Aug 24 2023 Optional Day
Ethnic Studies Classroom Part Three: African-American History
9:00am / online
Zoom Link: https://gavilan-edu.zoom.us/j/4993900643
Zoom Link: https://gavilan-edu.zoom.us/j/4993900643
African American History is one of two Gavilan College crosslisted classes approved by the CSU to meet the Area F Ethnic Studies graduation requirement. All are invited to become Ethnic Studies students in Max Speare's African American History Zoom classroom. Max is an associate faculty member of History at Saddleback College whose research engages with the relationship between race, death, and slavery in early New York City. His teaching centers the histories of African Americans, Indigenous peoples, and women in American history and ethnic studies. He earned a combined Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in History from San Francisco State University and a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Irvine along with multiple fellowships and actively creates podcasts and scholarship in his field.
Mental Health First Aid
9:00am / inperson
Location: BU 120
9:00am / inperson
Location: BU 120
Student Health Services is proud to announce our first in-house Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training. This course is open to all Gavilan employees and student workers. This is blended course format, which consists of 2-hours self-paced online learning prior to the 5 hour in-person training taught by Jessica Weiler and Ryan Shook, MHFA certified instructors.
Use this link to pre-register. Please register by August 22nd. Space is limited!
What is Mental Health First Aid and what does it teach?
- Mental Health First Aid is a three-year certification.
- MHFA is a skills-based training that teaches people how to identify, understand and respond to the signs and symptoms of a mental health or substance use challenge.
- Similar to physical First Aid and CPR, MHFA helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health or substance use crisis is resolved.
- Mental Health First Aiders learn a 5-step Action Plan to recognize warning signs of a mental health or substance use challenge, provide help in a crisis and non-crisis situations and understand where to turn for additional assistance.
Benefits
2:10pm / online
Zoom Link: https://gavilan-edu.zoom.us/j/85231706472
2:10pm / online
Zoom Link: https://gavilan-edu.zoom.us/j/85231706472
Join Human Resources Analyst, Michaela Gonzalez, to learn about the health benefits offered to employees. This workshop will cover the following health benefits: Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, voluntary insurance plans, employee assistance program, and other benefit enhancements.
In addition, we will review changes in medical benefit rates, which go into effect October 1, 2023 for the start of our new medical plan year.