Healing (Trauma) Informed Care (HIC) is an important evidence-based best practice model for social workers & other direct care professionals to understand. Research in neuropsychology, adverse childhood experiences, resiliency, epigenetics, and other disciplines help us understand how we are affected by stress and trauma. This workshop provides practical approaches in response to triggered/activated clients.

Ethical Care requires Self Care per NASW Code of Ethics Amendments in 2021. This workshop will provide a Trauma (Healing) Informed lens to deal with the very real struggles of being a social worker or direct care professional. Content will include the effects of stress, trauma, secondary trauma, burnout, and compassion fatigue, on professionals and program participants. We professionals need to care well for ourselves so that we can care well for others.

One License, Many Doors: The Social Work Compact. Dr. Karen Goodenough has been involved with the Social Work Interstate Compact since its very beginning, serving on the Document Writing Team for the legislation, and now as the NASW representative to the Compact Commission.