Education

Virtual Events 2025

SSWLHC has been offering virtual CE Webinars all fall,  including free registration for members. We are planning to continue to provide excellent virtual CE Webinars in 2025! There will be a very low registration cost for members, in addition to offering some free webinars.

Some of the topics we plan to cover in 2025 include: Young Adults; Ethics; Clinical Issues and;  Publishing, Grants and QI projects.

We always welcome your ideas for educational topics. Feel free to email us with your suggestions! info@sswlhc.org

SSWLHC is offering exceptional education in 2025, including those for CE credit!

Upcoming Events

Live 2025 Webinar CE Events

Presented by SSWLHC & BU The Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health

February 26, 2025

3:00 – 4:15 (EST)

1 CE  Provided by SSWLHC

THIS WEBINAR IS FREE TO ALL REGISTRANTS

Presenters: Mojeh Rohani and Luz Lopez

SSWLHC & The Center for Innovation in Social Work &  Health present:
“The Attack on Immigrant’s Rights”

Beyond 2025 Action Hub Series : Click here more information!

Join the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) at the BU School of Social Wok (BUSSW) for The Attack on Immigrants’ Rights, the third event in the Beyond 2025 Critical Conversation series. As immigration policies continue to shift, many individuals and families face increasing uncertainty. This session will provide critical insights into the legal and social challenges facing immigrant communities and equip attendees with practical strategies for advocacy and support.  
Mojdeh Rohani, executive director of the De Novo Center for Justice and Healing, and Prof. Luz M. López, CISWH director of global social work, will lead a discussion about legal fraud prevention, and essential resources and best practices for supporting individuals who are navigating complex immigration issues.  
Social workers and healthcare providers play a crucial role in supporting immigrant communities, and this session will highlight strategies for professional solidarity, advocacy, and self-care.

Register Here for February 26th.      

Explain the current policy environment and the proposals that would make significant changes to it

Apply knowledge of the proposed changes to preparing for real or potential impacts on clients, colleagues and one’s practice

Formulate a plan to engage in local action aimed at mitigating harm

3:00-3:05   Get settled in
3:05-3:10   Introductions
3:10-3:25   Presentation
3:25-3:40   Q&A
3:40-4:00   Moderated breakout session
4:00-4:10   Debrief
4:10-4:15   Wrap up

Mojeh Rohani and Luz Lopez

To receive the 1 ce from SSWLHC participants will need to attend the entire workshop and complete & submit the evaluation sent after the webinar. If you have a ny questions about this process, please email info@sswlhc.org

March 4th

6:00 – 7:15 pm (est) 

1 CE  Provided by SSWLHC

THIS WEBINAR IS FREE TO ALL REGISTRANTS

Presenters: Dr. Tami Gouveia & Meg Comeau

SSWLHC & The Center for Innovation in Social Work &  Health present:
“Beyond Project 2025: An Action Hub to Advance our Future”

Beyond 2025 Action Hub Series : Click here more information

Register Here for March 4th Free Webinar

Join the Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (CISWH) at the BU School of Social Wok (BUSSW):

The policies outlined in “Project 2025” and the “America First Agenda” pose significant challenges, particularly for marginalized communities. In response, CISWH launched the Beyond 2025 Action Hub—a dynamic initiative that includes a comprehensive database, strategic toolkit, and virtual discussion series designed to equip individuals and organizations with the tools to take meaningful action. 

Explain the current policy environment and the proposals that would make significant changes to it

Demonstrate the Beyond 2025 Database

Formulate a plan to engage in local action aimed at mitigating harm

3:00-3:05   Get settled in
3:05-3:40   Presentation
3:40-4:00   Moderated breakout session
4:00-4:10   Debrief
4:10-4:15   Wrap up

Dr. Tami Gouveia, CISWH director and Paul Farmer professor of practice, and Meg Comeau, CISWH senior project director

To receive the 1 ce from SSWLHC participants will need to attend the entire workshop and complete & submit the evaluation sent after the webinar. If you have a ny questions about this process, please email info@sswlhc.org

Presented by SSWLHC

Modeling Trauma Informed Care
April 16, 2025

12:00 – 1:00 (EST)
1CE

$25 for SSWLHC Members
$40 for non-SSWLHC  registrants

REIGSTER HERE!

Speakers: Erin Nielsen & Erin Hart-Rodriquez

Modeling Trauma Informed Care provides a comprehensive overview on what trauma is and how it can manifest itself into physical, mental and behavioral responses.  Attendees will review the prevalence of trauma and how to be attuned to its presence, be able to reframe problematic behaviors that can be the result of experiencing trauma, identify ways to incorporate trauma informed care into their practice.

The initial portion of the course reviews trauma concepts, prevalence and importance of incorporation into health care. We then reflect on frequency of ‘problematic behaviors’ that healthcare staff encounter and find challenging, tying into our social work foundation that is aware of countertransference. After discussing how problematic behaviors can be reframed, we reference a video clip that demonstrates missed-opportunities. This will prompt a group discussion that will encourage all participants to reflect upon their own problematic behavior triggers and how they can intervene when seeing their colleagues display their own countertransference. Before the session ends, participants will be asked to reflect upon the six principles of Trauma Informed Care and how they will implement them into their own work setting. 

Apply understanding of trauma to help identify its prevalence

Identify problematic behavior and demonstrate ways to reframe situations

Formulate a way to incorporate trauma informed principles into workplace practice

Erin Hart-Rodriguez, Carrie Chiapetta and I began rolling out a UCLA sponsored pilot training on trauma informed care to over 200 participants who work on the Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit in 2022. We have since been requested to convey this material to many different departments and audiences and are in conversations with leadership to establish system-wide education.

After serving two years in the Peace Corps as a Health Education Volunteer, Erin attended the University of Denver’s (DU) Graduate School of Social Work. This program included completing internships at a refugee resettlement agency and the cardiac ICU at UCHealth. After graduating from DU in 2015, Erin spent five years as an inpatient social worker for surgery patients, including Trauma and Acute Care Surgery patients with UCHealth. In 2020, Erin then transitioned into a position as the coordinator for the hospital-based violence intervention program (HVIP), called At-Risk Intervention and Mentoring (AIM) and Trauma Survivor Network (TSN). This mezzo social work position allows the opportunity to participate in many project management and process improvement initiatives both in the hospital and community settings.

1 – 20min – Review of trauma and its prevalence 

20 – 30 min – Responding to problematic behavior (countertransference)

30 – 40min – Reframing problematic behavior  

40 – 55min – Video clip and group discussion

55 – 60min – Ways to implement Trauma Awareness

For those wishing to receive the 1.0 CE for this live interactive webinar, they must be present for the entire webinar and complete the webinar evaluation, Submitting the evaluation will then allow us to send the CE certificate. If you have any questions about this process, please email us at info@sswlhc.org

SSWLHC is an ACE CE provider. We are very committed to upholding the excellent standards of the ACE program. 

If you would like to submit a CE Program Proposal to SSWLHC for consideration you can download the Proposal Form Here.SSWLHC CE Proposal Information
Size : 46.6 kB Format : PDF

SSWLHC has a long history of providing excellent educational opportunities for not only their members, but the community at large.  These recorded webinars are self-paced.
The On Demand webonars are FREE to members!!

Presenter: June Simmons

Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will be introduced to the current state of social work efforts to address the social determinants of health and mental health.
  • Participants will learn the importance of engaging community based organizations as partners in addressing the SDoH and mental health where patients live.
  • Participants will increase knowledge of current efforts underway to develop partnerships between CBO’s, Health Systems and Health Plans to improve patient health outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify ethical issues related to genomic screening in children.
  • Contrast the new genomics with the eugenics movement of the 20th century.
  • Understand the effect of penetrance and expressivity on the predictive value of genomic testing.
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Leadership Institute

The Leadership Institute is a unique offering of the Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare that brings social workers together to explore and enhance our power to lead change in healthcare settings.  The program targets experienced leaders, developing leaders, formal leaders and informal leaders.

Click here for more details.

Thank you to Preferra Insurance Company for the generous financial sponsorship of both of these SSWLHC  July live webinars. We are so grateful for your support of health social workers.