Showing events starting from May 1, 2019 up to May 31, 2019
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SSW and DPSS Personal Safety Lecture
May 28, 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
In partnership with the Division of Public Safety & Security, the Office of Field Instruction is sponsoring an introductory lecture to personal safety and self defense. Our presenters from DPSS will be Candace Dorsey, Empowerment Self Defense Manager, and Sergeant Gary Hicks.
Description: "Our self-defense workshop takes a holistic approach to self-protection, emphasizing awareness and assertiveness skills as well as physical and verbal strategies to counter violence. The goal is to leave you better equipped to deal with everything from harassment to potentially violent people to sexual assault."
Information will be presented in a lecture format, and further resources will be given for students who wish to follow up with a self defense course through DPSS.
Food will be provided! Students may arrive between 5:00 and 5:30 for food; the lecture will begin at 5:30.
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Motivational Interviewing for Social Workers
May 29, 2019 - 6:00pm to 9:00pm
Utilizing numerous materials including the Professional Training Videotape Series developed by William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick, this five-week series of 3-hour instruction and skill-building sessions will provide a basic introduction to Motivational Interviewing. Using the video material and supplemental handouts, along with lecture, role-playing and group discussion, this course will lay a foundation for participants to begin to develop their clinical skills in helping people accomplish change in areas of difficult behavior.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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SSW and DPSS Personal Safety Lecture
May 30, 2019 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
In partnership with the Division of Public Safety & Security, the Office of Field Instruction is sponsoring an introductory lecture to personal safety and self defense. Our presenters from DPSS will be Candace Dorsey, Empowerment Self Defense Manager, and Sergeant Gary Hicks.
Description: "Our self-defense workshop takes a holistic approach to self-protection, emphasizing awareness and assertiveness skills as well as physical and verbal strategies to counter violence. The goal is to leave you better equipped to deal with everything from harassment to potentially violent people to sexual assault."
Information will be presented in a lecture format, and further resources will be given for students who wish to follow up with a self defense course through DPSS.
Food will be provided! Students may arrive between 5:00 and 5:30 for food; the lecture will begin at 5:30.
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Social Work Practice in Rural Settings
May 31, 2019 - 9:00am to 5:00pm
This minicourse will examine practice theory and techniques relevant to social work in a rural setting. There are many definitions of what might be considered a rural community. For the purposes of this course, we will define communities as rural that have a population size of 2,500 to 20,000 with no major metropolitan area within hour of the community. Rural communities are often plagued with similar problems as vast metropolitan areas such as high poverty rates, inadequate housing, and inadequate access to health care. However, the scarcity of resources and professionals including medical providers, socioeconomic underdevelopment, and physical distance from services and lack of public transportation are frequently identified as compounding factors of living in a rural community. The impact of differences in the key diversity dimensions such as ability, age, class, color, culture, ethnicity, family structure, gender (including gender identity and gender expression) marital status, national origin, race...
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.