Education
Fall Virtual Events 2024 in place of in-person conference
SSWLHC is currently considering exciting options for a virtual educational event in place of an in-person conference for 2024. While we value the opportunity to come together and learn together in person, we have also heard the feedback from our members that they enjoy a balance of virtual and live trainings and events. We are also aware of the financial costs of attending live trainings where travel is involved and strive to provide cost-effective events that offer exceptional educational value. Stay tuned for more information at the end of summer regarding our fall virtual events!
July 2024
SSWLHC is offering a total of 6.5 FREE ce's this fall for Members!!!
Live 2024 Webinar CE Events
Registration links are below. If you have any questions about the webinar or registration process, please email info@sswlhc.org. Registrations close the day before the event. If you are requesting CE credit, you will need to complete the evaluation sent to you after the event. If you need a refund on a program, please email info@sswlhc.org. SSWLHC is not responsible for the content of the programs, other than assuring it meets the ACE standards for CE credit.
Live CE Webinar (1CE)
Nov. 14th, 2024
1:00 – 2:00 pm (est)
“Promoting Sexual Health Knowledge and Comfort”
Free for SSWLHC Members
Please join us on Nov. 14th for a LIVE Webinar, approved for 1 CE.
Description: Many hospitals are improving their assessments of patients’ sexual health, particularly regarding distress. However, research highlights significant gaps in care for women and BIPOC communities. As social workers, we must raise awareness of oppression and diverse sexual health issues. Our commitment is to ensure access to vital information, services, and resources for all, while equipping ourselves to provide effective support. Everyone deserves access to healthy sexual health experiences. A major barrier to effective care is the lack of training for clinicians in assessing and discussing sexual health. A key goal of our webinar is to promote comfort in discussing this often-taboo topic and to enhance overall knowledge.
Presenter: Kayla Ratcliff, MSW
Agenda:
1:00 – 1:15 Defining sexual health
1:15 – 1:25 Social work relevance
1:25 – 1:35 Treatments & Side Effects
1:35 – 1:50 Cultural, Social and Individual Bias Health Disparities
1:50 – 2:00 Implications Assessment and Interventions
Kayla Ratcliff is a dedicated Social Worker with over two years of specialized experience in oncology. Currently serving as an inpatient social worker on a cancer medicine service, Kayla provides essential psychosocial support, discharge planning, and collaborates within a multidisciplinary team. Her work focuses on addressing areas such as distress and sexual health, with an emphasis on improving the assessment and management of these needs in medical settings.
Kayla’s passion for education and research drives her continuous pursuit of knowledge on topics impacting her field. In her current role, she has been instrumental in precepting and onboarding new staff members, reflecting her commitment to mentorship and professional development. Recently, Kayla transitioned from the gynecology oncology service to the general cancer medicine service, expanding her expertise.
With a diverse background including child welfare, partial hospitalization, residential treatment for children, pediatric primary care, and group home settings, Kayla brings a wealth of experience to her practice. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Work (MSW) from the Ohio State University, where she was an ASAP candidate, and is a Licensed Independent Social Worker with a supervisory designation. Kayla initially earned her social work license in 2013 upon completing her BSW at Ohio Dominican University.
Kayla’s dedication to advancing her field through continuous learning and committed service underscores her impact on both her patients and colleagues.
To enhance knowledge on human sexual well-being and expand social work assessment skills as it pertains to sexual health issues.
To prepare social workers to recognize and identify individual and cultural biases and stigmas as it relates to sexual health perceptions, education and intervention.
To provide psycho-education to promote comfort in facilitating conversations around sexual health and expand sexual health knowledge base.
Live CE Webinar (1CE)
Oct. 22, 2024
1:00 – 2:00 pm (est)
“Introduction to Human Trafficking”
FREE for Members and Non-Members!
1 CE is available
Please join us on October 22nd for a LIVE Webinar, approved for 1 CE.
Presented by Dr. Joy Lo
Description:
Identify individuals who may be at risk for or experiencing human trafficking
Employ trauma-informed practices to engage victims/survivors of human trafficking
Identify and take concrete steps to best serve victims/survivors of human trafficking with a multi-disciplinary approach
Dr. Lo is the Child and Family Program manager, a mentor, and a crisis responder for Reclaim13, an organization that serves child, youth, and young adult survivors of sexual abuse, exploitation, and trafficking. She performs sexual abuse forensic exams at the Care Center at Edward Hospital in Naperville, IL. Dr. Lo serves as the chair of the child trafficking task force with the IL chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Cook County Human Trafficking Task Force, the Human Trafficking Commission of the Christian Medical Dental Association, and HEAL trafficking’s protocol team on minors.
Dr. Lo has worked for over 20 years as a general pediatrician. She is a graduate from the George Washington University School of Medicine, and she completed her pediatric residency at Children’s National Medical Center. She obtained her Master’s in Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
- Identify individuals who may be at risk for or experiencing human trafficking
- Employ trauma-informed practices to engage victims/survivors of human trafficking
- Identify and take concrete steps to best serve victims/survivors of human trafficking with a multi-disciplinary approach
The Society of Social Work leadership in healthcare [2143], is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/16/24 – 9/16/25. Social workers completing this 1 continuing education credit.
Free for SSWLHC Members
Live 2-Hour CE Webinar (2 CE’s)
Oct. 29, 2024
12:00 – 2:00 pm (est)
“Engagement as an Active Member of an Interdisciplinary Team”
Please join us on October 29th for a LIVE Webinar, approved for 2 CE’s.
Presented by Jeanette Foster & Audrey Knaff
Description:
Following the disruptions of COVID and workforce turnover, there was an opportunity and need to revisit the professional social worker’s role as an active member of the Inter-disciplinary team. We will explore where work overlaps, what it means to have ethical teamwork, how we engage and educate teams and families while doing our work, and navigating the variety of perspectives of the inter-disciplinary team. Finally we will discuss how we gather information, clarify goals, and triage our work. It is an essential skill that clinical medical social workers engage and integrate well in their multi-disciplinary teams to advance the very best for families and teams.
- Discuss what it means to be part of a team
- Describe the process for engagement and education while working
- Discuss how we gather pertinent information and clarify goals
The Society of Social Work leadership in healthcare [2143], is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/16/24 – 9/16/25. Social workers completing this 2 continuing education credits.
8:30-8:45 Welcome, orientation to Objectives & Discussion on What it means to be part of a Team
8:45-9:00 Hierarchies & Other Disciplines
9:00-9:30 Engagement & Education while doing the work of the profession
9:30-9:45 Gathering pertinent information and clarifying goals with the team
9:45-10:00 Triaging processes with the team & practice
10:00-10:30 Wrap up & tie objectives together with focus on Sharing Perspectives & Language & Navigating Conflicts
Live 1.5-Hour CE Webinar (1.5 CE’s)
Dec. 9th, 2024
12:00 – 2:00 pm (est)
“Social Work Burnout in this Novel Era: Where do we go from Here?”
Please join us on December 9th for a LIVE Webinar, approved for 1.5 CE’s.
Presented by Derrick Kranke, PhD & Bridget Kranke, MSW, LSW
Description:
This course will raise awareness among social workers about burnout experienced in this postpandemic era. Presenters will utilize a combination of learning modalities, including case studies, small and large group discussion, and shared findings from the nearly 20 articles they have published since the start of the pandemic. This course will also inform attendees about how they can approach burnout moving forward.
One such approach is to reframe how the term ‘burnout’ is negatively loaded. It is the intention of this webinar to lessen the weight of the manner in which burnout is framed, and reframe it in such a way that it is more neutral. Many present and future social workers perceive burnout as an end-all to the profession. If the profession wants to retain present and future social workers, burnout must be reframed so that people recognize that people can and do recover from burnout. The focus of burnout has been on what’s lost, but there is much that can be gained from burnout, and this class strives to illustrate how that occurs.
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Learners will identify the novel aspects of burnout during this postpandemic era
- Learners will recognize nuanced approaches to addressing the novel aspects of burnout
- Learners will develop a plan to counter feelings of burnout as they move forward
The Society of Social Work leadership in healthcare [2143], is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/16/24 – 9/16/25. Social workers completing this 2 continuing education credit1.5
Agenda:
Activity 1: introduction (5 minutes)
Activity 2: Comparing burnout pre-pandemic and postpandemic (10 minutes)
Activity 3: Deficits with the current approaches to burnout (15 minutes)
Activity 4: Our current body of work that examines postpandemic burnout (15 minutes)
Activity 5: Nuanced approaches to burnout (30 minutes)
Activity 6: How these approaches can be implemented in practice, research and education (15 minutes)
Derrick is a qualitative researcher and social work educator. Since the start of the pandemic, he has published nearly 20 articles about burnout, and presented at national social work and public health conferences. He earned his PhD in Social Welfare from Case Western Reserve University.
Bridget is.a social work researcher, and co-authored multiple articles on social worker burnout with Dr. Kranke. She earned her MSW from Case Western Reserve University.
On Demand Recorded Webinars
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.
SSWLHC is now an ACE CE provider. We are very excited to uphold 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.