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Health Social Work Grand Rounds: Mobilizing the Power of Storytelling

Location: Hybrid: Health Discovery Building Auditorium (HDB 1.208) & Zoom

Address: 1601 Trinity St., Bldg. B, Austin, Texas 78712 | View Map »

Date: Monday, September 28, 2026

Time: 12–1 p.m.

About the Event

Please join us for our featured presentation, “Mobilizing the Power of Storytelling: Centering Community Voices in Embodied Health Equity”. Presented by Caroline Sharkey, Ph.D., LCSW, an assistant professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

Lunch will be provided to in-person attendees.

Register to attend. Zoom link will be provided the week before to registered participants via email.

Continuing Educational Units (CEUs) are available for this event.

Target audience

Interprofessional and multidisciplinary health care providers, educators, and students.

Objectives

1. Define digital storytelling as a community-based tool for health equity and explain the neurobiological and theoretical foundations that make narrative a powerful mechanism for fostering connection, trust, and systems change in interprofessional health settings.

2. Identify the principles of trauma-responsive, culturally sustaining, and ethical storytelling practice, including consent, autonomy, reciprocity, and equity, when eliciting and amplifying community narratives with historically marginalized communities in health research and care delivery.

3. Apply strategies for integrating digital storytelling into health equity work to center community voice, address social determinants of health, and drive advocacy, policy, and systems change.

For more information, please contact: dellmedhealthsocialwork@austin.utexas.edu