Grief and bereavement are complex experiences that evolve across childhood development, affecting each in diverse ways. This presentation will explore the fundamental processes of grief, mourning, and bereavement, clarifying key definitions and their implications as it relates to children and teens. Beyond death-related losses, a range of life experiences that trigger grief, including relational, and identity-based losses, will also be examined. Additionally, the profound impact of loss on mental health, exploring how it can contribute to or exacerbate psychological distress, physical sequela, and behavioral manifestations, will be analyzed. By gaining a deeper understanding of these dynamics, attendees will be better equipped to support individuals navigating loss in both clinical and everyday settings.

This course offers a trauma and social justice-informed framework for providers to learn about "invisible disability," ableism in healthcare and its impact, how life-altering chronic conditions can be traumatizing and re-traumatizing (even if the DSM doesn't agree), and a unique utilization of evidenced based modalities to restore the mind body relationship.

This milestone event, held at the beautiful WVSOM Conference Center in historic Lewisburg and online, will bring together social work professionals, health and human services providers, and community leaders to explore the unique challenges and innovative solutions impacting rural communities. The theme for this year’s conference, "Celebrating Our Roots, Forging Our Future: Resilience & Renewal in Rural Social Work," reflects the enduring strength and transformative potential of rural communities. 

This milestone event, held at the beautiful WVSOM Conference Center in historic Lewisburg and online, will bring together social work professionals, health and human services providers, and community leaders to explore the unique challenges and innovative solutions impacting rural communities. The theme for this year’s conference, "Celebrating Our Roots, Forging Our Future: Resilience & Renewal in Rural Social Work," reflects the enduring strength and transformative potential of rural communities. 

This milestone event, held at the beautiful WVSOM Conference Center in historic Lewisburg and online, will bring together social work professionals, health and human services providers, and community leaders to explore the unique challenges and innovative solutions impacting rural communities. The theme for this year’s conference, "Celebrating Our Roots, Forging Our Future: Resilience & Renewal in Rural Social Work," reflects the enduring strength and transformative potential of rural communities. 

Join NASW-Michigan and Exhale Pro-Voice as they partner to offer post-abortion emotional support training to clinical social workers.

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.

This milestone event, held at the beautiful WVSOM Conference Center in historic Lewisburg and online, will bring together social work professionals, health and human services providers, and community leaders to explore the unique challenges and innovative solutions impacting rural communities. The theme for this year’s conference, "Celebrating Our Roots, Forging Our Future: Resilience & Renewal in Rural Social Work," reflects the enduring strength and transformative potential of rural communities. 

Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) is a therapeutic approach that helps individuals and couples understand how past experiences shape their relational patterns. Explore how social workers can integrate Imago principles into practice, fostering healthier relationships, conflict resolution, and emotional attunement in their work with clients.

Current research indicates the most important factor in positive clinical outcomes for clients is the characteristics of the clinician themselves, rather than treatment modality used. This 3-hour program will provide to attendees the most current research in neuroscience to update and expand long-held and relied upon theories about how to develop and optimize the use of the self in treatment for optimal treatment outcomes, to include self-management and self-regulation in practice.

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.