SUMMER 2025 CONTINUING EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES

Trauma (Healing) Informed Self Care
Practical Approaches for Social Work/Direct Care Professionals

Presented by Melinda Marasch, LCSW 

July 30, 2025,  9 – 11am (CST), 2 CEH's

Live, Virtual Training 

Ethical Care requires Self Care per NASW Code of Ethics Amendments in 2021. This workshop will provide a Trauma (Healing) Informed lens to deal with the very real struggles of being a social worker or direct care professional. Content will include the effects of stress, trauma, secondary trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue, on professionals and program participants. We professionals need to care well for ourselves so that we can care well for others.

 Learning Objectives: After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:

1.  Describe stress, trauma, secondary trauma, burnout, &/or compassion fatigue.
2.  Identify at least 1 approach to use or to teach a participant to help manage stress, trauma, secondary trauma, burnout, &/or compassion fatigue. 
3. Plan to utilize at least 1 approach to help manage stress, trauma, secondary trauma, burnout, &/or compassion fatigue.  

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Cost:
Members: $50
Non-Members: $70
Members who are students or retired: $40

SUMMER ETHICS AND BOUNDARIES

Ethics and Boundaries and Technology in a Post COVID World 

Presented by Debra Minsky-Kelly, MSW, LCSW 

August 12, 2025, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM (CST)

Live, Virtual Training 

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.

• Recognize generational differences in our experiences with technology
• Reflect on technology-related changes to the NASW Code of Ethics that went into effect 2018 and consider these in light of practice changes since the pandemic
• Recognize the unique boundary-related practice considerations necessary in technology-assisted service delivery models
• Examine what we have learned from the rapid expansion of technology-assisted therapies since the pandemic toward the goal of adopting best practices
• Identify and define ethical concepts and decision making models and how these can be applied to technology-assisted service delivery
• Apply ethical decision making models to practice dilemmas, with special emphasis on how technology may complicate aspects of SWK practice
• Integrate our knowledge of the harmful effects of technology into our work with individuals, families, and communities and consider how this affects our practice

4 Ethics and Boundaries continuing education hours

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 COST

Members - $85
Student or Retired Members - $65
Non-Members - $115

Trauma (Healing) Informed Care: Practical Approaches to Clients who Are Triggered (Activated) 

Presented by Melinda Marasch, LCSW (Aspire Training & Consulting).

August 20, 2025, 12pm – 2pm (CST), 2 CEH's

Live, Virtual Training

Healing (Trauma) Informed Care (HIC) is an important evidence-based best practice model for social workers & other direct care professionals to understand. Research in neuropsychology, adverse childhood experiences, resiliency, epigenetics, and other disciplines help us understand how we are affected by stress and trauma. This workshop provides practical approaches in response to triggered/activated clients. 

By the end of the training, learners will be able to:

1. Identify at least 2 of the 6 Key Principles of Trauma (Healing) Informed (HIC) Approaches.
2. Describe 2 examples of how people are Triggered and what being Triggered looks like in participants
3. Prioritize Impact Over Intention in participant scenario(s).
4. Plan how to apply concepts or approaches in day-to-day work with staff.

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Members who are students or retired: $40

2025 Winter Webinar Series

Previous Webinars - Now Available as Self Study

“Overworked and Stretched Thin”: Burnout and Systemic Failure in Social Work”
Presented by Stephanie L Carnes, Ph.D, LCSW, LL.M – One Continuing Education Hour - REGISTER

“Got Millennials? The Sustainable Workforce of the Future”
Presented by Ester Flores, PhD, LMSW - One Continuing Education Hour - REGISTER

 “Self-Care in Social Work: A Person-in-Environment Approach to Managing Occupational Stress and Burnout”
Presented by Kathy Cox, PhD, LCSW - One Continuing Education Hour - REGISTER

 “Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment: Updates on Outcome Study and Dissemination Phase"
Presented by Dimitri Topitzes, PhD, LCSW - One Continuing Education Hour - REGISTER

 “Chat Bots and AI Image Generators: Practical Tools for Today’s Social Work Practice”
Presented by Jonathan B. Singer, Ph.D., LCSW - One Continuing Education Hour - REGISTER

 “Ethics and Best Practices: Artificial Intelligence and Social Work Education”
Presented by Karen Magruder, LCSW-S - One Continuing Education Hour - REGISTER

 “Depression in Older Adults”
Presented by Sarah Endicott, DNP, RN, APNP, PMHNP-BC, GNP-BC - One Continuing Education Hour - REGISTER

 "Advancing Ecosocial Work: Leadership for Change"
Presented by Rachel Forbes, MSW - 1.5 Continuing Education Hours - REGISTER

 "Islamophobia and Antisemitism Today"
Presented by Ahmed J. Quereshi, Executive Director, Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee, Miryam Rosensweig, President & CEO, Milwaukee Jewish Federation - Two Continuing Education Hours - REGISTER

 “Behavioral Practice: The Role of Digital Psychoeducation”
Presented by David A. Wilkerson PhD - One Continuing Education Hour - REGISTER

 “Mental Health Advocacy in the Hmong Community”
Presented by Sheng Lee Yang, MSW, LCSW, PMH-C - Two Continuing Education Hours - REGISTER

COST

Member - $25 (One Hour), $37.50 (1.5 Hours), $50 (Two Hours)
Member - Student or Retired - $20 (One Hour), $30 (1.5 Hours), $40 (Two Hours)
Non-Member - $35 (One Hour), $53.20, (1.5 Hours), $70 (Two Hours)

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