This course deals with the design of drinking water treatment plants. We discuss theory and design exercises.

This unit plan was designed in order to instruct students in the Kittitas Valley about the contributions and perspectives of the Kittitas Band of the Yakama Nation. This unit plan has students use primary and secondary sources, inquiry, videos and lecture to plan and conduct an oral history interview with a Kittitas Band member. If tribal members of the Kittitas are not avaiable for interview, there is a sample video of an interview with Kittitas member Allen Aronica. Students can use this video instead of conducting an oral history interview for the final lesson. 

Biological systems (e.g. cells) can make stochastic transitions between phenotypes (e.g. states of relatively increased or decreased drug resistance). This means that an initially drug-sensitive population can generate relatively drug-resistant subpopulations. This video presents a metronomogram, which is a tool for understanding whether such stochastic transitions can provide an opportunity for therapeutic treatment. Citation: Liao D, Estevez-Salmeron L, and Tlsty TD (2012) "Conceptualizing a tool to optimize therapy based on dynamic heterogeneity," Phys. Biol. 9:065005.

These dynamics course notes were authored by Dr. Elizabeth Croft (currently at Monash University (elizabeth.croft@monash.edu) in 2004, and converted for open licensing (including figure creation) in 2019 by Dr. Agnes d'Entremont (adentremont@mech.ubc.ca) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada (https://mech.ubc.ca).

The notes (are designed to be used for a second-year dynamics course in Mechanical Engineering, and cover planar rigid-body dynamics and an introduction to one degree-of-freedom vibrations. The order of topics has vibrations earlier in the series than typical, due to their use in an integrated course. This order matches the course timing of related ordinary differential equation solutions in the integrated mathematics and electric circuits courses.

These notes are intended to be skeleton notes, with substantial portions (diagrams, derivations, solutions) written in by students along with their instructor. Completed notes are included. PDF notes plus original LaTeX code and editable images (Powerpoint) are available at the link.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Teaming on a highway of different participation styles is a skill often given little development. The norm is to put teams together, toss the dice and hope for synergy. This workshop will impact the way you team, by focusing on understanding and working with different “driving” or team participation styles. We will discuss how to keep the team moving toward integration and not get lost. You will leave this workshop with personal insight on your participation style and develop skills to collaborate with other or different participation styles

In this three-hour workshop; we will begin the conversation about cultural competency; privilege; oppression and humility. This course focuses on personal; and often unquestioned; beliefs and experiences in an attempt to enhance learning about cultural competence; increase humility in working with others and begin to be more open to examining the world from various perspectives. We will discuss entering into situations with humility; willing to learn from others; and being open and honest with ourselves about our own identities; privileges; oppression and growth opportunities.

The course will provide new insights into creating and maintaining the vision of the family throughout the Wraparound process. The workshop will explore stages of change and how to support families in becoming ready to participate in the Wraparound process.

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based conversational method that helps promote behavior change in youth and adults. MI is used in diverse behavioral health and primary care settings to engage clients in change; and providers are finding important applications for this powerful approach. The child welfare system has found MI useful for engaging in change conversations; and MI is has been effective in working with pre-teens; adolescents; emerging adults and adults in the child welfare system. MI can be used in a number of child welfare settings; including differential response teams; schools; criminal justice environments; foster/kinship care; behavioral health centers and others. In this workshop; the central motivational interviewing concepts will be reviewed; and participants will have opportunities to practice discrete and powerful interventions that demonstrate important concepts of the model.

San Luis Obispo County has maintained one of the most effective public/private Wraparound programs in California for nearly 20 years. Based on this experience; the workshop will provide a framework for integrating Wraparound with the new CCR Level Of Care (LOC) system; Intensive Services Foster Care (ISFC); as well as Therapeutic Family Care (TFC) to achieve maximum benefit for children; youth and the families working with them. Participants will learn how to enhance program outcomes through Wraparound; including increased services and supports; augmented staffing; augmented Resource Parent compensation; and by integrating community-based resources. Additionally; this presentation will discuss using Wraparound to provide an enhanced level of services and supports to children and youth placed with relative and NREFM families.

This presentation will provide a foundation of effective parent partner strategies and effective team strategies. Presenters will provide engagement strategies, concrete family tools and resource mapping. The workshop will also highlight the success of the monthly Parent Retreat, a support group which provides affirmation and enhances social and emotional connection through brainstorming and peer support.

This session focuses on current research; theory and best practices for health and wellness programming and interventions in the workplace setting. Examples include planning; design and implementation of wellness programming; environmental and policy change; evaluation and reporting; communication; management; and culture change. The workshop also includes a case study of a Wraparound program implementing best practices that significantly decreased perceived stress and burnout.

This workshop will focus on the importance of including men in services. It will show the strengths that men bring to their children’s lives, the impact that they have on outcomes, and ways to overcome barriers to having men included.

Integrating the goals of probation into one sustainable; achievable Wraparound plan can be a challenge; especially in rural counties. Learn how one county and its Wraparound provider overcame obstacles to achieve success with limited resources and how you can make it happen; too.

The key to transformation is in families and communities. At weekly gatherings; this group now teaches people how to “Wraparound” each other and keep kids out of a gang culture that can be generational. Former gang members now work alongside the probation department; law enforcement; churches; schools; universities and a multitude of nonprofit organizations to intervene and educate others.

This session covers integration of the 10-week; evidence-based Strengthening Families curriculum utilizing caregiver/youth groups and family sessions. Aspiranet staff will discuss the development of and successful implementation with the families served in Wraparound to include strategies to engage families and community partners. Families who successfully complete the program demonstrate an increase in effective communication among family members. Parents receive tools for understanding youth and how to demonstrate love while setting limits.

Getting the foster parents our youth need and supporting them so they stay is a daunting task. This session will focus on the essential strategies that target and engage the “right” foster parents and ensure they will commit to fostering for years to come.

The California Well Being Project provides participating counties with the flexibility to invest existing resources more effectively in proven and innovative approaches that better ensure the safety of children and the success of families. This flexibility enables the opportunity to reinvest resources into more cost efficient approaches that achieve better outcomes. One project focus is Wraparound for probation youth exhibiting delinquency risk factors that put them at risk of entering foster care. This workshop offers an overview of the project, the state’s Wraparound intervention and intersecting project outcome changes with Wraparound.

This workshop is designed to explore and discuss the importance of cultural competency when providing services to children and families experiencing trauma. Different perspectives will be explored, as well as self reflection of the participants own biases. Different degrees of sociohistorical trauma, environmental trauma and psychological trauma will be discussed. Participants will leave with the knowledge and understanding needed to provide culturally responsible services.