Webinar/Virtual Training
Maintaining housing stability in the face of behavioral health issues is the focus of this 90-minute webinar.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Sometimes mental health conditions can make maintaining a tenancy difficult. Things can get even more complicated when a housing voucher is involved and an incident results in the tenant facing the loss of not only their housing, but also the subsidy they rely on to help keep a roof over their head. This presentation will talk about the challenges many tenants face when balancing their mental health and a housing voucher, as well as an overview of what tools a tenant and their provider can use to help maintain housing stability. The Northwest MHTTC is proud to offer this webinar in partnership with the Tenant Law Center.
Presentation Resources
Slides
HUD fact sheet, mental health
FACILITATORS
Elizabeth Powell, Staff Attorney
Elizabeth Powell has been actively practicing law since she was admitted to the Washington Bar in 2000. She volunteered for the King County Housing Justice Project for years and took the knowledge she gained representing tenants facing evictions into her private practice, where she litigated well over a thousand cases in the last 23 years. She was solo counsel on Thoreson Homes v Prudhon, a Div I published decision which reversed the trial court. She has presented at CLE’s geared towards landlord-tenant litigation and has assisted with litigation and/or settlement of housing cases all over the state. She has handled grievance hearings with PCHA, THA, SHA, and KCHA. She has litigated matters involving the WSLAD, the ADA and service animals, and reasonable accommodation.
Kasey Burton, Senior Staff Attorney
Kasey Burton is a Senior Staff Attorney at the Tenant Law Center, which provides eviction prevention and tenant advocacy services to King County. Kasey has spent several years practicing landlord-tenant law as both a right-to-counsel attorney for tenants facing eviction and providing eviction prevention assistance, which has allowed her to pursue her passion for housing justice. Kasey attended the University of Washington for both her Bachelor’s in Political Science, with a minor in Law, Societies, and Justice, and her Juris Doctorate. She is currently working on her Master’s in Public Administration at the University of Colorado Denver and hopes to use this degree to facilitate her engagement in policy change that provides Washington citizens who are tenants or unhoused with the protections they deserve.
Webinar/Virtual Training
This webinar will describe how current Washington state social workers, agencies and sites are crucial partners in social work field education and student learning. There are innovative ways to support these goals for sites, students and supervisors even if you don’t currently have access to an MSW—and you don’t have to live in Seattle!
This presentation is targeted to people working in the state of Washington as information is specific to this area.
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Field education or practicum is the cornerstone of social work education, where students experience a supervised and supportive learning opportunity where social work knowledge, values and skills are put into practice. We work closely with community agencies and organizations to ensure that real-world experience complements classroom theory and research. Practicum facilitates professional social work competencies and practice behaviors that support a successful career promoting social, racial and economic justice. Field education sites provide rich learning opportunities for our students who bring the latest social work thinking and research to their positions. Field Instructors are needed in our BASW or MSW degree programs, and MSW students need placements in Clinical Social Work, Administration/Policy, or Community-Centered Integrative Practice settings.
Have a BASW or MSW + 2 years post-graduate experience and looking for professional growth & connection? Learn how to become a field instructor!
Are you a program or site interested in hosting a social work student? Learn what it takes to become a practicum site!
Wondering how to address workforce challenges and grow future leaders in your programs? We will describe some innovative partnerships & ideas!
Are you thinking about pursuing a BASW or MSW degree but not sure how you would fund your education? We have options to share!
Can you support a student focused on racial equity, social justice, and/or BIPOC community work? Please contact us so we can discuss!
Not located in the greater Puget Sound area? Students live and work all over Washington state!
Join the Office of Field Education staff and field faculty from the University of Washington School of Social Work as we share how we can partner with you as a field instructor, task supervisor, practicum site or other professional opportunities to be involved!
Supervising social work students is a fulfilling learning experience that can develop future leaders in a team, organization or community. Offering supervision and mentorship to students supports our field’s dedication to public service and UW SSW offers training and ongoing connections for practicum instructors including onboarding training, ongoing consultation and other opportunities.
Learning Objectives:
Learn what is required to become a Field Instructor for the BASW or MSW programs
Discover if your team or program could host a social work student from UW
Understand what supervision is required and the professional development opportunities in our UW Social Work community
Hear about social justice outreach efforts to rural, BIPOC, Native/Tribal & other communities to advance our mission
Discover ways to facilitate & fund social work education & practicum that impacts your workforce
We hope you can join us--if for any reason you cannot attend (or you want to do your homework!) please note the following resources and look forward to hearing from you! We will also record this for later viewing.
Site or Field Instructor Interest page
Field Education Faculty
FACILITATORS
Christina Clayton, MSW, LICSW, SUDP
Christina Clayton has been in the behavioral health field since 1993, primarily serving adults who live with severe mental health issues, substance use, experience chronic homelessness, suffer from poor physical health, trauma and any number of co-occurring issues. Christina has education and licenses/credentials in clinical social work, mental health and substance use, and highly values her direct service experience. Prior to joining the MHTTC in 2018, she spent 25 years working in and managing numerous clinical programs. She has provided licensure supervision, training and consultation, and has been a SW Field Instructor since 2000 She is Co-Director for the Northwest Mental Health Technology Transfer Center and Interim Assistant Dean & Director of Field Education for the UW School of Social Work.
Arden Hellmann, MSW
Arden Hellmann serves as a lecturer and faculty member in the Office of Field Education, working with graduate and undergraduate students. Arden’s work in higher education includes field instruction, lecturing graduate courses, organizational and program development support for the HealthyGen Center, and worked with the Intergroup Dialogue Education & Action program (IDEA). Most recently, she provided offsite field instruction for students placed throughout the Puget Sound region, partnering on students’ learning and teaching teams, helping students link their classroom learning with their applied practice, and supporting and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. Arden received her MSW from University of Washington and BA from University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
Mark Bello, BA
Mark Bello is the Program Operations Specialist for the UW School of Social Work's Office of Field Education where he has worked since 2018. He helps coordinate field instructors, sites and partners to establish relationships to facilitate practicum placements. He works closely with sites and stakeholders to collaborate on practicum opportunities meeting the diverse and mutual needs of agencies, students and communities. His skills and duties are too numerous to list, but he plays a crucial role in the operations of the Practicum office and answers everyone's questions with efficiency and grace. He is in contact with all the field faculty, students and other SSW units to assist with data tracking, decision-making, strategic planning, managing our opportunities website and more.
Ren Del Donno
Stan de Mello, MSW, MPA
Stan de Mello is a lecturer, field faculty, Affiliate Faculty-Canadian Studies and a member of the Community Centered Integrated Practice concentration. He has been on faculty at the Native Education Centre, Vancouver, University of British Columbia and the University of the Fraser Valley. Stan has a sustained interest in First Nations community development and has worked extensively with urban and rural communities in Canada and the United States. He has also been involved in developing field education sites and institutional relationships in Kenya, UK, Vietnam, Cambodia, India and Canada.
Stan has been the recipient of several Canadian Studies Enhancement grants that have supported student field trips across the 49th parallel to better understand comparative social work practice and policies. Stan has served on the boards of the National Association of Social Work (NASW), Chief Seattle Club and IDHA/Interim.
Webinar/Virtual Training
This event is part of the UW SMART Center's 2024 Virtual Speaker Series. Learn more and register for upcoming events in the series here.
Please Note: Certificate of Attendance and Washington state clock hours will be available for attendees of the live session.
Bullying Prevention in Elementary and Middle Schools: Foundations and Student Ownership
When: Wednesday, March 20th @ 10 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. AKT | 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. PT | 12 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. MT
Description:
Session attendants will learn about school readiness for bullying prevention, what staff and students can do to create a safe school climate, and how school members and students can teach and reinforce prosocial behaviors.
About the Presenter:
Rhonda Nese, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences at the University of Oregon and a Principal Investigator within Educational and Community Supports
Rhonda Nese, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education and Clinical Sciences at the University of Oregon and a Principal Investigator within Educational and Community Supports, a research unit housed in the College of Education. Dr. Nese’s research involves equitable intervention delivery within a multi-tiered behavior support framework focused on preventative strategies for improving student outcomes. Dr. Nese currently serves as the director of an IES grant to refine and test an intervention to reduce exclusionary discipline practices, improve student-teacher relationships, and increase instructional time for students in secondary settings, and co-principal investigator on additional federally-funded projects to identify factors that predict implementation and sustainability of evidence-based practices, to develop technology to improve online learning for educators, and to develop and validate an automated scoring system for oral reading fluency. Dr. Nese also provides technical assistance to state, district, and school level teams across the nation on preventative practices, including addressing implicit bias in school discipline, effective classroom behavior management strategies, bullying prevention, and alternatives to exclusionary discipline practices through the OSEP-funded National TA-Center on PBIS. Dr. Nese is the recipient of the 2022 Presidential Equity Award from the NorthWest PBIS Network and the 2022 Outstanding Early Career Award from the University of Oregon, the UO’s highest award for early career faculty to recognize and celebrate an emerging and significant record of scholarship and research.
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