Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Workforce Development: Lessons Learned in a Faith Based Agency
Eric Saunders, MSW, LCSW,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Poverty levels continue to rise. Families grow more dependent on public assistance. Low income families continue to struggle between low wage jobs and the high cost of living. What if there were quick, affordable, and common sense strategies to rapidly move low-income families out of poverty and into self sufficiency? Come learn and share!

As social workers we see the profound effects of poverty and the pain low income people face in providing for their family's needs. Here's the interesting part. There are a number of industries with huge numbers of entry level openings that require limited training and start paying their employees a living wage with benefits. By doing some basic research on your community, learning about job openings, and creating some strategic partnerships with existing training programs, a workforce development program is in reach of any human service agency, collaboration of local churches, or local government.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Faith, Stewardship, and Wealth Creation: Envisioning a Role for Churches in Asset Building Initiatives
Trina Shanks, PhD,
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     In the past 25 years, families that are the most economically secure have prospered greatly while the poorest families have struggled. This means that most families have a place to live and meet their basic necessities, but have little to show for years of work and won't have enough to support themselves adequately in retirement. This reality is even starker when we consider race and ethnicity.

Given that churches and places of worship have regular interaction with much of the population and are often the most trusted institutions in local communities, they are in a unique positon to reverse these trends and actively influence wealth creation. This presentation describes three ways that churches can help improve the financial capability and status of members and help create shared prosperity: a) financial education providing workshops and support for congregants and the local community to help them reach financial goals and reduce debt; b) entrepreneurship which can entail offering training, promotion and support for individual businesses as well as the creation of cooperative and church-affiliated businesses; c) sponsoring or promoting Individual Development Accounts and other asset building efforts.

Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:3.0
The Three Currencies of Shalom Communities: Respect, Opportunity and Beauty
Jonathan Bradford, MSW, John Carman, MSW, and Susan Ortiz, MA,
[Price: $ 45.00]
[Member Price: $ 36]
     Building communities of shalom requires a humble commitment to the hard work of transforming the brokenness of community structures, practices, laws and human behavior. In that "the earth is the Lord's and everything in it," we must work to see God's reconciling grace make all things new. This workshop will define strategies through which urban revitalization and adult learning and empowerment services can be successfully merged to yield thriving communities and broader life achievement for all its residents.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Ethical Integration of Christian Faith into Counseling Veterans
Laurel Shaler, PhD, LCSW, LISW-CP,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Clients receiving clinical services through the Department of Veterans Affairs do not leave their faith at the door simply because they are receiving treatment at a federal facility. Therefore, clinicians need to be well-versed in how to ethically integrate the faith of the client into treatment. The focus of this presentation will be on the integration of the Christian faith.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Ethical Decision-Making, Common Morality, and Christian Social Workers
Scott Sanders, PhD,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     The ability to apply an ethical decision-making framework to ethical issues is considered an essential practice behavior associated with the values and ethics competency. The need for enhanced ethical decision-making is as great as it's ever been. Christian social workers may unintentionally be guilty of dismissing this in lieu of a worldview that stresses dependence on the Holy Spirit to guide decision-making. Such a perspective may at the least be naive, and at the worst be morally arrogant. This workshop presents a framework consistent with a Christian worldview that will enhance the ethical decision-making process for a Christian in social work.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Balancing the Needs of Both the Parent and Child in Mental Health Treatment
Amy Biegel, MSW, LCSW,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Family systems theory is the foundation of social work with a family system. However, social workers often find it difficult to manage the needs, attention and rapport of both the child/adolescent unit and the parental unit. This training focuses on identifying the necessity of striking that balance as well as provides useful strategies for doing so. It shares ideas for building rapport with the entire family, and for serving a variety of needs of family members, including mental health needs, socioeconomic needs, spiritual needs and confidentiality needs.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Providing Spiritually Sensitive Supervision for Social Workers and other Metal Health Professionals
Christine E. Buckingham, PhD, LCPC, NCC,
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     Providing supervision, whether clinical supervision for entry level unlicensed mental health professionals or professional supervision to licensed experienced social workers, is an opportunity to aid the sensitivity of the supervisee toward the client's spirituality. Spiritually sensitive supervision encompasses a view of self, others, the work, and the world. This workshop will address spiritually sensitive supervision by looking at the spiritual position of the supervisor and supervisee, the content of supervision and the context for supervision.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Community Collaborations: How They Can Be Used to Help Alleviate Poverty
Rhonda Hudson, PhD, and Mary Anne Poe, MSSW, MDiv, LAPSW,
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     This training highlights the formation of, strategies employed, challenges faced, and lessons learned of how community collaborations, borne of hearts hungry to "do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly with God" (Micah 6:8), were formed to alleviate poverty at micro, mezzo and macro levels in a southwestern TN community. We will share how and why the community collaborations were started and maintained, the methods employed, challenges faced, and examples of current programs shared.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Strength Based Practice: A New Way to Think About Addiction Counseling
Katti Sneed, PhD, MSW,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     The strengths based perspective has been widely recognized and utilized with many different client populations. However, within the chemical dependency arena traditional forms of treatment still dominate. A strengths based approach is a significant departure from traditional substance abuse counseling approaches. Yet research supports its benefits and a merger between traditional and strengths based treatment is possible. This session will present a range of practical applications for integrating a strengths based perspective with current micro, mezzo, and macro practice approaches for individuals experiencing substance abuse issues.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Seeking the Shalom of New Orleans: 47 Years of Urban Community Building
Kevin Brown, MSW, LCSW,
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     Jeremiah 29:7 calls God's people to "Seek the Shalom of the City." Since 1967, Trinity Christian Community has been doing this by building community in New Orleans. In 2005 this work took on a powerful new direction in the post-Katrina aftermath. Focusing on one at-risk community, the Hollygrove Neighborhood, amazing best practices emerged in a highly unlikely context. This award-winning community has seen a remarkable transformation, especially since 2005.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Pursuing Shalom: Serving Our Neighbors Locally and Globally
Lisa Sharon Harper, MA (Human Rights),
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     Grounded in Genesis 1 and manifest in Matthew 25:31-end, this session explores the biblical concept of shalom and its implications for the social worker and the Christian as we engage the world with justice and compassion. Lisa Sharon Harper connects the biblical text with the challenges encountered by social workers on a daily basis: hunger, thirst, sickness, immigration, prison, and abject poverty. This presentation explores the implications of the call to "righteousness" on local and global engagement with those Jesus calls the "least of these."
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Anticipated and Unanticipated Life Transitions
Sandra Bauer, Ph. D., and Leslie Gregory, LSW and MSW, LSW,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Change is an inevitable part of life. There are numerous theories concerning lifespan development that are foundational to social work practice to help guide practitioners serving clients. Adults, in particular, face numerous anticipated and unanticipated life transitions not fully addressed within many HBSE stage theories. This workshop will explore the non-linear nature of lifespan development through the use of various case examples drawn from a church and clinical setting. The vital role that faith practices can play in alleviating the stress associated with life transitions is considered.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Building Resilient Professionals & Organizations: Christian Principles & Workforce Development
Gary Anderson, PHD, MSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This presentation synthesizes research on resiliency and on leadership and applies this knowledge to individual social workers and human service organizations. Principles of positive workforce development and Christianity will be examined with applications for social work leaders, practitioners and educators. The goal is caring, effective and ethical professionals working in caring, effective and ethical organizations.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
All Things New: Neo-Calvinist Groundings for Social Work
Jim Vanderwoerd, PhD,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     "There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain... See, I am making all things new." This vision from Revelation 21 - perhaps the most comforting words a Christian in social work will ever hear - provides a beacon of hope in the face of despair. This lecture will ground this hopeful vision in Reformed Christianity, specifically within the neo-Calvinist tradition, and highlight contributions of this tradition to social work and social welfare.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Working Together to Promote Spiritual and Religious Competency in the Profession
Darla Spence Coffey, PhD, MSW, Angelo McClain, PhD, Michael Sheridan, PhD., MSW, and Rick Chamiec-Case, Ph.D, MSW, MAR,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Leaders of four major professional social work associations, NASW, CSWE, NACSW, and the Society for Spirituality and Social Work, discuss ways that each of their associations work to equip their members to provide services that are sensitive to and respectful of the religious and spiritual beliefs and values of their clients. This included addressing questions such as: a) Is religiosity and spirituality a natural fit for social workers? If so, what do our associations do to highlight and encourage this fit?; b) What do our organizations do to support the development of knowledge, values, and skills in the area of spirituality?; c) What changes have our organizations seen in the evolution of attention to religion and spirituality in social work, and what key issues appear on the horizon?



The workshop concludes with a discussion about the ways these four associations could work together more fully to support spiritual and religious humility, sensitivity, and competency in the social work profession.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Developing an Empowering Model of Refugee Resettlement
Elizabeth Patterson Roe, PhD, MSW, LISW-S,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Christians in social work are called to welcome the foreigner who resides among us. Our social work skills can guide us with how to empower some of our most vulnerable immigrants who are refugees. This presentation will describe research based on a qualitative study to support the development of an empowering model of refugee resettlement.

Although refugee resettlement has been taking place in the U.S. formally since World War II, recently, the general population has become more aware of refugee issues due to much media and political attention. As social workers and people of faith, it is important for us to consider this vulnerable population of immigrants and how we can best utilize our social work skills to serve and empower refugees who are resettled in our country. This presentation proposes an empowering, anti-oppressive model of refugee resettlement.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Nuns on the Bus: The War on Poverty
Sister Simone Campbell, JD
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Justice comes before charity. Everyone has a right to eat, and therefore there is a governmental responsibility to ensure everyone's capacity to eat. On the bus, our Sisters of Social Service moved from community to community hearing stories and letting our hearts be broken open. In the process we discovered that sharing stories leads to hope. Hope leads to community. Community leads to action for the common good, i.e. justice. This presentation features the stories Sister Simone heard about economic equality that moved her being to fight for economic justice.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:5.0
Christian Roles in Social Movements for Social Justice
Jon Singletary, PhD, MDiv, MSW,
[Price: $ 75.00]
[Member Price: $ 60]
     How do people of faith see the role of social justice in social movements? This workshop explores how faith inspires social justice in social movements and includes several recent examples. Participants will consider theoretical and theological insights that inform this arena of social work practice as well as biblical insights on social justice and social change.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Therapeutic Relationship as a Spiritual Resource
Ann Callahan, PhD,
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     Social work provides an opportunity to cultivate a therapeutic relationship that can be spiritually transformative; however, the realization of such potential requires the building of spiritual competence. This workshop will draw from theory, research, and practice to clarify how spiritual sensitivity can transform the therapeutic relationship into a spiritual resource.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
The Christian Call to Racial Reconciliation through Community Integration
Christopher Thyberg, BSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Despite some steps towards racial equality in recent decades, there is a continuing trend of neighborhood segregation in America that has resulted in the persistent disenfranchisement of the African American community. The Christian Community Development Association's model of neighborhood integration provides a realistic, personal way for Christians and social workers alike to make an investment in struggling communities.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Leadership in Times of Crisis: Christ's Call to Competent Compassion
Bob VandePol, LCSW
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     There is no greater honor - and no greater responsibility - than to be there for people on the worst day of their lives. We must do it well. This presentation will present recently emerged evidence-informed best practices in delivery of critical incident response services to people and organizations impacted by tragedy and do so with special focus upon faith-integration during service to and through faith-based organizations.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Pursuing Shalom: Moving Forward While Thinking Backwards
Michelle Loyd-Paige, PhD,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Pursuing Shalom is an activity that every Christian undertakes. Shalom can be loosely translated as peace. How one pursues Shalom is determined by how one defines the end - the outcome. As Christians we must ask ourselves, "What kind of peace am I working towards?"


There are at least three levels peace: personal, communal, and global. Personal peace focuses on the individual; it asks about "My welfare, my rest, my peace." Communal peace focuses on organized groups such as neighborhoods and countries; it asks about "the prosperity within our political boundaries, the harmony between neighboring countries." Global peace, however, is the reconciliation of all things; it asks about "the broken places on earth and the broken relationships between God and God's creation." "Pursuing Shalom: Moving Forward While Thinking Backwards" will challenge participants to begin their pursuit of Shalom with the end in mind and to explore the Why, Who, What, and How of our pursuits.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Faith, Stewardship, and Wealth Creation: Envisioning a Role for Churches in Asset Building Initiatives (1 CE Hr)
Trina Shanks, PhD,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     In the past 25 years, families that are the most economically secure have prospered greatly while the poorest families have struggled. This means that most families have a place to live and meet their basic necessities, but have little to show for years of work and won't have enough to support themselves adequately in retirement. This reality is even starker when we consider race and ethnicity.

Given that churches and places of worship have regular interaction with much of the population and are often the most trusted institutions in local communities, they are in a unique position to reverse these trends and actively influence wealth creation. This presentation describes three ways that churches can help improve the financial capability and status of members and help create shared prosperity: a) financial education providing workshops and support for congregants and the local community to help them reach financial goals and reduce debt; b) entrepreneurship which can entail offering training, promotion and support for individual businesses as well as the creation of cooperative and church-affiliated businesses; c) sponsoring or promoting Individual Development Accounts and other asset building efforts.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
When Helping Hurts: Key Ideas and Issues for Poverty Alleviation
Steve Corbett, M.Ed
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     In this session, the presenter suggests that in responding to Christ's call to, "Open your hearts and hands to the poor among you," we often mobilize and act with good intentions. But good intentions are not enough. It is possible in our efforts to help people who are poor to actually do harm to the very ones we seek to help. This session will look at the importance of defining poverty appropriately and will explore 3 key principles for engaging in effective poverty alleviation.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
One Step Forward - Two Steps Back: From Poverty to Self-Sufficiency
Pam Crawford, LCSW, and Kim Rainey, LCSW,
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     Open Table is a growing poverty alleviation movement of ministry in the United States wherein a faith community collaborates with the community to create a partnership of accountability with what the model terms a "brother" or "sister" in poverty. It is a model that utilizes both social and financial capital to empower a family who has the motivation to commit to a one-year plan that will improve their lives and help move them toward self-sufficiency.

This training will illustrate the Open Table approach, while describing the experience of a group of Christians who have struggled with poverty walking alongside a sibling group while assisting their move from poverty to self-reliance.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Mindfulness in the Christian Tradition: Implications for Practice
Regina Chow Trammel, MSW, LCSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     One of the most valuable tools in working with clients is the social worker him/herself. Often social workers struggle with large caseloads and complex client situations, leading to increased stress and decreased effectiveness in social workers' practice. Improving coping skills and mechanisms for dealing with stress may help social workers. A Christian mindfulness framework is introduced as one possible strategy for improving the ability of Christians in social work to cope and deal with stress in their practice.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Bringing Shalom to Refugees: The Sanctuary Model of Care
Lukas Ziomkowski, LMSW
Mark Peterson, LMSW, ACSW
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     In this session, participants will learn about a proven, trauma-informed model for providing an array of supports and services for refugees called the Sanctuary Model of Care, which has been implemented by Bethany Christian Services effectively with refugee families for many years in various parts of the United States.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Conducting a Spiritual Assessment: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Getting to Know Someone
Barry Lee, PsyD
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     The focus of this session is two-fold. One area of focus is to provide participants with opportunities to learn a variety of methods to obtain a spiritual assessment from their clients. The other area of focus is to gain a better understanding of the role that spirituality has played and continues to play in the lives of individuals who are in recovery from substance addiction issues.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
The DSM 5: Beyond Skepticism and into Practicality
David Cecil, PhD, LCSW,
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     The DSM 5 (American Psychiatric Association [APA], 2013) represents dramatic shifts in how we categorize mental disorders. There are numerous considerations including international compatibility, practical implications, and controversies. In order to continue to competently and ethically integrate faith and social work, Christians in social work must stay current on these revisions. This workshop will provide a brief overview of the history and focus of the DSM, as well as provide a summary of the most important changes in the DSM5.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Irresistible Revolution: A Quest to Be Ordinary Radicals
Shane Claiborne, BA
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This presentation is an invitation to join a new movement of God's Spirit that begins inside each of us and extends into a broken world. It is an invitation to listen to stories to inspire and provoke us as we seek to live out our call as people of faith in social work. This message is meant to comfort the disturbed, and disturb the comfortable. It sketches out a vision of "ordinary" Christians in social work ready to change the world with little but radical acts of love.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:4.0
Forgiveness: A Pathway to Emotional Healing Revised
Dr. Robert D. Enright, PhD
[Price: $ 60.00]
[Member Price: $ 48]
     Based on Dr. Robert Enright's 25-years of peer-reviewed, empirical scientific research, this workshop will develop participants' confidence in their own forgiveness skills so they can help their clients bring forgiveness to themselves and to their lives. Session participants will: 1) learn what forgiveness is and what it is not; and 2) discover and learn a pathway to forgiveness. In addition, participants will learn how we can all bring forgiveness to our families, schools, work places and communities for better emotional health.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.5
Human Trafficking Survivors: Trauma & Trauma Informed Care Practices
Ryn Farmer, MSW, LSW, RA, and Raven Loaiza, MSW, LSW, RA,
[Price: $ 22.50]
[Member Price: $ 18]
     Human trafficking, the buying and selling of human beings in exchange for a good or service, impacts people from every walk of life. It affects every country around the world, regardless of socio-economic status, history, or political structure. The victims of human trafficking include people from all walks of life: young children, teenagers, young adults, middle age adults, the elderly, men, and women, as well as persons who are Black, White, Hispanic, Asian, and members of straight, gay, lesbian and transgender communities. Human traffickers have created an international market for the trade of human beings based on high profits and demand for commercial sex and cheap labor.

This workshop explores factors that increase individuals' vulnerability for being trafficked and the complex trauma that is associated with various aspects of human trafficking. This session also explores ways to start implementing trauma-informed care practices in an organizational setting. It explores how organizations can create an environment that incorporates trauma-informed practices among both staff and clients.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:2.5
Congregational Social Work
Diana Garland, PhD
Gaynor Yancey, PhD
[Price: $ 35.00]
[Member Price: $ 25]
     The presenters describe congregational social work as a specialized field of professional practice based on their own work and research over the past 40 years with congregations and congregational social workers. This training features a live panel of social workers currently serving professionally as congregational social workers. This session addresses the diversity of roles and identities of congregational social workers and gives examples of job descriptions and the path into congregational social work.

Please note that in a few places in this training's video, there is some competing noise from the room next door to where this session was recorded.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Internalized Racial Identity, Social Work and Faith
Stacia Hoeksema, LMSW, and Javon Willis, LMSW,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This workshop explores the conflicts within our internalized racial identities and how they intersect with our professional and Christian identities. Participants will be encouraged to examine ways these racial internalizations impact their work with clients and their functioning within their agencies/organizations.

Using research as well as professional and personal experiences in settings including churches, higher education institutions, and community agencies, the presenters assist participants to recognize and identify manifestations of their own internalized racial identities. Additionally, consideration are given to the way that these racial identities mis-shape our identities in Christ and God's intention for the way we are to be in relationship with one another.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Ethical Social Work Practice with LGBT Clients
Helen Harris, EdD, LCSW, and Jon Singletary, PhD, MSW,
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This interactive presentation addresses the opportunity and challenge for social work practice with the population of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LBGT) clients. Scripture and evidence-based/informed interventions will be considered in the ethical integration of Christian faith and social work practice.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Learning Through Technology: An Engaging, Practical, and User Friendly Approach
by David Cecil, PhD, LCSW
Stephen Baldridge, PhD, LMSW
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     Online training and education in social work, as well the use of technology in general, can be intimidating and expensive. Is it possible to find approachable and cost effective ways to use these tools to reach today's students and practitioners? This interactive workshop presents an evidence-based, motivating approach to engaging the valuable tools of online and mobile training and education.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Integration of Clients' Spirituality among Christians in Social Work
Holly Oxhandler, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This workshop introduces the Religious/Spiritually Integrated Practice Assessment Scale and describes the views and integration of clients' religion/spirituality into practice among a national sample of social workers who self-identified as Christians. Based on these findings, implications and suggestions for social work practice are discussed.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:6.0
Virtues and Character in Social Work Practice
Terry A. Wolfer
Cheryl Brandsen
Jill C. Schreiber
Ruth E. Groenhout
Paul Adams
Joseph Kuilema
Charity Samantha Vo
Rebecca Burwell
Mackenzi Huyser
Linda Plitt Donaldson
Lynn Milgram Mayer
and Marleen Miller
[Price: $ 75.00]
[Member Price: $ 60]
     Social work practitioners are social change agents that spend much of their time examining social structures and advocating for policies and programs that advance justice and increase opportunity. Social justice is central to the mission, professional development, and ethical decision making process in social work practice. However, the development of character traits and virtues within Christian social workers is equally important in furthering social justice and working with diverse populations.

This training brings to light questions about professional identity, relationships, and the ability to thrive and sustain social change through the understanding and development of a virtue framework. This framework combines philosophy, theology, and pedagogical practices to offer a holistic approach to professional development and explores the traits of charity, faith, generosity, gratefulness, and justice in social work practice.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Navigating End-of-Life Issues with Clients: An Overview for Social Workers
Julie Griffin, MSW
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     End-of-life issues are a part of life we will all encounter whether prepared or not. The social work profession is in a unique position to promote positive and factual understanding while demystifying societal fears surrounding matters of life and death. Social workers who are informed about end-of-life issues empower their clients and the general public to move beyond preconceived ideas toward sustainable action that will meet long term goals helping reduce their fears of the future.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:4.0
Forgiveness: A Pathway to Emotional Healing
Dr. Robert D. Enright, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 75.00]
[Member Price: $ 60]
     Based on Dr. Robert Enright's 25-years of peer-reviewed, empirical scientific research, this workshop will develop participants' confidence in their own forgiveness skills so they can help their clients bring forgiveness to themselves and to their lives. Session participants will: 1) learn what forgiveness is and what it is not; and 2) discover and learn a pathway to forgiveness. In addition, participants will learn how we can all bring forgiveness to our families, schools, work places and communities for better emotional health.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Using Family Circles to Promote and Understand Family Connections
Dexter Freeman, DSW
[Price: $ 10.00]
[Member Price: $ 8]
     The family circle method is a brief pictorial diagram that is used to help individuals and families describe, acknowledge, and discuss her family as she experiences the family. This interactive presentation yields a wealth of information about how a family is currently structured and functions from an individual perspective. Participants of this training will never see their family the same after listening to this presentation.

Please note that in some places in this training video, the audio volume is somewhat low and a few of the words might be bit difficult to make out. We have reduced the cost of this training accordingly.

Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:3.5
Congregational and Social Work Responses to Older Adult Vulnerability
Dennis Myers, Jim Ellor, Terry A. Wolfer, Michael Sherr, Jay Poole, John C. Rife, Fran Pearson, Lelia Moore, Antonia Monk Reaves, Wayne Moore, Michael W. Parker, Linda L. Dunn, Steven L. MacCall, John Goetz, Nan Park, Allison X. Li, Samantha Sims, Regina Harrell, Hugh Lee, Elizabeth Grant, Chris Spencer, Shadi Martin, Doaa Ahmed Khalifa, Harold G. Koenig, Saleta Lawrence, Van Jones, Adria E. Navarro, Maria Siciliano, and Tiffany Saucer,
[Price: $ 52.00]
[Member Price: $ 42]
     In a society which has traditionally valued youth and individualism, the growing number of Americans over 55 is creating a new paradigm of awareness of the mutual value gained through the interplay between older adults and that of faith-based organizations. Through discussion of collaboration across psycho/social/physical and spiritual disciplines, these articles address issues related to how faith-based groups have embraced not only the mission of caring for the holistic needs of seniors, but the value provided to the organizations through this engagement.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:3.0
HIV, AIDS, and a Christian Social Work Response
Allison Tan
Nancy Peters
Christson Adedoyin
Frederick J. Streets
Carla MacDonald
[Price: $ 45.00]
[Member Price: $ 36]
     Social workers find that clients who have HIV/ AID are often discriminated against and stigmatized by secular society, the Church and by social workers themselves. Clients diagnosed with AIDS/HIV are often traumatized and suffer alone. Clients diagnosed with AIDS/HIV experience a host of systematic losses in their lives - physically, socially, financially, relationally, emotionally, physically, spiritually and religiously.

Historically the AIDS epidemic is less than thirty years old, and a great deal of research and work with this population is still needed in order to better understand HIV/AIDS and its impact on AIDS/ HIV on clients. The Social Worker Code of Ethics requires that social workers be competent in all areas in which they practice. More education, training and supervision are needed in order to teach Christian social workers how to overcome some of their own bias so that they may become more confident, competent practitioners who are able to compassionately and effectively assist clients with HIV/AIDS.

The material in this training represents a handful of possible connections between HIV and AIDS, social work practice, and Christian faith. This training's goal is to both inform and inspire participants to continue to wrestle with these and other important connections between faith and practice as they work to effectively support clients with HIV/AIDS with whom they will come into contact in their work.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Ethics and the Office: Swimming in Deep Waters
Amber Residori, MSW
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     As social workers we are called to the helping profession because we are compelled to action, to seek justice, and to speak for those who have no voice.

This seminar is designed to evaluate the stereotypes of our profession, the power of personal self-care, and the longevity of our careers. We will examine the NASW Code of Ethics related to teamwork, collaboration, respect, resolving disputes with colleagues, and preserving the integrity of our profession. We will take a personal inventory of our strategies for resolving conflict and leave the training with a refreshed plan to positively impact our health, our families, our teams and our relationships.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Lobbying Against Poverty: School Breakfast as a Political Case Study
Jason Sabo, MA
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This session examines the politics of poverty and hunger at the Texas Capitol and beyond. It utilizes the 2013 expansion of school breakfast by the Texas Legislature as a case study of building bi-partisan and broad support for anti-hunger public policies. This session's presenter, Jason Sabo, works for the hunger advocacy organization, Children at Risk, which lobbies the Texas and other state legislatures for children's rights and advises numerous foundations on advocacy grant making.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Practitioner-Identified Barriers to Outreach with Black Churches
Kimberly Hardy, MSW, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Practitioners have identified a number of barriers that affect their willingness and ability to successfully engage with the African-American faith community. Most significant were issues of race and a personal lack of religious knowledge. This hesitance to engage with the Black Church can have devastating consequences for practice with African-American clients and communities. This workshop presents various strategies to support social work practitioners' engagement with the Africa-American faith community.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Maxims for Management: Manifesting Christian Principles as Supervisors, Managers and Administrators
Frank B. Raymond, Ph.D., MSW
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     Managers at all levels in human service organization, both secular and church-related, must be able to apply appropriate administrative principles in carrying out their roles. Managers who are Christians should strive to make sure the administrative principles they employ reflect the values of their faith.

This workshop will identify a number of "maxims for management," or fundamental administrative principles that embody Christian values, and can guide the day-to-day performance of human service managers at all levels.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Engaging Colleges and Universities in Hunger Work
Andy Hogue, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     College students and college faculty can be great allies in the fight against hunger and food insecurity. Built into the mission of most colleges and universities is a commitment to the common good, and through such things as research, public service, and activism, students and faculty have capital to lend if effective partnerships are established. This session will offer several practical models for engaging colleges and universities in the hunger work.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Intimate Partner Violence and Cultural Competence: Considering the African American Church
Kesslyn Brade Stennis, Ph.D., MSW
Ph.D., M.S.W., M.Div, Helen Fischle, MSW
and Kathy G. Purnell
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     Intimate partner violence exists in all communities, regardless of ethnic background, socio-economic status, age, sexual orientation, gender, etc. While there is a growing body of knowledge, more needs to be known about the presence and impact of intimate partner violence in African American communities, and more specifically, in African American communities of faith. This knowledge can provide social worker's with information that promotes culturally competent practice with this population.

This presentation explores the concept of cultural competence as it relates to domestic violence and intimate partner violence in African American faith communities. Results from work with and research conducted in African American faith communities are presented. Finally, a culturally sensitive model of intervention which evolved from the aforementioned work and research will is presented.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Imago Dei and Family Therapy: A Communications Framework
Mikal Rasheed, and Janice Rasheed, PhD, LCSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This workshop presents the communications model of family therapy and its potential of being integrated into a Christian world view. The concept "Imago Dei" will be presented as the integrating concept between a Christian world view and communications theory.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Increasing Congregational Competency in Missional Practices
Patty Villarreal, LMSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This workshop examines how use of self as a Latina social worker congregant in a dominant Anglo congregation introduced church leadership to a self-awareness of paternalistic ministry methods and assisted in discovering and developing healthy holistic practices in church and community engagement. Participants learn about best-practice methods that can be used in introducing client self-determination and cultural competency while exploring ways to influence their own congregational settings by engaging different ethnic members within their home church.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Creating a Compassionate Organization through Servant Leadership
Hugh Drouin, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     There is much loneliness and isolation today in organizations. We have forgotten how to connect more meaningfully with each other at work. The creation of deeper relationships at work leads to stronger emotional and spiritual health for its members. Through music, story, the principles of Servant Leadership, and other healing principles, this workshop emphasizes the importance of creating a climate of nurture and compassion in an organization.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:3.0
Intervention & Aftercare for Sex Trafficking Survivors: A Holistic Approach to Healing
Lisa Thompson, MA
[Price: $ 45.00]
[Member Price: $ 36]
     The global issue of sex trafficking with its devastating effect on victims is also an American problem of growing proportions. While awareness of the injustice has grown dramatically in the past few years, healing intervention and aftercare for women and child survivors is far from adequate in proportion to the level of need. This workshop will focus on how people of faith of diverse professions have responded on the front lines to develop transformational models for intervention and holistic care for women and children trapped in human trafficking.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Integral Ethics in Social Work Education
Mari Ann Graham, Ph.D., LISW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Integral ethics is an inherently spiritual ethical framework that classifies and unifies 4 differing approaches to ethical decision-making. Based on Wilber's integral paradigm, It can be used to help educators, students, and practitioners to engage colleagues and clients with differing religious/political views in more authentically inclusive ways. Importantly, this session meets the criteria for an ASWB-approved ethics workshop.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Economic Perspectives on Poverty and Food Insecurity in the United States
Linda English, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     In recent years, a great deal of economic research has focused on determining the economic causes of food insecurity and establishing a causal connection between food insecurity and health outcomes. This growing body of economic research offers insights to the broader conversation about food and nutrition related policy in the United States.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Lessons About Training Black Clergy in Mental Health: What Do We Know?
Jennifer Shepard Payne, Ph.D.
Jacqueline Dyer, Ph.D., MSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     In light of the fact that clergy are often front-line counselors, this workshop encourages dialogue about the best ways to collaborate with and to train Black clergy on mental health issues. The presenters discuss culturally competent strategies for 1) approaching clergy members of the African American community, and 2) designing effective mental health training trainings.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.5
The Family of Adoption: One Family/Four Narratives
Helen Harris
Jennifer Hale
Beth Harris
Caitlin Hale
[Price: $ 22.50]
[Member Price: $ 18]
     The adoption narrative is provided in this interactive presentation from multiple perspectives. Presenters include a birth mother, adoptive mother, adopted child, and birth sister in an adoption twenty one years ago now the story of two families entering each others' narrative of loss and reunion and new family.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Good Grief: Interventions for Supporting Bereaved Children and Adolescents
Erica Sirrine, Ph.D., LCSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     A child's cognitive, behavioral, spiritual, and psychosocial functioning is greatly impacted by the illness or death of a loved one. This workshop explores examples of developmentally appropriate grief reactions, clinical interventions, memorialization techniques, and methods for explaining sensitive topics such as suicide and remarriage following the death of a parent.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Resiliency or Recovery: Helping Individuals Develop Resiliency Skills
Angela Gaddis, Ph.D., LCSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This workshop is designed to teach skills to clinicians and non-clinicians working with children and adults experiencing traumatic stress. It focuses on factors influencing resilience from a systems perspective, and shows how to use the strengths perspective to assist individuals restore balance to the body and mind after traumatic experiences.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Facing Life's Final Battle: Caring for Combat Veterans with PTSD at the End of Life
Janet Knowlton, MSW, LICSW
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     This presentation explores the unique challenges associated with working with combat veterans from different war periods at the end of life. Military culture and the extent of combat exposure, as well as a veteran's faith, have an effect on how a veteran faces their "final battle." Treatment modalities for engaging combat veterans in end of life care will be discussed.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Social Work Ethics and the Challenge of Biotechnology
Robert Zylstra, EdD, LCSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Advances in biotechnology have led to increasingly technical, and controversial, issues in health care. From DNR decisions to assisted suicide, Christian social workers need to be familiar with the ethical concerns, challenges and opportunities associated with medical ethics in order to assist their clients in making reasoned, morally grounded decisions.

Note: This is an ASWB approved ethics training and as such meets most states' ethics' training requirements.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Transformed by the Renewing of Your Mind: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
Erma Ballenger, Phd, LCSW
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     This training provides an overview of the theory and primary purpose of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) and key considerations for applying the Situational A-B-C-D-E Model of REBT. This model has been highly effective in helping individuals become less disturbed emotionally, behaviorally and cognitively and more functional by changing the way they think about self, others and the world. This session will discuss unhealthy negative emotions (UNEs) and healthy negative emotions (HNEs) as well as illustrating each phase of the Situation A-B-C-D-E Model of REBT in renewing the mind.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Ethical Implications of Living with DSM-5
James Ellor, Phd, LCSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     In this video-based training, Dr. Jim Ellor from Baylor University explores the values and ethics underlying the DSM 5. He begins by outlining the history of the DSM series, and highlighting some of the changes introduced in the latest version of this diagnostic manual. The remainder of the workshop focuses on four key questions of ethics for and the implications of living with the DSM 5.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Confidentiality: Why, Who, Where, and How
Helen Wilson Harris, EdD, LCSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This ethics training focuses on principles of privacy and confidentiality for a small agency largely staffed by volunteers to assist older adults with food sufficiency. Principles of confidentiality, motivations for respecting the information of others, and methods for protection of client information are the primary topics.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
One Family Under God: A Theological Perspective on Immigration for Christian Social Workers
Stephanie Spandl, MSW, LICSW, MAT
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15.00]
     Immigration is currently at the forefront of national debate. Immigration policy is a complex matter that deeply and personally affects families and communities and requires both justice and compassion. How are we as social workers to respond to this issue at our time? This workshop explores the international, political, and social context of immigration today, scriptural and theological foundations to guide our response and current policies and practices that invite response. Resources for further prayer, reflection and education are also made available.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Joy in Social Work
David Pooler , PhD
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     In this session, we will explore how social workers find great joy in their work. We will examine aspects of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry that inspire and inform our thinking about joy in work. Come and find out how you can find more joy!
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1
Social Work and the Kingdom of God
Ken Stoltzfus, PhD, MSW, LISWS
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This training will demonstrate the presenter's unique way of exploring social work as it relates to the Bible in his undergraduate classes (used in Intro to Social Work and Practice Skills courses). The presenter will lay out the format of the class session, which includes review questions, lecture, and discussion. This training will also explore a range of discussion possibilities in the classroom.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Cultivating Healing After Childhood Sexual Abuse
Julie Woodley, MA
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This presentation will take you through the pain and healing of childhood sexual abuse. The Presenter will use her own story as well as stories of others and video clips of great Professionals. The Presenter will take you through a journey of healing to help you understand the dynamics of childhood sexual trauma for women and men and how to invite Christ into their healing through presentation, story and the visual media of storytelling.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Catholic Social Teaching and Social Justice
Robert Constable, DSW, LCWS
Lynn Milgram Mayer, MSW, Ph.D.
et. al.
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     The purpose of this course is to teach the principles of Catholic Social Teaching (CST), and apply those concepts to the field of Social Work. It describes the delivery of services while working from a CST perspective, as well as different populations that this type of delivery might specifically target. Both methods and advantages of spiritually-informed value sets are described throughout the context of the course, in addition to the history and effectiveness of CST-based practice.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1
Ethical Integration of Christian Faith and Social Work Practice: Pursuing Faithfulness and Professional Integrity
Rick Chamiec-Case, Ph.D., MSW, MAR
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This training will illustrate a wide variety of ways social workers integrate their faith and social work practice, and how these different approaches to integration contribute to Christian social workers' understanding of both their social work and their faith. In addition, this training will explore a range of ethical issues related to integration including the importance of social workers:

a) understanding their own religious beliefs and values in order to be able to work competently and ethically with persons who have identified religion or spirituality as important in their lives,
b) understanding how to assess and address clients' spiritual and religious issues and concerns while maintaining a sensitivity to the issues of unequal power and vulnerability that are an inevitable part of client relationships,
c) understanding the context of particular work environments (for example, working in a public agency versus for a congregation or faith-based organization) as it relates to addressing clients' spiritual and religious issues, sharing one's own faith, etc.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.5
Assessing/Preparing Adoptive Families to Care for Traumatized Children
Jayne E. Schooler, MBS
Hope Haslam Straughn, Ph.D., MSW, ACSW
[Price: $ 22.50]
[Member Price: $ 18]
     How can we better prepare foster and adoptive families to care for children with a history of trauma? By integrating trauma-informed language into the assessment and preparation process. This interactive workshop will provide participants with the tools to better prepare families and narrow the gap between expectations of the adoption experience and the realities that come.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Developing the Mindset and Practices for Research and Scholarship
Michael E. Sherr , PhD., LCSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Writing, even for research and scholarship, is a creative form of expression that involves a cognitive and emotional mindset. It also involves developing effective behavioral habits. Finding harmony between one's mindset and behavior habits is the key to experiencing the joy of being a life-long productive writer. This conference call presentation invites educators to begin reflecting upon the mindset and practices attuned to experiencing the joy of productive research and scholarship.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
A Tribute to Dr. Alan Keith-Lucas
John Y. Powell, PhD
David A. Sherwood, PhD
Helen Wilson Harris, EdD
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     The purpose of this course is to recognize the life and work of Dr. Alan Keith-Lucas, along with his many accomplishments and contributions to the field of social work. Through his pioneering spirit regarding the care of children, his contributions to NACSW, and his imaginative opinions, Dr. Alan Keith-Lucas made a significant impact on social welfare in our society today.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.75
Equipping Social Workers to Support Clergy Who Are Providing Care for Returning Veterans
Reverend Dr. John P. Oliver, PhD
[Price: $ 28.00]
[Member Price: $ 22]
     Clergy and faith communities are often on the front lines of caring for veterans suffering from adjustment disorders and mental illness. This workshop will explore a variety of ways that social workers can educate, empower and engage clergy and faith communities to be supportive members of the community's healing team.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1
Spiritual Self-Assessment as an Integral Component of Social Work Education
Stacey L. Barker, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This presentation will briefly discuss the findings of a qualitative research study designed to explore how social workers define spirituality and how they use spirituality in the practice context as a backdrop to introducing a template developed to assist faculty in helping students assess their own spirituality as a starting point for practice competence. This self-assessment tool focuses on the general concept of spirituaity and can be used in both faith-based and secular settings.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1
Trauma, Faith & Hope in Child Welfare
Reverend Charles Scully Stikes, PhD, MDiv, MA, MEd
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This training is about the impact of personal, social, and natural disasters as traumas: the impact on the entire aspect of the lives of people, and what can be done to ameliorate the disastrous consequences. Trauma impacts every aspect of persons' lives: however, the consequences of the effects are not often understood and dealt with appropriately and comprehensively by those of us involved in child welfare. The impact may distort the basic physiological, sensory, emotional, cognitive, behavioral and social functioning, and spiritual meaning systems. Case managers, social workers, and therapists need to understand how trauma impacts these comprehensive dimensions of persons' lives so they can deal with ameliorating the impact as well as in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the lives of clients in a comprehensive and sensitive manner. This training also includes what needs to be done to deal with neglect and abuse as trauma, as well as the consequences of social and natural disasters that child care workers have to deal with as they deal with families as victims. Strategies that are discussed include: traits of a healthy family, cultural competency, positive psychology in care, how to facilitate resilience in persons and families, and the importance of spiritual meaning and involvement.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1
A Faith-based Approach Integrating Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment and Attachment Styles
Cathi Spooner , LCSW, RPT/S, CTS
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This training will examine cognitive-behavioral treatment from a faith-based perspective. Participants will examine the underlying Biblical principles of CBT. Cognitive-Behavioral treatment is an integration of treatment approaches that examine the relationship between thoughts and behaviors. This presentation with specifically examine William Glasser's Reality Therapy/Choice Therapy principles as well as the interaction between attachment styles, thoughts, feelings and behaviors. We will also discuss CBT strategies that can be useful in the treatment process. Practical strategies to use with clients will be demonstrated.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
The Pastor's Words: Perspectives and Approaches to Domestic Violence in the Church
Jacqueline Dyer, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     The domestic violence community has often disparaged clergy for not providing appropriate support for women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). However, little is known about actual clergy practice and perspective in relation to this issue in their churches. This presentation identifies research outcomes that provide information on both clergy perspectives and practices regarding IPV. Activities that parallel clinical best practices are also identified. Those attending will learn information designed to increase cultural competence regarding Protestant Christian African American churches and clergy, in relation to their efforts to help congregants who are victims of IPV. Last, the presentation identifies recommendations for improved social work outreach and collaboration with receptive clergy for the benefit of their congregants.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:3
Moving the Church to Social Action
Lindley Sharp Curtis, MDiv, MSW
Rev. John Michael McAllister, MS, MSW, M.Div., CRC
et al.
[Price: $ 45.00]
[Member Price: $ 36]
     The purpose of this course is to help practitioners focus on looking at the practice of social work through a faith-based perspective, particularly in the church setting.. The following articles address the role of social work in the quest for social justice, the integration of faith in practice, and the place of faith in diversity.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.75
Serving Vulnerable Children & Families through Church-Related Agencies: Practice & Leadership Issues
Diana Garland, PhD
[Price: $ 26.25]
[Member Price: $ 21]
     This innovative training will overview the distinctive characteristics of religiously-affiliated and church-related agencies in the social work practice field of child welfare services, from prevention services to services for abused children. This training will present case studies of actual practice issues and dilemmas. It will describe how social workers can provide leadership in defining the mission, potential, and programs of these important agencies.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1
Blessed Assurance: African-American Perspectives on Pastoral Counseling
Dr. Kimberly Hardy, PhD, MSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     The Pew Forum on Religion in Public Life has found that African-Americans are more religious than any other racial/ethnic group in the country. Born of struggle and resistance to societal injustice, the Black Church developed as a means of providing both a haven from harm and a sanctuary for worship. The Black Church is still critically important for African-Americans, but the roles it plays may be changing particularly regarding mental health.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1
A Christian Perspective on Self Care for the Social Worker
Lanny Endicott, D.Min, MSSW
Rick Chamiec-Case , Ph.D., MSW, MAR
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This training speaks to the social worker's potential for developing secondary trauma (compassion fatigue) when working with hurting and traumatized people. When left unaddressed, secondary trauma can contribute to professional impairment and burnout. Participants will be provided information on secondary trauma and burnout, self-assessment tools, and a variety of self-care strategies informed by a Christian perspective.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:2.5
Creating Safe Congregations: Understanding and Protecting Leaders and Churches from Sexual Misconduct
Diana Garland, PhD
[Price: $ 37.50]
[Member Price: $ 30]
     This training will report the findings of the first national study of clergy sexual misconduct with adults. It will describe how the social dynamics of congregations contribute to, and so can prevent, clergy sexual misconduct. It will explore the dynamics of power and consent in the context of religious communities, as well as the strategies leaders and congregations can use to prevent misconduct. Finally, it will describe clinical care of victims and survivors, and the importance of legislation that creates public awareness of the fiduciary responsibility of religious leaders.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:4
History, Social Work, and Christianity
James R. Vanderwoerd, PhD
Charity Samantha Fitzgerald, MA
et al.
[Price: $ 50.00]
[Member Price: $ 40]
     The purpose of this course is to inform participants of the history of collaboration between Christian principles and the profession of social work. The articles contained in this course address the secularization of social work, traditionalism, and the common ethical standards that are held by both the faith-set of Christianity and the profession of social work.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:2.5
Ethics in Social Work Practice: Evangelism, Prayer, & Other Value Conflicts
David Sherwood, Ph.D., LICSW, ACSW
[Price: $ 37.50]
[Member Price: $ 30.00]
     Competent social work practice requires that professionals deal ethically and effectively in their work with clients. This training will explore the use and limits of the social work Code of Ethics as well as biblical teachings to resolve ethical dilemmas, identify ethical principles that guide social work practice in regard to spirituality and religion, and assess and use spiritual and religious resources in practice with clients.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
The Power of Service: Reclaiming One of the Key Values of the Social Work Profession
Luis A. Perez, MSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     In a day when the word 'service' in many circles is shunned and avoided because of the connotations to 'servant' or 'servitude', the model and perspective of 'service' by Jesus can inform our practice and how we perceive our work, clients, and community.


This presentation, developed from the book, The Externally Focused Church , Rusaw, R., Swanson, E. (2004) will challenge attendees to consider the bridge 'service' can be in the interest of practitioners as members of the profession, the church, and the community at large.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Congregational & Community Responses With Vulnerable Older Persons
Dennis Myers, Ph.D, M.S.S.W, L.C.S.W
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     This training focuses on how social workers and congregations can respond to the impoverishment and isolation that inhabit the daily lives of a significant number of older persons. It calls attention to unique assets that energize congregational responsiveness and demonstrates how effective preparation, vision, attention to assets, care with congregational volunteers, awareness of barriers and ministry design, locate ministry at the point of greatest need and maximum impact. A four dimensional model for design of congregational responses is proposed.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1
The Importance of Engaging Fathers in Social Work Practice
Mark Robinson, MSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     The research is clear. Children do better in every measure of development when there is a responsibly involved father in their lives. This workshop will examine the unique contributions of fathers to the health and productive development of their children. In addition, this presentation will address the challenges that practitioners face in engaging fathers in effective service-delivery.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1
Spirituality as a Potential Resource for Coping with Trauma
Dr. Mary Van Hook, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This presentation will address the potential role of spirituality as a resource for coping with both current and past trauma. Spirituality in this context embraces a variety of religious and cultural traditions. The presentation also discusses ways in which social workers can help client access this resource.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Social Justice and Human Rights: The Case of Religious Persecution
David Hodge, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     Human rights abuses are a fundamental social justice concern that is grounded in the NASW Code of Ethics and international human rights protocols. Despite widespread philosophical support for the notion of human rights on the international stage, advocacy for the right to religious freedom has received little attention, helping fuel a global rise in religious persecution.

This lecture helps attendees challenge social injustice on behalf of persecuted people of faith. Toward this end, the origins and nature of human rights is reviewed along with the United Nation's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The state of religious freedom around the world is discussed along with strategies to promote religious freedom. The lecture concludes with a discussion of the challenges and opportunities associated with advocating for the human right of religious freedom.

Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1
The Collaboration of Faith and Social Work in Creating a Gateway of Helping
Houston Thompson, Ed.D
Breanne Bambrick, BSW Candidate
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     When tragedy occurs, trauma follows. Helping professionals in the faith community are often called upon to assist. This workshop addresses how social workers can assist professional helpers in the faith community to appropriately respond and begin processes of recovery with those who are suffering.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Preparing for Practice: The Faith Integration Experiences of Christian Social Work Students
Stacey L. Barker, Ph.D. MSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This presentation will summarize the results of a qualitative research project which explored the experiences of Christian students related to faith integration in their social work education programs. These findings will be used as a springboard for a discussion of the implications for social work practice.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:3
Administrative Practices in Religious Organizations
Gaynor Yancey
Robin K. Rogers
Jon Singletary
Michael Sherr
Aaron Tyler
Jay Poole
John C. Rife
Fran Pearson
Wayne R. Moore
Angela Dennison
Daphne Paul
[Price: $ 45.00]
[Member Price: $ 36]
     The purpose of this course is to call attention to administrative practices in the context of religious organizations; more specifically, the skills and assets that social workers bring to administrative leadership and management practices in religious organizations. The articles contained in this course address those administrative practices, congregational social work planning, and church-based program planning.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:2
Canada, Social Work, and Christianity
Kelly Dean Schwartz
Buetta Warkentin
Michael Wilkinson
Francis J. Turner
Glen Schmidt
Joanne Ebear
Rick Csiernik
and Michael Bechard
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     The purpose of this course is to raise awareness among practitioners regarding the practice of social work in Canada. The articles contained in this course address a comparison of North American social work practice, and the incorporation of social work and spirituality in Canadian practice.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:2
Response to Crisis: Christians in Social Work Responding to Major Disasters
Major David Dalberg
Dr. Fred Coisman
Harmon Meldrim
Dr. Stephen C. Anderson
Dr. Lawrence Ressler
Jon R. Wallace
Titus Peachey
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     The purpose of this course is to help practitioners focus on the reconstruction of the lives of people impacted by disasters and the subsystems working with disaster victims, helping recovery workers, and describing the potential that social work professionals and students have to offer in the midst of disasters.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:1
Decision Cases for Christians in Social Work
Dr. David Sherwood, PhD
Dr. Michael Sherr, PhD
Dr. Terry Wolfer, PhD
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     The purpose of this course is to help practitioners, particular Christian social work educators, explore the use of open-ended case discussion in teaching matters of religion, spirituality, and faith.
There is debate regarding the justification of integrating open-ended case methods in order to teach ethical practice to social work students. While these cases allow students to discuss and apply theory and problem-solving techniques to practice, they also allow for the potential legitimization of issues that are relative. The articles chosen for this course address the place of the case discussion in the classroom, and its purpose in the instruction of social work within a religious context in particular.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:3
International Social Work in Faith Based Settings
Dr. Mark Rogers
Elizabeth Patterson
Dr. Faye Abram
Gregory Shufeldt
Kelle Rose
Nick Cross
Vita Roga
Dr. Kimberly Battle-Walters
Dr. Lanny Endicott
Lisa L. Thompson
[Price: $ 45.00]
[Member Price: $ 36]
     The purpose of this course is to help practitioners gain a better understanding of adopting social work practices on an international level. Through the following articles, participants will be able to better identify ways to incorporate Christian faith and ethical practice into international social work, as well as domestic practice.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:4
Radical Christian Innovations in Social Work and Social Welfare
John Cosgrove
Katy Tangenberg
Mackenzi Huyser
Helen Deines
Terry A. Wolfer
Katrina del Pilar
Russell P. Mask
Benjamin P. Borger
[Price: $ 50.00]
[Member Price: $ 40]
     The purpose of this course is to draw attention to the innovative work being done by Christians and congregations within the field of social work. The articles contained in this course address movements begun by Christian social workers and the implications for practice based upon those movements and innovative practices.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Preparing Communities to Help Our Service Members Return Home
Lanny Endicott, DMin., MSSW
Dexter Freeman, PhD
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15.00]
     This training will explain the challenges for social workers of faith to help with re-integrating military veterans into their respective communities and discuss the current evidence-informed treatment methodologies for assisting veterans with issues of PTSD and related mental health issues.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Spiritually Sensitive Crisis Intervention With HIV-Infected and Affected Individuals
Allison Tan, PhD
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15.00]
     This training will explore the HIV epidemic in America and how it affects the work social workers will likely encounter with HIV-infected/affected clients. After reviewing the history of the HIV epidemic, this training will focus on crisis intervention work emphasizing the most common crises HIV-infected/affected individuals face. Using the available literature on crisis work with HIV-positive clients plus the facilitator's own practice experience, this training will cover the range of reactions and life experiences common to HIV-infected/affected individuals including the ways in which an HIV-positive diagnosis can impact his/her questions of religion and spirituality.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Back to the Future: The Applications from Alan-Keith-Lucas to Child Welfare Practice Today
Helen Harris, LMSW, LCSW
David Gibson, LMSW, LCSW
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15.00]
     Alan Keith Lucas provided timely and timeless guidance for working with children and their families in residential care. This training will match that guidance and practice principles with challenges encountered in child welfare practice today.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1
Spirituality, Child Trauma, and Expressive Arts
Don Phelps, PhD, LCSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This session will focus on the relationship between expressive arts and spirituality when working with children that have been traumatized. The presenter's experiences with children at a large homeless shelter and an orphanage in Mexico will be highlighted. The more we learn about the connection between the arts and spirituality, the better we can help children heal by encouraging them to access the strength that comes from their faith.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1
Church Social Work: Meeting Human Needs in the Name of Jesus
Jane Ferguson, MSW
Judy Nuss, BSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Christian social ministries can be the caring connection between the local church and the community. God has called His church to bring hope to the hopeless and love others as He has loved us. The ultimate model for doing what God has called us to do is the life and ministry of Jesus Christ. The good news of the gospel is to be preached, taught and acted out in tangible ways that meet the needs of hurting people in our own communities.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1
Addressing Racial Disproportionality through Catholic Social Teachings
Linda Plitt Donaldson, PhD
Kathleen Belanger, PhD
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     Catholic social teaching is a rich resource for all Christian social workers to root their values and practice models in scripture and the life of Jesus Christ. This workshop will include an overview of Catholic Social Teaching and apply CST principles to the problem of racial disproportionality in child welfare.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.5
Partnering to Address Human Trafficking
Jane Hoyt-Oliver, LISW-PhD
Danielle Smith, MSW, MA, LSW
Lisa L. Thompson
[Price: $ 22.50]
[Member Price: $ 18]
     The trafficking of human beings has drawn significant attention in the past several years. The presenters for this panel all have utilized their professional skills at the state, national or international levels to curb the trafficking. They will discuss their understanding of the issue, and the ways in which state government, professional social workers and non-governmental organizations are attempting draw attention to the issue and to eliminate trafficking.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1
A Faith Perspective on Health Care Reform (note: video/text based course)
Rick Chamiec-Case, Ph.D., MSW, MAR
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     There has been much debate in the US in recent years about what directions our nation's health care policy should take. People of faith wrestle with how their faith should inform and shape their understanding of this important topic. At the same time, faith-based healthcare, informed by Catholic Social Teaching and other broad principles drawn from the Christian faith, has served an essential role in the United States since the nation's inception, frequently being the only provider of care to the poor in numerous communities. That dedication to the vulnerable segments of society continues today.

This presentation will focus on how social workers of faith can tap the resources of their faith to inform their thinking about health care reform and health care provision. In particular, it will focus on how the principle of solidarity, drawn from Catholic social teaching, as well as a biblical understanding of what it means to be "our brother's keeper."
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Strengthening Resources for Service in the Community of Faith Through Grant-Writing and Program Development
David Mills, MPA
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15.00]
     There is a growing awareness among many churches that service in the community is a vital part of the life of faith. Christian social workers are uniquely skilled to aid in effective development and sustainability as this movement toward community engagement continues.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Addressing Pornography Through the Church
Kim Kotrla, PhD
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15.00]
     Ample evidence documents that the pornography industry is alive and well in the U.S. with sexually explicit images readily available through a variety of venues. Despite some commonly held misconceptions that pornography is victimless and harmless, research has documented that there are often negative effects resulting from the use of pornography. Most church leaders have traditionally addressed the issue of pornography from a biblical perspective of morality or not at all, although some bodies of faith are developing new strategies to tackle this issue. Opportunities exist for social workers to partner with churches to strengthen responses of congregations in dealing with this controversial issue.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Exploring the Relational Aspects of Spiritually-Sensitive Hospice Care
Ann Callahan, PhD, MSSW, LCSW
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15.00]
     Within the past 10 years there has been growing interest in client spirituality. New spiritual assessment tools and treatment models have emerged and continuing education has started to address innovations in spiritual care. Despite these advances, factors that influence the provision of spiritual care require further exploration. There is some evidence to suggest that the helping relationship is central to the provision of spiritual care and serves as an effective form of treatment. This training explores the relationship skills hospice workers use in the delivery of spiritual care.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Leading a Nonprofit organization: Thriving, not just Surviving
Laura Zumdahl, PhD
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15.00]
     As the economy places increased pressure on nonprofit organizations, leaders are faced with how to weather the financial storm while simultaneously maintaining services and planning for the future. The focus of this training is on practical strategies nonprofit leaders can employ to face the challenges during an economic downturn and stay poised for future growth.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Understanding and Responding to the Needs of International Women, Wives, & Mothers
Cindy Sutter-Tkel, MSW
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     This training examines the complex lives of immigrant women in our communities and how to support them as they integrate into the fabric of American life. The training also discusses managing a culturally and religiously diverse group from a Christian perspective, parenting and marital values in other cultures and the use of a culturalgram as an assessment tool. The lives of diverse women will be introduced through case scenarios and a model of a program offering parenting and family support as well as a resource lending library will be shared. This training will also examine the use of the NASW Continuum of Cultural Competence.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Christian Spiritual Approaches to Motivational Interviewing
Kenneth Smith, MSW; LCSW
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     Motivational Interviewing, as developed by Miller and Rollnick (2002), is an evidence-based method for assisting clients to identify and resolve ambivalence about change. It is both client centered and directive.

Jesus demonstrated expert skill in motivational interviewing during interactions with people He encountered, as recorded in the Gospels. This training will focus on the core theory and skills of motivational interviewing, with emphasis on how Jesus identified and resolved ambivalence. Examples of how Biblical terminology and world view of the Christian faith can be integrated into motivational interviewing will also be discussed.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Human Trafficking in the U.S.
Anna Rodriguez ,
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     This training will demonstrate how Christians in Social Work can come together to address the complex issues surrounding domestic human trafficking and collaborate on strategies to prevent trafficking, as well as identify, rescue and restore human lives when it takes place. It will also show how lack of financial support and services for domestic work places a larger burden on faith-based and community agencies to secure resources to do their work.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Using the Internet and Related Technologies to Support Distance Education and Training
Peggy Pittman Munke, PhD
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     The primary focus of this training will be on examining web-based technologies such as Facebook, MySpace, Elluminate, Blackboard and Second Life to support distance learning, education, synchronous or asynchronous training, group work, collaborations and networking.
Format: Text-based
Number of CE Hours:1
Social Work and Domestic Violence: Faith-based Implications
Nancy Nason-Clark
Marciana Popescu
Rene Drumm
Sylvia Mayer
Laurie Cooper
Tricia Foster
Marge Seifert
Holly Gadd
Smita Dewan
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This training consists of two articles from a special issue of Social Work & Christianity focused on, "Social Work and Domestic Violence: Faith-based Implications (Winter, 2009 issue).

Many religious men, women, teens and children look to their faith community for guidance and practical assistance in the aftermath of domestic violence.

Looking at the interface between religion and abuse from a variety of perspectives, the first article in this course explores several unique features of the journey towards justice, safety, healing and wholeness for a religious victim, or perpetrator, of domestic violence. Whether someone is helped first by their congregation or a community-based agency, those who respond need to understand both the issue of domestic violence and the nature of religious faith. Building bridges between the steeple and the shelter or congregations and their communities is central to responding compassionately, and with best practices, to domestic violence.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) affects women in all socio-economic and religious strata. The belief systems women rely on affect their ability to acknowledge and challenge the abuse in their relationships and move towards safety.

Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Using Spiritually Modified CBT Therapy in Practice: An Evidence-based Perspective
David Hodge, PhD
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     Using an evidence-based perspective, this training focuses on one particular therapeutic modality, that is, spiritual modified cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Potential enhancements include faster recovery, improved treatment compliance, lower post-treatment relapse and reduced treatment disparity.

The training concludes by illustrating the construction of spiritually modified CBT self-statements that reflect common Christian and Islamic Values.

Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Faith-based Community Development: An Exciting Call to Servanthood
Marty Koostria, BSW
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     What is faith-based community development? This audio-based training will explore key concepts of community development and what makes communities healthy and whole. In addition, this training will look at effective models of faith-based community development and evaluate a variety of indicators of success. Finally, it will challenge participants to find ways to build community in their respective locales.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:1.25
Adoption & Faith: Perspectives Informed by Alan Keith-Lucas
Helen Harris, Ed.D, LCSW
Beth Harris, BSW Candidate
[Price: $ 18.75]
[Member Price: $ 15]
     Presented by a social worker who is an adoptive parent and a social work student (her adoptive daughter). This training with articulate the practice principles of Alan Keith-Lucas on the integration of faith and practice, the valuing of birth families, the concepts of reality empathy and support as relevant in the adoption experience. The focus will be on the impact on faith of seeing oneself as a child of God, understanding God's valuing of substitute families and birth families and the use of Christ centered principles for managing challenging interactions. Discussion will include closed and open adoption, the decision to search or not, principles for re-establishing contact and managing value differences. Practice tips and opportunities for discussion around the application of these principles will be included.
Format: Video-based
Number of CE Hours:1.0
Macaroni at Midnight: Overcoming Oppression, Racism, and Hate
Don Bartlette, Ph.D.
[Price: $ 15.00]
[Member Price: $ 12]
     This presentation is a profile of Dr. Bartlette's experiences as a Native American child growing up with severe speech and physical handicaps in an environment of poverty, child abuse, family violence, homelessness, racism, and alcoholism. It highlights the contribution of Don's faith and spirituality as important strengths that supported his overcoming a number of obstacles in his life.
Format: Audio-Based
Number of CE Hours:2.0
Children of Trauma: Understanding & Partnering in Their Healing Process
Nola M. Carew, MSW, LMSW
[Price: $ 30.00]
[Member Price: $ 24]
     This audio-based training will assist helping professionals to develop a clearer understanding of definitions and types of traumatic experiences in children. Special attention will be given to working with children who have experienced chronic or complex trauma in the form of abuse or neglect. This workshop will address biological, psychological, and social impacts of trauma to help social workers provide more effective assessment of and intervention for affected children over the course of their development In summary, this workshop will emphasize an understanding of the needs of the traumatized child from a whole person perspective in the context of their social environment and integrates biblical concepts to provide a framework for hope and healing.