Cultural & Diversity Film Fest, Black History Month:  American Violet

                          DO TO INCLEMENT WEATHER THIS EVENT MOVE TO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12th.

 Friday, February 5  12, 2010
  7:00 - 9:30 PM
  115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
  Parking: Ohio Union Parking Garage
  Fee: Free to Alumni and Students, a
  non-perishable food donation is requested
  for Mid-Ohio Food Bank

American Violet, based on true events in the midst of the 2000 election, tells the astonishing story of a 24 year-old African American single mother of four young girls living in a small Texas town. With the custody of her children on the line, one brave mother wages a valiant battle to strike at the very heart of the corrupt Texas justice system.

Objectives:
1. Examine the inequalities within the judicial system that effect lower economic groups of women.
2. Describe the military tactics and the drug enforcement's plan of action to target people of color who live in poor communities.
3. Critique the hostile and environmental stresses that impact the African American family system. 

Speaker/Facilitator: Penny Carroll, MSW, LSW, with Columbus Public Health in the Maternal Child Health Department

2 CEUs available to CSW Alumni Society Members... need to renew your membership or want to become a member

Students, Alumni, Human Services Professionals, Faculty and Staff are invited to the monthly Cultural Diversity Film Festival sponsored by the CSW Alumni Society and student organizations, Mwanafunzi and Student Association

   Cultural & Diversity Film Fest, Black History Month:  The Soloist

  Friday, March 5, 2010
  7:00 - 9:30 PM
  115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
  Parking: Ohio Union Parking Garage
  Fee: Free to Alumni and Students, a
  non-perishable food donation is requested
  for Mid-Ohio Food Bank

The Soloist is a biographical drama about a homeless, schizophrenic real-life musical prodigy Nathaniel Anthony Ayers. Journalist Lopez endeavors to help the homeless man find his way back, a unique friendship is formed, one that transforms both their lives.

Speaker: To be announced
2 CEUs available to CSW Alumni Society Members...need to renew your membership or want to become a member

Students, Alumni, Human Services Professionals, Faculty and Staff are invited to the monthly Cultural Diversity Film Festival sponsored by the CSW Alumni Society and student organizations, Mwanafunzi and Student Association

Alumni Society Day of Professional Training and Networking - March 12, 2010

CEUs FREE to CSW Alumni Society Members...need to renew your membership or want to become a member

“UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN BARRIERS”
A Home Visiting Program That Improves Social and Health Outcomes for Families and Children

10:00am to Noon  - 2 CEUs

This training covers the areas of effective family treatment working on a Case Management Team, retention of transient and mobile populations, proficient home visitation in impoverished communities and the correlation between social stressors and poor birth outcomes in racial disparities.  A 29 min DVD viewing of Unnatural Causes: “When the Bough Breaks” will prompt an excellent interactive dialogue concerning the sources of chronic stressors that cause negative societal and health outcomes for people of color.

In this training, the participant will have learned:

• The benefits of Home Visitation Programs.
• The impact of the Home Visiting Case Management Team: Social Worker, Nurse and Outreach Worker.
• Home Visiting assessment tools and curriculum that empowers positive social and health related behaviors and reduces negative stressors in families.
• How supporting outreach and education initiatives can help close the gap of health disparities.

Penny Carroll MSW, LSW is a Program Manager for Columbus Public Health Division of Maternal Child Health. She is the Supervisor for the Community Outreach Assistance Team (COAT) Program that provides in-home supportive services for pregnant women to increase access to healthcare and improve birth outcomes.

Supervision by Patricia Lyons, LISW-S

12:45 - 4:00 pm  - 3 CEUs

 Cultural & Diversity Film Fest, Mental Health Month:  White Oleander

                        Friday, April 2, 2010
  7:00 - 9:30 PM
  115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
  Parking: Ohio Union Parking Garage
  Fee: Free to Alumni and Students, a
  non-perishable food donation is requested
  for Mid-Ohio Food Bank

White Oleander is a story of a fifteen-year-old who witnesses her mother's arrest and is shuttled through a series of foster homes. In the three years that mark her passage from child to adult, she learns the value of independence and courage, rage and forgiveness, love and survival, to earn her freedom from the past. 

Speaker: To be announced
2 CEUs available to CSW Alumni Society Members...need to renew your membership or want to become a member

Students, Alumni, Human Services Professionals, Faculty and Staff are invited to the monthly Cultural Diversity Film Festival sponsored by the CSW Alumni Society and student organizations, Mwanafunzi and Student Association

 Cultural & Diversity Film Fest, Mental Health Month:  The General's Daughter

                    Friday, May 7, 2010
  7:00 - 9:30 PM
  115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
  Parking: Ohio Union Parking Garage
  Fee: Free to Alumni and Students, a
  non-perishable food donation is requested
  for Mid-Ohio Food Bank

  A general's daughter, an army captain in psychological operations who suffers from PTSD, is found murdered, but what the investigators find is even more bizarre, relating back to her days at West Point and involving the general himself and his aide.

Speaker: To be announced
2 CEUs available to CSW Alumni Society Members...need to renew your membership or want to become a member
 

Students, Alumni, Human Services Professionals, Faculty and Staff are invited to the monthly Cultural Diversity Film Festival sponsored by the CSW Alumni Society and student organizations, Mwanafunzi and Student Association

Cultural & Diversity Film Fest, Mental Health Month:  Save Me

                    Friday, June 4, 2010
  7:00 - 9:30 PM
  115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
  Parking: Ohio Union Parking Garage
  Fee: Free to Alumni and Students, a
  non-perishable food donation is requested
  for Mid-Ohio Food Bank

  Save Me is a deft exploration of the controversial ex-gay movement. The story  follows a drug-addicted young man who overdoses and finds himself at the mercy of his disapproving family. Their solution is to check him into a Christian run ministry that can help cure young men of their 'gay affliction' through spiritual guidance.

Speaker: To be announced
2 CEUs available to CSW Alumni Society Members...need to renew your membership or want to become a member

Students, Alumni, Human Services Professionals, Faculty and Staff are invited to the monthly Cultural Diversity Film Festival sponsored by the CSW Alumni Society and student organizations, Mwanafunzi and Student Association

 Cultural & Diversity Film Fest, Mental Health Month:  Gran Torino 

                       Friday, July 9, 2010
  7:00 - 9:30 PM
  115 Stillman Hall, 1947 College Road
  Parking: Ohio Union Parking Garage
  Fee: Free to Alumni and Students, a
  non-perishable food donation is requested
  for Mid-Ohio Food Bank

Gran Torino is a story of an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world who suffers from PTSD and is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices. 

Speaker: To be announced
2 CEUs available to CSW Alumni Society Members...need to renew your membership or want to become a member

Students, Alumni, Human Services Professionals, Faculty and Staff are invited to the monthly Cultural Diversity Film Festival sponsored by the CSW Alumni Society and student organizations, Mwanafunzi and Student Association