Taking Education Beyond the Walls of the Classroom
CEFI 2021:Childhood Adversity and Solidarity in South Bend
June 2-4, 2021, 10am-5pm
The Center for Social Concerns offers the Community Engagement Faculty Institute (CEFI) for all who want to explore or deepen their knowledge, skills, and passion for community-engaged teaching, learning, and research. This dynamic Community Engagement Faculty Institute is imbued with engaged learning, mixing lectures by faculty and community experts on the theory and practice of community-university partnerships with immersion into the South Bend community to learn with community partners.
Due to COVID, this year's CEFI will only be eligible for ND faculty, grad students, and staff. Community Partners may be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and will need University approval. If COVID restrictions change and allow for community members to enter the campus, we may update CEFI eligibility.
How does CEFI connect faculty with partners at the University and the South Bend community? Listen to Grant Mudge, Ryan Producing Artistic Director of the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, describe his experiences.
CEFI 2021:Childhood Adversity and Solidarity in South Bend Description
CEFI 2021 will focus our conversations, readings, and site visits on the theme of “Childhood Adversity and Solidarity in South Bend.” We will explore what it means to work towards a trauma-informed approach to academic community engagement. South Bend has a poverty rate of about 24% and a child poverty rate above 30%. Those high rates indicate a high level of stress for adults and children alike. In CEFI, we will consider in particular how we can understand and respond to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in solidarity with the many local organizations that seek to address unjust adverse community environments.
Participants will receive the book The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris, Surgeon General of California, to read as a foundation. We will engage additional readings and viewings, including the readings recommended by Provost Miranda’s “Moment to See, Courage to Act” faculty group conversations. This institute seeks to extend our knowledge to see and ability to act in solidarity with our community partners.
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Questions
If you have questions or want more information, contact Connie Snyder Mick at cmick@nd.edu.
Deadline
Please apply by Friday, April 16, 2021.
