Come in to learn about treatment models and course offered in Spring 2019 that will provide you with the knowledge and a clinical edge to compete in the Connecticut workforce. Includes presenter Elisabeth Cannata, Ph.D., Vice President Community-Based Family Services & Practice Innovation, Wheeler Clinic. Lunch provided.

Join us each week as you can for PRIDE, a School of Social Work Graduate Student Organization interest group! This is a space for LGBT+ humans to connect, allies to listen, and those still questioning to explore. Come for support, laughs, and discussion!

New member? Please RSVP to the email below by noon, the day of the meeting. Sometimes our location will change and we don't want you to miss out!

If you require an accommodation
to participate in this event,
please contact PRIDE by Sunday,
the week of the meeting.

Facebook and Instagram: @uconngsopride

Come join GSO for bowling and pizza at Bowl-O-Rama on the Berlin Turnpike! RSVP to sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu, if interested!

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact the Graduate Student Organization Co-Chairs at sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu by Friday, September 28th.

GSO leadership will discuss agenda. Open to all. If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact SSW GSO Co-Chairs at sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu by Wednesday, October 3rd.

Latino Innovative Approaches to Wellness: Yoga, Dance and Music
RSVP to: SSWEvents@uconn.edu

This session will help students visualize the process of career preparation and become familiarized with the services and resources that are offered to them.

RSVP at https://nexus.uconn.edu/secure_per/events/event_registration.php?ser=502&rc=2126974551

Join us each week as you can for PRIDE, a School of Social Work Graduate Student Organization interest group! This is a space for LGBT+ humans to connect, allies to listen, and those still questioning to explore. Come for support, laughs, and discussion!

New member? Please RSVP to the email below by noon, the day of the meeting. Sometimes our location will change and we don't want you to miss out!

If you require an accommodation
to participate in this event,
please contact PRIDE by Sunday,
the week of the meeting.

Facebook and Instagram: @uconngsopride

This premier 36-hour certificate program features an advanced curriculum in terms of sophistication of content with a focus on some of the most complex issues that challenge MSW supervisors. For more information: https://socialworkce.uconn.edu/swpf/#

I am pleased to announce an added Brown Bag Research Discussion. Please join us for a BBRG led by Kelly Aschbrenner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine/Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice.

Her talk is titled: “Using Peer Support, Digital Technology, and Social Media to Improve Health Among Persons with Serious Mental Illness.” The talk will be held in HTB 209 at 12 p.m. Lunch will be provided to those who attend.

If you are interested in meeting individually with the speaker after the talk please contact me or Jonathan Galligan via email. Dr. Aschbrenner has received considerable NIH funding to study health interventions for people diagnosed with serious mental illness.

Please join us for an opportunity to share concerns and ideas in a supportive environment. Open to students, staff and faculty.

Students Against Mass Incarceration will be having our second meeting! We will talk about ideas and get to meet Landon Osborn, Program Manager of CLICC, who will be having an info session on October 31st!

Join us each week as you can for PRIDE, a School of Social Work Graduate Student Organization interest group! This is a space for LGBT+ humans to connect, allies to listen, and those still questioning to explore. Come for support, laughs, and discussion!

New member? Please RSVP to the email below by noon, the day of the meeting. Sometimes our location will change and we don't want you to miss out!

If you require an accommodation
to participate in this event,
please contact PRIDE by Sunday,
the week of the meeting.

Facebook and Instagram: @uconngsopride

You will learn over 50 different techniques, many of which are not discrete to any one category, but may be used for a variety of concerns.
For more information and to register: https://socialworkce.uconn.edu/a-bag-of-tricks-brief-interventions-with-children/

The 5th edition of the DSM brings with it some of the most significant changes between editions.
For more information and to register: https://socialworkce.uconn.edu/working-with-the-dsm-5/

This semester the School of Social Work are holding one-hour Brown Bag Research Seminars– from noon to 1 p.m. on the following Mondays” 9/24, 10/22, and 11/26. They will be held in HTB Room 215. The seminars will include a brief (30 minute) research presentation, followed by a lively, open discussion.

A complete list of this semester’s seminars are as follows:

9/22: Michael Fendrich; Title: “Evaluating the Impact of Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services for Youth”
10/22: Marlene Schwartz, Director of Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity; Title: TBD.
11/26: Caitlin Elsaesser; Title: TBD.

ET: A DACAmented Journey is the autobiographical account Alex Alpharaoh, born Anner Alfaro Cividanis, an American in every sense except on paper. This one man show examines the mental, emotional, and psychological hardship Anner has to endure while navigating a broken U.S. immigration system in order to secure his livelihood in Los Angeles —the only home he has ever known.

This free event is being sponsored by: UConn Hartford, UConn School of Social Work, UConn Human Rights Institute and the Hartford Public Library

GSO leadership will discuss agenda. Open to all. If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact SSW GSO Co-Chairs at sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu by Wednesday, October 17th.

Join us each week as you can for PRIDE, a School of Social Work Graduate Student Organization interest group! This is a space for LGBT+ humans to connect, allies to listen, and those still questioning to explore. Come for support, laughs, and discussion!

New member? Please RSVP to the email below by noon, the day of the meeting. Sometimes our location will change and we don't want you to miss out!

If you require an accommodation
to participate in this event,
please contact PRIDE by Sunday,
the week of the meeting.

Facebook and Instagram: @uconngsopride

This premier 36-hour certificate program features an advanced curriculum in terms of sophistication of content with a focus on some of the most complex issues that challenge MSW supervisors. For more information: https://socialworkce.uconn.edu/swpf/#

Social Work IGFP Students are invited to join us for a study break mixer. There will be complimentary coffe, hot chocolate and doughnuts.

In May 2018, MSW students went on a travel study to Germany where they learned about the Holocaust, genocide, extremism and other important topics. They conducted research studies in relation to what they learned and will be presenting on what they found. All are welcome to join! Food and refreshments will be served!

We will be holding a one-day “Mixed Methods” Research Workshop on Monday, October 29th in HTB Room 143 at 9 a.m. This training is being led by Rogerio Pinto of the University of Michigan. Dr. Pinto, the recipient of multiple NIMH awards is a well known expert on this topic; more info about Dr. Pinto can be found at: https://ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profiles/tenure-track/ropinto
We ask that participants prepare a one-paragraph summary of mixed method research that they are planning prior to the workshop. Registration is required to participate https://app.certain.com/profile/2831894 .

To assist in developing a therapeutic rapport with veterans and service members, this seminar will provide clinicians who have limited experience with the military with an overview of its culture, norms, and mores.
For more information and to register: https://socialworkce.uconn.edu/understanding-military-culture-and-its-implementation-in-practice/

GSO leadership will discuss agenda. Open to all. If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please contact SSW GSO Co-Chairs at sswgso-co-chairs@uconn.edu by Wednesday, October 24th.

Connecting Through Literacy: Incarcerated Parents, Their Children, and Caregivers (CLICC) is a program made to strengthen relationships between incarcerated parents and their children. They are coming to UConn Hartford to inform students, staff and faculty about their work and offer volunteer opportunities to those who are interested. We will be tabling in Zachs Atrium from 1:30 to 2:30pm and then Landon Osborne, the Program Manager, will give a presentation on the program. We'll also be giving out candy since it is Halloween! This event is sponsored by the GSO interest group SAMI.

Join us each week as you can for PRIDE, a School of Social Work Graduate Student Organization interest group! This is a space for LGBT+ humans to connect, allies to listen, and those still questioning to explore. Come for support, laughs, and discussion!

New member? Please RSVP to the email below by noon, the day of the meeting. Sometimes our location will change and we don't want you to miss out!

If you require an accommodation
to participate in this event,
please contact PRIDE by Sunday,
the week of the meeting.

Facebook and Instagram: @uconngsopride