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• Call for Workshop Proposals

  • Start
    01/01/2019
  • End
    12/31/2019

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  Each year MSSWA hosts conference trainings to meet the unique learning and licensing needs of school social workers. MSSWA welcomes RFPs for potential workshops.
  

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• 2019 MSSWA Fall Conference

  • Start
    10/28/2019
  •  
    7:30 AM
  • End
    10/29/2019
  •  
    3:30 PM
  • Location
    Hyatt Regency Bloomington, 3200 East 81st Street, Bloomington, MN 55425

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  Minnesota School Social Workers Association (MSSWA)

  2019 Annual Fall Conference

  October 28-29, 2019

  Hyatt Regency Bloomington, Bloomington, MN

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  Monday, October 28, 2019

  Welcome / Conference Opens

  7:15am to 8:15am - Registration/Vendor Exploration/Silent Auction Opens/Continental Breakfast

  8:15am to 8:20am - Welcome and Conference Overview

  8:20am to 11:00am - Keynote: Whatever It Takes For All Students To Succeed in School and Life: Dr. Bryan Pearlman

  11:00am to 11:45am - MSSWA Annual Meeting & Awards Luncheon

  11:45am to 12:00pm - Break/Vendor & Exhibitor Exploration/Silent Auction

  Session 1 - 12:00pm to 2:00pm

  1A: Coach Approach: Skills to Enhance Your Work With Youth

  1B: We Have All Been Trauma Informed, Now What?

  1C: Anxiety & Teens: Empowering Schools and Students to Take Charge of Their Stress

  2:00pm to 2:15pm Break/Vendor & Exhibitor Exploration/Silent Auction

  Session 2 - 2:15pm to 3:45pm

  2A: Must Knows For New School Social Workers

  2B: Psychiatric Medication Review For the Non-Prescriber

  2C: Combating Isolation: Group Work With Adolescents

  3:45pm to 4:30pm - CEU's (for one day registrants), Silent Auction Payments, Vendor Bingo Winners Poster

  Tuesday, October 29, 2019

  7:30am to 8:00am - Registration/Continental Breakfast

  Session 3 - 8:00am to 10:00am

  3A: Combining Conscious Discipline and Trauma Informed Care in an ECSE Classroom

  3B: Hurts 2B Human

  3C: Working With Muslim Families

  3D: MSSWA Suicide Awareness & Prevention: Train the Trainer

  10:00am to 10:15am - Break

  Session 4 - 10:15am to 11:45am

  4A: Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder and a Co-Morbid Mental Illness

  4B: Tools For SEL Assessment

  4C: Shining a Light on Adoption With Real Life Stories

  4D: It Takes a Village: Healing the Effects of Trauma Within Diverse Communities      (Part 1 of 2)

  11:45am to 1:15pm - Lunch & Learn Movie Option "Broken Places

  11:45am to 1:15pm - Lunch (On Own)

  Session 5 - 1:15pm to 3:15pm

  5A: Taking Autism to School: A Personal Narrative

  5B: Tools to Calm Intense Behavior & Help Your Most Challenging Kids Succeed

  5C: It Takes a Village: Healing the Effects of Trauma Within Diverse Communities     (Part 2 of 2)

  5D: Educated Guesses: Supporting & Repairing Attachment in School Settings

  3:15pm to 3:45pm - Evaluations/CEU's

  
  

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  Please join us at our brand new location, the Hyatt Regency Bloomington for 2 days of learning and networking with peers at the 2019 MSSWA Fall Conference. The Hyatt Regency is an upscale, hip hotel located just blocks from the Mall of America and only steps from the Blue Line Light Rail, running from Downtown Minneapolis to the Mall of America. Complimentary hotel shuttle to/from MSP Airport and the Mall of America.

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• MSSWA Region 2B Meeting

  • When
    11/08/2019
  •  
    12:30 PM - 3:00 PM (CST)
  • Location
    Jake’s Stadium Pizza, 330 Stadium Road, Mankato

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  Region 2B  Fall Meeting

  
  

  “Educational Neglect and Truancy”

  DATE: Friday, November 8th, 2019

  TIME: From 12:30 pm-3:00 pm

  LOCATION: Jake’s Stadium Pizza, 330 Stadium Road, Mankato

  
  

  Michelle Zehnder Fischer has been the Nicollet County Attorney for the past seven years. Michelle obtained her law degree from William Mitchell College of Law. She served on the William Mitchell Law Review as an associate editor and participate in trial advocacy competitions. Michelle worked for just over a year as a judicial law clerk in Mower and Dodge Counties. In 1995, Michelle joined the law firm of Mackenzie and Gustafson and the Nicollet County Attorney’s Office. Michelle’s private practice focused primarily on family law as well as litigation, debt collection, and personal injury. As an Assistant County Attorney, she handled all domestic abuse, sexual abuse, and child abuse cases; all child protection cases; and child support cases. Michelle became the Chief Deputy Attorney in 2001. Michelle participates in the Nicollet County Child Protection Team that reviews cases to identify families needing assistance and to provide solutions to those families. She focused on creating a response system that intervenes when school absences first start to occur.

  Please join us at Jake’s Stadium Pizza on Friday, November 8th to hear Michelle Zehnder Fischer and Casey Hardy, Blue Earth County Assistant Attorney speak to us about educational neglect and truancy (2 CEU’s provided).

  
  

  COST : MSSWA Region 2A & 2B Members: FREE

  MSSWA Members: (Outside of Regions 2A & 2B): $10.00

  Others (Non MSSWA Members) wishing to attend: $20.00

  Please register and pay By/Before November 1, 2019

  REGISTER ON-LINE AT: MSSWA Region 2B Meeting -November 8th, 2019

  Questions?

  Contact: Michelle Halverson- michelle.halverson@sibleyeast.org  OR

                  Kris Madsen- kmadsen@isd2135.org

  
  

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• Region 4B Fall Meeting

  • When
    11/13/2019
  •  
    4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
  • Location
    Hopkins Public Library
  • Spaces left
    29
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Region 4B Fall Meeting

  Screening of "Love them First" and Discussion

  Hopkins Public Library: 22 11th Ave. N. Hopkins , MN 55343

  Free for members

  $10 for non-members

  Capacity: 30

  Trailer: https://youtu.be/p7BiKiA6QIY

  
  

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