7th Annual Challenging Racism Conference: A Call to Action

Designed with the practitioner in mind, this livestreamed webinar will provide social workers and allied professionals with a compelling learning opportunity on the topic of racial disparities. Attendees will gain new skills and ideas to address issues of race in their practice with clients, organizations, and communities.

The main keynote will be delivered by Linda Villarosa, who is a journalist and contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, where she covers race, inequality, and public health. A former executive editor of Essence Magazine, she is the author of the book Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation.

The conference will conclude with a moderated panel discussion including both keynote presenters and other experts.

Fee: $70.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.5 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Multiple Presenters Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023 Time: 9:00 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Beyond the Individual: A Community Beset by Racial Trauma

The COVID-19 pandemic undeniably exposed endemic vulnerabilities within the black community resulting from centuries of systemic oppression. The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study is a landmark public health study that expanded our understanding of trauma and its impact, yet still falls short of elucidating the disparate impact of trauma and how it effects entire communities. With racial trauma as a central focus, this workshop will augment your understanding of trauma, beyond the level of the individual, toward an understanding of how it manifests in a community. This webinar will advance a framework for understanding racially influenced community trauma, its drivers, and its consequences. As well as offering treatment considerations for clinical practice. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 1.0 Clinical, 2.0 Social & Cultural Competence

Class Unavailable	Instructor: Monique Swift, PsyD Date: Thursday, March 2, 2023 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar Class Unavailable More Details
Click Here to Enroll	Instructor: Monica Swift, PsyD, MA Date: Thursday, June 15, 2023 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online 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): 3.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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

Elder Justice for All

Over 10,000 baby boomers will be turning 65 every day for the next 17 years and 1 in 10 will be a victim of elder abuse thus creating 1,000 victims a day! To address this ethical dilemma and human rights issue, multiple stakeholders gathered to create the Elder Justice Roadmap. As professionals and advocates, it is increasingly important that we familiarize ourselves with this roadmap and assess how we can participate no matter at what level of practice we serve - micro, mezzo or macro. This webinar will help professionals outside of Adult Protective Services envision a roadmap to elder justice through lecture, discussion and group exercises and explore what we can do to meet the goal of elder justice for all. Social work ethics will be compared to the Adult Protective Services' Code of Ethics in demonstrating how the roadmap may be interpreted among professions. This webinar does not qualify for NBCC (National Board for Certified Counselors) clock hours in ethics. [This courses fulfills an elective for one of the following certificate programs: Gerontology, Senior Housing Issues or Senior Services Management].

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

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Ethics

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Instructor: Ted Alter, PhD, MSW Date: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online 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): 3.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Date: Thursday, July 13, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Improving Cultural Competence: Addressing Implicit Bias, Bias and Microaggressions

Given the persistent racial and ethnic disparities in the United States, cultural competence trainings for health professionals are more common than ever. Coupled with the respect for cultural and racial differences is the need for discussion surrounding bias, implicit bias and microaggressions. This webinar is designed to recognize the importance of Cultural Humility, develop an understanding of respect for cultural and racial differences and focus on techniques for being professional in conduct and speech while addressing bias that impacts healthcare employees and patients.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Sophia Jones, PhD Date: Thursday, June 8, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Microaggressions: Impact and Interventions

What are microaggressions and how do they impact our work with survivors of intimate partner violence? How do they come up in interactions with professional colleagues and in our day to day lives? This webinar explores how these daily verbal, behavioral or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, perpetuate negative stereotypes and cause harm. Participants will gain skills to identify and interrupt various forms of microaggressions in their interactions with clients, in the workplace, and within their larger communities. This webinar was developed using an intersectional lens and seeks to amplify and prioritize voices of BIPOC, LGBTQ+ and other marginalized participants, who are disproportionately impacted by implicit bias and microaggressions. [Elective Violence Against Women Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00

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Instructor: Kaylin Padovano, LMSW Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar Class Unavailable 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

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Instructor: Jennifer Jones-Damis, PhD, LPC Date: Friday, September 29, 2023 Time: 9:00 am - 11:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Shifting Perspectives: Developing a Culturally Syntonic Approach for Working with Black Clients

There has been considerable attention to the impact of racism, structural oppression, and other abuses suffered by Black people. This webinar seeks to advance this conversation from a problem focused one to a healing focused one. It is not within the scope of this presentation to teach a “treatment” approach. Through the lens of culture, the presenter aims to facilitate a shift from our default outlook, to one that illuminates a culturally syntonic view of the black client. We will build a framework from which racially-informed therapeutic ideas, technique, and strategy can evolve. The presenter will also provide a cursory overview of healing approaches that are often overlooked in mainstream literature.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Social & Cultural Competence

Class Unavailable	Instructor: Monique Swift, PsyD Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar Class Unavailable More Details
Click Here to Enroll	Instructor: Monique Swift, PsyD Date: Thursday, June 29, 2023 Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Trauma Informed Spaces of Liberation

This webinar unpacks trauma informed practice from a social justice lens and concludes with ways to create spaces of joy and liberation in practice. [Elective for Trauma Response & Crisis Intervention Certificate Program]

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Laura Quiros, PhD, LMSW Date: Friday, July 28, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Understanding and Addressing Racial Trauma

We are exposed to the issue of racism through media and daily experience and so are our clients. Many times our clients need a safe space to navigate all of the input they receive and come to terms with how racism and oppression are impacting their lives. Dealing with the topic of racism in an open, factual and compassionate way may alleviate some client anxiety around the topic and help them address these issues in a safe environment. This webinar will explore the role race plays in the therapeutic process when addressing issues of racial trauma and offer the participants techniques to openly discuss race and racial trauma in a therapeutic setting.

Fee: $40.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 1.0 Clinical, 1.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Jennifer Jones-Damis, PhD, LPC Date: Friday, August 25, 2023 Time: 9:30 am - 11:30 am ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details

Working with Undocumented Clients: Addressing the Myths and Understanding the Challenges

Many immigrants living in the US have experienced unique stressors that have significantly shaped their lives. This webinar will explore the myths about undocumented immigrants, leading to a better understanding of the immigration and acculturation process and experience. The webinar will include case presentations, statistical data, and stories that will expand a service provider’s knowledge on immigrant populations and their journey. Participants will be introduced to the Core Principals of Trauma Informed Care for displaced populations and learn useful assessment tools for working with clients. As a result, service providers will have a better understanding of the immigration processes, the challenges and myths of undocumented clients, and a greater ability to provide enhanced culturally competent services to the clients and families they serve.

Fee: $60.00
Continuing Ed. Hours (CEH): 3.0 Social & Cultural Competence

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Instructor: Monica Roldan, LCSW Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2023 Time: 10:00 am - 1:00 pm ET Location: Live Interactive Online Webinar More Details