Advanced SIFI Seminars
Fall, 2009

Advanced AGPP SIFI

Anna Hendrick, LCSW, Adjuct Senior Lecturer
Fridays, 10/30, 11/6 and 11/13
9:00am-1:00pm, Room 705

This is a wonderful opportunity to become grounded in both the conceptual framework and technical skills needed to supervise AGP&P students.  You will have a more extensive opportunity to learn needs assessment, grant writing and program development that emerge from client and community needs.  Those of us in the field education department strongly encourage you to attend this Advanced SIFI if you were not trained specifically in working with AGP&P students.

Skills & Strategies for Facilitating Challenging Dialogues in Field Education

Cheryl Franks, PhD & Ovita Williams, LCSW-R
Thursdays, 11/12, 11/19 and 12/3
12:30pm-4:30pm, Room 402

You've been there before. You’re in a supervisory session, staff meeting or training session and someone mentions race, or perhaps sexual orientation and the conversation becomes awkward and tense.  Patricia Williams, Columbia University Law professor, calls this moment the piece of furniture in the middle of the room that we ignore, walk around, and pretend doesn’t exist.

This workshop will be a didactic and experiential seminar; it will equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to successfully facilitate difficult conversations around race, class and diversity.  Utilizing theories of group work, conflict resolution, and cultural competence, participants will leave with increased comfort and ease facilitating challenging dialogues in a host of organizational settings that serve as field sites for students.

All workshops will be held at Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027. To register for any of these seminars above, please complete this form.

2010 SIFI Seminars

The Spring semester Seminar in Field Instruction (SIFI) will begin on Friday, January 30th, 2010 with an orientation at 9:30am.  Immediately following, the first two SIFI classes will be held from 10:30am-3:00pm at 1255 Amsterdam Avenue @121st, Room TBA. All SIFI classes will be taught by Professor Moira Curtain. 

Semester Schedule: