Aging: The Human Process

This workshop will provide the foundation and content for understanding older clients. The physical, psychological. and social aspects of the aging process will be addressed. The workshop is designed to provide a conceptional and theoretical basis for understanding the current body of applied work in Gerontology. Emphasis will be placed on the practical implications of research and academic writings in the field. Changes that occur in the normal aging process will be contrasted with abnormal changes. The interdisciplinary nature of Gerontology will be a primary orientation of the workshop. *This is a 2-day webinar. Attendees must attend both days to receive a certificate of completion. [Required for Basic Gerontology, Senior Housing Issues or Senior Services Certificate Program]

MSWs who took a gerontology course as part of their masters program may request a waiver. Please call 848-932-8758.

Fee: $120.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 6.00 Social/Cultural

Basic Elements and Skills Necessary for Effective Volunteer Management

This two-day webinar focuses on the elements and skills which are necessary to ensure a well run, productive volunteer program. As the manager of a volunteer program, you will learn to: 1) create a pro-volunteer environment in your organization; 2) design meaningful roles for volunteers which help accomplish the organizational goals; 3) develop strategies for recruiting volunteers; 4) interview, screen and train volunteers; 5) apply management techniques to the supervision of volunteers; and 6) evaluate and recognize volunteers. [Elective Gerontology, Non-Profit & Public Management or Senior Services Management Certificate Program]

Fee: $120.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 6.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Linda Meisel, LCSW Date: Tuesday, July 11, 2023 and Tuesday, July 18, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

CBT with Latino Populations

This Webinar will describe the adaptations of cognitive behavioral therapy for working with the Latino population. The main focus of this webinar is to discuss, and apply the fundamental concepts of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and provide cultural sensitive cognitive behavioral strategies to address behavioral change, specific for bicultural individuals. Learning objectives include describing the Latino Acculturative Stress Implications, Psychotherapeutic Processes when engaging Latinos into practice; explaining fundamental concepts of CBT, and how they assist individuals in identifying, proving and changing disruptive beliefs from a cultural prospective.; understanding how to utilize and modify CBT techniques to fit and assist interpersonal problems through therapeutic exercises, and gives directive and active intervention from a bicultural point of view. (This is a full day webinar. Attendees must attend the full day to receive a certificate of completion)

Fee: $100.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Mayte Redcay, LCSW, LCADC, SAP, CEAP, LCSW Date: Wednesday, July 26, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 3:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Dear Black Males...

This webinar will focus on the depiction of Black males in today’s world, including the unique issues Black males go through and face. We will examine cultural mistrust, which influences perceptions and the quality of their relationships. Supporting Black males varies based on their individual needs and involves identifying supports that can be most effective. We will consider how efforts to adequately provide for Black males can be linked to the fight for larger social justice goals for individuals and their communities.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Qur-an Webb, MSW Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Depression and Suicide in Older Adults

Depression and suicide in older adults are major public health issues requiring greater attention in the United States as well as other countries. Whereas suicide attempts are more common among adolescents and young adults; older adults show the highest overall suicide rates. Older adults are the fastest growing demographic and depression is often unrecognized as well as untreated among this vulnerable population, leading to potentially greater proportions of suicide. In this webinar, participants will review the signs and symptoms of depression in older adults and identify key risk factors for depression and suicide. Diagnostic evaluation tools and potential treatment options will be explored with practical tips and resources. [Elective for Gerontology Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Danielle M Micale, MHA, LNHA, CTRS, CDP, CAD Date: Friday, August 25, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Developing Cultural Competence in a Multicultural Society

Commitment to cultural competence is growing among healthcare professionals and providers. This webinar will explore cultural competence from a global perspective and demonstrate how all healthcare professionals, specifically social workers, care managers and mental health professionals, can infuse cultural competence into their practice. The webinar will also challenge our ability to embrace cultural humility. While continuing on the journey toward cultural competence, healthcare professionals must embrace the ongoing process of self-exploration and self-critique combined with a willingness to learn from others. This webinar will also provide comprehensive strategies to respond to the healthcare needs of a diverse population. Participants will ultimately learn to utilize cross-cultural skill based approaches that can be applied universally.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Sophia Jones, PhD Date: Monday, June 5, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Ethical Dilemmas in Working with Older Adults

This webinar will present valuable information to professionals working with families who have an elderly relative. Participants will learn practical methods to identify and analyze ethical dilemmas arising in the care of older adults. The principles of ethics and ethics theory will be discussed as well as moral issues surrounding topics such as: decision-making capacity, informed consent, surrogacy issues, advance directives, promising comfort and care, withholding and withdrawing life sustaining treatment, and the role of ethics committees. [Required for Advanced Gerontology or Senior Housing Issues or Senior Services Management Certificate Program].

*This webinar does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics for Licensed Professional Counselors.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural, Ethical

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Instructor: Stephen Sidorsky, LCSW Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) Class Unavailable More Details

Examining and Understanding Diversity of Gender Identity and Sexual Orientation

How do sexual orientation and gender identity differ? This webinar will offer a detailed examination of these two topics as well as how psychological and social issues influence the LGB and T community. Furthermore, the webinar will explore how prejudice, heteronormativity, and discrimination impact the LGB and T community. Inclusivity and understanding are important when creating welcoming environments for clients who either are still discovering their orientation and identity or those who have already discovered themselves. Lastly, this webinar will reinforce the importance of inclusive language and addressing specific needs for the LGB and T community by implementing techniques and evidence based clinical approaches and techniques.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Mayte Redcay, LCSW, LCADC, SAP, CEAP, LCSW, LCADC, SAP Date: Thursday, August 17, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Fatherhood Engagement and Social Connections

This webinar focuses on the importance of engaging fathers and father figures in practice. The goal is to change our practice from being “Mother Focused” into the “Full Family Engagement Model”. Involving fathers, father figures, and paternal relatives can optimize outcomes in your cases and is strongly linked to good case decision-making practices. The webinar will provide information to help eliminate personal and professional barriers that interfere with father involvement. There will be breakout sessions to provide information on co-parenting, engaging mothers as gatekeepers, legal rights concerning child support and paternity, young fatherhood parenting, and empowering fathers.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Qur-an Webb, MSW Date: Tuesday, July 25, 2023 Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Gender Diversity Level I - An Introduction

How can I keep track of the many types of gender identity terms and experiences out there? What are the best ways to talk to clients about gender identity? How do I know what I don't know about gender diversity? This webinar is intended to give an in-depth overview of the basics of gender diversity for clinicians. It covers the many different aspects that make up a person's experience of gender, including identity, gender expression/presentation, gender role, and biological sex, and provides a model that can be utilized with clients to explore their own identities. The webinar covers a variety of gender identities and the best language to use when talking about them, as well as explaining the differences between gender identity and sexual orientation. We will discuss what we do and don't know about how transgender identities occur as a basis for a gender-affirming model of care. A model that understands the experience of gender as internal and separate from one's biology. Finally, we will discuss important considerations for culturally affirming care of transgender and other gender diverse clients and how clinicians can prepare for this work and consider both the challenges and rewards of working with the transgender population.

This webinar is the first of a 3-part series presented by Stephanie "Del" Sasso, PyD.
Part II: Thursday, May 11, 2023, Gender Diversity Level II - Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment, 1pm to 4pm.
Part III: Thursday, June 22, 2023 Gender Diversity Level III - Treatment of Gender 1pm to 4pm.
Learners are recommended to take Level I and Level II or has a strong subject knowledge in this area, before attending Level III.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Stephanie Sasso, PsyD Date: Thursday, April 27, 2023 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Gender Diversity Level II - Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment

This program is the second in a series, and is recommended (but not required) after taking the Introduction to Gender Diversity webinar (#5371WEB) for those who do not have a strong basis of prior in-depth understanding of gender identity.

It will bring participants beyond considerations of gender identity to begin developing a deep sense of gender dysphoria; the primary distress impacting the mental health and wellbeing of those who choose to undergo social and/or medical gender transition, and the primary reason gender diverse individuals seek gender-related mental healthcare. It will explore the experience of dysphoria in depth, as well as the opposing experience of gender euphoria. It will then cover how these concepts can be explored with clients to not only assess dysphoria clinically, but develop a targeted treatment plan based on different types of dysphoric experiences. It highlights a number of areas in which the treatment of gender dysphoria differs from traditional psychotherapy practice, requiring systemic interventions on a number of levels, and coordination of care between a variety of providers. This program is perfect for those who want to take their work with gender diverse individuals to the next level, becoming a nuanced, skilled evaluator, prepared to develop individualized treatment plans for these individuals, and for those who want to develop strong assessment skills before embarking on working with this population.

This webinar is the second of a 3-part series.
Gender Diversity Level III - Treatment of Gender Dysphoria, Thursday, June 22, 2023 , 1pm to 4pm.

Learners are recommended to take Level I and Level II or has a strong subject knowledge in this area, before attending Level III.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Stephanie Sasso, PsyD Date: Thursday, May 11, 2023 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Gender Diversity Level III - Treatment of Gender Dysphoria

It is highly recommended to take this training only after taking Gender Diversity Level II - Overview of a Model for Assessment and Treatment.

This training utilizes specific learning about sub-types of gender dysphoria and other relevant experiences common to transgender clients presented in the Level II webinar to inform Dr. Sasso's treatment model. The model is based on Dr. Sasso's work with the transgender population across the lifespan, using an in-depth assessment of gender dysphoria, expanded developmental history, and assessment of internal gender distress as well as environmental stressors to inform treatment decisions. This webinar provides in-depth case examples of clients of varying ages with diverse gender-related treatment needs. It covers differential diagnosis between primary mental health conditions, impacts of minority stress, and gender dysphoria and discusses the need and process for frequent re-assessment. It provides examples of working with clients with more than one source of minority stress (intersectional identities), working with a medical care team, as well as with families of transgender youth and young adults.

This webinar is the final of a 3-part series.

Learners are recommended to take Level I and Level II or has a strong subject knowledge in this area, before attending Level III.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Stephanie Sasso, PsyD Date: Thursday, June 22, 2023 Time: 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Human Trafficking: Protecting the Most Vulnerable

New Jersey has increasingly become aware of the presence of the human trafficking and domestic minor sex trafficking. Healthcare providers play a crucial role in helping victims of human trafficking with physical and psychological care. This interactive webinar will explore human trafficking from an international and local perspective; and demonstrate how all healthcare professionals play a vital role in the fight against human trafficking. Healthcare professionals, social workers, care managers and mental health professionals can benefit from learning effective guidelines for approaching and assisting victims of trafficking. The webinar will provide comprehensive strategies for responding to victims of trafficking. Participants will learn the different forms of human trafficking and also address different complex needs of victims of trauma. Participants will ultimately learn to identify and respond to the needs of trafficking victims and survivors.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Sophia Jones, PhD Date: Thursday, July 13, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Incorporating Anti-Racism Practice into Violence Prevention Work

This webinar explores the ways that racism and oppression have shaped anti-violence movements and how we can dismantle these in our own work with clients, within our organizations and in our communities. Participants will discuss how systemic racism, intergenerational racial trauma and more shape survivor experiences and the ways in which the white mainstream violence against women movement have perpetuated these harms. Facilitators will guide participants through a self-assessment of individual and organizational practices and provide action steps to incorporating actively anti-racist, anti-oppressive principles into their everyday work as a form of primary violence prevention. This webinar was developed using an intersectional lens and seeks to amplify and prioritize voices of BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and other marginalized participants. [Elective Violence Against Women Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Kaylin Padovano, LMSW Date: Thursday, January 12, 2023 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) Class Unavailable More Details

Incorporating Cultural Competence into Ethical Decision Making

This interactive webinar will explore several different perspectives regarding ethical decision making. It will examine the role of cultural competence in making ethical decisions and outline how the social worker can synthesize ethical decision making and cultural competence into their practice. The workshop will utilize varied learning methods including short lectures, discussions and case examples. By the end of the webinar, participants will be able to identify cultural competence issues in several areas of their work and how to apply ethical decision making models to guide their practice.

*This webinar does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics for Licensed Professional Counselors

Fee: $100.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.00 Social/Cultural, Ethical

Class Unavailable	Instructor: Robert Hazlett, MSW, PhD Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 3:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) Class Unavailable More Details
Class Unavailable	Instructor: Robert Hazlett, MSW, PhD Date: Monday, March 27, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 3:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) Class Unavailable More Details

Legal and Ethical Issues in Working with Trans Youth

What if we are going on an overnight field trip? Questions like this arise regarding the obligations for school districts, residential, inpatient facilities, employers when working with Trans Individuals. This engaging webinar will present the essential Trans friendly terminology, ethical dilemmas, trans related legal history, employment & federal requirements and implementation for your specific setting.

*This webinar does not qualify for NBCC clock hours in ethics for Licensed Professional Counselors.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural, Ethical

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Instructor: Mayte Redcay, LCSW, LCADC, SAP, CEAP, LCSW, LCADC, SAP Date: Monday, August 7, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Let's Talk About-Intersectionality

This is a 2-day webinar and each day is 2 hours. Mental health providers are being asked to provide culturally competent care to an increasingly diverse clientele. This is also reflected in the ethics codes requiring cultural competence. Training programs in psychology have responded to this by providing information about different minoritized groups in 1-2 courses. However, specific training is needed for practitioners to integrate client identities into case conceptualization and treatment planning. Additionally, training is needed to understand how the therapist’s identities impact the therapeutic relationship and process. Participants must attend both days to receive a certificate of completion.

Day 1 of this training will focus on the ADDRESSING model (Hays, 1998), how to use the model, and how to understand the therapist’s identities.

Day 2 will focus on applying the ADDRESSING model to clients and their intersecting identities and incorporating it into case conceptualization and treatment planning. Each session will be 2 hours, at the intermediate level, and will utilize case examples to enhance learning.

Fee: $80.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 4.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Krish (Radhika) Sehgal, Ph.D Date: Monday, April 24, 2023 and Monday, May 1, 2023 Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Looking Through Invisible Borders: A Cross-Cultural Response to Trauma Survivors

This webinar's scope utilizes a cross cultural perspective in examining, exploring and identifying appropriate clinical strategies in trauma response. Sexual violence is endemic amongst all races, cultures and ethnicities nationally and internationally. Culture, context and identity are inherently woven within a trauma survivors experience as it is within a professional responding to the trauma survivor. Through this workshop we will attempt to understand the trauma experience cross culturally and the use of the professional's sense of self and identity in strategizing appropriate response. This workshop is offered in collaboration with NJ CASA. 3 NJ DVS credits: Intervention Skills [Elective for Violence Against Women & Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Julie Roebuck, LCSW Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2023 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Managing Family Dynamics in Caring for Older Adults

As individuals continue to live longer lives, they many need increased supports from family members and the community. This webinar will describe and discuss the multiple dimensions of family responses to caregiving for an aging relative. This will include an exploration of the challenges of potential sibling conflict, the role of marital partners, grandchildren and others in providing care for an elderly relative. Using case examples, this webinar will teach professionals how to identify family patterns and identify interventions that can help provide strategies for families so they can develop a productive working relationship and a course of action for care of their older adult family member. [Elective for Gerontology Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Linda Meisel, LCSW Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) Class Unavailable More Details

Older Adults, Disasters and the Service Providing Agency

Older adults are disproportionately impacted by disasters in terms of their psychosocial and economic losses, injuries, and even death. Service-providing agencies will be called on for an increase in their usual services, and additional assistance related to the disaster. This webinar will help agencies who serve older adults to work through various types of adverse conditions, and increase their capacity to help older adult clients navigate through the disaster's impact. Participants will learn emergency management and disaster basics with emphasis on impact to older adults, how to bolster their disaster resilience, how to organize the agency to respond to the event through continuity of operations (COOP) planning, conditions when a COOP might be implemented, and the steps needed to develop a COOP plan. This webinar is offered in collaboration with the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management. [Elective for Gerontology Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Mary Goepfert, MSW, MPA, LCSW, LCADC, CP Date: Thursday, May 4, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Practical Case Management with Older Adult Clients

Case Management practice is based on two important principles. The first involves respect and support for independence. The second involves the principle of using the least restrictive alternative in helping clients with lifestyle changes. You will learn practical skills such as: 1) making realistic plans with the client; 2) determining the frequency and nature of client contacts needed to implement the case plan; 3) using existing support systems; 4) addressing cultural and ethnic factors; 5) ongoing assessment; 6) networking effectively with other agencies; 7) clarifying respective roles; and 8) scheduling case management time and case recording. [Required for Basic Gerontology Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Robin Wiley, DSW, LCSW Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) Class Unavailable More Details

Psychotherapy and Counseling with Older Adults

This webinar will dispel the all-too-common assumption that psychotherapy and counseling are not effective treatment modalities with senior adults. Contrary to the belief that seniors are "inflexible and stuck in their ways" as well as having diminished cognitive and reflective capacity, studies indicate that they can benefit as much from these modalities as younger persons, albeit with some different approaches, techniques and goals. In this workshop we will consider the special strengths and challenges of senior adults, the place of their particular life cycle issues and how to understand and use transference, resistance, support and interpretation in working with this population. Many case examples and exercises will be offered. [Elective for Gerontology Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Stephen Sidorsky, LCSW Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) Class Unavailable More Details

Racial Justice in Social Work Practice

This webinar explores the topic of racial justice and how it relates to social work. We will engage in conversations about racial justice work that help to foster authentic engagement with social work staff, community providers, and clients and their families. The webinar will allow participants to use what they know about racial justice and equity to further build understanding and agreement. You will learn which facilitation tools to use when you are faced with a hot button issue or other challenging situation and how to lead conversations about race with presence, grace, and authority.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

Class Unavailable	Instructor: Qur-an Webb, MSW Date: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) Class Unavailable More Details
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Rethinking Therapeutic Approaches with Older Adults

Most therapeutic approaches assume all adults are the same regardless of where they are in the lifespan. However, we know that older adults are a distinct population with specific needs and challenges. This webinar will provide a brief historical perspective of best practices used with older adults with and then focus on new knowledge that addresses the mental health needs of the older adult population. We will also discuss the various mental health and behavioral concerns uniquely experienced by older adults. [Elective for Gerontology Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Robin Wiley, DSW, LCSW Date: Friday, June 23, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

School to Prison Pipeline: Understanding the Relationship Between School Discipline, Dropout, and Incarceration

This is a 2 hour webinar. The school-to-prison pipeline is an epidemic that is plaguing schools across the nation. Far too often, students are suspended, expelled or even arrested for minor offenses that leave visits to the principal’s office a thing of the past. Statistics reflect that these policies disproportionately target students of color and those with a history of abuse, neglect, poverty or learning disabilities. The purpose of this webinar is to begin to examine the root causes and repercussions of the school-to-prison pipeline on today’s youth, understand the impact race, gender, and poverty have on this epidemic, and empower participants to make changes in their schools and communities.

Fee: $40.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 2.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Jennifer Jones-Damis, PhD, LPC Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023 Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

The Impact of Racial Difference in Supervision and Management: Exploration and Tools for Practice

This experiential and interactive workshop is designed to provide examples, support and practice in facilitating difficult conversations across differences in supervision. A majority of this workshop will be focused on unpacking and exploring racial identity so that participants are more aware of their triggers, biases and blind spots. We will introduce tools to help create more impactful and authentic supervisory relationships

Fee: $110.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 5.50 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Robin Schlenger, LCSW Tracey Rollins Spann, LMSW Date: Thursday, May 25, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 3:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

The Rose that Bloomed from the Concrete: How African American Males can be Academically Successful

The problem of black male underachievement has captured the attention of school social workers, policy makers and theorists. Rather than focus on how and black male students “fall through the cracks” this workshop explores how they manage to be academically successful and “make it.” Drawing on resiliency theory, participants who attend this workshop will learn effective empirically based strategies, which can be used to support black male students as they travel through the educational k-12 pipeline.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Marc Freeman, PhD, MSW, MDiv. Date: Friday, April 28, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

The Secret Life of Hoarding

According to the International OCD Foundation (IOCD): "Hoarding has been a hidden disorder for many years and before the early 1990?s, there was little research on topic." Increased awareness with hoarding, throughout the lifespan, has occurred due to clinical issues such as unhealthy living conditions that impact individuals, families, and communities. This webinar will concentrate on the older adult who meets the criteria of Hoarding Disorder as per the DSM 5. Participants will practice skills in working with the older adult who meets this criteria as well as identifying strategies for family members who are involved with an older adult who is diagnosed with this disorder. [Elective for Gerontology Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Robin Wiley, DSW, LCSW Date: Thursday, July 20, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Understand the Trans/Nonbinary Experience & Providing Affirming Care

Many transgender and non-binary people struggle to find therapists that are affirming of their identities, and even clinicians that are well meaning often have to be educated by their clients when it comes to their gender identities. This webinar is designed to facilitate consciousness-raising and depth of self-awareness of how gender socialization impacts and informs the therapeutic lens and therapeutic relationship. Participants will have opportunities for small group discussions and self-reflective activities to facilitate a depth of personal and professional understanding of how themes of gender inform clinical conceptualizations. Participants will also gain a foundational understanding of the lived experience of transgender and non-binary individuals, as well as core current affirmative language and terminology to use with gender-expansive individuals and groups.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical, Social/Cultural

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Instructor: Katherine Glick, MEd, LPC, LCADC, ACS, CMH Date: Tuesday, June 20, 2023 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details

Understanding the Immigration Process and Supporting Immigrant Families through Traumatic Experiences

Immigrants experience many traumatic experiences on their journey to arrive in the United States. Immigrants to the U.S. experience stress related to acculturation, discrimination, employment, legal status and potential deportation, language acquisition, and separation from family and community of origin. They also experience many losses loss of family, friends, professional status, language, culture, and sense of belonging. This workshop will review the immigration process and the traumatic experiences along with common issues such as family separation and reattachment. It will provide a trauma focused lens on working with this population.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.00 Clinical

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Instructor: Natalie Contreras, MA, LPC Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Zoom (Interactive Webinar) More Details