Orange County Academic Center
2300 Michelson Drive, Irvine, CA 92612

Friday, February 10, 2012, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Friday 02/10/2012: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Orange County Academic Center 2300 Michelson Drive Irvine CA 92612

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University Park Campus
655 West 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089

Saturday, February 11, 2012, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m., Hamovitch Research Center

Saturday 02/11/2012: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Montgomery Ross Fisher Building Hamovitch Research Center

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Because this is a pilot year for this program, this clinic will be held only at University Park Campus (Orange County, San Diego and Virtual Academic Center students are welcome to attend). Because of the distance, San Diego and VAC students can email their resumes to sswcd@usc.edu for review and feedback.

The Resume Clinic is available to graduating students only.

Preparation:

• Attend one of the resume workshops (information found on Qualtrics) to learn the basics of resume writing.
  
• Work on your resume early and bring your completed resume to the Resume Clinic on 2/15/12.
• To guarantee a resume-review spot will be reserved for you, RSVP is required by 2/8/12.

Wednesday 02/15/2012: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

University Park Campus Montgomery Ross Fisher Building Hamovitch Research Center

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Since then, social work students, faculty and community leaders have gathered each year to celebrate diversity through an exchange of ideas and to learn how to better communicate across differences in race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, social class and disability. This year, we look at the implications of immigration reform on civil liberties and the social work profession.

Several states have passed local immigration reform acts aimed at identifying, prosecuting and deporting illegal immigrants. The laws make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime, and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally simply based on appearance. Critics of the legislation say it encourages racial profiling, while supporters say the law prohibits the use of race as the sole basis for investigating immigration status. The National Association of Social Workers strongly opposes such laws, which criminalize immigrants, endanger human rights and threaten the civil liberties of citizens and immigrants. The current political context of immigration makes the job of social workers much harder. We must present a united front to ensure equal protection from discrimination for all immigrants who come to live in the United States.

To do nothing is to ignore the core of who we are and what our profession stands for.
 
Keynote Speakers

• Gil Cedillo, California state assembly member
• Manuel Pastor, professor of American studies and ethnicity at USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences

• Niels Frenzen, clinical professor of law at USC Gould School of Law
• Ange-Marie Hancock, associate professor of political science and gender studies at USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
• Angelica Salas, director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles

Schedule

8:15 a.m.
 Check-In


9 a.m. 
All School Day


12 p.m. 
Lunch

1 p.m.
 Student activity

Thursday 02/16/2012: 8:15 AM

University Park Campus Bovard Auditorium (ADM)

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The USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging honors the late Rep. Edward R. Roybal, a visionary leader in establishing aging services and a champion for civil rights and equal justice. This year’s speaker is Henry G. Cisneros, executive chairman of CityView and former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

After the lecture, awards will be presented to the recipients of the Pearmain Prize for Excellence in Research on Aging and the USC Roybal Institute Community Partnership Award. The 2012 honorees are: Laura Trejo, Los Angeles Department of Aging, USC Roybal Institute Community Partnership Award; and Ronald J. Angel, University of Texas at Austin, Pearmain Prize for Excellence in Research on Aging.

Named for late Congressman Edward R. Roybal, the USC Edward R. Roybal Institute on Aging is dedicated to improving the health and mental health of older persons and their families, particularly those from low-income and multiethnic backgrounds.

To learn more about the event, please contact uscroybal@usc.edu or (213) 740-1887.
Please RSVP by February 17 at usc.edu/esvp (code: ROYBAL) or (213) 740-1744.

Wednesday 02/22/2012: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

University Park Campus Town and Gown (TGF)

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She has specifically focused on family-school collaborations, increasing access to mental health services, and issues specific to foster care. As a faculty fellow at the Silver School of Social Work's McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research, Gopalan develops private and federal pilot grant proposals for intervention research projects pertaining to child and adolescent mental health services in inner-city communities. Gopalan also has recent clinical experience as a social work supervisor in child and adolescent psychiatry in the Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

Thursday 02/23/2012: 11:15 AM - 12:00 PM

University Park Campus Montgomery Ross Fisher Building 204

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Designed for licensed clinical social workers and licensed marriage and family therapists, this course will provide participants an overview of current research on gang culture, theories of gang involvement and the historical context of gangs in Los Angeles, as well as current interventions and policies addressing the gang epidemic.

By exploring potential root causes of gang violence, we can critically develop practices that address challenges for communities immersed in the cycle of gang violence.

This course meets the qualifications for 3 hours of continuing education credit for MFTs and LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Provider # PCE 2488.

Speakers:

Joey Nunez Estrada Jr., MSW, PhD
Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
Dr. Estrada's research interests include school violence, street gang culture, school-based intervention, resiliency and youth empowerment. He is currently conducting research on the risk and protective factors for gang-involved youth within school communities.

Robert Hernandez, MSW
Part-time Lecturer, USC School of Social Work
Hernandez’s areas of interest include working with vulnerable youth populations, adolescent social issues, adolescent gang intervention, strengthbased/empowerment modalities and youth development. He currently serves on the National Juvenile Justice Network, which advocates for juvenile justice system reform.

Friday 02/24/2012: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Casa Cardenas Senior & Family Counseling Center 4141 Maine Ave. Baldwin Park CA 91706

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These structured workshops will help you become a better practitioner in diagnosis and assessment with complex clinical issues.

The LCSW Standard Written examination workshops will cover the seven major content areas of the LCSW written exam, clinical process, interventions, therapeutic application, and legal and ethical responsibilities in four half-day sessions. The meetings will include homework, small group assignments and study groups over a three-month period (16 hours of instruction). Particular emphasis will be placed upon the development of a personalized grasp of content material needed for the successful completion of the examination.

• Saturdays March 3, April 7, May 5 and June 2, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
  

The LCSW Clinical Vignette examination workshop will review clinical vignettes and practice examinations in one full-day session. This one-day training is an intensive review of essential content related to the LCSW Clinical Vignette examination that will explore test-taking strategies and assessment of the individualized needs of the examinee. This session will also cover major components of the LCSW examination, such as bio-psychosocial assessment and clinical assessment. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the development of a personalized grasp of content material needed for successful completion of the examination. Practice exams will also be used to assist with the application and integration of the material reviewed during the training.

• Sunday, September 15, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
  

The Standard Written and Clinical Vignette workshops can be purchased as a package (23 hours of instruction) or separately; both options include workshop materials, continental breakfast, and Web access to review the workshops for a two-month period after each session.

Estela Andujo, an adjunct faculty member at the USC School of Social Work and California State University, Long Beach, will be the instructor for these workshops. She is also director of the outpatient program at Intercommunity Child Guidance Center in Whittier and a contract trainer for the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health and the Child Welfare Training Academics. Dr. Andujo has taught LCSW licensing courses for the past 20 years.

To register, go to http://www.regonline.com/usclcswprep2012.

Dates: 03/02/2012, 04/07/2012, 05/05/2012, 06/02/2012: 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM

University Park Campus Montgomery Ross Fisher Building Distance Studio

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Orange County Academic Center
2300 Michelson Drive, Irvine, CA 92612

Friday, March 9, 2012, 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Friday 03/09/2012: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Orange County Academic Center 2300 Michelson Drive Irvine CA 92612

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The LCSW Clinical Vignette examination workshop will review clinical vignettes and practice examinations in one full-day session. This one-day training is an intensive review of essential content related to the LCSW Clinical Vignette examination that will explore test-taking strategies and assessment of the individualized needs of the examinee. This session will also cover major components of the LCSW examination, such as bio-psychosocial assessment and clinical assessment. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the development of a personalized grasp of content material needed for successful completion of the examination. Practice exams will also be used to assist with the application and integration of the material reviewed during the training.

• Sunday, September 15, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

There are also the LCSW Standard Written examination workshops, which will cover the seven major content areas of the LCSW written exam, clinical process, interventions, therapeutic application, and legal and ethical responsibilities in four half-day sessions. The meetings will include homework, small group assignments and study groups over a three-month period (16 hours of instruction). Particular emphasis will be placed upon the development of a personalized grasp of content material needed for the successful completion of the examination.

• Saturdays March 3, April 7, May 5 and June 2, 2012, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

The Standard Written and Clinical Vignette workshops can be purchased as a package (23 hours of instruction) or separately; both options include workshop materials, continental breakfast, and Web access to review the workshops for a two-month period after each session.

Estela Andujo, an adjunct faculty member at the USC School of Social Work and California State University, Long Beach, will be the instructor for these workshops. She is also director of the outpatient program at Intercommunity Child Guidance Center in Whittier and a contract trainer for the Los Angeles Department of Mental Health and the Child Welfare Training Academics. Dr. Andujo has taught LCSW licensing courses for the past 20 years.

To register, go to http://www.regonline.com/usclcswprep2012.

Saturday 09/15/2012: 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Montgomery Ross Fisher Building Distance Studio

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