|
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
| 27 | 28- Social Workers’ Role in Addressing Harmful Substance Use
Social Workers’ Role in Addressing Harmful Substance Use
Join us for an insightful webinar on the vital role social workers can play in addressing harmful substance use. This webinar highlights the vital role social workers can play in addressing harmful substance use, particularly for those with mild to moderate substance use disorders (SUDs).
Read more
- Ethics & Boundaries Webinar: Ethics, Boundaries, and Technology in a Post-Covid World
Ethics & Boundaries Webinar: Ethics, Boundaries, and Technology in a Post-Covid World
The effects of technology on social work practice since the onset of the pandemic have been enormous. Out of necessity, many providers rushed to adopt technology-assisted practices in an effort to continue to provide care to those in need. What have we learned from these practice changes? Are the 2018 changes to the Social Work Code of Ethics adequate to address modern practice challenges? This workshop will explore these critical questions and will also examine some of the specific boundary-related issues that arise in technology-assisted practice. In addition, as the evidence mounts regarding the harmful effects of technology on mental health, relationships, and community wellbeing, we will ask critical questions regarding the role of our profession in addressing these concerns.
Read more
- Social Workers’ Role in Addressing Harmful Substance Use
Social Workers’ Role in Addressing Harmful Substance Use
Join us for an insightful webinar on the vital role social workers can play in addressing harmful substance use. This webinar highlights the vital role social workers can play in addressing harmful substance use, particularly for those with mild to moderate substance use disorders (SUDs).
Read more
| 29- Professional Boundaries with Dr Frederic Reamer
Professional Boundaries with Dr Frederic Reamer
Social workers frequently encounter complex ethical challenges involving boundaries and dual relationships. Examples include navigating relationships with clients when practitioners live and work in small or rural communities; managing practitioner self-disclosure; managing friendships and social contact with current and former clients; managing favors, gifts, and invitations; hiring of former clients; and managing online and social networking relationships and communications, among others. Using extensive case material, Dr. Frederic Reamer will acquaint participants with a typology of boundary issues and dual relationships.
Read more
| 30- Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment: Updates on Outcome Study and Dissemination Phase
Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment: Updates on Outcome Study and Dissemination Phase
The presentation showcases the T-SBIRT interview protocol, a one-session intervention designed to identify trauma exposure and symptoms, highlight stress coping strategies, and link participants with necessary supports. It primarily serves socially and economically vulnerable adults, including heads of households and custodial parents, who access social service systems such as Wisconsin Works (i.e., Temporary Assistance to Needy Families). While it aims to identify and address the effects of trauma exposure among some of society’s most vulnerable members, it also highlights their effective coping strategies. As such, it uses a holistic trauma-responsive approach to build upon participants’ assets, resilience, and strength. Its ultimate goal is to help participants take best advantage of their current services, access any other formal or informal supports necessary for optimal functioning, and heal from the effects of adversity exposure. Widely disseminating T-SBIRT can help contribute to larger efforts to heal families and communities from trauma and prevent intergenerational transmissions of trauma.
Read more
| 31- Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management Webinar
Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management Webinar
The Washington State House passed the Matt Adler Suicide Assessment, Treatment, and Management Training Act of 2012 on February 10th, 2012. This act adds a new section to chapter 43.70 RCW and requires initial and on-going training in suicide prevention for Chemical Dependency Professionals, Licensed Social Workers and other professions. In the Surgeon General’s 2012 National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action she emphasized the importance of instituting “training for all health, mental health, substance abuse and human services professionals concerning suicide risk assessment and recognition, treatment, management, and aftercare interventions.”
Read more
- NASW-NH JEDI Conference
- Ethics & Boundaries Webinar: Ethics and Boundaries of Supervision: A Model of Supervision, model of ethical decision-making and contemporary issues in supervision
Ethics & Boundaries Webinar: Ethics and Boundaries of Supervision: A Model of Supervision, model of ethical decision-making and contemporary issues in supervision
A review of the NASW-ASWB best practice standards in social work supervision along with two ethical frameworks Congress 2000 and Reamer 2018 will provide practitioners with best practice guidelines to use in everyday practice while providing supervision and helping manage ethical dilemmas. Presenters will review recent history impacting current and prospective social workers in the U.S., including the 2020-2021 pandemic, school shootings, increased mental health issues, economic uncertainty, political discord, and global conflict. This review will be discussed to help promote resiliency and strength-based approaches to supervision with social work employees and students in field placement, including those with mental health and neurodivergent learning needs.
Read more
| 1 | 2 |
| 3 | 4- Chat Bots and AI Image Generators: Practical Tools for Today’s Social Work Practice
Chat Bots and AI Image Generators: Practical Tools for Today’s Social Work Practice
In this dynamic and interactive webinar, participants will explore the burgeoning field of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), focusing on its practical applications and ethical considerations within social work. We will delve into the use of conversational AI tools like ChatGPT as a consultative tool for social workers, explore how visual AI tools like Midjourney and Dalle can be utilized to create therapeutic materials and resources, and do a deep dive into the use of GAI to reshape professional development. Furthermore, we will examine the ethical dimensions of employing GAI for drafting progress notes and designing personalized treatment plans, ensuring fidelity to professional standards and client confidentiality. Participants will have access to handouts, references and resources, and live demonstrations of GAI tools in action.
Read more
| 5- An Introduction to Internal Family Systems
An Introduction to Internal Family Systems
In the midst of stress and chaos sometimes we are advised to just start by doing one thing: drink more water. Or, we want to make a change but we don't. We want to be more healthy and we can't even do the simplest thing: drink more water. This workshop will help bring a new understanding to why we do the things we do by teaching the components of the IFS model, such as multiplicity of personality and the Authentic Self.
Read more
- Ethics & Boundaries Webinar: The Rise and Fall of Self Disclosure
Ethics & Boundaries Webinar: The Rise and Fall of Self Disclosure
In my tenure within the field of Social Work the pendulum viewpoint on self-disclosure has swayed from agency to agency and throughout the years.
Self-disclosure: Never? Sometimes? When? How?
It all seems so gray when navigating client benefit vs risk, along with our own internal needs. As a social work professional in long term recovery, I have witnessed harmful self-disclosure and I have also seen the beautiful space for change it can cultivate. We will explore the when, how and why of self-disclosure and navigate the power of using our own stories in creating connections and space for therapeutic change.
- Virtual Career Fair
Virtual Career Fair
Calling all job seekers! Don’t miss NASW’s highly anticipated free Virtual Career Fair on February 5, 2025, from 10 AM to 4 PM ET. This is your opportunity to connect with top employers and recruiters looking to fill social work roles—all from the convenience of your home or office. Whether you’re ready to take the next step in your career or explore new possibilities, this event is designed to help you succeed. Register now!
| 6 | 7- Diversity, Equity, and Social Work: Continual Improvement Webinar
- Social Work Licensure Exam Prep Workshop
Social Work Licensure Exam Prep Workshop
Includes 6 months of free access to ExamPrepConnect, a robust study portal of resources and additional coaching such as practice exams, full exam guides ($129.99 value!), study games, discussion forum, training recordings, interactive flash cards, test-taking tips, and much more.
Read more
- Ethics and Best Practices: Artificial Intelligence and Social Work Education
| 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11- Depression in Older Adults
Depression in Older Adults
In this interactive session we will identify risk factors and diagnostic criteria for depression among older adults and discuss related conditions such as dementia and substance use. Participants will understand the individual and societal impacts of depressive symptoms in the older adult population. Various treatment modalities and settings will be compared including crisis interventions for older adults with depression.
Read more
| 12- How IFS Can Help You Be a More Effective Healer
How IFS Can Help You Be a More Effective Healer
Burnout can be prevented. Often, our caregiving, fixing, helping, and analyzing parts are driving the bus. These parts have good intentions and may be the ones who have run a lot of your life in order to protect you in some way. They work hard to keep you safe and connected to your family and friends. They are tired.In this advanced IFS workshop, you will identify and get to know that parts of you who may be leading to burnout, the parts of you who think they need to do your job. You will get to know the parts who are triggered by your clients and make work a little harder, stressful, and chaotic. When you unblend from them and you begin to be the leader in your system, your work and your clients change. Identifying your own parts first so then you, the Authentic you, can clearly see your clients' parts and can begin to work in a healing flow that feels better for you both.
Read more
- Cultural Humility: A Practice of Curiosity and Accountability for Social Workers
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18- Islamophobia and Antisemitism Today
Islamophobia and Antisemitism Today
This presentation will briefly explore the historical origins of Islamophobia and how it is defined. We will look at its growth in the United States and paying particular attention to its growth over the past 60 years and its current explosive growth, and its implications for American Muslims. 114 antisemitic incidents occurred in Wisconsin in 2023 (a significant rise since the previous year). Since October 7, a recent poll showed 1 in 4 experienced antisemitism and 75% have witnessed antisemitism. What does antisemitism look like in today’s world and throughout the state of Wisconsin. How does antisemitism manifest itself from the extreme right to extreme left of the political spectrum?
Read more
| 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27- NASW-MD Student Advocacy Day/ Legislative Education and Advocacy Development (LEAD) Day
NASW-MD Student Advocacy Day/ Legislative Education and Advocacy Development (LEAD) Day
You are invited to join over 400 social work students from across the state to learn about the legislative process, receive an update on current bills concerning various social issues, attend (live virtual) legislative hearings, and network with students across the state. Advocacy is an important component of professional social work practice. The goal of this event is to build the capacity of social work students to understand the legislative process and identify strategies to influence social policies and programs. The program agenda will include a keynote presentation, remarks from Legislators, report on bills being introduced, workshops on providing testimony the legislative process, how to analyze a bill, legislative advocacy, Social Work Careers in Legislative Advocacy, and other topics.
Read more
- The Michigan Social Work Workforce & Working Conditions Committee Presents: Bargaining a Union Contract: A Social Worker's Perspective (Virtual)
- Borderless Care: Navigating Transnational Caregiving in a Globalized World
- Borderless Care: Navigating Transnational Caregiving in a Globalized World
Borderless Care: Navigating Transnational Caregiving in a Globalized World
This webinar explores the phenomenon of transnational caregiving, highlighting how international migration and an aging population lead to complex caregiving dynamics across borders. It discusses the motivations behind such caregiving, including filial obligations and cultural norms, as well as the various forms of support that transnational caregivers provide, such as financial assistance and emotional connections.
Read more
| 28 | 1 | 2 |
3- Introduction to Special Education for Social Workers
Introduction to Special Education for Social Workers
This course approved for 3 MSDE Continuing Professional Development/CPD credits as course #22-66-04R and fulfills the requirements of the Maryland State Department of Education for certification of school-based social workers. Because social workers provide related services that are part of the educational programming of students with special needs, it is essential that they understand the legal mandates, federal and state policies and standards, as well as the specific instructional methods and technologies used in the classrooms that serve those students, from the least restrictive settings of inclusion to the more clinical settings, including residential.
Read more
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |