Showing events starting from July 1, 2019

May 28, 2020 - 3:00 PM ET

This week our guests will address issues affecting populations affected by myriad drug addictions and how COVID has exacerbated substance use/misuse prevention, treatment, and peer-supported sobriety, such as in 12-steps programs. We will discuss COVID with a focus on individual, peer and family relations, and community organizing. Our overarching theme, Identity and Vulnerabilities, will be used to frame reports and discussions. 

Guests:

Lisa Gaskin: Counselor, Women’s Recovery, Integrity House

Cristina Bares: Professor, Social Work, University of Michigan

Phil Luttrell: Clinical Social Worker, Addiction Counselor

Jeannette Ruffins: Executive Director, West End Residences

Darris Hawkins, North Jersey Community Research Initiative (NJCRI)

This follows on conversations the Faculty Allies for Diversity have been having for the past two months on social consequences of the pandemic.

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May 28, 2020 - 5:30 PM ET

The Association of Black Social Work Students invites you to join together this afternoon for a gathering and conversation on Zoom.

We feel the pain, frustration and anxiety of all of our peers and Black folx across the country and world. 

Today we will hold a safe space to acknowledge the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor. We will also hold space to reflect on the email shared with the SSW community, and to voice what we want and need to see from the School in the future. 

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May 29, 2020 - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM ET

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.

May 29, 2020 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET

This workshop is part three of a four-part series on social justice oriented approaches to offering private behavioral health services in a private practice setting. This section focuses on practice strategies. While we encourage participants to complete all four parts, you may also select those that best fit your needs and schedule.

This series will provide a foundational understanding of private and public behavioral health services so that participants are able to identify the skills needed to deliver outpatient services as a clinician with a social justice orientation. With increased access to behavioral health services through policies such as Health Care Parity and the Affordable Care Act, more community members with mild to moderate need for behavioral health services are seeking care and there is a greater need for non-public behavioral health care providers who deliver culturally-responsive and socially-just services.

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

May 29, 2020 - 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET

Join the Curtis Center for Visiting Fulbright Senior Scholar and Professor James Smith entitled: “Family are really important”: Understanding intersections between health and well-being, gender, culture and age from the perspective of young Aboriginal males in Australia's Northern Territory.

Friday, May 29, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Zoom Webinar Link: https://umich.zoom.us/j/98377289626 

Moderated by Daphne C. Watkins, Professor and Director of the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis School of Social Work Center for Health Equity Research and Training

Smith is a Father Frank Flynn Fellow at Menzies School of Health Research, Australia. His Fulbright project involves synthesizing the global evidence about health promotion strategies that aim to reduce health inequities among young men of color. He has held a multitude of senior management, executive research and policy and practice roles in government and the academy. With over 20 years of work in men’s health, health promotion, health equity, evaluation and Indigenous affairs, Smith is a fellow of the Australian Health Promotion Association and editor-in-chief of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia.

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May 29, 2020 - 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET

This workshop is part four of a four-part series on social justice oriented approaches to offering private behavioral health services in a private practice setting. This section focuses on business strategies. While we encourage participants to complete all four parts, you may also select those that best fit your needs and schedule.

This series will provide a foundational understanding of private and public behavioral health services so that participants are able to identify the skills needed to deliver outpatient services as a clinician with a social justice orientation. With increased access to behavioral health services through policies such as Health Care Parity and the Affordable Care Act, more community members with mild to moderate need for behavioral health services are seeking care and there is a greater need for non-public behavioral health care providers who deliver culturally-responsive and socially-just services.

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

June 2, 2020 - 5:00 PM ET

An opportunity for students, faculty and staff to come together.

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A Zoom link will be sent to all those who RSVP.

June 6, 2020 - 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET

This course will focus on developing the group work skills necessary to implement evidence-based family psychoeducation interventions in work with adults, adolescents, children and their families. Special emphasis will be given to the family psychoeducation approach using multiple family groups in the treatment of severe psychiatric disorders. This course will examine the theoretical and empirical foundations for family psychoeducation, as well as, the practice of multifamily group treatment in schizophrenia, bi-polar illness, major depressive disorder, borderline personality disorder and with children and adolescents with serious mental illnesses.

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