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Register here for the 2024 AUCCCSWT Summit
 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: College Counseling Center Social Work Professionals involved in training from across the nation will gather for the 6th Annual AUCCCSWT Summit “Leading with Compassion and Empathy: Social Work Values to Embrace in the Ever-Shifting UCCC Environment” on June 11th and 12th, 2024 at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.  We invite you to share your work with others by presenting a 75 minute presentation at the Summit.  This is a great opportunity to share training resources, best practices, gain connection, support, and inspiration.
 

Our aim is to create deliberate spaces to further explore the theme of compassion and empathy and offer intentional reflection on our social work values and the ways that we can continue to accentuate them in our work in the UCCC profession. 

 

We hope that coming together as a community and the presentations around this theme will help guide the future of social workers in UCCCs!

 

Submit Your Proposal By Monday April 8th Here: https://forms.gle/9961FGoG1hFKnZ4n7

 

We are especially looking forward to reviewing proposals related to… 

  • Internalizing Self-compassion

  • When the Personal is Political: War and World Events Taking Shape in UCCC’s 

  • Leadership in Supervision 

  • Transitions Within Our Field Impacting the UCCC Environment: How the Dynamic Nature of Social Work Has an Important Role to Play

  • A Seat at the Table: How to Advocate for Social Work in a Multidisciplinary Setting

  • The Places We Cultivate Empathy and Compassion

  • Stories Of Successful Collaboration With Campus Partners

  • Experiences From Embedded Social Workers

  • Student-in-Environment

  • Compassionate Outreach

  • Strategies for Trainee Professional Development: Managing Career Uncertainty for Ourselves and Our Trainees

  • Approaches to Training with a Social Justice Lens

  • Preparing Trainees To Work With Students Experiencing Sexual Violence

  • Dignity and Worth Of The Trainee: Managing Burnout For Trainees and Permanent Staff In Choppy Waters

  • No More Gas In The Tank: Empathy and Compassion Fatigue 

  • Systemic Self-Care: Real, Sustainable Change. 

  • Compassion and Empathy as Renewable Resources

  • Responsibility to Broader Society

SUMMIT Q AND A

Why a Summit?

The SW Training Listserv started in June 2012 and there was some early discussion of an in-person meeting to network, provide support, and discuss best practices (much like ACCTA does for our psychologist colleagues). In the last couple of years, thanks to Amy Leach (UNC Chapel Hill), there has been a resurgence of interest in meeting and an increase of listserv members (now close to 300).  After the success of the 2019 Summit, a group of social workers from around the country formed a Steering Committee to lead efforts advancing this community. In Fall 2019, this Committee surveyed listserv members and received a positive response for the need to offer a second Summit that was held virtually in June 2020.

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Costs for the Summit

2024 Summit Cost is TBD: More info coming soon

  

What are the goals of the Summit?

The social work perspective/identity is extremely important in the multidisciplinary field of CCC.  The foundation of social work training and identity (systems perspective, advocacy, clinical skills, multicultural training, community organizing, etc) is critical and valued within the CCC mission. This is why we have to organize and improve our education/training of social workers who find their passion as CCC professionals.  We have to equip them with the resources and knowledge to be more competitive for available counseling center positions.  This level of training can only be found through coming together (virtually this year) to share resources, best practices, connection, support, and inspiration.

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Can those who are not Social Workers attend?

For this year, the Summit is only open to Social Workers who work in a College/University Counseling Center. We recognize and support the value of a multidisciplinary conversation/perspective in training. And, we believe that social workers need to do more work in coming together to understand the unique ways that we add/train in college counseling centers.

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Is this just for MSW Internship programs, or can Post MSW Fellowship programs also attend?

Both. We hope that both training programs are represented.

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Can you come if you don’t work in a College/University Counseling Center?

At this point, we are limiting the Summit to just those who work in College/University counseling centers.

 

Can trainees attend?

Yes. We welcome those trainees who may see themselves joining the college counseling center career field. 

 

What/Who does “involved in training” mean/include?

For this, we are trying to be as inclusive as possible. This could be social work training program Director/Coordinator, those on staff who supervise social work trainees, lead seminars, offer consultation, or those who are looking to start a training program. This also includes various roles on staff including program leads, case managers, and other social work staff.

 

What opportunities will there be to present? How to I submit a proposal?

We would encourage you to submit a proposal to present.  See above for more information on submitting.

 

Will there be Continuing Education Credits/Units?

Yes!

 

I want to come, but need suggestions on how to ask my director for agency support to attend.

Here are a few suggestions on talking points for a conversation requesting support from the agency to attend: The Summit will aim to enhance/improve the training we offer our interns (ideas from other centers, sharing of best practices, working through challenges, etc), increase networking and connection amongst counseling center professionals from around the country, improve the selection of qualified trainees, add to the mission of our counseling center by improving the quality of service provided by our trainees and our own ability to train, provide many of the same benefits of our psychology colleagues (if you have them) who attend ACCTA’s Conference (if they attend).

 

What if I don’t have a MSW or Post MSW Fellowship training program, but I’m interested in starting one?

We welcome you! We hope this Summit provides support, connection, and ideas about how to take your next steps in developing a program within your center.

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