Showing events starting from April 1, 2019

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 - 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 - 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.

June 10, 2020 - 5:00 PM ET

For all students currently enrolled in field, the Field Educational Agreement is due for review for the Spring Term.

This does not apply to incoming students. 

June 11, 2020 - 12:00 PM ET

Join us for a special session focused on prominent social justice activists helping to organize the protests in defense of Black lives around the state. Social worker and Executive Director/Founder of Survivors Speak Trische’ Duckworth will join us to discuss her role in organizing protests in Washtenaw County. Detroit activist, founder of “We Found Hip Hop,” model and artist Piper Carter will join us to discuss her role in organizing protests in Detroit and her general work disrupting racist institutions. We will discuss how this significant moment in civil rights history informs our work as social work leaders, advocates and anti-racist organizers.

Attending this session will count for field credit.

Resources from 6/11 ENGAGE Virtual Discussion.

Watch the Recording Here