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External Course Connecting IRL? Cringe! Developing Effective Group Counseling for (Reluctant) Gen Z Clients

Josh Klapperick 0 74
As a counselor working with teens and young adults, when you attempt to propose group counseling to your clients, are you met with “Tell all my problems to strangers? IRL (in real life)? Ew! No! Cringe!” If so, attend this session to hear research on generational differences of Gen Z clients, who may express visceral opposition to the idea of group counseling. Learn strategies for overcoming these objections from a presenter who runs well-attended, effective IRL groups at a university.
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Confident, Curious, and Accountable: Supervising Emerging Social Workers

Josh Klapperick 0 94
This workshop is designed to help supervisors support students and early-career social workers in developing both confidence in their emerging knowledge and comfort with situations in which the answer is not yet clear. Supervisors will consider how to teach that tolerating uncertainty, seeking consultation, and reconsidering assumptions are important professional skills rather than signs of incompetence. The workshop will examine how cultural and professional humility can be modeled and reinforced through openness to feedback, awareness of power, recognition of professional limits, and a commitment to continued learning.
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Specialty Practice Sections Webinar: A Social Work Perspective on the Foster Care-to-Trafficking Pipeline

Rochelle Wilder 0 326

Wednesday,  October 7, 2026 (1 – 2:30 pm ET)

Presenter:  Adam McCormick, PhD, MSSW

CEs:  1.5 Social Work contact hours

Youth in foster care face disproportionately high rates of trafficking vulnerability due to experiences of trauma, placement instability, homelessness, congregate care placement, and disrupted attachment. This workshop explores how systemic failures within child welfare can unintentionally create pathways into exploitation, with a particular focus on the heightened risks faced by LGBTQ+ youth. Drawing from qualitative research with foster care alumni and survivors of trafficking, participants will examine how rejection, disconnection, institutionalization, and unmet belonging needs increase vulnerability while identifying trauma-informed and affirming strategies that promote safety, permanency, and healing.

 Objectives:

  • Examine how trauma, placement instability, congregate care, and disrupted attachment contribute to trafficking vulnerability among youth in foster care, particularly LGBTQ+ youth.
  • Apply trauma-informed and affirming social work practices that strengthen safety, belonging, permanency, and protective factors for youth involved in child welfare systems.
  • Evaluate social work policy and practice strategies aimed at reducing reliance on congregate care and disrupting pathways from foster care to exploitation, homelessness, and criminalization.

Cost: SPS Members: Free / Non-SPS NASW Members: $25 / Non-NASW Member: $40

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