2021 Continuing Education Offerings

Presented by:Malka Shaw, LCSW

      Malka Shaw, LCSW

As social workers and therapists, we know that bias and misunderstanding can profoundly shape the safety and well-being of our clients and are devoted to the consideration of how bias may impede clinical progress. This webinar will equip you with the tools to understand Jewish identity, history, and the contemporary lived experience—while addressing how antisemitism and its distorted narratives can impact mental health, treatment, and trust in therapeutic relationships. Through an exploration of Jewish cultural values, intergenerational trauma, and contemporary challenges, you will gain insight into how antisemitism manifests in both subtle and overt ways, and how to support Jewish clients and colleagues with sensitivity and accountability. Your professional practice will expand with learnings related to incidents, attitudes, and perceptions of antisemitism and concrete resources that offer support and empowerment for clients to develop their self-advocacy skills. Join us for this timely and essential training to build your cultural competency, strengthen your practice, and foster inclusive, trauma-informed and healing-centered care.

One Continuing Education Hour

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Cost:
Members - $25
Student or Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35

Presented by Gigi Tsontos, LCSW, MPA, PCC

The political landscape continues to shift, influencing policies, funding priorities, and the organizational environments in which social work administrators operate. This session explores how changes in political climate affect decision-making, program sustainability, advocacy efforts, and workforce morale within social service organizations. Participants will examine strategies to navigate uncertainty, uphold ethical leadership, and maintain mission alignment amid evolving political and social pressures.

Once Continuing Education Hour

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

Presented by Heather Rose Artushin, MSW, LISW-CP

Due to their widespread availability and lethality, guns fuel the United States’ high suicide and homicide rates, with devastating mass shootings on the rise across the nation. Social workers can lead the way in mitigating gun violence through careful assessment, education, and policy advocacy efforts rooted in our profession's core values. Together, we will learn more about how gun violence is affecting our clients and communities, and ways that social workers can intervene at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice.

One Continuing Education Hour

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Cost:
Members - $25
Student or Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35

Presented by Adam McCormick, MSW, PhD

This workshop explores the profound and often overlooked traumatic stress experienced by children growing up in undocumented and mixed-status families in the era of mass deportation, surveillance, and heightened immigration enforcement. Drawing from trauma-informed and family systems perspectives, participants will examine how chronic fear, separation threats, and systemic discrimination shape attachment, development, and identity among these children. Through case examples, current research, and reflection, we will consider the emotional, relational, and educational toll of living in constant uncertainty while identifying practical, culturally responsive strategies for promoting safety, connection, and healing in clinical, school, and community settings.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain how chronic immigration enforcement stress and family insecurity shape developmental trauma, attachment patterns, and early narrative formation in migrant children and children of undocumented parents.
2. Identify trauma adaptations and triggers commonly seen in this population and distinguish between behaviors rooted in survival responses versus pathology.
3. Apply trauma-informed, connection-based strategies that promote co-regulation, safety, and relational healing in everyday social work interactions with migrant children and their families.

1 Continuing Education Hour

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Cost:
Members - $25
Student or Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35

Presented by Jack Paul Gesino, DSW, LCSW

Webinar Description:

This webinar presentation will review the neurobiological benefits of play for adults, covering the properties of play, assessing the audience’s own level of playfulness, differences in play for the purpose of therapy or simply for “FUN”. The examination of various play forms will be offered including improvisation, therapeutic humor, play groups, novelty, and surprise. Explanation of how to incorporate these play modalities into clinical practice will be explored through experiential exercises with the audience.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify the components of play.
2. Participants will be able to identify five play types.
3. Participants will be able to identify three therapeutic benefits of play.

1 Continuing Education Hour

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Cost:
Members - $25
Student or Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35