Re-emergence: A New Path for Social Work

Our workshop tracks will cover Micro/Mezzo in Children, Youth, and Families; Micro/Mezzo in Health and Aging; Micro/Mezzo in Anti-Violence & Crisis Intervention; Micro/Mezzo in Clinical Social Work; Macro Practice in Policy & Advocacy; and Macro Practice in Leadership and Program Management.

September 20-23, 2023
Hotel Captain Cook in Anchorage

"Alaskan Social Workers: Strengthening Roots Through Connection"
Earn up to 24 CEUs

Learn more and register for the NASW-AK 2023 Biennial Conference

Join us on April 29 to to learn how social workers can use trauma-informed care to identify, reduce, and mitigate potentially traumatic events in the ICU and strategies to transition patients and their families into step-down units across hospital settings and prepare them for discharge.

Moving beyond introductory ethics concepts, Frederic Reamer, Ph.D. will explore difficult ethics cases and practical strategies designed to protect clients and practitioners. The webinar will include a series of challenging ethics cases involving conflicting professional duties and discuss practical steps that social workers can take to manage ethical issues skillfully and prevent lawsuits and licensing board complaints.

In this training you will: a) understand the skills involved in respecting consent b) learn the developmental connections between childhood empathy and adult actions c) learn brain science findings on empathy and the optimal developmental window to acquire it d) learn about primary prevention strategies beginning in early childhood to prevent child sexual abuse and perpetration.