Nicole Sublette
This workshop explores how mental health professionals and social workers can fulfill their ethical duty to care for communities facing systemic oppression. Practice becomes revolutionary when it moves beyond survival to joy, liberation, and collective empowerment. Participants will learn to integrate joy, pleasure, and embodiment as acts of resistance, foster collective strength and life-affirming practices, and reframe resilience as thriving and radical care, moving beyond deficit-focused models. Drawing on Black feminist theory and culturally responsive frameworks, this session shows how providers can center human dignity, nurture liberation, and make ethics a lived practice that upholds the rights and humanity of marginalized communities.  

Michelle Jones
1 in 12 New Hampshire children will lose a parent or sibling by the age of 18. With this statistic in mind, the goal of this presentation is to equip social workers with practical, compassionate, and hands-on skills to support grieving children in the school setting. By focusing on the power of reflective listening, this training will help social workers foster safe spaces for grieving students and empower them to connect in meaningful ways. 

Alison Smith Mitchell, PhD, LICSW
GenerativeAI is firmly part of our collective operating environment now. The question is not if we incorporate genAI into Social Work practice as much as it is how we incorporate it ethically. Students at the undergraduate and graduate levels are learning the skills, qualities, and knowledge base of the Social Work profession in the context of AI. Are you ready to be their supervisor? During this seminar, we will consider NASW ethical standards that might guide use of AI in SW practice, and frameworks for decision-making. The session will include information about how genAI operates, and will provide hands-on opportunities to test several AI platforms. We will collectively evaluate the responses we generate from the perspective of a clinical supervisory role. The session ends with a series of questions meant to engage participants in reflexive practice, so participants can begin to formulate and articulate their stance on how to incorporate generative AI into Social Work practice.

Sara Dupont, LICSW, MLADC
Moral injury, and burnout are increasingly recognized challenges within high-stakes professions like social work, often leading to staff demoralization, retention issues, and diminished effectiveness (Haight et al., 2016; Reamer, 2022). Social workers are exposed to morally complex environments, and the failure to address issues of moral injury in both  practitioners can leave individuals struggling with guilt, shame, and hopelessness (Haight et al., 2016). Moreover, social work organizations have an ethical imperative to address burnout and professional impairment (National Association of Social Workers, 2021). This workshop will equip social work supervisors with the conceptual clarity and practical strategies necessary to understand and respond ethically to moral injury and burnout in themselves and their supervisees. A central focus will be on the supervisor's role in creating supportive, resilient, and ethically humble organizational environments (Losim et al., 2022).

Susan Lee Tohn
During this workshop, participants will learn how to utilize Solution Focused scaling to measure progress toward treatment goals. Different types of Solution Focused scaling determine when it is time to terminate or create new treatment goals. Participants will learn the 13 Solution Focused assumptions, which determine the content of therapy sessions and the language clinicians use to formulate questions and validations. Participants will leave this workshop energized and capable of integrating Solution Focused scaling immediately into their practice.

Ababa Abiem
A trauma-informed, culturally grounded workshop led by two social workers with lived and professional expertise. This workshop explores a brief history of South Sudan, an introduction to PTSD, and how trauma and immigration experiences can show up in U.S. nonprofit workplaces—particularly for South Sudanese professionals. Participants will learn trauma-informed strategies to support staff, strengthen cultural understanding, and build workplaces where resilience, belonging, and wellbeing come first.

Lisa Friedlander, LICSW
"Language lights the darkness of our inner worlds. Elements from NLP, Erickson hypnosis, motivational interviewing, narrative therapy, poetry, etc., used to finetune conversational choices--activate inner resources, enhance neural plasticity/stability, and broaden behavioral repertoire: The evolutionary neuroscientific gift of grammatical language.

Tanya Rouleau Whitworth, PhD
"This session will provide an overview of current research on sibling sexual abuse (SSA), including prevalence, demographic variation, and associated family dynamics. The range of possible sexual behaviors between siblings will be covered, from developmentally appropriate sexual exploration to clearly abusive behavior, with the goal of helping participants identify situations that need professional intervention. Research will be presented establishing that the negative impacts of SSA on child and adult well-being are similar to other types of child sexual abuse. This topic will be covered from the perspective of the harmed child, the child who caused harm, and the whole family, including other siblings and caregivers. Prevention and intervention strategies for SSA will be presented, including skills and information that can be communicated to parents. Guidance will be provided on when siblings need to live separately and when family reconnection or reunification can be considered."

Lucy Pilcher
 In a time marked by political tension, global uncertainty, and subsequent personal challenges, maintaining hope can feel increasingly difficult—for both social workers and the clients we serve. This workshop explores the impact of current stressors on emotional well-being and introduces practical, evidence-based tools to cultivate hope, resilience, optimism and joy. Drawing from Positive Psychology, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), participants will learn strategies to strengthen hope, foster meaning, and sustain compassion in their professional and personal lives.

Jude Currier, LICSW
 Divorce is always difficult on children, but never more than when their parents’ conflict becomes complicated by poor communication, lack of trust, escalating litigation and the creation of loyalty struggles. Mental health clinicians working with these families are often poorly prepared for the shifting effects that this conflict has on children, and the complex parent-child relationship issues that form as a result. Clinicians can easily and unwittingly become involved in this dynamic such that they become siloed by one side or the other, distracting them from the needs of their client. This training will introduce social workers to the world of parent-child contact problems, alienating behavior, resist-refuse dynamic the role of the voice of the child and will better prepare them to be of service to children and families struggling in high-conflict divorce situations