How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times

4/25/2024 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Presenter: Mónica Guzmán

 

Mónica will show participants how to build bridges across gaping cultural, social, and political divides. She will show people the value of staying curious, even when it’s hard, and put the tools they need to see each other across projections and assumptions in easy reach. Learn more about Mónica Guzmán by clicking here.

001 - Balancing Acts: Patient Autonomy and Heart Transplant Requirements

4/25/2024 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presenter: Johnna Marcus, LICSW.

 

This presentation will examine how patients with Advanced Heart Failure can be supported and empowered by interventions of Social Workers through the heart transplant evaluation process in order to meet the requirements for life-saving treatment.

005 - LGBT Elders Have Sex Too!

4/25/2024 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presenter: Joseph Winn LICSW, CST-S

 

This presentation will focus on assisting clinicians in working with LGBTQ Elders who want to improve their sexual functioning in individual or relational therapy.

038 - Fired Up! The Significance of Anger in Trauma Recovery

4/25/2024 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presenter: Laurie Ure, LICSW, CBT (Certified Bioenergetic Therapist)

 

Owning one's anger provides an important part of recovery from many traumas. Anger helps build self-esteem, promotes protection of self and others, and fuels advocacy for justice. Learn body-based interventions for grounded, positive expressions of anger.

052 - Implicit Bias in the Implementation of Trauma-Informed Suicide Prevention. Speakers:

4/25/2024 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presenter: Joanna Bridger, LICSW; Rebecca Mirick, PhD, LICSW

 

This presentation uses a foundation of the neurobiology of trauma to explore how implicit bias interferes with the implementation of a trauma-informed approach for individuals expressing suicidal thoughts and behaviors.

078 - Sharing Our Clinical Notes Directly With Our Patients: Perspectives on OpenNotes & the Cures Act

4/25/2024 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Presenter: Steve O'Neill, LICSW, BCD, JD

 

Are you sharing your clinical notes directly with your patients? Do you understand when you are permitted to withhold your notes from your patients? This presentation will clarify the effects of OpenNotes and the requirements of the Cures Act on social work practice.

009 - Got Conflict? Managing Conflict: Essential Tools for Social Workers

4/25/2024 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Presenter: Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez, MSW

 

This 90-minute training workshop will help participants hone skills at dealing with conflict situations. Emphasizing hands-on experiential training, participants will learn, grow and engage!

021 - Introduction to Gender Affirming Clinical Care with Adults

4/25/2024 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Presenter: Luke Patrick "Tt" King, LICSW

 

In this workshop, participants receive skills for gender-affirming practice, going beyond a welcoming attitude. Participants build understanding of use of self, a developmental identity model, and skills for anti oppressive practice.

042 - First Generation Americans: Identity Formation and Psychosocial Development through a Cultural Lens

4/25/2024 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Presenter: Paulomi Dave-Potter, LICSW

 

Explore the experience of First Generation Americans through the lens of Erikson's psychosocial stages of development. We will discuss the influence of systemic racism, immigration policy, microaggressions, and intergenerational trauma on identity development of this group.

055 - Allyship in Action

4/25/2024 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Presenter: Felicia Heywood, LICSW; Sonia D'Alarcao, BS

 

Come explore what it means to practice active allyship, including actions to implement and behaviors to avoid. You will have the opportunity to develop an allyship commitment and action plan.

065 - Firearm Safety Screening Among Mental Health Workers

4/25/2024 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Presenter: Chris Collins, PhD, LICSW, ACSW

 

This session summarizes finding from the pilot study of the Engaging in Lethal Means Safety (ELMS) suicide prevention program. In addition, participants will learn and practice new, targeted skills in motivational interviewing to improve their safety screening protocol.

004 - Beyond Heteronormativity: What BDSM/Kink Teaches About Successful Relationships

4/25/2024 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Presenter: Joseph Winn LICSW, CST-S

 

Challenging the heteronormativity and exploring the potential that BDSM, Kink, and CNM can offer all relationships is not only an act of personal and social justice, but central to the tenets of sound social work practice.

013 - Self-Managed Abortion - What is the Social Worker's Role?

4/25/2024 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Presenter: Susan Yanow, MSW; Lauren Paulk, JD

 

Abortion is increasingly restricted and contested. This presentation will use reproductive justice and harm reduction frameworks to explore social workers' role and practice around self-managed abortion.

027 - Women Growing Older: Our Bodies Ourselves

4/25/2024 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Presenter: Joan Ditzion BA, MA, MSW

 

With increased longevity aging women are facing new opportunities and challenges. Together we need to embrace aging and the potential for growth and development and work together to change the ageist paradigm.

043 - When We Understand Mad Better Than Sad: The Grief of Children in Alternative Care

4/25/2024 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Presenter: Ruth Pearlman, M.Ed, LICSW

 

Every child in out of home placement care is a grieving child, yet few of us are trained to effectively address these losses and bereavements. If you work with youth in foster, residential, or any out of home children in care, then you are a grief worker. 

080 - Parental Understanding of Cultural Difference in Transracial Adoption

4/25/2024 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Presenter: Hope Haslam Straughan, PhD, MSW, ACSW; Chelsea Anderson, LICSW

 

Gain an understanding of the intentions, processes, and implications of transracial adoption and perspectives of how parents raise a child that is a different race/ethnicity than their own.

What The World Needs Now

4/25/2024 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Presenter: Jen Wofford, LICSW

 

Increasing conflicts and divisions are sweeping the world. We’ve all had conflicts in our lives. Spend the evening learning how to take clinical therapy methods into resolving both interpersonal and global conflicts.

008 - Effectiveness of Gender Transformative Interventions at Decreasing Traditional Masculine Norms

4/26/2024 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Presenter: Jay Taylor, DSW, LCSW

 

How do we engage men in efforts to end violence against women and girls? Healthy masculinity interventions can help practitioners liberate men and produce a safer world for gender diverse communities.

031 - Supporting Clients to Divorce with Dignity

4/26/2024 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Presenter: Ben Stich, Mediator, M.Ed, LICSW

 

Divorce is complicated. Well-intended but misinformed guidance about divorce can cause harm. Learn about divorce in MA, process options, child-centered divorce, tips for effective negotiation, and divorce myths and misconceptions.

041 - The Importance of Understanding and Supporting Caregiver Trauma

4/26/2024 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Presenter: Sheilah M. Gauch, M.Ed, LICSW

 

Caregivers of children with mental health needs are often stuck in acute stress/trauma reactions. Understanding this, and the barriers they face, is essential to supporting them (and by proxy their children).

066 - Beating Burnout: When Passion Just Isn't Enough

4/26/2024 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Presenter: Dr. Wendy Knight

 

This presentation will unpack the complex issue of burnout among social workers. Attendees will be empowered with knowledge to increase self-awareness and self-advocacy in order to foster personal well-being.

012 - Embracing Eros: Rethinking Intimacy in Care Facilities

4/26/2024 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Presenter: Nathalie Huitema, PhD

 

Unlocking the power of intimacy in care facilities: Discover innovative approaches, challenge norms, and foster meaningful connections for improved well-being and compassionate care.

018 - Introduction to Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT)

4/26/2024 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Presenter: Danielle Green, LICSW; Suzanne McCarthy, PsyD

 

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy is a highly effective, compassionate, short-term, structured approach to couples treatment. It is empirically validated and shows that approximately 90% of treated couples report improvement and 70% are recovered from distress at follow up.

046 - Strength-Based Skills for New/Emerging Social Work Supervisors

4/26/2024 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Presenter: Jonas Goldenberg, LICSW

 

You know the value of strength-based practice. Enhance your new/emerging supervisory skills by learning to use this powerful and successful approach for supervising your interns/employees. We will use lecturettes, small/large discussions, case studies, and role plays.

054 - Helping the Helpers: Exploring Wellness Needs and Priorities of the Next Social Work Generation

4/26/2024 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Presenter: Pamela Szczygiel, DSW, LICSW; Taylor Hall, PhD.

 

Some of us aren't OK. Join us for a candid reveal and discussion of the wellness needs and realities of the next social work generation. Solutions begin with real conversation.

088 - Gateways vs. Barriers: Practicing and Supporting Gender Affirming Healthcare

4/26/2024 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Presenter: Casey Pons, LICSW; JT Timms, MSW, MFA, LCSW; Kathleen Irving, LICSW

 

Social Workers have been positioned to become either barriers or gateways to life-saving gender affirming care. Join us in learning emerging best clinical practice and concrete ways to support transgender clients.

011 - "Whatever it Takes" Using Cross-Agency Collaboration to Strengthen Permanency Outcomes

4/26/2024 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Presenter: Cheryl Peltier, LSW; Meredith Rapoza, LMHC; Kara Sabalauskas, MSW

 

Learn about a unique permanency-focused partnership that addresses outcomes for youth while unifying clinical practices across child-serving agencies. Participants will learn about our process to collectively engage in practices, advocacy, and outcome evaluation.

029 - Meeting After Movement: Forced Migration and the Social Work Profession

4/26/2024 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Presenter: Kerri Evans, PhD, LCSW; Robert G Hasson III, PhD, LICSW

 

In this discussion-based session, participants will learn about refugees and asylum seekers, and then immediately apply the content through a case study, analyzing the economic injustices of the asylum system.

037 - Perinatal Palliative Care: The Roles of Social Workers in Program Development and Direct Practice

4/26/2024 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Presenter: June M. Ganley, LICSW; Jill A. Jeffers, MA, LSW.

 

Learn about one perinatal palliative care program through two illustrative case studies. Presenters will address program development, roles and interventions of social workers, community collaboration, and factors contributing to success.

057 - A New Approach to Neurodiversity Affirming Care in Clinical Practice

4/26/2024 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Presenter: Sara Rodrigues, DSW, LICSW

 

In this engaging and enlightening session, we will explore how to integrate the principles of neurodiversity into your clinical practice, promoting a more inclusive and empathetic environment for all individuals.

071 - Interprofessional Collaboration for Substance Use Disorders During Pregnancy

4/26/2024 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Presenter: Kristin Erbetta, PhD, MPH, MSW; Zoe Ulrich, LCSW; Shelley Steenrod, PhD, LICSW

 

Our case-based interactive presentation facilitates learning and application of practice, theory, research and policy about substance use disorders (SUD) during pregnancy. We focus on collaborative practice across systems to best serve pregnant people with maternal SUD.

017 - How to Mitigate Imposter Syndrome

4/26/2024 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Presenter: Beth Craft, LICSW

 

This workshop seeks to elucidate how people with marginalized identities are at heightened risk for Imposter Syndrome and how it can derail career and educational endeavors. Learn numerous strategies to mitigate it.

040 - Concussions: The Missed Diagnosis Underlying Mental Health Issues

4/26/2024 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Presenter: Lee-Anne Thoms, LICSW, OTA

 

Proper education on Concussion and Brain Injuries will help therapists and agencies to identify mental health issues their clients are experiencing to provide a broader treatment plan.

069 - Long Covid & Mental Health: Emerging Research and Clinical Implications

4/26/2024 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Presenter: Ellie Lipton, LICSW

 

This course will explore emerging research on the impacts of Long Covid on new and worsening mental health challenges, and offer recommendations for clinical practice with clients experiencing Long Covid.

082 - Sustainable Social Work Practice Through Ritual

4/26/2024 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM

Presenter: Hope Haslam Straughan, PhD, MSW, ACSW

 

This interactive session will explore sustainable social work practice by considering and practicing personal and professional rituals utilized in the natural rhythms of the helping relationship of social work.