1 Credit hour: Helping professionals serve on the front lines in every practice setting, dedicating themselves to assisting others in the most challenging and uncertain circumstances. It is essential that clinicians acquire the skills and techniques necessary to de-escalate tense situations. This one-hour course will be jam-packed with an overview of de-escalation Techniques.

5 Credit Hours: Clinicians require a vast array of therapeutic tools, approaches, and skills to provide evidence-based treatment to the patients and clients. Join expert clinicians for this introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT). Attendees will gain evidence-based practice information and skills to incorporate into their everyday practice.

1 Credit Hour: More than 16 million people in the United States are living with cognitive impairment. With age being the greatest risk factor, this number is expected to dramatically increase as the Baby Boomer generation passes the age of 65. In this one-hour discussion, we hear from two people living with cognitive impairment who are finding purposeful and joyful living.

2 Credit Hours: Helping professionals and healthcare providers are trusted with the important role of caring for people during what can be vulnerable moments, and it is imperative that they practice with competence and humility. In this honest conversation, M. Greg Green, Author and Advocate, will provide an overview of the LGBTQ+ community, their diverse health needs, and the bias that they can experience in the systems in which we practice.

5 Credit Hours: This training will discuss utilizing spirituality and cultural humility in the clinical setting. The training will provide a rationale for integrating a spiritual approach as we provide support for our clients and patients, along with the ethical role of the helping professional in working with diverse populations. The second half of the presentation will focus on cultural humility. Embarking on a journey of critical self-reflection, discovery, and humility.

5 Credit Hours: This course provides a DSM-5 “tune-up” – where we go back to the basics and review some of the major content areas and psychiatric disorders. This course focuses on some of the major content areas of the DSM-5 - going over disorders, criteria and breaking them down for a better understanding. In addition, the course reviews ethical frameworks for social workers, case managers, nurses and counselors.

1 Credit Hour: Inequalities in healthcare is an issue that affects every single person. This course will provide a brief overview of those inequalities in the healthcare system. Understanding the whole system will provide insights that will help healthcare professionals and social workers recognize and combat the inequalities that create barriers to quality care.

2 Credit Hours: Most individuals decide to enter the helping professions because of a deep commitment to help others. As we communicate with our clients/patients on the importance of self-care as a prerequisite for wellbeing, many of us are experiencing compassion fatigue or burnout. In this invigorating presentation, Jenny Buckley, RN, BSN, CHPN, will discuss the necessity for self-care as an ethical imperative, strategies for practicing self-care, and communication best-practices to promote self-care in your professional practice.

5 Credit Hours: School social workers and other professionals working in the school setting have many factors to consider in their work with students and families. Understanding ethics regarding confidentiality of minors in school settings is important for best practices and ethical decision making. Diversity considerations in school settings will also be explored. Implicit bias, cultural competence, and specific dynamics of culture in schools will be presented.

1 Credit Hour: The fast-paced nature of healthcare settings requires clinicians to have brief and effective methods of intervening with client problems. Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy provides clinicians with a framework and tools for successful outcomes. This training will present an overview of the CBT model, along with discussing the brief form of this model. Specific interventions for healthcare settings will be explored, including the “10 Minute CBT” framework and helpful clinical tools.

5 Credit Hours: The Enneagram is a personality system that helps us understand ourselves and one another, like the Myers-Briggs. This personality system is unique because it not only helps us understand our persona but also invites us to grow emotionally and spiritually. The Enneagram includes nine personalities and each of these personalities has considerable strengths and weaknesses. Using self-awareness and other interactive exercises, didactic learning, and insights of applying the Enneagram in day-to-day clinical practice, this introductory course will provide an excellent overview of this tool.

1 Credit Hour: The fast-paced nature of healthcare settings challenges clinicians to utilize appropriate intervention models within a specific time frame in which patients may only receive services for a brief amount of time. Solution-focused therapy offers promising approaches to addressing patient needs in a strengths-based, focused interviewing style. Clinical tools such as EARS and ROPES will be presented, along with relevant case vignettes for critical thinking.

5 Credit Hours: Implicit bias is an “implicit stereotype, an unconscious attribution of particular qualities to a member of a certain social group.” As helping professionals, we have an ethical obligation to explore evidence-based research around the causes of the disparities in minority communities and work on actively closing these gaps in care. This course will address the definition of implicit bias, including appropriate strategies for practice.

1 Credit Hour: Clinicians require a vast array of therapeutic tools, approaches, and skills to provide evidence-based treatment to the patients and clients. In this jam packed one hour training we take a deeper dive into Mentalization Based Therapy (MBT). Griffin Smith, LCSW, will provide the history and origin of MBT, a better understanding of the core concepts of MBT, and how mentalizing can be useful in your professional practice and personal life.

2 Credit Hours: Helping professionals (social workers, counselors, nurses, and case managers) that practice in spaces with older adults can experience scenarios that create ethical dilemmas. For example, identifying the ‘right’ path of intervention when working with a client that is neglectful of their own needs, while considering that same client’s right to self-determination.

2 Credit Hours: Medically complex patients require a team-based and patient-centered approach to care. Critical care patients may fall under the following categories of complex medical care: pulmonary/ventilator weaning, neurological/post-trauma, cardiac/heart failure, infectious disease, wound care, and others. Participants will gain valuable insight, approaches to care, and resources critical to ensuring the best recovery for our medically complex patients.

1 Credit Hour: This thought-provoking course will cover all topics of being a care partner to someone with dementia or Alzheimer’s. Lisa Marshall, author of the NEW book Oh Hello Alzheimer’s: A Caregiver’s Journey of Love, will share her experiences through an interview-style format. Lisa shares her story, including diagnosis, early denial, progression of the disease, how Lisa and her husband coped, and most of all how they continued to bring joy and purpose to their lives.

1 Credit Hour: The Enneagram is a personality system that helps us understand ourselves and one another, like the Myers-Briggs. The Enneagram includes nine personalities and each of these personalities has considerable strengths and weaknesses. Each personality also has one particular Achilles heel, and once we become aware of this, we are more able to move toward transformation and life. We will be reviewing these nine Enneagram types.

6 Credit Hours: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, or DBT, is not just useful with people who have Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). "DBT-informed Treatment" is shown to be quite effective with individuals who do not have BPD. This workshop will introduce learners to the validity of DBT interventions for individuals who struggle with anxiety, depression, trauma, impulse control, and relationships.

1 Credit Hour: Since the pandemic, helping professionals have experienced record levels of burnout, stress and compassion fatigue. While many trainings focus on self-care, this training focuses on exploring the concept of resilience. Participants will walk through creating their own plan to build resilience and will finish with free tools to use both professionally and personally.

5 Credit Hours: Motivational Interviewing is an effective ethical technique for professionals in many practice settings to engage in meaningful conversations with clients to help facilitate attitude and behavior change. This workshop examines a brief definition and history, theoretical framework, style and spirit, process, and techniques of motivational interviewing. The workshop also explores how biases and diversity influence behavior and services, and provides tools for reflection, self-monitoring and regulation to manage personal values and maintain professional standards of practice.

1 Credit Hour: Healthcare settings present service providers with diverse patient situations and circumstances which sometimes involve ethical dilemmas. Specific ethical dilemmas in medical settings will be introduced for learners to critically analyze through case studies, including decisional capacity, competence, cultural factors, and autonomy.

5 Credit Hours: Helping professionals are on the frontlines of many disparities that people face on a daily basis, and systemic racism is one of them. While we as the helping professionals are trying to decrease the number of barriers our clients or patients face, we are up against an enormous barrier for our clients or patients who identify as BIPOC. This full day event will provide a discussion of how we as a society arrived at this place of oppression and what we can do to help.

5 Credit Hours: One of a clinician's biggest responsibilities is assessing and intervening with suicidal clients. In this training, comprehensive suicide assessment tools and approaches will be discussed. Learn about best practices for completing a thorough suicide assessment. Discover evidenced-based intervention methods to address suicidality and reduce risk. Classify legal and ethical requirements for effective practice. Leave this workshop with newfound confidence and skills to support suicidal clients.

5 Credit Hours: Trauma Informed Care has been all the buzz with organizations being trauma informed and practitioners utilizing a trauma informed approach, but have you wondered what this actually looks like? Do you want to know how you can be trauma informed or how to assess your own trauma informed approach? If you answered “yes”, then this event is for you! In the morning, participants will hear the story of a survivor and the factors that led to her success. Throughout the rest of the day participants will learn how to implement a framework in which they recognize, respond, and empower the populations they work with.