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Virtual Symposium 2023: Workshops and Speakers

 

 

 

CONFERENCE INFORMATION                      SPONSORS, EXHIBITORS, AND ADVERTISERS                      ATTENDEES REGISTER HERE

 

REGISTRATIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SUNDAY, APRIL 23!!!

Hurry and register today! Earn over 20 CEUs for social workers with our live and on-demand workshops!


  • Two-day Virtual Conference: Thursday, April 27 and Friday, April 28
  • Theme: Social Workers Persist: Global Problems Demand Local Solutions
  • Featuring 60+ workshops, with 20+ CEUs available for social workers! CEUs are approved for LMHCs. Contact us at chapter.naswma@socialworkers.org to request the necessary forms.

NEW: This year we’re introducing both live and on-demand workshops at Symposium. Live workshops are the scheduled workshops on both conference days (keynote session, panel discussion, workshops in sessions 1-6, and evening workshop). On demand workshops are pre-recorded webinars that will be available at any time for up to two weeks after the conference. You can earn more CEUs by watching pre-recorded webinars (at any time) and still attend your live workshops. 


Did you know? Social work licensing renewals now require 3 CEUs with focus on anti-racism and anti-discrimination. Symposium 2023 can help! A number of the workshops should fit those requirements as defined in the regulations


For questions, email us at symposium.naswma@socialworkers.org.

 


 

THURSDAY, APRIL 27:


8:00 - 9:00am: Chat Live with our Gold Sponsor Riverside Community Care & visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall (attendance is optional)


9:00 - 11:00am: Keynote Session (1.5 CEUs)

Please note this workshop is automatically included in your registration ticket.

 

After The Cameras Are Gone: The Global Refugee Crisis And Social Work’s Critical Role, with Mojdeh Rohani, LICSW. When the number of individuals fleeing persecution, war, and conflict surpassed the 70-million mark in 2018, it was referred to as “unprecedented” and “the largest refugee crisis since World War II.” Today, there are over 100 million refugees in the world, and sadly the number continues to grow at an alarming rate. With the core values of social justice, service, dignity and worth of the person, social work plays a critical role in addressing the current refugee crisis on micro, mezzo and macro levels.

  • A global perspective on the current refugee crisis and definition of the different types of refugees.
  • Brief overview of the US refugee resettlement program and asylum process.
  • Identifying systemic barriers to successful resettlement or repatriation and role of social work in addressing them.

Mojdeh Rohani, MSW, LICSW, is the Executive Director at De Novo Center for Justice and Healing in Cambridge, MA. Previously, she served as De Novo’s Associate Clinical Director for eight years. Mojdeh has worked extensively with survivors of torture, war trauma, gender based violence, human trafficking, and other types of human rights violations since 2000. She was a Lecturer at Boston University School of Social Work for twelve years and served as the Co-Director of the BRIDGE (Building Refugee and Immigrant Degrees for Graduate Education) Program for 8 years. 


Mojdeh has been a consultant to various nonprofit organizations on formation of new programs and capacity building. She has presented nationally and internationally on topics related to refugee mental health, treatment of torture, vicarious trauma, culturally relevant clinical practice and intersection of mental health and social development in post conflict societies. Currently, she is a member of Attorney General, Maura Healey, Advisory Council on New Americans. Mojdeh is a board member for Mityana Teenage Center in Mityana, Uganda and an advisory board member for Grace Community Health and Wellness Organization in Masaka, Uganda.


11:00 - 11:30am: Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall (attendance is optional)


11:30 - 1:00pm: Panel Discussion (1.5 CEUs)

Please note this workshop is automatically included in your registration ticket.

 

The keynote session will be followed by a 90 minute Panel Discussion on Social Work's Critical Role, moderated by Hugo Kamya, Ph.D., and speakers Gladys Vega, Jason Giannetti, and Nicole Dubus, MSW, LCSW, PhD.

 

1:00 - 2:00pm: Lunch Break! Chat Live with our Silver Sponsor NASW Assurance Services & visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall (attendance is optional)


2:00 - 3:30pm: Session 1 (1.5 CEUs)

 

001: Trauma Recovery: Intuitively Informed, with Bette J. Freedson, LICSW, LCSW, CGP. In this informative, experiential and entertaining workshop attendees will be introduced to the ACE Model for accessing, cultivating, and developing intuition, in the context of treating trauma. Using didactics, case examples and exercises, we will examine four key aspects of an intuitive approach relative to treatment of trauma. 


006: You Can't Be A Great Parent And A Lousy Co-Parent: Successful Co-Parenting Across Two Homes, with Beth L. Aarons, MSW, JD, and Ben Stich, LICSW, M.Ed. Support parents in their navigation of coparenting issues for separated, divorced, and never-married parents. We will explore emotional, logistical, and legal aspects of coparenting, including options and resources for high-conflict coparenting. 


022: What Is Forensic Social Work?, with Julia Nepini, MSW, LICSW, ACSW. Mental health practitioners are qualified to mediate divorces, serve as parenting coordinators, and complete child custody evaluations and bring a unique set of skills to the process to assist families.


025: Addressing Race In The Clinical Encounter, with Beth Craft, LICSW. This presentation seeks: challenge the silence; offer strategies for therapists, particularly white therapists, to hear experiences of discrimination; and methods for engaging clients utilizing a social justice framework.


029: Promoting Ethical Practice In The Certainty Of Uncertain Times, with Phyllis Black, MSW, PhD. Guidelines to promote ethical competence will be presented to address the moral turbulence surrounding the confluence of current and emerging psychosocial crises in these troubling times of the certainty of uncertainty.


038: Trauma Informed Care For Refugee And Immigrant Communities, with Sagitta Woodman, LICSW. Explore providing mental health services to immigrant and refugee clients through trauma informed care and culturally sensitive practices. 


053: Suicide Loss and Traumatic Grief in Schools, with Rebecca G. Mirick, PhD, LICSW, and Joanna Bridger, LICSW. This workshop focuses on ways schools can support students following a suicide death, highlighting trauma-informed strategies with an emphasis on responding to traumatic grief.


056: Two Spirit Health and Wellbeing: Identity, Connectedness and Cultural Resilience, with Jack Bruno. Participants will be acquainted with Indigenous contexts of Two Spiritedness and the historical and present-day realities of Two Spirit communities, including joy and vibrancy as practices of resistance, resilience and survivance.


058: Walking a Sacred Path: The Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice, with Hope Haslam Straughan, PhD, ACSW, MSW. This interactive session considers the critical role of spirituality within social work practice through exploration of definitions of spirituality, and application to the use of labyrinths in the helping process.


3:30 - 4:00pm: Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall (attendance is optional)


4:00 - 5:30pm: Session 2 (1.5 CEUs)

 

002: Knowing Without Knowing: Social Work And Pain, with Johnna Marcus, LICSW. We will explore Social Work interventions for patients with chronic illness and pain, with emphasis on coordination with interdisciplinary teams in medical settings. 


004: Flu Vaccination Among Children Of Immigrants: Implication For Children's Immunity During The Pandemic, with Henry Katzman, BSW (c) and Jina Chang, PhD, MSW. The study investigates the flu vaccination among children of immigrants by immigrant generation. Based on the nationally representative sample, the findings indicate that the probability of getting the flu vaccine is significantly higher among children of immigrants, particularly among second-generation children, irrespective of family poverty status.


008: PANS/PANDAS: Understanding Inflammation In The Brain, with Sheilah M Gauch, LICSW, M.Ed. How to diagnose, treat, and support children with these illnesses in their educational, community and family settings. 


012: The Long-term Impact Of Parental Divorce On Children, with Terry Gaspard, LICSW. This workshop will provide clinicians with research about the long-term impact of parental divorce, the risk and protective factors for children of divorce, and provide research-based tools for clinical practice.


016: How To Build An Accessible Social Work Practice Through A Disability Justice Lens, with Elspeth Slayter, Ph.D. Drawing on the established disability justice theoretical framework, this presentation will help social workers to plan for developing a more accessible and equitable organization/practice approach for the disability community - both disabled social workers and disabled clients.


028: Improving Outcomes: Listening To "War On Drugs" Survivors, with Danielle L. Owen, LICSW, LADCI. Stigma, influenced by "War on Drugs" rhetoric, harms therapeutic relationships. Gender Responsive & trauma informed care allows Social Workers to support all who identify as women, while improving outcomes and reducing burnout.  


039: Trauma In Boys And Men Who Have Been Trafficked, with Steven L Procopio, ACSW, LICSW. This presentation will discuss the commercial sexual exploitation of males, the effects of complex trauma and the psycho/social implications on victims/survivors. 


044: Being A Leader, Means Modeling For Others, with Danielle Seale, MSW, LCSW, and Caroline Petty, MSW, LMSW. During this workshop, participants will explore further the revisions to the NASW Code of Ethics, their obligations to the profession to address self-care for themselves, employees, and co-workers. We will explore the impact of vicarious traumatization, compassion fatigue, and burnout on the work of Social Workers, and participants will identify personal stressors, triggers, and a plan for self-care.


050: Change The Narrative: Creating And Sustaining An Antiracist Culture, with Kathy Lopes, LICSW. Participants will develop a deeper understanding of how to identify and disrupt historically racist practices and policies within their organizations and engage community members in a cultural shift that centers inclusion and equity.

 

6:00 - 7:30pm: Evening Workshop (1.5 CEUs)

 

What’s Wrong With Our Democracy? And How You Can Help Fix It, with Reed Schimmelfing, MSW, and Alex Neary, Chapter Lead, RepresentUs Massachusetts. This presentation will give an overview of structural problems in our government today, and how these impact marginalized people including minorities, women, people with disabilities and others under represented in government and other spheres of power.

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7:30pm: Conference ends 

 


 

FRIDAY, APRIL 28:


7:30am: Conference begins 


7:30 - 8:30am: Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall (attendance is optional)


8:30 - 10:00am: Session 3 (1.5 CEUs)

 

009: Stigma For Social Workers In Sweden And U.S., with Ivy Krull, PhD, MSW, MPH. Our cross-cultural research shows that Swedish and American social workers experience stigma very differently in their jobs. Why and what can we do about it? We have several research-based suggestions! 


013: Navigating The Dignity Of Risk: Substance Use And People With Intellectual Developmental Disorder, with Elspeth Slayter, MSW, MA, PhD. Participants will learn about nascent evidence-based practices for work with people with intellectual developmental disorder while honoring central disability rights concepts such as dignity of risk and self-determination. 


020: Shifting From Trauma-Informed To Healing Centered Engagement, with Kenneth Bourne Founder/CEO, LSW. As service providers we need to shift from a treatment-based model to a salutogenic approach that supports collective well-being.  This expands how we think about trauma in restoring well-being.


024: Running On Empty:  Examining The Wellness Needs Of The New Generation, with Pam Szczygiel, DSW, LICSW, and Taylor Hall, PhD. How will we, as practitioners, educators, administrators, and policy makers respond to the problem of compassion stress within our profession? Let's explore unsettling data and respond with innovation and compassion. 


034: Treating Perinatal Distress And Supporting The Motherhood Journey, with Danielle Kenney, LICSW, PMH-C. The birth of a child is supposed to be a joyous, blissful event. In this presentation we will learn how to differentiate between the baby blues, normal postpartum adjustment, and a perinatal mood and anxiety disorder. We will review factors that can protect a parent from emotional distress, and those that put parents at risk.


042: Every Child Deserves A Forever Home: Dismantling Systemic Barriers And Getting To Family Permanency, with Carly Sebastian, LICSW, and Carrie Noseworthy, MPA, Stephanie Hannum, LICSW. This presentation will outline meaningful and specific ways to improve outcomes for adoptive youth and their families while also addressing diversity and social justice through the lens of intersectionality.


049: An Affirming Approach To Neurodiversity Affirming Care In Clinical Practice, with Sara Rodrigues, MSW, LICSW. Neurodivergent profiles are the subject of an increasing body of research. Understanding and embracing neurodiversity can lead to significantly more positive outcomes in terms of interpersonal relationships, understanding family dynamics, school performance, and employment.


051: Building And Supporting Anti-Oppressive Work In Clinical Settings, with Jennifer Erbe Leggett, MSW, and Cindy M. Gordon, LICSW. This session will be highly interactive, and will include skills practice, breakout groups, and open discussions. The co-presenters will also model having different and difficult conversations together as racially different people.


054: Social Work Research For Social Work Practitioners, with Ashley Davis, PhD, MSW, and Faith Little, MSW. Do you want to brush up on research skills? This workshop reviews research knowledge, with a focus on what is relevant and engaging for social work practice. 


060: Sharing Our Clinical Notes Directly, with Steve O'Neill, LICSW, BCD, JD. As an architect for OpenNotes/Cures Act, Steve will present his research findings and experience in transparently sharing clinical notes directly with our patients.


10:00 - 10:30am: Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall (attendance is optional)


10:30 - 12:00pm: Session 4 (1.5 CEUs)

 

017: Intentional Masculinity: A New Group Approach, with Elliott Kronenfeld, Ph.D., LICSW, CSTS. Challenging the patriarchy means we have to challenge the ways we think about masculinity! Learn how one men's group, grounded in toxic masculinity/script/social exchange theories has turned men's groups on their head! Come learn how the men began to heal themselves by learning from each other.


021: Children and Families of Divorce: Best Practices and Ethical Conundrums, with Premela G. Deck, JD, PhD, LICSW. Therapists working with family-court-involved clients may face several ethical and practical concerns including navigating professional collaboration, therapeutic privilege, subpoenas, and court-ordered treatment.


026: When Talking Isn't Enough: Exposures In ED Treatment, with Samantha DeCaro, PsyD. This workshop will confront the common barriers providers and clients face in exposure work while equipping providers with the tools needed to effectively execute a Coached Meal.


033: Dementia Friends: Building Public Awareness For All Communities, with Beth Soltzberg, LICSW, MBA. Experience Dementia Friends, the global public awareness workshop. Learn about disparities and how Dementia Friends Massachusetts engages community partners to serve all cultural/linguistic communities. 


037: Are We Listening To Women? Power & Control Issues Impacting Survivors Of The War On Drugs, with Danielle L. Owen, LICSW, LADCI. As social workers in the US, we are keenly aware of this country's poor history of listening to women; resulting in exceedingly poor outcomes in all areas of health & society. When supporting women living with a substance use disorder, the outcomes are even more dire. We must understand how power & control issues impact our therapeutic role, before we can address this imbalance & effect change.


041: Researching Caregivers Of Children With Complex Medical Needs, with Lenore Rust, MSW, LICSW, Shannon Cousineau, DSW, LICSW, and June Ganley, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-C Medical Social Worker. Come learn of a recent Anna Maria College study of caregivers at a local pediatric palliative care program that has practice implications for providers working with children with complex needs. 


043: Identifying The Ripple Effects Of Social Work, with Nora Padykula, Ph.D., LICSW, Alisa Ainbinder, Ph.D., and Terri O'Toole, MSW-C. How do you identify the impact of your work with clients? Learn about Ripple Effect Mapping and implications for building health equity in your social work practice.


045: Developmental Trauma: Body/Mind Roots of Presenting Problems, with Laurie Ure, LICSW, Certified Bioenergetic Therapist. Understanding the link between developmental trauma and presenting problems improves a clinician's ability to help their clients. Bioenergetic analysis integrates work with body and mind addressing developmental trauma and improving quality of life.


057: Antiracism and the Varieties of Racism Denial, with Phillipe Copeland, PhD. Racism Denial involves obscuring or minimizing the reality of racism. This workshop will detail the forms Racism Denial takes and how to counter them.


12:00 - 1:00pm: Lunch Break! Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall (attendance is optional)


1:00 - 2:30pm: Session 5 (1.5 CEUs)

 

007: Working With Erotic Transference And Countertransference In Psychotherapy & Supervisory Practice, with Joseph Winn LICSW, CST-S. This presentation will move social workers from avoiding issues of erotic transference and countertransference into awareness of the existential and political import of these phenomena in supervisory and psychotherapy practice.


011: Vagal Nerve Stimulation Treatment For Depression, with Joann Lutz, MSW, LICSW, C-IAYT, E-RYT. In this workshop, participants will gain a working knowledge of the function of the vagus nerve, learn why stimulating it can reduce symptoms of depression, and experience simple techniques for stimulating it, from the yoga tradition.


015: Mediation 101: Conflict Resolution For Families And Communities, with Ben Stich, LICSW, M.Ed. Conflict abounds. Mediation helps resolve disputes involving divorce, family, discrimination, community, workplace, adoption, juvenile justice, schools, and more. Social workers are ideally suited to practice mediation! This work workshop will provide an introduction to the dynamic mediation profession. 


019: Women Growing Older: Our Bodies Ourselves, with Joan Ditzion, MSW. With increased longevity diverse aging women are facing new opportunities/challenges. Together we need to embrace women’s growth, development and potential and change the aging paradigm.


027: Beyond The Self-Care Ideal, with Lydia Carbone, MSW, and Kathryn Wilson, LMHC. Do you think you don’t have time for self-care? Learn about self-care as an embodied mindset, and customize coping strategies to honor who you are.


035: Social Workers For Abolition: A Call To Action, Deborah Goldfarb, LICSW, and Joli Sparkman Bayron, MSW, LCSW, and Carrie Burke, LICSW. Social-justice oriented social work aligns deeply with the abolitionist movement. We will explore those themes and provide concrete ways to incorporate abolitionist values and actions into practice at all levels.


046: Neurodiversity Affirming Practice, Dawn Capelli, LICSW, and Ginger McGill, Certificate in Human Services. Learn about the neurodiversity movement and DIR Floortime® through the story of an amazing autistic boy told by his mother/advocate and the social worker privileged to work with them.


059: NASW Code Of Ethics: How To Navigate Ethical Binds, with Steve O'Neill, LICSW, BCD, JD. Utilizing live ethical dilemmas and the NASW Code of Ethics, including social media and self-care, Steve will provide a pragmatic clinical framework for addressing.


2:30 - 3:00pm: Visit the Virtual Exhibit Hall (attendance is optional)


3:00 - 4:30pm: Session 6 (1.5 CEUs)

 

003: Self-Managed Abortion – What Is The Social Worker’s Role?, with Susan Yanow, MSW, and 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.


005: Sexual Consent Potential Model As An Innovative View On The Determinants Of Sexual Consent In Older Adults With Dementia, with Nathalie Huitema, PhD, MS. This presentation demonstrates the development of universal guidelines to determine sexual consent in long-term care residents with dementia is possible, with the development of a core list of determinants to assess the sexual consent potential in people with dementia. 


014: Providing Reasonable Accommodations To Disabled Parents In Child Welfare Cases: How To Implement The Law, with Samantha Erle, MSW, LCSW, and Elspeth Slayter, MSW, MA, PhD. Disabled parents are over-represented in the child welfare system by a factor of two. Despite this documented reality, child welfare workers rarely receive training on disability cultural competence, how to navigate disability service systems or the implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act & other laws.


023: Complete Manual For Leading A Divorce  Recovery Group, with Janet Winocour, LICSW. Between the presentation, the manual you will receive, and my willingness to offer continued support, you will have all you need to lead a 15 week divorce group.


036: Optimism And Substance Use: Implications For Social Work, with Scott E. Provost, MSW, MM. Optimism is associated with psychological well-being with relevance to social work practice. Attendees will learn about an exploratory research study of optimism among patients in substance use disorder inpatient treatment. 


040: Working Together: Lessons From A Collaborative Research Project, with Lenore Rust, MSW, LICSW, Shannon Cousineau, DSW, LICSW, and June Ganley, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-C Medical Social Worker. Learn more about the experiences of caregivers of children with complex medical needs from. The presenters will discuss the processes utilized, challenges faced, and lessons learned. 


047: Treating Children With High Conflict Coparent/s, with Brian Hart, M.S. MHC, Katherine Walbam, PhD, LICSW, and Diana Kierein, LICSW. Helping children achieve healthy life trajectories despite high conflict coparent/s. Integrating family systems diagnostic and treatment techniques for difficult personalities, while addressing professional risk. 


048: New Frontiers In Practice: Social Work In The Veterinary Setting, with Emily Carveth, LMSW, and Julie Berrett-Abebe, PhD, LICSW. Veterinary Social Work is an emerging specialty with implications for innovative practice in the field. This presentation explores tenets of VSW, including a day in the life of a VSW.


5:00pm: Conference ends

 

 


 

ON-DEMAND WORKSHOPS AVAILABLE: 

 

Please note, during your registration you only have to select the live workshops you’d like to attend. You do not need to select for the on-demand workshops all of these can be accessed at any time in the conference website.

 

(1.5 CEUs) Exploring the Multiple Roles of the School Social Worker: How School Social Workers Can Leverage Evidence-Based Practices & Social Work Values to Transform the Environment of their School, with Fran Kuehn, LICSW. School Social Workers play a unique role in the system of a school, often intervening at multiple points of entry in a complex web of macro, mezzo and micro practice interventions grounded in social work values and ethics. Though daunting, School Social Workers have unique opportunities to leverage Social Work practice skills across these systems to effect positive change in schools. This talk will highlight the various entry points School Social Workers have available to them, as well as particular ways in which School Social Work practice demands a high level of expertise and involvement as we transition from the COVID crisis to a "new normal" in our schools.


(1.5 CEUs) Becoming an Intuitive Wizard: An Intuitive and Integrative Approach to Social Work Practice, with Bette J. Freedson, MSW, LICSW, (MA) LCSW (ME), CGP (certified group psychotherapist). In this didactic and experiential workshop we will examine both linear and non-linear concepts and approaches that integrate the therapeutic use of intuition from three key perspectives: 1) therapists' receptivity and readiness to use their intuitive ideas, sensations, images and thoughts along with intuitive strengths emerging from the client's story, 2) intuitive utilization of metaphors, re-imagined stories, and re-framed perspectives that can be utilized for intuitive dissociation from painful memories, in the service of re-association of reframed meaning and integrative reference experiences, and 3) utilization of an innovative 3-step model, the ACE Schema, that will guide the development of the counselor’s intuitive skills and the client's intuitive resources within a linear model. 


(1.5 CEUs) Political Social Work, Political Justice, & Voting, with Shannon Lane, LMSW, PhD. Learn about practical ways that social workers can engage with the political system to increase political justice and support their clients and communities, including both partisan and non-partisan activities. We will talk specifically about the role that social workers can play in voting as we get closer to the 2022 elections. The presentation will highlight the ways in which our current political systems disadvantage individuals based on race, ethnicity, physical and mental health/ability, and economic status.


(2 CEUs) Starting a Private Practice, with Julia Nepini, LICSW. We will be identifying the factors to consider before starting a private practice, discussing pros and cons, and reviewing the steps to prepare. Information and resources will be provided regarding being a business owner, setting rates, identifying ideal clients, networking, insurance billing, and outsourcing.


(1.5 CEUs) An Introduction to Clinical Social Work in Pediatric Oncology, with Laura Moynihan, LICSW, OSW-C, APHSW-C. This presentation will introduce social workers and other behavioral health clinicians to the role of social work within a medical setting and in pediatric oncology in particular. Opportunities and strategies for clinical intervention will be reviewed, as well as how clinical social workers can utilize skills from other disciplines such as palliative care in order to provide support to patients and families.

 

(1.5 CEUs) Expanding Diversity To Actively Include in the Disability Community, Fanny Chalfin, LICSW, SEP. This presentation will explore conscious and unconscious reactions to disability and will broaden our understanding of both diversity and what it means to be human. 

 

(3 CEUs) Ethical and Risk Management Challenges, with speaker Frederic Reamer, Ph.D. This program will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of ethical, malpractice, and risk-management issues pertaining to school social work and the delivery of services to minors and their families. Using extensive case material, participants will learn how to handle complex practice-based ethical dilemmas, prevent professional malpractice, and avoid licensing board complaints. Key topics will include confidentiality, privacy, and privileged communication; disclosures to parents and guardians; responding to subpoenas in child custody disputes, divorce proceedings, and other litigation; conducting high-risk assessments; parents’ access to minors’ confidential records; documentation challenges; use of technology to serve clients remotely; protecting third parties; and relevant statutes, regulations, and court orders. 

 

(1.5 CEUs) A Public Health Approach to Veteran Suicide Awareness, Prevention, and Intervention, with Kimberly Ferrante, LICSW. Suicide is a national issue affecting the Veteran and general population. This training will demonstrate the importance of approaching suicide prevention through a public health model. In addition, this training identifies strategies to utilize when speaking with Veterans who are at risk for suicide.


(1.5 CEUs) Are You Ready To Become An Anti-Racist Organization?, with Susan Yi-Millette, MSW & Taylor Hall, Ph.D. Social workers have been complicit in facilitating racial injustice and are integral in both perpetuating and alleviating racial inequities. While this is fact, the Social Work Code of Ethics states that social workers should not practice, condone, facilitate, or collaborate with any form of discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, political belief, religion, or mental or physical disability. It has become clear that White Supremacy Culture and Racial Injustice/Inequities have been occurring in our institutions, as well as within policies, practices, and procedures. This workshop presents a model of developing a Racial Justice Council within an organization to document evidence of racial/ethnic injustices and provide data-driven recommendations for change and racial justice.

 

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Virtual Symposium 2023

On Thursday, April 27 and Friday, April 28, with keynote speaker Mojdeh Rohani, LICSW

Theme: Social Workers Persist: Global Problems Demand Local Solutions

For questions, email us at symposium.naswma@socialworkers.org


 


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