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NASW Events Calendar

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NASW's national office and chapters offer a variety of events to members and non-members, including conferences, webinars, town halls, Q&A sessions, and more.

Please note: Be aware when registering for continuing education events that NASW accreditation does not imply automatic acceptance by all State Boards. Individuals should check with their licensing Board whether a specific program will be accepted for continuing education purposes.

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Exploring the Risks: Social Media and Children's Mental Health

1/26/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Exploring the Risks: Social Media and Children's Mental Health

This live webinar presentation will explore how technology impacts children, with a focus on the effects of screen addiction on mental health. Overreliance on screens as a distraction, source of entertainment, or emotional escape has become a hazardous trend among children. Screen addiction can hinder brain development, stifle emotional and social growth, disrupt education, and adversely affect physical health. Additionally, it can jeopardize a child's personal safety, exposing them to cyberbullying and inappropriate content. Practical tips for minimizing screen time will be shared, along with resources to help families seeking support.
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Changing Political Climate – Impacts on Social Work Administration

1/28/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Changing Political Climate – Impacts on Social Work Administration

The political landscape continues to shift, influencing policies, funding priorities, and the organizational environments in which social work administrators operate. This session explores how changes in political climate affect decision-making, program sustainability, advocacy efforts, and workforce morale within social service organizations. Participants will examine strategies to navigate uncertainty, uphold ethical leadership, and maintain mission alignment amid evolving political and social pressures.
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Embracing Professional Grief in Social Work

1/30/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Embracing Professional Grief in Social Work

This live webinar session examines the personal and professional grief social workers carry through ongoing exposure to trauma, system barriers, and human suffering. It explores how vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and burnout shape identity, purpose, and long-term sustainability. Participants will reflect on self-talk, boundaries, and realistic everyday self-care before creating an individualized sustainability statement to support grounded, resilient, and identity-aligned practice.
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Neuroscience Pathways to Healing: Cutting Edge Interventions for Depressive Disorders

1/30/2026 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Neuroscience Pathways to Healing: Cutting Edge Interventions for Depressive Disorders

This three-hour core clinical program will provide important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience concerned with depression and depressive disorders into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. Designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of depression-related disorders - etiology, assessment and treatment - this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients addressing depressive disorders.
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Setting Boundaries and Client De-escalation Strategies

2/6/2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Setting Boundaries and Client De-escalation Strategies

In this workshop, participants are encouraged to recognize the widespread impact of trauma and understand potential paths for recovery. It emphasizes the importance of realizing the effects of trauma, proactively setting boundaries to minimize over-involvement and under-involvement with clients, and recognizing the signs and symptoms of a client’s trauma responses in order to respond accordingly to escalating behaviors and resist re-traumatization.
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Challenges for Rural Social Workers

2/6/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Challenges for Rural Social Workers

Presented by Brittannee Jones, LMSW

Description coming soon!

1 Continuing Education Hour

REGISTER

Cost:
Member - $25
Student or Retired Member - $20
Non-Member - $35
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Beyond Compassion Fatigue: Practical Strategies for Supervisors Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress

2/6/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Beyond Compassion Fatigue: Practical Strategies for Supervisors Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress

This workshop examines the pervasive yet frequently overlooked challenge of secondary traumatic stress (STS) among clinical social work supervisors, emphasizing strategies for personal prevention and management. Supervisors often experience cumulative exposure to trauma through their supervisees, heightening their own risk for emotional depletion, reduced empathy, and burnout. This session will provide an evidence-informed framework for recognizing early indicators of STS and implementing individualized approaches to mitigate its impact. Through exploration of reflective practice, boundary setting, emotional regulation, and sustainable self-care, participants will develop tools to strengthen personal resilience and professional longevity. The workshop underscores that tending to one’s own well-being is not only an ethical responsibility but also foundational to effective leadership and the maintenance of high standards in trauma-informed clinical supervision.
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Upcoming events

Changing Political Climate – Impacts on Social Work Administration (1/28/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
1/28/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Changing Political Climate – Impacts on Social Work Administration

The political landscape continues to shift, influencing policies, funding priorities, and the organizational environments in which social work administrators operate. This session explores how changes in political climate affect decision-making, program sustainability, advocacy efforts, and workforce morale within social service organizations. Participants will examine strategies to navigate uncertainty, uphold ethical leadership, and maintain mission alignment amid evolving political and social pressures.
Read more
Embracing Professional Grief in Social Work (1/30/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
1/30/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Embracing Professional Grief in Social Work

This live webinar session examines the personal and professional grief social workers carry through ongoing exposure to trauma, system barriers, and human suffering. It explores how vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and burnout shape identity, purpose, and long-term sustainability. Participants will reflect on self-talk, boundaries, and realistic everyday self-care before creating an individualized sustainability statement to support grounded, resilient, and identity-aligned practice.
Read more
Neuroscience Pathways to Healing: Cutting Edge Interventions for Depressive Disorders (1/30/2026 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM)
1/30/2026 1:00 PM - 4:15 PM

Neuroscience Pathways to Healing: Cutting Edge Interventions for Depressive Disorders

This three-hour core clinical program will provide important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience concerned with depression and depressive disorders into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. Designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of depression-related disorders - etiology, assessment and treatment - this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients addressing depressive disorders.
Read more
Setting Boundaries and Client De-escalation Strategies (2/6/2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM)
2/6/2026 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Setting Boundaries and Client De-escalation Strategies

In this workshop, participants are encouraged to recognize the widespread impact of trauma and understand potential paths for recovery. It emphasizes the importance of realizing the effects of trauma, proactively setting boundaries to minimize over-involvement and under-involvement with clients, and recognizing the signs and symptoms of a client’s trauma responses in order to respond accordingly to escalating behaviors and resist re-traumatization.
Read more
Challenges for Rural Social Workers (2/6/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
2/6/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Challenges for Rural Social Workers

Presented by Brittannee Jones, LMSW

Description coming soon!

1 Continuing Education Hour

REGISTER

Cost:
Member - $25
Student or Retired Member - $20
Non-Member - $35
Read more
Beyond Compassion Fatigue: Practical Strategies for Supervisors Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress (2/6/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
2/6/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Beyond Compassion Fatigue: Practical Strategies for Supervisors Managing Secondary Traumatic Stress

This workshop examines the pervasive yet frequently overlooked challenge of secondary traumatic stress (STS) among clinical social work supervisors, emphasizing strategies for personal prevention and management. Supervisors often experience cumulative exposure to trauma through their supervisees, heightening their own risk for emotional depletion, reduced empathy, and burnout. This session will provide an evidence-informed framework for recognizing early indicators of STS and implementing individualized approaches to mitigate its impact. Through exploration of reflective practice, boundary setting, emotional regulation, and sustainable self-care, participants will develop tools to strengthen personal resilience and professional longevity. The workshop underscores that tending to one’s own well-being is not only an ethical responsibility but also foundational to effective leadership and the maintenance of high standards in trauma-informed clinical supervision.
Read more
Danger Brain/Safe Brain: Everyday Uses and Clinical Implications of Interpersonal Neurobiology (2/10/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM)
2/10/2026 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Danger Brain/Safe Brain: Everyday Uses and Clinical Implications of Interpersonal Neurobiology

This live webinar presentation will discuss Interpersonal Neurobiology in Action, Accessible Ways to Talk About Danger Brain/Safe Brain, Spreading the Word, and Applications for Your Settings.
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Bridging the Generational Divide: Ethical Practice in Social Work Across Generations (2/12/2026 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
2/12/2026 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Bridging the Generational Divide: Ethical Practice in Social Work Across Generations

“Bridging the Generational Divide: Ethical Practice in Social Work Across Generations” is a four-hour interactive webinar designed to help social workers understand how generational differences shape values, communication styles, work expectations, and help-seeking behaviors. Through case studies, small-group discussion, and reflection, participants will explore how age-based assumptions and biases can impact engagement, assessment, and intervention. Grounded in the NASW Code of Ethics, this session will focus on practical strategies to build generational intelligence, strengthen cross-generational collaboration, and promote ethical, culturally responsive practice with clients, colleagues, and communities of all ages.
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AI and Social Work Ethics in Clinical Social Work (2/18/2026 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM)
2/18/2026 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

AI and Social Work Ethics in Clinical Social Work

As a new technology, AI is rapidly expanding in scope and applications, especially in clinical social work, creating greater efficacy and efficiency in direct work with clients. However, we are running to catch up with the technology in regard to the ethical implications of the use of AI, especially in regard to informed consent, transparency, privacy safeguards, algorithmic fairness and bias, potential for misdiagnosis, and threats to autonomy. This workshop will lay out these implications and the ethical responses to them.
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NASW Student Series: Seeing Strengths in Action: Empowering Clients Through Ethical, Person-Centered Care (2/19/2026 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM)
2/19/2026 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

NASW Student Series: Seeing Strengths in Action: Empowering Clients Through Ethical, Person-Centered Care

You’re invited to join NASW for an inspiring Student Series webinar that celebrates the power of strengths-based care in social work practice. Together, we’ll explore how centering clients’ strengths, resilience, and lived expertise—grounded in the NASW Code of Ethics—can lead to more meaningful, collaborative, and effective outcome
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