affordable Care Act; successful models of integrated care; population health management and health disparities; and ethical challenges and opportunities in integrated care. The transition to integrated care will be framed as a paradigm shift from disease-oriented to recovery-oriented service delivery, resulting in new opportunities and challenges, and direct implications for consumers and their families...

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

September 22, 2022 - 9:30am to 11:00am

This seminar will be presented by Visiting Scholar Dr. Irene Y.H. Ng, from the National University of Singapore.

While material poverty is an essential starting point for understanding the experiences of individuals in poverty, this presentation argues that policy responses are limited without understanding two other important poverties: attention and time poverties.

Along the lines of findings from behavioral research that poverty impedes cognitive function, Dr. Ng and her co-authors have found that a natural experiment of a debt relief program improved the psychological function of low-income individuals and that a “scam” experiment they implemented was more likely to trick low wage young workers who were financially distressed. Together with another set of colleagues, she is also conceptualizing a work-based time poverty measure that includes three constructs: long hours, nonstandard hours, and uncontrollable hours. They are discovering the pathways of influence from low wage to psychological well-being through time poverty and family-work conflict as mediators.

Dr. Ng's presentation will share from her various research studies to suggest the importance of understanding the experience of poverty beyond the material, and to offer policy implications when attention and time poverties are also considered.

This event is co-sponsored by the Office of Global Activities, the School of Social Work ENGAGE Team, and the University of Michigan's Poverty Solutions. Please note that this event has switched to a fully virtual (Zoom only) format. Information on how to join the Zoom meeting will be provided to those who register for the event.

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September 22, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Police violence against Black bodies rightfully has forced society to look more closely at our policing and public safety practices. The #BlackLivesMatter movement has highlighted the racist origins of policing in this country, and how excessive use of force often targets Black people with deadly results. Disproportionately, police are forced to respond to social, economic, mental/physical health emergencies. Today, community leaders and elected officials are working together to “reimagine our public safety,” by creating, for example, “unarmed crisis response teams” who work alongside police departments. What is the role of social workers in this “reimagined” public safety system? Does our involvement violate any of the professional standards in our NASW Code of Ethics? Join us to hear from an array of panelists working on this issue in communities, including Assistant Professor at UM Social Work, Daicia Price; Chair of the Ann Arbor Independent Community Police Oversight Commission (ICPOC), Dr. Lisa Jackson, Senior Pastor of Vineyard Church Ann Arbor, and member of the Coalition for Re-envisioning our Safety (CORS), Donnell Wyche.

September 22, 2022 - 5:00pm

The Field Application is due for the following curriculum tracks of On-Campus MSW students who are starting field in Winter 2023: 

16-month track 

Includes 16-month students in Special Scholar programs (CWS, CBI, Geriatric, IHMUP, NLAC)

20-month track 

Includes 20-month students in the IHMUP program

Part-Time students admitted to program in Fall 2021 (please review your Course Planning Worksheet)

For more information, please thoroughly read the Incoming Field Students website. 

Submit Your Winter 2023 Field Application

September 23, 2022 - 12:00pm to 4:00pm

Join us for the 2022 Michigan Social Work Homecoming & Reunion Celebrations! We will be offering a variety of events to allow you to connect with fellow alumni, meet Michigan Social Works' new dean, Beth Angell, and engage with the entire Michigan Social Work community. We will be doing our best to offer both in-person and virtual options. We look forward to celebrating with you!

Please visit our webpage for the full schedule of events.

September 23, 2022 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm

BDSM and kink have gone mainstream in a big way. Thanks to the popularity of several books and movies, it seems like almost everyone is familiar with Dominant/submissive relationships now! And while there are many people living out their Red Room of Pain fantasies these days, that's far from the only form of consensual power exchange that D/s can take. In this workshop, we'll explore the lesser known, and lesser understood, power exchange dynamic known as Caregiver Kink. This imaginative form of Dominance and submission weaves role play into the BDSM relationship- primarily by assuming personas that are either much younger than the individuals biological age (Little play) or by role playing as a non-human persona entirely (pet play). ...

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September 26, 2022 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm

Visit the Facilities Administrative Support Team (FAST) to meet Jerome Rork (SSW Operations Manager), and Jeffrey McDade (SSW Facilities Coordinator). FAST helps with administrative functions of the SSW, room reservations, events, projects around the SSW, and much more!