Join the New Jersey chapter for a two-day conversation exploring the Future of Social Work. Engaging key note speakers and workshops will provide attendees an opportunity to learn about and discuss not only the changing face of our profession, but how to best to prepare ourselves and our clients to participate in a world where change is happening exponentially.

6-8 p.m.

Mental-Hop is a symposium style workshop that takes Social Workers and Change Agents on a journey to better understand how Mental-Health & Hip-Hop can be utilized together to positively impact the lives of those we serve.

Noon-2 p.m.

This webinar will address complex ethical, malpractice, and risk-management issues pertaining to documentation of services and critical incidents in social work settings.

Noon-2 p.m.

Social workers sometimes witness, perpetrate, or fail to prevent acts that violate their deeply held beliefs. The harm that they experience is referred to as moral distress or injury. In this webinar, Frederic Reamer discusses moral distress, injury, and demoralization; the symptoms that can manifest; prevention, self-care, and resilience; legal and ethical obligations, including what it means to be a whistleblower; and how to develop moral courage to advocate for organizational and policy changes to prevent harm.

6-8 p.m.

This webinar will explore cutting-edge ethical issues arising out of social workers' growing use of digital technology, electronic interventions, and online social media to deliver services, communicate with clients, and search online for information about clients. The workshop will focus on key ethical challenges related to privacy, confidentiality, privileged communication, informed consent, boundaries, and nontraditional interventions, among others.