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| 13 | 14- Solution Focused Therapy with Couples
Solution Focused Therapy with Couples
Solution Focused Therapy is very effective when working with couples, because it breaks through typical couples’ patterns that cause problems between people. Solution Focused Therapy challenges the couple to share their vision for their future and then the clinician expertly amplifies these “solutions” in order to help the couple find their common ground.
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| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24- NASW Joblink Career Fair
NASW Joblink Career Fair
Join us on September 24 for NASW's Professional Development & Services Joblink Virtual Career Fair connecting social work professionals with top employers from across the country. This online event will feature organizations actively recruiting clinical, mezzo, and macro social workers for a wide range of employment opportunities.
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| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30- Deep Empathy in Care: Integrating an Ethical Trauma - Responsive Framework into the Supervisory Relationship
Deep Empathy in Care: Integrating an Ethical Trauma - Responsive Framework into the Supervisory Relationship
As helping professionals, we carry many individuals and families through life's traumas. Through this provision of care and support, we simultaneously collect the stories of countless people and communities we serve. This component of trauma-responsive practice creates a unique burden resulting from deep empathy – magnified by our collective professional and ethical orientation to social justice. Leaders and providers alike remain in the unique position of having to simultaneously lead, mentor, and effectively navigate and make sense of the sometimes-traumatic nature of social work practice. This educational session seeks to illustrate the impact of trauma on supervisors and supervisees; highlight the role of self-reflection in implementing supporting practice; and provide insights and reflections on self-stewardship and trauma-responsive practice within the context of clinical and organizational leadership.
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| 4 | 5- Deepening Skills for Experienced Motivational Interviewing Helpers
Deepening Skills for Experienced Motivational Interviewing Helpers
This is a 6-hour virtual workshop designed to help professionals sustain and strengthen their use of Motivational Interviewing (MI) when supporting individuals with mental health, substance use, and/or medical challenges. MI is an evidence-based, collaborative, person-centered approach that helps individuals explore and strengthen their own motivation for change. Participants will learn and practice more complex OARS skills, apply additional MI strategies and tools, and develop skills for effectively responding to sustain talk and discord. The workshop will also introduce basic concepts related to MI fidelity and provide guidance on next steps for continued MI skill development.
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| 6- Deepening Skills for Experienced Motivational Interviewing Helpers
Deepening Skills for Experienced Motivational Interviewing Helpers
This is a 6-hour virtual workshop designed to help professionals sustain and strengthen their use of Motivational Interviewing (MI) when supporting individuals with mental health, substance use, and/or medical challenges. MI is an evidence-based, collaborative, person-centered approach that helps individuals explore and strengthen their own motivation for change. Participants will learn and practice more complex OARS skills, apply additional MI strategies and tools, and develop skills for effectively responding to sustain talk and discord. The workshop will also introduce basic concepts related to MI fidelity and provide guidance on next steps for continued MI skill development.
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| 7- Specialty Practice Sections Webinar: A Social Work Perspective on the Foster Care-to-Trafficking Pipeline
Specialty Practice Sections Webinar: A Social Work Perspective on the Foster Care-to-Trafficking Pipeline
Wednesday, October 7, 2026 (1 – 2:30 pm ET)
Presenter: Adam McCormick, PhD, MSSW
CEs: 1.5 Social Work contact hours
Youth in foster care face disproportionately high rates of trafficking vulnerability due to experiences of trauma, placement instability, homelessness, congregate care placement, and disrupted attachment. This workshop explores how systemic failures within child welfare can unintentionally create pathways into exploitation, with a particular focus on the heightened risks faced by LGBTQ+ youth. Drawing from qualitative research with foster care alumni and survivors of trafficking, participants will examine how rejection, disconnection, institutionalization, and unmet belonging needs increase vulnerability while identifying trauma-informed and affirming strategies that promote safety, permanency, and healing.
Objectives:
- Examine how trauma, placement instability, congregate care, and disrupted attachment contribute to trafficking vulnerability among youth in foster care, particularly LGBTQ+ youth.
- Apply trauma-informed and affirming social work practices that strengthen safety, belonging, permanency, and protective factors for youth involved in child welfare systems.
- Evaluate social work policy and practice strategies aimed at reducing reliance on congregate care and disrupting pathways from foster care to exploitation, homelessness, and criminalization.
Cost: SPS Members: Free / Non-SPS NASW Members: $25 / Non-NASW Member: $40
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| 8 | 9- Breaking Barriers: Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Care as Social Action
Breaking Barriers: Trauma-Informed, Culturally Responsive Care as Social Action
This webinar examines the intersection of trauma, culture, and systemic inequity in mental health care delivery. Drawing on real-world case studies, interactive discussion, and clinical frameworks, participants will explore how trauma-informed and culturally responsive practices are not simply clinical techniques — they are acts of social justice. Through the lens of Health Equity, clinicians will examine the structural forces that create barriers to care, challenge deficit-based clinical language, and identify concrete strategies to transform their practice from the micro to the macro level. Helen's Project serves as a living example of what equitable, community-centered behavioral health care looks like in action.
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