Don’t be! Mass NASW is presenting a one day Licensing Test Preparation course, which will help you review for the exam which you will probably soon be taking. Although licensing is different in each state, the test is the same in all States except California, which gives their own exam. It doesn’t mean this review would not be helpful to those of you who plan to live in CA. This one day training will review the content material you need to know for the exam and will also pinpoint test taking strategies. You will also receive a thick review booklet along with sample test questions.
This one day Prep course will be given here at Smith College on Saturday, June 8th, from 9-4 pm. - in McConnell 103.
The cost is $125 for NASW members and $175 for nonmembers, at the Early Bird rate. The Early Bird rate is in effect until 5/27. After 5/27, the rate is increased to $150 and $200 respectively. The cutoff for all registration is 6/5. If you register as an NASW member you are saving $50 towards NASW membership, which is $57/year. So, your membership as a student only costs you $7!!! There will be no registration the day of the course. So, in between finishing out your last year at Smith, why not take a break and get ready for your next professional step.
To register, click www.naswma.org/licensing. If you have any questions, you can contact our Western Mass. Coordinator, Jeff Schrenzel, at jschrenz@wne.edu. For information about state licensing, you can go to www.aswb.org. Thanks!
This is an open event inviting all incoming and current SSW students to have a collective space to come and plan out their academic calendars for the term. Figuring out how to balance the school work of the summer can be really challenging in the academically compressed Smith environment.
At this event, students will have the opportunity to hear from 3rd year students on tips and tricks to organizing academic assignments to ensure they'll have the time needed to taking care of their papers and projects.
If a student is looking for support and accountability to give themselves a prepared/organized start to the term, this is the **event for them.
WHEN: Saturday, June 1, 2019 @ 3:30-5:30pm
WHAT TO BRING: Student planners, calendars, class syllabi, and any desired writing utensils
WHO: Aliya Saulson (Academic Support Services Representative) & Rebecca Maston (Registration Representative)
FACEBOOK EVENT
**This event is a part of Orientation for First Summer Students, but all cohorts are invited to attend.
Contact: Aliya Saulson, Academic Support Services Representative at asaulson@smith.edu
Our Journey to Fearless Activism
Speaker: Evie Litwok, B.A., M.A.
Founder and Executive Director of Witness to Mass Incarceration, will speak about her personal journey through two federal women’s prisons and solitary confinement, and how the experience ignited her social activism around the issue of mass incarceration and mass supervision.
Sunday, June 2, 2019 4:30-5:30 p.m.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
For more information about the Public Lecture Series: https://ssw.smith.edu/pls
Empathy is Insufficient: Addressing Resistance to Meaningful Engagement of Racism
Speaker: Courtney Cogburn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work
The presentation will employ a structural lens to examine contemporary manifestations of racism and will also explore factors that contribute to the denial or diminishment of anti-Black racism.
We will also explore the use of emerging technologies (e.g. virtual reality) in building and moving beyond empathy to deepen structural competence and support more meaningful engagement of racism, particularly among White liberals.
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
For more information about the Public Lecture Series: https://ssw.smith.edu/pls
On Living with Two Hearts: Working with Latino Immigrant and Refugee Children and Families
Speaker: Celia Jaes Falicov, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health and Director of Mental Health Services for Latino Immigrants at the Medical Student Run Free Clinic of the University of California, San Diego
Family separations during migration increasingly involve fragmentation in core relationships such as mother-child or father-child. Practitioners need to learn possible presentations of distress in children and parents that have undergone these experiences and be able to help them achieve sustainable reunifications.
This lecture presents and video illustrates “therapies of separation” and “therapies of reunification” that offer guidelines and practice strategies for clinical work with immigrant or refugee children and their families.
These migration-specific competencies are part of a larger multidimensional framework (MECA) that addresses issues of culture and context in clinical assessment and practice.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
For more information about the Public Lecture Series: https://ssw.smith.edu/pls
Dying to Ask for Help: Suicide Trends and Treatment Disparities Among U.S. Adolescents
Speaker: Michael A. Lindsey, M.S.W., M.P.H., Ph.D.
Executive Director, NYU McSilver Institute, NYU Silver School of Social Work; Aspen Health Innovator Fellow, The Aspen Institute
Dr. Michael A. Lindsey is a noted scholar in the field of child and adolescent mental health, as well as a leader in the search for knowledge and solutions to generational poverty and inequality.
He is the executive director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University (NYU), the Martin Silver professor of Poverty Studies at NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an Aspen Health Innovators fellow.
Wednesday, July 31, 2019, 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall
For more information about the Public Lecture Series: https://ssw.smith.edu/pls