Getting subpoenaed is never easy, but you do need to be prepared. Join NASW VT and Laura Savall, Esq to identify your first steps - what you should do and not do. We will also review good documentation to ensure you are ready for (most) anything.

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.