RSVP Here: https://writingcenter.uconn.edu/3-day-retreats/ (https://writingcenter.uconn.edu/3-day-retreats/) Maintaining momentum on your writing projects can be difficult, but making a commitment to structured writing time can help. Writing in the presence of others brings a sense of solidarity and productivity that can help get you through the complex challenges of large projects. This three-day retreat hosted by the UConn Writing Center provides graduate and undergraduate honors students with an opportunity to discover or maintain their motivation, provide accountability, and generate a sense of support for their work. It is a non-instructional event, and designed to act as a space for focus, informal collaboration, and judgement-free feedback. Lunch and other refreshments will be provided. Participants can register for one, two, or all three days and come and go as they please.

Neag School of Education's Reading and Language Center is hosting the Adolescent Literacy Summit on Friday, May 16, 2025 at UConn Hartford (UConn Graduate Business Learning Center). The Adolescent Literacy Summit will bring together secondary educators and administrators to build awareness, community, and capacity to engage the major challenges and opportunities for supporting literacy development in middle and high school. Four featured speakers will lead us through presentations that spark discussion in small groups throughout the day. Each presentation builds on the next to illustrate the complexity with clarity to collectively connect, advocate, resist, and build toward liberatory learning opportunities. Together, we confront racism and ableism in reading instruction, calibrate our focus on preparation for higher education, re-envision remediation and support, and reconsider what counts as foundational for adolescent literacy development. Our featured speakers will be joined by special guests, including recent high school graduates and literacy advocates for special presentations. For more information and to register, visit here. (https://reading.education.uconn.edu/adolescent-literacy-summit/)

This experiential workshop explores the profound reciprocal transformation that occurs in the practice of gender-affirming therapy. Mental health providers working with transgender and gender diverse (TGD) clients are not merely witnesses to their clients' journeys and supporting them through transition, but are themselves changed through the process of creating and holding therapeutic space. Participants will examine both the challenges of vicarious trauma and the growth opportunities of vicarious resilience, developing concrete strategies for sustainable practice while honoring the sacred nature of this work. Through multimedia presentations, reflective exercises, case discussions, and collaborative learning, participants will gain deeper understanding of their own experiences while building practical skills for integration and resilience. This workshop uniquely balances honoring the transformative impact of gender-affirming care with developing sustainable clinical practices in the current challenging sociopolitical environment.

Target Audience: UConn Health faculty, residents, medical students, and other mental health professionals Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to): 1. List how the practice of telepsychiatry at UConn Health has evolved since the pandemic 2. Compare and contrast situations where telepsychiatry enhances vs impedes clinical care. 3. Evaluate the utility of telepsychiatry as a tool to improve access to care and improve patient outcomes. Speaker Disclosure Statement: Dr. Jain in the role as speaker for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. Dr. Jain will not be discussing the off-labeled, or investigational use of any product or device. Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content. Activity Director Disclosure Statement: Dr. Gregory C. Barron as the activity director, for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. Planning Committee Disclosure Statement: Drs. Feier Liu, Damion Grasso, Jessica Meyer, Surita Rao, Andrew Winokur, Kristina Zdanys, and Sharon Freeman as member(s) of the planning committee, for this educational event, have no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. Dr. Beth Springate has a financial interest/arrangement with CogState and Medtronic that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of her role as planning committee member. The following safeguard(s) have been put in place to avoid the insertion of commercial bias into the content: the Activity Director determined that the financial relationship of the planner is outside the area of the content of the program. Commercial Support Statement: This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it. Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an electronic evaluation in order to obtain CME Credits. An email from MyEvaluations.com with instructions will be sent to participants. Please complete the evaluation within 10 business days of receiving the email. If you do not receive an evaluation assignment from MyEvaluations.com within 5 business days of this activity, please contact the Department that hosted this activity (indicated above) to ensure that your MyEvaluations.com account is set up and your participation in this activity was forwarded to the CME office. All evaluations must be completed within 10 business of receiving the email evaluation assignment.

CAM Presentation Speaker: Edwin Appiah Title: TBD  Via Webex: https://uconnhealth.webex.com/meet/pmendes (https://uconnhealth.webex.com/meet/pmendes)

CAM Presentation Speaker: Edwin Appiah Title:  "Toward a hybrid CRM-GSMM model for modeling microbial communities" Via Webex: https://uconnhealth.webex.com/uconnhealth/j.php?MTID=mdacf393cf6a2ee5314a3b76525ea5e57 (https://uconnhealth.webex.com/uconnhealth/j.php?MTID=mdacf393cf6a2ee5314a3b76525ea5e57)