Reimagining Public Safety: A Panel Discussion Date: Friday, February 26, 2021 Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Panel Discussion Free; $20; CEs: 1.5

According to The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore routinely spends more than half a billion dollars on its police department, far more than on other agencies, such as employment development, parks and recreation, and homeless services. Now imagine a non-profit receiving a half a billion dollars annually and year after year making little to no progress—what would happen to their funding? Join this panel as they discuss ways to reimagine public safety and redistribute funds that could potentially change public safety outcomes. They will also discuss what social workers can do to chart new paths that will not only keep children and families safe, but also support them in thriving. Moderator: Bobby Marvin Holmes, LMSW Panelists: Ako Changa Onyango (Fusion Partnership), Dayvon Love (Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle), and Dr. Bridal Pearson (Director of the Human Services Administration at University of Baltimore)

Date: March 17,2021 Time: 9:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Free to Active Field Instructors CEs: 3, $65 Presenters: Gregory A. Brightbill, MBA, MEd and Dawn Shafer, LCSW-C

Understanding the role of a Social Worker when addressing the needs of gender-diverse individuals is important in an effort to improve the current disparities that exists in transgender affirming health and human care. This workshop will provide participants with valuable knowledge on the topic of gender diversity, queer theory, pronoun usage, and best practices for Social Workers.

Merging Macro Skills with Clinical Practice: How to Engage the Community as a Clinician Date: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Speaker: Shawna Murray-Browne, LCSW-C Free; CEs: 1.5; $20

From the micro, mezzo, to the macro, there are common elements, processes, and skills that exist across social work. However, due to the dichotomous nature of the social work education, we tend to forget this fact. Please join the conversation as we wrap up Social Work Month by highlighting the threads that run through the sub-groups and emphasizing the necessary skills to really address Person in Environment in a clinical setting.

Date: Friday, April 9, 2021 Time: 1:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Instructor: Julie Smithwick, LMSW, CHW

Community Health Workers (CHWs) are trusted individuals from communities that oftentimes face high health and social inequities. CHWs help individuals navigate resources, connect to needed services, understand and improve their health conditions, advocate for their needs, and address community challenges by building on strengths. Over the last few years, CHWs have started to become integrated into care teams at clinics, assigned as liaisons with schools, and hired at community organizations to provide outreach and advocacy. Social workers and CHWs can work together to best support individuals and communities, but a more thorough understanding of the similarities, differences, strengths and potential challenges of these relationships is needed in order to work effectively together. This workshop instructor is both an MSW and a CHW and will give insight into who CHWs are, what they do, and how to facilitate a positive working relationship.

Suicide Prevention and Post-vention in Work and Professional Organizations Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2021 Time: 12:00 pm – 1:30 p.m. $20; CEs: 1.5 Instructor: Jodi Jacobson Frey, PhD, LCSW-C

With over 47,000 people dying by suicide in 2017, it is critical that workplace leaders take a stronger stance in placing suicide prevention as a key part of establishing a healthy and safe workplace. Learn how suicide prevention is everyone’s business as we all work to prevent suicide and respond to the ongoing tragedies of suicide in and around our communities. This webinar will introduce participants to the recently released national U.S. Guidelines for Suicide Prevention in the Workplace. Dr. Frey is a leading expert in suicide research and has worked with national organizations supporting these guidelines for workplaces and professional organizations.

Studying the Dominant Identity Seeing White: A Podcast Deep Dive Date: April 1 – May 13th Time: 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. CEs: up to 14 Category 1 CEs (CEs reflect attendance) Cost: $185 Instructors: Nicole Palmore, MSW and Bobby Marvin Holmes, LMSW

On one level, it seems Americans talk about race and ethnicity all the time. The news media always seem to be reacting to the latest racial “incident,” while pundits ponder “race relations” year in and year out. The premise of this series is that the American conversation about race and the stories we tell ourselves about race and ethnicity are deeply incomplete and often misleading. We need new stories and new understandings about [American] history and our current racial and ethnic reality. (Scene on Radio, 2016) Scene on Radio is a podcast that tells stories exploring human experience and American society. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, Scene on Radio comes from the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) at Duke University and is distributed by PRX. In Season 2, the Peabody-nominated Seeing White, Biewen and collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika explored the history and meaning of Whiteness.

This podcast will be used as a framework and a conversation starter around the issues of race; specifically, Whiteness. Race is overly analyzed, but rarely do we look at Whiteness. The conversation will extend into how the use of race affects you—individually, professionally, and systemically. How does the use of race impact your work and worldview? With affinity groups we will interrogate and challenge beliefs and move to tangible action plans. Each week participants will be expected to listen to two episodes of the podcast, Seeing White (season 2), and be prepared to discuss.

Episodes 1: Turning the Lens and Episode 2: How Race was Made

Episode 3: Made in America and Episode 4: Crazy We Built a Nation

Episode 5: Little War on the Prairie and Episode 6: That's Not Us, So We're Clean

Episode 7: Chenjerai's Challenge and Episode 8: Skulls and Skin

Episode 9: A Racial Cleansing in America and Episode 10: Citizen Thind

Episode 11: Danger and Episode 12: My White Friends

Episode 13: White Affirmative Action and Episode 14: Transformation

Apply at: www.ssw.umaryland.edu/FSW Deadline: January 31, 2021

UMSSW’s Financial Social Work Initiative (FSWI) is launching its online version of the Financial Social Work (FSW) Certificate Program through UMSSW’s Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Office in March 2021! It will meet an identified need for greater financial capability and empowerment knowledge on the part of social workers who practice in non-profit and other social service agencies, in schools, medical settings, justice and court settings, and beyond. In FSWI’s work and research over the past 10 years, social workers and human service organizations have expressed a significant, ongoing need for financial social work (FSW) training and skill-building strategies to enable them to intervene appropriately and effectively with financially distressed individuals, families, and communities. Beyond providing resources, however, social workers must have sophisticated knowledge about issues in typical daily financial life, such as credit, debt, budgeting, and working towards identified financial goals. Social workers who work with clients on their complex financial struggles and how these intersect with other psychosocial stressors must be knowledgeable about and familiar with financial issues and behaviors and feel comfortable in addressing these directly and effectively. From a macro, policy perspective as well, social workers who work within FSW must also be well versed in historical and current policy issues that influence and affect people’s paths towards greater financial stability; conversely, those policies that hinder financial stability and/or that perpetuate economic injustice must also be understood. The FSW Certificate Program will run over multiple sessions from March 2021 to September 2021 and is worth 42 CE credits. The online formatting design of the FSW Certificate Program will enable rich class discussion and learning through interaction among the macro and clinical practitioners from across the nation. Besides key educators, the program will feature guest speakers from this important, emerging areas. In addition, 3 hours of ethics content will be included and will go towards satisfying requirements for ethics CE credits.

Each session will occur sequentially in half-day segments. The dates are: • March 4 and 5, 2021 • April 1 and 2, 2021 • May 6 and 7, 2021 • June 3 and 4, 2021 • July 1 and 2, 2021 • August 5 and 6, 2021 • September 2 and 3, 2021

Application Deadline: Friday, February 19, 2021

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Unfortunately, we live in a world where children experience trauma. These experiences can come from outside of the family, such as a natural disaster, car accident, school shooting, or community violence; however, trauma can originate from within the family, such as domestic violence, physical or sexual abuse, or the unexpected death of a loved one. Trauma is the response to a deeply distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual’s ability to cope, causes feelings of helplessness, diminishes their sense of self and their ability to feel the full range of emotions and experiences. How an event affects an individual depends on many factors, including characteristics of the individual, the type and characteristics of the event(s), developmental processes, the meaning of the trauma, and sociocultural factors. The impact of trauma can vary from subtle to outright destructive behaviors. The journey in understanding what happened is complicated, but it is the clinician’s duty to appropriately assess and treat trauma without causing additional trauma to the client in the process. Moreover, due to the many symptoms of trauma, it is important to measure the effectiveness of any treatment. The Certificate in Trauma Treatment with Children and Adolescents consists of an evidence-grounded and narrative-based model applied to assessment, diagnosis, and treatment methods. Social workers and other mental health professionals from a variety of clinical settings encounter

clients with histories of emotional abuse (referred to as “psychological abuse” in DSM-5 and referred to as “mental injury” in Maryland), physical abuse, sexual abuse, and other adverse life events (trauma). This program provides the opportunity for practitioners to learn and analyze cases through a collaborative knowledge and skill-building experience. This certificate is a collaboration of many local experts in the field and will include numerous therapeutic modalities and opportunities to practice skills.

April 2021 – June 2021 Application Deadline: February 26, 2021 Instructor: Mary Hodorowicz, PhD, LCSW-C

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This online certificate program is designed to provide not only the resources and information necessary for gaining MI knowledge through course content, but also the opportunity for practicing and improving actual MI skills. This will be accomplished through experiential learning activities, feedback, and coaching. The structure of the course was created with the working professional in mind, using a variety of teaching methods, including a combination of lecture, visual aids, practice exercises, and discussion. Participants’ MI skills will be assessed prior to the first class and after program completion. This will provide participants with a concrete measure of their MI skill development from start to finish. With content covering topics from Core Concepts to Managing the “Mandated Client,” this program is appropriate for social workers with a range of prior MI knowledge and experience. Additionally, with sessions on ethics, supervision, and leadership, this program contains information relevant to social workers in direct practice or administration and management. To maximize individualized feedback and coaching opportunities, space is limited to select number of participants and only those enrolled in the program will be permitted to participate in the sessions.