AUSB president, Dr. Nancy Leffert will moderate Falling Behind: The Impact of the Great Recession and the Budget Crisis on California’s Women and Their Families. This presentation will examine the impact of the Great Recession and the budget cuts on our communities and explore solutions to the current social and economic crisis.

Speakers will include:

Fran Forman, Executive Director, Community Action Commission

Kathy M. Gallagher, Director, Department of Social Services, County of Santa Barbara

Martha Harmon, Senior Vice President of Community Investments, Santa Barbara Foundation

Judy Patrick, President and CEO, Women’s Foundation of California

Janet Wolf, Supervisor, 2nd District, County of Santa Barbara

This event is free and open to the public

Monday, May 14, 2012
7:00 – 8:30 PM
Board of Supervisors Hearing Room
105 East Anapamu Street
Santa Barbara, CA 93101

More information is available at www.womensfoundca.org/event/falling-behind-public-briefing-santa-barbara

The California Department of Mental Health initiated the MFT Educational Stipend Program to award educational stipends to MFT students to address the statewide workforce need for mental health practitioners in undeserved communities. The State’s stipend program is funded through the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA). The MFT Consortium of California is the administrator of the program. Sixty stipends of $18,500 each will be awarded statewide during the 2011-12 academic year. Recipients of the State stipends will be required to commit one year of employment at a mental health service agency operated by the state, a county, or an agency contracted by a governmental entity to provide mental health care.

This workshop provides an overview of military culture including its history, organizational structure, core values, branches of the service, mission and operations. We will also examine military deployment and the unique experiences that Service members and their spouses and children face throughout the deployment cycle. Research findings will be incorporated. Participant questions and interaction is invited.

APA’s Education Directorate is pleased to offer this free webcast. This effort is part of APA’s partnership with the White House Joining Forces Initiative headed by First Lady Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden, which seeks to activate society to support our service members and their families. Please take advantage of this unique opportunity to learn from David Riggs, PhD, Executive Director of the Center for Deployment Psychology, a nationally recognized authority in this area.

The webcast will be followed by a discussion with Colonel (Retired) Patti Tackett, AUSB PsyD graduate (2011). Free and open to the public, we welcome anyone who is interested in this topic to join us for this special event. Contact Stephanie Holland, sholland@antioch.edu, if you have any questions about this event.

A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization, the film tells vivid stories about people fighting – and succeeding – against enormous odds. More information about the film is available at www.afiercegreenfire.com/

Tickets: $20 General Public; $10 Students & Seniors. To purchase tickets and for more information contact the Lobero Theater at www.lobero.com or 805.963.0761. The Marjorie Luke Theater is located at 721 East Cota Street Santa Barbara, CA.

This event is sponsored in part by The Marjorie Luke Theatre’s Drier Family Rent Subsidy Fund.

With over 42 million viewings on YouTube, the power to connect with people around the world is now accessible to everyone. Free and open to the public, this event is co-sponsored by Santa Barbara City College.

…And come prepared to laugh, learn, and dance – up to you ;-)

Antioch University Santa Barbara will be at the Earth Day Festival in Alameda Park this Saturday and Sunday, April 21 & 22. Our booth, 206, will be located in the Campus Point section. We will be giving out our AUSB reusable shopping bags (while supplies last) both days. Some of our students will also be there talking about their environment projects they have worked on this year. Come by and say hello, get a great shopping bag and enjoy the Earth Day festivities!

Check out the Santa Barbara Earth Day website for more details about the planned events.

The BASC Foundation goal is to provide critical financial support to help reward all deserving students in their career choices.  The purpose of the Foundation is to provide critical financial support to select student candidates who possess demonstrated needs as well as the desire and commitment to succeed in achieving their dreams and aspirations. The BASC Foundation wants to help those who are committed to furthering their education and career choices.

Mark graduated from Buena High School in 1971. He has lived in the county most of his 58 years. He fondly remembers mechanical drawing and woodshop in middle school (junior high) and photography and auto shop in high school. Mark and his friends all had hand held transistor radios they loved to tinker with if needed. Some of his friends showed non college bound talents that involved the use of their hands and critical thinking skills that are not university bound characteristics. This was the first view of the BASC bound student he saw and some of his friends did not attend college beyond Ventura College but have successful businesses that are applicable to BASC applications.

In Europe, Mark noticed a lot of people in his travels that owned their own businesses as they were directed into trade schools because they were not on track to attend a university. When Mark returned to the states he was unsure of his future. Getting books and tuition to play tennis helped motivate him to further his academic goals. Mark graduated cum laude from Cal State Stanislaus in 1976 and finished his teaching credential in 2001 at Cal Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. At Pacifica High School in Oxnard he teaches psychology, sociology, cultural geography and occasionally health.

After 15 years in the public school atmosphere, Mark’s teaching only reinforces the need to commit to helping those non-college bound students get the help they need to become productive self-employed citizens that help themselves and their communities.

Mark exemplifies Antioch University’s mission  “…to empower students with the knowledge and skills to lead meaningful lives and to advance social, economic, and environmental justice.” We applaud his work with students and the community.

To learn more about the BASC Foundation check out their website, www.thebascfoundation.org

We invite you to come to this event to discuss the engaging book. Selected for the 2012 UCSB Reads program, it explores the health of our ocean. This event is free and open to the public and held on the AUSB campus, 602 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA. This event is co-sponsored by The Fund for Santa Barbara and is part of our series of community dialogues on contemporary environmental and social justice issues affecting our world.

Learn more about our Focus On the Environment and Social Justice Series community dialogues.

Class Schedule and Outline
This is an on-line 4.5 unit course offering 45 hours of contact time at Antioch University Santa Barbara. The starting date for this course is April 5, 2012 and the last day to submit verification requirements is June 7, 2012. Because this is an on-line course, students may submit assignments in a manner that fits their schedule. Syllabus, resources, as well as a guide to on-line discussions and assignments will be posted on Sakai. In addition, each student will have a learning conversation with the instructor at the beginning and the end of the course to support them their individual learning goals.

This course is aimed at helping licensed graduates seeking grandparenting for LPCC will fill up quickly and registration is limited. The tuition for Antioch University alumni is $340 per unit (4.5 units $1,530) or for other professions, $603 per unit ($2,713.50)

To register, download the Special Student Registration form, complete the information and send to the Office of the Registrar (address information on form.)

Questions

For registration questions contact Julia Dubiel, Registrar, jdubiel@antioch.edu, 805.962.8179 x5105.

Riskin was among women from throughout the state honored by the California Legislative Women’s Caucus during a special floor ceremony in which she was escorted by Assemblyman Das Williams, D-Santa Barbara.

Annually, the California Legislative Women’s Caucus encourages each Assembly member to select one woman who resides in his or her district or has made a significant impact on the district.

Williams selected Riskin, the founder of Human Rights Watch in Southern California, for her work, which has laid the legal and moral groundwork for deep-rooted change to bring greater justice and security to people around the world.

Riskin is past president of the Writers Guild of America West, the union representing 8,500 screen and television writers. She was a writer and producer for television with credits that include The Last Best Year, The Member of the Wedding, My Antonia, A Town Torn Apart and World War II: When Lions Roared.

Prior to becoming a screenwriter and producer of movies-for-television, Riskin had a private practice as a psychologist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in humanities from USC, a master’s degree in psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in counseling also from USC.

Dr. Riskin is chair of the Board of Trustees for Antioch University Santa Barbara.

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