Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit (September 11, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76870 76870-19772604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

With our power, resources, and knowledge - what can we do about water injustice as a school? All discussions and ideas are welcome - whether it be proposing new field placements that focus on water and environmental justice, integrating more course content on how water injustice is tied to systemic and historic discrimination, or current advocacy efforts demanding access to safe, clean, water is a human right.

Attending this session provides field credits. Please document your attendance and contact your field faculty supervisor for information. RSVP at the link to the right to receive Zoom link.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Sep 2020 09:23:06 -0400 2020-09-11T12:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Water Warriors from Flint to Detroit
Alum Connections: Lisa Morrison (October 22, 2020 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78580 78580-20066122@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 12:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: LSA Opportunity Hub

London-based Nonprofit Expert, Lisa Morrison

Dr. Lisa Diane Morrison is an expert in nonprofit management. She is currently a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London’s School of Business and Management, where she shares her extensive experience in the nonprofit sector. A Detroit native, Dr. Morrison has worked in varying capacities in the social care sector and can answer questions related to information management, counseling protocols, social work, and program management. She’s also happy to share her insights on graduate study and setting up a home base in London, UK.

About Lisa:
Dr. Morrison holds a bachelor of arts in psychology from the University of Michigan and a master of social work from Wayne State University in the U.S. When she decided to pursue further grad work, she went to England to the University of Sheffield, where she obtained a master of science in information management. She then earned her Ph.D. from Queen Mary, University of London School of Business and Management.
Her Ph.D. research focuses on social service nonprofit organizations in the U.K. and how knowledge and information management approaches influence performance evaluation and external funding.

You should attend this workshop if you are:
Looking for insights into graduate school, particularly graduate school abroad
Interested in the nonprofit sector
Interested in the business world (Dr. Morrison’s work explores the intersection of nonprofit management and business management)
Interested in a role in higher education, especially as a lecturer or professor
Intending to spend time in London for work or study abroad in the future

What you’ll gain by attending:
Gain increased clarity around grad school abroad, based on one alum’s firsthand experience
Get a better understanding of working in higher education in England
Gather new insights into the nonprofit sector and the impact of its management

RSVP today to be part of the conversation.

Posting Disclaimer:
RSVP now to reserve your spot. By signing up, you will receive an email with details on how to join this virtual workshop the morning of the session.

The LSA Opportunity Hub aims to deliver inclusive and accessible experiences and welcomes all LSA students to participate. If you require accommodations to participate in this event please contact Carla Huhn at Carlavoy@umich.edu or 734.763.4674. so we can make arrangements.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 15 Oct 2020 11:10:43 -0400 2020-10-22T12:30:00-04:00 2020-10-22T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location LSA Opportunity Hub Livestream / Virtual Lisa Morrison Photo
2020 Building Power Against White Supremacy Conference (October 24, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78661 78661-20099529@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 24, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Black Radical Healing Pathways

The 2020 Building Power Against White Supremacy Conference: Beyond Voting is this Saturday, October 24, 2020, from 12 PM to 4:30 PM ET!

Register today at https://buildingpower20.wixsite.com/bpaws2020.

With the U.S. general election days away, we’ll have rich conversations all afternoon about how we might reimagine our current democracy. While the theme speaks to a crucial election year where our votes are an explicit argument against white supremacy and anti-blackness, we also know that voting is not the only tool we wield to transform the injustices we are immersed in.

Come! Join in community to learn about what other tools we have. Build relationships, care for ourselves and one another, and dig into how we abolish the systems that bind us to the settler colonial project of white supremacy.

We invite you to visit our website to browse the conference schedule, explore this year’s Beyond Voting theme, and register for the conference at https://buildingpower20.wixsite.com/bpaws2020.

Sponsors:
The Carceral State Project
Faculty Allies for Diversity Committee, SSW​
LGBTQ+ Advocates & Speakers Grant, Spectrum Center
Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP)
Rackham Student Government (RSG)
School of Social Work (SSW)

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:46:29 -0400 2020-10-24T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-24T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Black Radical Healing Pathways Conference / Symposium Multicolored text on a yellow background with a black, red, and green raised fist on the far left. Text reads from top to bottom, centered down the page: (in black) Building Power Against White Supremacy 2020, (in kelly green) Beyond Voting!, (in red) Saturday, October 24 at 12 PM - 4:30 PM EDT, (in green) Register + More Info: (in black) https://tinyurl.com/BPAWS20, Keynote Speaker Danielle Atkinson, Founder & Executive Director, Mothering Justice. Danielle’s headshot shows a smiling brown-skinned black woman with locs that reach just past her shoulders. She is wearing a gold necklace with a lattice-chain pattern, with a black shirt underneath white floral sweater featuring large-scale blooming flowers of blood red, cloud white, and blush pink peppering her sweater.
Using Social Media Data from Reddit to Examine the Concerns of Foster Families (October 28, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78222 78222-19994966@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

This webinar will present research on how foster families, including parents and children, are faring during COVID-19. Given the challenges involving child welfare workers accessing foster families during the pandemic, the current research relied on social media data from Reddit to better understand the most pressing concerns of foster families discuss on online forums during COVID-19. The research will shed light on areas child welfare workers, programs, and policies can intervene to ally some of the challenges foster families experience during this time.

One free social work CE is available to those who participate in the live webinar.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:49:45 -0400 2020-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2020-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Livestream / Virtual Parenting in Context, October 28
The Michigan Healthy Start Program: Strategies to Engage Fathers in Social Work Practice (November 18, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/79100 79100-20209848@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 18, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

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.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 12 Nov 2020 09:42:50 -0500 2020-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2020-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Workshop / Seminar Shawna Lee
Centennial Lecture Series: Sharon Parrott - Pandemic, Relief, and Building toward an Equitable Future (May 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83998 83998-21619323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: School of Social Work

Join us for our Centennial Lecture Series featuring Michigan Social Work Alumna, Sharon Parrott, MSW '92.

Pandemic, Relief, and Building toward an Equitable Future: The health and economic crisis shined a light on and exacerbated longstanding problems that were in plain sight for those willing to see them long before COVID-19. The crisis made clear the weaknesses in our economic and health security programs that are supposed to protect people when hard times hit while also showing in the starkest terms the stark inequities across lines of race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration that long pre-dated the pandemic. Parrott will talk about the impacts of the health and economic crisis across different groups, both the strengths and weaknesses of our public response to the crisis, the opportunity for long-term, systemic policy changes that could broaden opportunity, reduce poverty and inequality, narrow disparities, and move us toward universal health coverage, and the challenges to achieving these policy goals. Parrott will also reflect on the “long arc” of policy change and the forces that can create and stymie change.

For more information and to register, please visit our website: https://ssw.umich.edu/assets/centennial/?page=event-details&nid=62603

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 07 May 2021 11:41:59 -0400 2021-05-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-05-19T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location School of Social Work Lecture / Discussion Sharon Parrott, MSW '92