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Winter Semester Community Conversation
November 11, 2020 - 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM ET
We invite you to a conversation with students about the winter semester. The School is seeking opportunities to hear from you about how we can organize our winter semester. With so much online, how do we connect with one another? How do we build community? How do we learn from and with each other as we prepare to be practicing social workers? We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas. To aid the conversation, space will be limited. (We know it's coming up soon, so if you miss it, don't fear! If there is a lot of interest in this topic, we can hold another session soon.)
About the format. A few students and faculty have decided to try something different - smaller community conversations. Our hope is that this can take topics that lend themselves better to verbal dialogue off of email and into a face-to-face (or screen-to-screen!) environment. We will draw heavily on practices from intergroup dialogue and restorative justice.
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Appropriating Food: Food Justice is Racial Justice
November 12, 2020 - 12:00 PM ET
Food deserts have been purposefully and strategically created, aided by historic redlining and other discriminatory policies and practices that have segregated our Black and Brown communities to impoverished urban areas. These communities lack access to grocery stores and other vendors that provide wholesome, nutritional food, while liquor stores and fast food restaurants are prevalent. Join us in a special virtual discussion featuring prominent Detroit food justice activists and organizers who have taken food sovereignty and environmental empowerment into their own hands. Panelists include Executive Director of the Detroit Black Food Security Network (DBFSN), Malik Yakini, Executive Director of Sustainable Community Farms, Michelle Jackson, and Executive Director of Oakland Avenue Urban Farming and Jerry Hebron, Northend Christian Community Development, INC.
Attending this session counts for field credit. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information.
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Social Work in Political Action, Careers, and the MasterTrack™ Certificate- Information Session
November 12, 2020 - 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM ET
Join us from 3 to 4:30 p.m. EST on Thursday, November 12th to explore the role of social workers in political action and the Social Work: Practice, Policy, and Research MasterTrack™ Certificate from the University of Michigan School of Social Work. During this session, you will hear from Kristin Seefeldt, Associate Professor of Social Work & Public Policy, who will discuss why it is vital for social workers to be involved in political action, Colleen Karim, Online Program Student Services Officer, who will share an overview of this MasterTrack Certificate, and Michelle Woods, Director of Career Services, who will explore the different career options social workers will have after earning this certificate and their MSW degree.
Please note: This session is informational only and does not provide a certificate of completion.
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Introduction to Budgeting and Fiscal Management
November 13, 2020 - 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET
This course introduces budgeting and fiscal management as a decision tool and provides specific technology for participants' future use, including the index of difference, the MacMillian Matrix, and the Cafeteria Compensation tool. Various kinds of budgets and their presentation will help participants to develop an understanding of fiscal management in social work practice settings.
Registration for this course is closed. Visit the CE Course Catalog for more offerings.
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ENGAGE: Food Justice Virtual Debrief
November 13, 2020 - 12:00 PM ET
CancelledWith our power, resources, and knowledge - what can we do about food injustice in this country? How do we address the policies that have been strategically put into place to deprive some, but not others? Join us for a special debrief session to discuss the connection of food justice to historic social policies, racism, and other social justice issues. Students, faculty, and staff doing work on food and environmental justice are encouraged to join and share their endeavors, and discussion on how the school can better integrate food and environmental justice into its curriculum, field experiences, and student learning is welcome and encouraged.
Attending this session counts for field credit. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information.
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SSW Book Club
November 13, 2020 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
The SSW Book Club will meet at noon via Zoom to discuss the award-winning YA novel, Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson.
You are welcome to join us, whether or not you have attended before, and whether or not you have finished the book.
All members of the SSW community are invited. Use your umich email to join. (If needed, contact 4-HELP to help you with SSO authentication. 734-764-4357)
Here's the Zoom link and the passcode = Watson.
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Winter 2021 Early Registration begins (continuing students)
November 16, 2020 ET
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Pre-Professional Information Session: What is Social Work?
November 16, 2020 - 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM ET
Meet with and hear from School of Social Work alum, current students, and staff to learn about what social work is, the different types of careers that surround social work, and how to explore social work as a U-M Undergrad!
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International Student Alumni Panel
November 18, 2020 - 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM ET
The Office of Global Activities is proud to host an international student alumni panel as a part of International Education Week (IEW), a week dedicated to celebrating the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. Each panelist will discuss their experience after graduating from U-M SSW with their MSW degree, their current position, and what it was like using their MSW degree either upon returning to their home country or remaining in the U.S. Attendees are encouraged to submit questions before the event. A zoom link will be provided to those who RSVP.
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The Michigan Healthy Start Program: Strategies to Engage Fathers in Social Work Practice
November 18, 2020 - 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM ET
In this webinar, Dr. Shawna J. Lee will describe working with Healthy Start programs throughout the state to develop, implement, and evaluate a father engagement home visitation program. The goal of the father home visitation program was to increase fathers' participation in Healthy Start home visits and to increase fathers' knowledge of infant health and developmental milestones. The Healthy Start program targets low-income mothers in Detroit, Flint, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Lansing, and through the Inter-tribal Council of Michigan. The Healthy Start fatherhood program provided father-friendly parent education and home visitation by a fatherhood-focused community health worker.
This intermediate-level webinar is approved for one synchronous interactive continuing education contact hour.
SpeakerShawna Lee, PhD, MSW, MPP
Agenda12:00 - 12:30pm | Michigan Healthy Start fatherhood program - home visiting with fathers
12:30 - 1:00pm | Strategies to engage fathers in home visitation
Learning ObjectivesDescribe the Healthy Start father engagement home visitation program intervention components.
Identify evaluation metrics used to evaluate this program.
Identify effective strategies for engaging fathers in home visitation.
CE Approval StatementThe University of Michigan School of Social Work, provider #1212, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The University of Michigan School of Social Work maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/15/2020-5/15/2023. Social workers participating in this course will receive 1 synchronous online continuing education contact hours.
Please see the CE Policies page for more information about continuing education.