Presented by Dr. Ester Flores, PhD, LMSW

A decade ago, researchers predicted that millennials would comprise 75% of the workforce by 2025 (Fuller,2023). As predicted, the Baby Boomers are entering retirement at record speed, leaving millennials to make up most of the current workforce. In response, social work organizations are taking on an entirely new cultural design. The famous cliché “out with the old and in with the new” in context realistically describes where the social work profession currently finds itself. Now is the time for social work leaders to dive into new opportunities to transform their organizations through meaningful digital content development to embrace and retain their millennial staff. For the sake of the health and survival of social work organizations everywhere, leaders must consider moving on to new opportunities to redesign the existing organizational culture. A deeper understanding of the millennials' behavior will be presented to help the managers adapt their practices and expectations. Want to attract, retain, and motivate millennials?  Research-based recommendations will be presented to help managers be successful with the millennials. They are not going anywhere. They are here to entrench your workforce.

1 Continuing education hour

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Members - $25
Student/Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35

Presented by Dr.Stephanie L Carnes, Ph.D, LCSW, LL.M

Social work is inarguably rife with significant challenges, including burnout and vicarious trauma. Burnout is often perpetuated by delegitimizing, abusive institutions and systems, with myriad negative consequences for practitioners and the profession in general. While individual self-care practices are an essential component of practitioners’ longevity toolkits, this session will explore the concept of radical self-care, or the reprioritizing of personal well-being and the disruption of delegitimizing, draining systemic and institutional contexts. Specifically, this workshop will offer a critical appraisal of the policies and practices that imperil social worker well-being across practice settings. Additionally, this session will embolden participants to engage in radical and collective forms of self-care, with a keen eye toward challenging the systemic and institutional perpetuators of burnout.

Learning objectives

1. Participants will develop an understanding of the concepts of radical and collective self-care, how such approaches differ from more traditional conceptualizations of individually-focused self-care.
2. Participants will critically identify and examine systemic and institutional policies and practices that perpetuate burnout.
3. Participants will engage in discussion to collaboratively to brainstorm new strategies to combat burnout as a collective.

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Student/Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35

Presented by Jess Bowers, MSW, CAPSW

Social workers and other helping professionals constantly face ethical issues and dilemmas requiring ethical decision making. Ethical practice in rural communities requires enhanced awareness of the special ethical considerations inherent to practice in closely-knit, isolated, tightly interdependent, small rural community settings. This workshop will focus on how the rural environment influences both the occurrence and the response to ethics conflicts. The course focuses on ethical decision-making and the utilization of codes of ethics while addressing the unique ethical needs of client populations in rural communities.

Learning Objectives:

1. Recognize and consider the unique ethical challenges experienced by social workers in rural practice settings.
2. Apply the NASW Code of Ethics, Guidelines for Ethical Practice as well other professional Standards of Practice as they relate to ethical decision making in rural communities.
3. Understand the importance of advocating for distributive justice in rural communities to address service gaps and health disparities among vulnerable client populations.

4 Ethics and Boundaries continuing education hours

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

Presented by Debra Minsky-Kelly, LCSW (She/Her/Hers) 

Director, Field Education; Clinical Assistant Professor of Social Work

Carthage College

Social work students face many ethical dilemmas, from complex supervisor-supervisee relationships to understanding client needs to balancing the time spent in school, work, and during your internship. This workshop will discuss how the NASW Code of Ethics is connected to the social work student experience and provide the tools and resources to navigate difficult situations.

Price: Free

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