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 now offering CE Webinars for FREE to members this spring!
We have also reduced the registration fee for non-members to $25! We welcome all social workers to take advantage of our excellent CE webinars.
SSWLHC understands this is a challenging time for health social workers. We want to remain your primary organization for continuing education, therefore are offering the webinars this spring at no cost to members.
Live 2025 Webinar CE Events
Presented by SSWLHC: Free for Members!
Emotional preparedness strategies to facilitate social worker wellbeing
March 24, 2025
Presenters: Derrick Kranke, PhD, and Jerry Floersch, PhD
1:00 – 2:00 (EST)
1CE
REIGSTER HERE!
Over 700,000 health care providers left their profession in the US between 2021-2022, likely in part due to burnout. Burnout affects an entire organization, as it can lead to: 1) higher workforce turnover; 2) workforce expenditures; 3) feelings of burnout among those employees that remain since staff shortages equate to higher caseloads; 4) clients’ disruption and lower quality of care. Social work often requires high levels of empathy and compassion to facilitate client and provider wellbeing. Therefore, this webinar will provide emotional preparedness strategies that show evidence in facilitating provider wellbeing.
- To inform attendees about an intervention that shows evidence in facilitating social worker wellbeing during catastrophic times
- To make attendees feel more comfortable with applying the intervention in their everyday work
Derrick Kranke, PhD, and Jerry Floersch, PhD
Agenda:
Topic 1-Describe how the pandemic and postpandemic are creating so much more than what we know as burnout
Topic 2-Shortcomings of previous burnout reduction interventions
Topic 3-Introducing emotional preparedness strategies and their impact among social workers
Topic 4-Practicing applying the strategies
Topic 5-Implications of utilizing the strategies beyond the work setting
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
Modeling Trauma Informed Care
April 16, 2025
12:00 – 1:00 (EST)
1CE
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 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.
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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.