1.5 Macro Social Work Credits

Welcome & Introduction

Mildred “Mit” Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW
President
National Association of Social Workers
Professor Emerita
West Chester University

PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT
Raffaele Vitelli, CAE
Vice President, Professional Education and Product Development
National Association of Social Workers

Opening Plenary: COVID19 and Systemic Racism: A Life Course Model for Reexamining the Role of Social Work

Karen Bullock, PhD, LCSW
Professor, Department Chair
Department of Social Work
North Carolina State University

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of individuals, families and communities, globally. However, some have been more adversely impacted than others due to legal, social and economic inequities woven into the fabric of our society. In the United States, specifically, the intergenerational trauma, poverty, environmental toxins, and the lack of access to healthcare, affordable housing, education and jobs, which Black and Brown people experience have fomented conditions that left entire communities vulnerable to a deadly virus called racism. There was no prescription for treating these preexisting conditions. Moreover, the combination of COVID19 and racism has become a catalyst in contemporary reactions to an age-old problem. The direct and indirect consequences must be addressed throughout social work practice, education, research and scholarship. As the largest discipline of mental health providers in the U.S., we have an ethical duty and obligation to take up this social justice charge. 

1.5 Social Work Credits

Presenter:

Troy Brindle, MSW, LCSW, DCH
Senior Vice-President/Chief Operating Officer
ACCESS Services

The healthcare delivery system is rapidly changing and with it brings opportunities to improve overall population health, coordinate care between physical health and behavioral health providers, and decrease total medical spend by improving whole person health. A key tenet of health-care reform is integrating behavioral health services within primary care settings.  This session will look at unfolding trends based on a leading national provider. 

1.5 Ethics Credits

Presenters:

Yvonne Chase, PhD., LCSW, ACSW
Elizabeth Cauble, PhD., MSW
Dina Larsen, CHPRM
Richard Jones, PhD

Through these 90 minutes, we will discuss the Social Work practice in three eras; the old normal, the COVID era, and the new normal. After this session, social workers can identify the differences in providing services during each period and what they should modify to comply with Social Work Ethics, State Licensure Board Regulations, local mandates, and HIPAA regulations.

The Conversation with Wade Davis keynote presentation is not available for viewing at this time.

1.5 Continuing Education Credits

Wade Davis
Vice President
Inclusion Strategy for Product
Netflix

1.5 Cross Cultural Credits

Presenter:

Brandy Brown, MSW, LCSW
Program Manager, Gender Clinic Program
Maine Medical Partners/The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital

Social workers have the ability to lead change efforts for transgender people at all practice levels.  This presentation will review assessment of healthcare needs that transgender people face, specific disparities that youth experience, change models used in effecting systemic change, and a call to action for social workers to increase their education and competency and to engage their systems of care in order to ensure transgender people, as a vulnerable population, receive equitable care.

1.5 Clinical Credits

Presenters:

Nicole A. Klein, LISW-S
Clinical Social Worker
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Anne Eason, LCSW, LISW-S
Clinical Social Worker
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

Veterans who experience Military Sexual Trauma begin a lifetime of isolation and secrecy immediately after the trauma.  With no one to tell and nowhere to turn for help, these Veterans have lived alone with their trauma, often for decades.  Learn how Courage Groups promote healing through shared suffering as men and women tell their trauma stories to one another and experience the support of a safe and caring group.  The most important thing they learn:  They are not alone!

1.5 Clinical Credits

Presenters:

Roberta Greene, PhD, MSW
Professor Emerita
University of Texas, Austin

Nancy A. Greene, DSW, MA, MSW
Assistant Professor, Social Work
Norfolk State University

Nicole M. Dubus, PhD, LCSW
Associate Professor, Social Work
San José State University

This symposium calls for a shift in paradigm, exploring the rational for augmenting geriatric social work with a resilience-enhancing stress model (RESM) for practice with older adults and their families. The panelists will discuss the RESM theory base founded on traditional ecological-systems frameworks and supplemented by the concepts of risk and resilience and a narrative methodological base. Practice examples are provided.

Angelo McClain, PhD, LICSW
Chief Executive Officer
National Association of Social Workers