ExpiredMandated Reporting, Humility with Diverse Populations and Ethics Seminar 10-19-20 (Live Webinar)

Class 1 – 10:00am 1:00pm

Ethics of being a Mandated Reporter: When Personal and Professional Ethics Collide (3 CE Credits – Ethics) 

As professionals, parents, friends, and relatives we embrace and protect our children. Yet when does community intervention cease to be enough? When does the duty to protect require the intervention of the government? What happens when you don’t trust that the government will intervene in the most ethical wholistic way? What are my obligations as a citizen and a professional?

This interactive training will help participants determine their obligation to the child while struggling with their own biases and feelings. This training will help mandated reporters address their own internal conflicts so that they might act to protect children and promote safety in accordance with local (DC, MD, VA) laws and regulations. Participants will learn how to distinguish between their legal, ethical, and personal obligations as a mandated reporter. Myths and realities of being a mandated reporter and of the child welfare system will be discussed. Participants will develop a clear knowledge base so that they can make informed decisions and understand their rights, roles, and responsibilities as a mandated reporter.

(Trainer, Christian Greene, LICSW, has practiced in child welfare since 2005. She is the former Child Welfare Ombudsman for the District of Columbia)

Class 2 – 1:45 – 4:45

Ethics: Choosing Humility in Work with Diverse Populations

(3 CE Credits – Ethics)

The NASW Code of Ethics has been amended with the expectation that social workers engage in the continuous pursuit of knowledge to effectively engage diversity and difference in practice. All too often we as practitioners assume heterogeneity when working with others and unconsciously default to a position of ethnocentrism. Cultural competence is a vital but sometimes ignored element in the delivery of services to consumers of social work services. Further, our competence as practitioners depends on habits of the mind, including attentiveness, critical curiosity, self-awareness and presence. It is often easier to require practitioners to be competent than to define what competence means.

This training will promote ethical practice by facilitating practitioners to more readily and efficiently recognize, respect and engage diversity and difference in practice for the benefit of the consumer. Training attendees will become familiarized with the NASW Code of Ethics requirements for Cultural Awareness and Social Diversity. Attendees will have the opportunity to develop their diversity lens thru an interactive discussion and experiential learning activities that promote cultural literacy of the various factors of diversity and how they impact service delivery.

(Trainer, Keisha Atlee, LCSW-C, Field Liaison, Morgan State University, Facilitator, Empowering Minds Resource Center, Program Director, Pressley Ridge)

CE You LLC #1573 is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CE You LLC maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period 3/27/20 – 3/27/21. Social workers completing this course receive 3 continuing education credits.

To Register for this class, please complete the online registration process. A confirmation will be emailed to you shortly after you register – (please check your spam/junk email folder) – If you do not receive this email within 1 hour of registration, please email us at support@ceyouplus.org. For any additional concerns or special accommodations, please email us at support@ceyouplus.org . Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

This Webinar is open to:

• Social Workers
• Professional Counselors
• Therapists
• Psychologists
• Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
• Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services

 
and is beneficial for:

• New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
• Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
• Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
• Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives