2021 Continuing Education Offerings

WEBINAR:Ethics and Boundaries: Stepping Forward when Colleagues Cross the Line

February 28, 2025 - 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

NASWWI Chapter 0 119

Presented by Dana Johnson, MSW

Dana Johnson

Ethics & Boundaries has never been this fun to learn! You will learn and enhance professional skills in conflict resolution and understanding conflict theories. Exploring difficult crucial conversations; you will build skills in the 5 Essentials to Navigating Difficult Conversations with peers and gain the ability to hold colleagues accountable when needed. Communication styles and mitigation of risk is examined through personal and professional review of workplace culture. This workshop focuses on appropriate ethics and boundaries in client-social worker, therapist, counselor and peer-to-peer relationships.  Use of workbook activities, case scenarios and personal reflection will foster understanding of ethical, reflective practice with clients, agency and colleague ethical challenges in the workplace, and building skills in communication, and cooperative confrontation. We will examine how appreciation in the workplace can relieve ethical dilemmas and improve decision making. You won’t learn this content anywhere else!

Learning Objectives:
1. Understand the importance of client/patient rights; above and beyond the rights of social work practitioners and the agencies they represent.
2. Examining personal values and personality characteristics that encourage or hinder one’s ability to step forward and report unethical behavior.
3. Evaluate personal responsibility and choices made in one’s practice and how these choices have/have not prevented further ethical violations or improved ethical practice in the workplace.
4. Understand and apply the Code of Ethics and the Code of Conduct (MPSW 20), and our ethical principles and boundaries when making critical decisions in exposing ethical challenges in practice.
5. Demonstrate understanding of the Code of Ethics and Code of Conduct (MPSW 20), ethical principles, and boundaries applied to specific ethical dilemmas when confronting ethical challenges by co-workers, utilizing the Nine Step Ethical-Decision Making Model.

 4 Ethics and Boundaries continuing education hours

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COST

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

 

WEBINAR: Racial Equity: Creating a Healthier Country for All

February 28, 2025 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

NASWWI Chapter 0 742

Presented by Fran Kaplan, MSW, EdD

Fran

Residents of the United States have some of the poorest health and shortest life expectancies of all the richest, industrialized countries. Despite having the world’s highest GDP, a high percentage of US babies die in their first year of life. We spend almost half of all healthcare dollars in the world, so why do we have such poor outcomes?

In this webinar, attendees will learn how racism and similar social inequities impact the health of individuals and communities and how social workers can help to prevent and treat these societal inequities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: Students will

  1. Expand their understanding of racism as a detrimental & costly systemic (social) determinant of health in the US.
  2. Learn how successful equity campaigns can & do make our lives healthier by moving us beyond long-standing but out-moded, unhealthy, even dangerous, practices.
  3. Increase their desire for & ability to work towards health & equity as social workers

2 Continuing education hours

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COST

Members - $50
Student/Retired Members - $40
Non-Members - $70

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