Resources from Past Open Classroom Programs
Some Open Classroom instructors make copies of their presentations available or share supplemental resources with the audience. We use this page to post that information.
JUNE 2023
- Navigating Implementation Challenges in Prolonged Exposure Therapy and Cognitive Processing Therapy – view the presentation slides and view resources.
APRIL 2023
- Write Effective ChatGPT Prompts to Boost Research Productivity (Part 1) – view the presentation slides
MARCH 2023
- Preventing Suicide Through Safety Planning – presentation slides
- Supporting Families to Promote Child Safety and Well-Being – presentation slides
- Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Supporting Families and Improving Child Outcomes – view the presentation slides
- Anti-oppressive and De-colonial Approaches to Community Engagement in St. Louis – presentation slides
- Social Work and Human Service Leadership: The Disconnect and Strategies Forward – presentation slides
- Reframing Aging: Current Perspectives on Older Adults and Aging Society – presentation slides
DECEMBER 2022
- Iran’s Gen Z: The Leadership of Young Women and Girls in the National Uprising – resources from the panel and a statement from Amnesty International on at-risk Iranians.
- Strategies to Support Multilingual Learning in U.S. Schools – resources from the SALaMA Series presentation
NOVEMBER 2022
- Social Work Responds to the Election from Jason Ostrander and Charles Lewis – presentation slides
- AI, Machine Learning, and Macroeconomic Aspects of Health and Health Policies – Prof. Feng’s presentation slides
OCTOBER 2022
- Collaborative Approaches to Addressing Historical and Multi-Generational Trauma – presentation slides
- Collaborating with Family Peer Advocates in Child Mental Health Research – slides from Mary Acri & Priscilla Shorter
- Research Findings, Training Issues, and Capacity Expansion for Family & Youth Peer Support and Advocacy – slides and references
SEPTEMBER 2022
- Collaborative Research Methods to Elevate the Voices of Youth, Adult Caregivers, and Providers in Child and Family-Focused Studies: Mary McKay and Brittany Mihalec-Adkins – presentation slides
- Developing and Maintaining Partnerships for Implementation in Child Welfare Systems – presentation slides
- If You Do Nothing Else, Please Take Time to Listen: Black Families and the Child Welfare System – presentation slides and references
- Voting is Social Work: Researches Speak Out – from Adelaide Sandler & Shannon Lane, Mimi Abramovitz, and Jenna Powers – presentation slides
- Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Sustainability – presentation slides
- The Monkeypox Outbreak: Insights and Impacts – presentation slides from Dr. Cherabie
AUGUST 2022
- Tips and Tools for Helping Kids Thrive in the Upcoming School Year – presentation slides
- The Power of 3 Campaign: A Webinar Event – slides and resources from the panel
- PTSD and the COVID-19 Pandemic – slides, references, and resources from Dr. Megan Keyes’ presentation
MAY 2022
- Advocacy & Allyship With Asian American Pacific Islander Communities – additional resources
MARCH 2022
- Leveraging the Collective – additional resources
- Loss & Grief in COVID-19:Navigating the Grief Process – slides, references, and resources from Dr. Megan Keyes’ presentation
FEBRUARY 2022
- Solving Social Work’s Critical Leadership Problem – slides from Barry Rosenberg’s lecture
- Is Professionalism a Racist Construct? – presentation resources
JANUARY 2022
- Race & Human Trafficking – Dr. Shima Rostami presentation slides
- Engaging Parents in Child Behavioral Health – slides from Dr. Trish Kohl’s presentation
- Disability & Inclusion – slides from Dr. Srilatha Juvva’s talk
- Spatial Epidemiology – slides from Dr. Deborah Salvo’s talk
DECEMBER 2021
- Understanding St. Louis’ Nonprofit Sector – access slides regarding the regional indicators report
- On Sport for Development – slides from Dr. Lombe Mwambwa’s presentation
OCTOBER 2021
- Driving Equity 2030 – slides from the first panel regarding the Brown School’s strategic plan
- Engaging Families in Preventing Youth Suicide – slides from Ryan Lindsay’s presentation
- From Isolation to Full Community Inclusion – slides from Mark Keeley’s Inclusive Perspectives talk
- Improving Child and Adolescent Mental Health – slides from Leyla Ismayilova’s presentation
- Teenage Brain – select slides from Lorien Carter’s presentation. Recommended resources
SEPTEMBER 2021
- Disability-Inclusive Workplaces – slides from Susanne Bruyere’s presentation
- School-Based Suicide Prevention Strategies – slides from Ryan Lindsay’s talk
AUGUST 2021
- Science and Strategies to Support Tweens and Teens in Pandemic Recovery and a Rapidly Changing World – slides from Stephanie Krauss’ talk
- Fear of Needles and the Unknown: Compassionately Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy– Slides from Beth Brawley’s presentation
JULY 2021
- Mindfulness for the School Year – Slides from Meg Krejci’s presentation
- Digital Dating Abuse – Slides from Kaleigh Cornelison’s presentation
- Authentic Advocacy – Slides from Ian Forber-Pratt’s presentation
FEBRUARY 2021
- Understanding the Pandemic as a Shared Traumatic Experience– Dr. Hasmik Chakaryan’s slides. View the Open Classroom lecture
- Pro-Trump Era Resistance: Hope & Mobilizing Among Black Families– slided from Brown School Associate Professor Sheretta Butler Barnes. View this presentation that reviewed findings from her study of factors that influenced self-esteem and resiliency among African American teens.
JANUARY 2021
- Managing in the Multi-Generational Workplace – presentation from Brown School Senior Lecturer Janelle Barker Gibson offered this Open Classroom about generational difference in the workplace.
DECEMBER 2020
- Adaptive Coping & Stress Management – In partnership with Open Classroom, Dr. Megan Keyes has assembled a three-part series for health and public health workers. View the first webinar. Dr. Keyes’ slides and resources are also available. Slides and resources from the second webinar are also available.
- Supporting LGBT Older Adults – View Slides. Brown School Alumna Sherrill Wayland delivered this Open Classroom presentation on supporting older LGBT adults during the pandemic.
NOVEMBER 2020
- Sleep Disruption – Dr. Megan Keyes created a presentation specific to disrupted sleep and the pandemic.
OCTOBER 2020
- Virtual Facilitation – view slides. Steven Harowitz provided this Open Classroom with 5 Tips for Virtual Facilitation.
- Immigration Policy – view slides. Washington University alumnus Javad Khazaeli of Khazaeli Wyrsch LLC delivered this Open Classroom talk on the racism inherent in current US immigration policy.
- Inclusive Democracy – view slides. Dr. Gena McClendon delivered an Open Classroom about inclusive democracy and voter suppression.
JULY 2020
- Caring for Yourself & Your Team in the Era of Uncertainty – Brown School Alumna Kaleigh Cornelison provided this Open Classroom talk on self-care and care of others while we telecommute and manage new stressors. Her slides are available here. Additional resources referenced can be found here.
- Increasing Engagement with Clients with PTSD – view slides. Drs. Megan Keyes and Julie Mastnak provided an Open Classroom lecture regarding evidence-based therapies, PTSD, and the pandemic.
- Introversion, Extroversion, and the Pandemic– view slides and resources. Brown School Professional Development presenter Chris Frey offered this Open Classroom talk on strategies to manage the impact of social distancing on introverts and extroverts.
- Pandemic Stress – view slides. Megan Keyes developed this Open Classroom program for us. She assembled these resources and shares these references.
- Messaging Your Issue – view slides. Open Classroom teamed up with the Grand Challenges for Social Work to produce this webinar on Messaging Your Issue for Policy Audiences.
- Health Policy & Economics – view slides. The Brown School’s Dr. Timothy McBride provides this Open Classroom lecture on the health policy and economic challenges of the pandemic.
- How Small Businesses Support a Community and How to Protect Them – view slides. Brown School Professor of the Practice Heather Cameron provided this Open Classroom talk.
JUNE 2020
- Implementation Science – view slides. Drs. Ana Bauman and Rebecca Lengnick-Hall of the Brown School provided this Open Classroom discussion entitled “Your Intervention is Ready…Now What?”
- Tracking the Social & Economic Impact of COVID-19 – view slides. The Brown School’s Professor Matthew Kreuter delivered this Open Classroom lecture discussing the work of the Health Communication and Research Laboratory to track impacts of the pandemic on people’s needs for services like food and housing. The HCRL also has this website where you can learn more about their work.
- Virtual Service Delivery – view slides. Brown School alumnus Carl Josehart provided this Open Classroom talk about Jewish Family Service of Houston’s response to the pandemic – how they shifted their service delivery, while staying connected to key stakeholder’s.
MAY 2020
- Nutrition Security During the Pandemic – view slides. Brown School Associate Dean for Public Health Lora Iannotti provided this presentation for Open Classroom.
- Food & Chemical Safety During the Pandemic – view slides. Dr. Angela Hobson provided this Open Classroom lecture.
- Finding & Using Big Data – view slides. Professor Brett Drake provided this Open Classroom presentation.
- Housing Advocacy – view slides. The Brown School’s Molly Metzger teamed up with Jacki Langum from ArchCity Defenders to provide this Open Classroom presentation on Local Housing Advocacy and the Pandemic. Recommended readings. The talk referenced this FEMA toolkit.
- Modeling and the Pandemic – view slides. Brown School Professor Doug Luke offered this Open Classroom talk sharing how some of the same modeling technology behind video games and animation is useful to understanding a pandemic.
- 2020 Census – view slides. Open Classroom teamed up with the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies to sponsor this talk by Brown School alum Lindsey Manshack on the implications of the 2020 Census for Native American communities.
- Public Mental Health – The Brown School’s Dr. Alexis Duncan provided this Open Classroom presentation to give an overview of the field of public mental health and its relevance to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Race & Equity – view slides. The Brown School’s Dr. Darrell Hudson offered this Open Classroom presentation on privileging equity after the pandemic. Additional resources were suggested by Theresa Kuou of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement.
APRIL 2020
- Engaging Families – view slides. From the Brown School’s Open Classroom series, Dean Mary McKay delivered this webinar entitled “I Went for an Intake and Never Went Back.” She recommends these additional webinars to people interested in learning more about this topic.
- Epidemiology 101 – view slides. From the Brown School’s Open Classroom series, Dr. Kim Johnson shares an overview of basic epidemiology concepts and relates them to the current pandemic.
- Major Gift Solicitation – view slides. Professor of Practice Barry Rosenberg gave this talk.
- Reintegration of Children in Families – view slides. Ian A. Forber-Pratt created this Open Classroom presentation to share a practice model around reunification and reintegration of children to families.
- Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Standards (CLAS) in Health Care – view slides. Dr. Vetta Sanders Thompson hosted an Open Classroom session regarding CLAS in health care, along with a conversation regarding health equity. View her talk. Additional resources she recommends are found here and here.
MARCH 2020
- Age & The Coronavirus – view slides. As part of the Brown School’s Open Classroom series, Nancy Morrow-Howell presented a webinar on age and the Coronavirus. Recording of her talk. List of resources that were developed in response to the talk.