Summer Series CEU Workshops

You may sign up for 1, 2 or all 3 workshops at the bottom of this page.

 

Understanding Gender Variance

Wednesday,  July 20, 2016
9:00am – 12:30pm (8:30am registration/refreshments )

It was once believed that the distribution of gender was bimodal.  Gender was thought of as being primarily determined by physical anatomy and socialization.  A closer review of gender has led to the discovery that gender actually flows along a continuum.  This training will provide a historical overview of gender, gender variance, and gender determinants.  Sociological implications, the provision of care to the gender variant population in various treatment settings and emergent ethical dilemmas will be explored.  Attendees will have the opportunity to discuss case scenarios, share their own experiences, enhance awareness and work toward a gender variant inclusive treatment setting.

By attending this workshop you will:

• Define terms which apply to gender variance
• Explore gender determinants.
• Explore and discuss the gender continuum. 
• Learn to create a gender variant inclusive treatment setting.
• Explore ethical dilemmas and how they may impact treatment.
• Develop strategies to enhance awareness and provide trauma informed care.

Agenda:

• Check-in and light refreshments
• Introduction and definitions applying to gender variance, discussion, video
•  Discussion of the gender continuum
• Discussion of gender determinants
• Gender variance in treatment settings:  Partial Care, Outpatient, Residential, Family Therapy, Individual Therapy
• Ethical Dilemmas
• Case Scenarios, activity
• Creating an inclusive treatment setting
• Activities, questions, closing comments   
  

Presenters:  Renee Bennett-Holmes, LCSW has 27 years of experience working in the field of mental health in multiple settings.  Settings include vocational rehabilitation, adult partial care, intensive adult case management, intensive in-home counseling and as a therapist in an adolescent psychiatric community home.  She has provided training in the areas of emotion dysregulation, self mutilation, positive engagement, transference/countertransference, group facilitation and transgenderism.  Ms. Bennett-Holmes also provides clinical supervision to therapists in an adolescent residential setting.

Deborah Wolff, LCSW has worked with multiple at-risk populations for over 20 years in residential, foster-care, partial care, in-home, and outpatient treatment settings.  Ms. Wolff trains and presents for Oaks Integrated Care, NASW, DCF, and various other organizations. She has dedicated much of her career to insuring treatment environments are safe, supportive, and provide an opportunity for healing. Additionally, she serves as co-Chair of Oaks Integrated Care’s Diversity Committee and is Director of Bridging Family Support.

Continuing Education Units: This course, “Understanding Gender Variance” is approved for continuing education by the New Jersey Social Work Continuing Education Approval Collaborative.  CE Approval Collaborative Approval Period: through August 31, 2016.  Social workers will receive 3 Cultural Competence/Clinical education hours for participating in this course.               

Registration Fee: $60 (Complimentary for Oaks Integrated Care employees - register via Oaks ELearning) Full refunds are available if cancellation occurs more than 2 days before the course. Space is limited; register today.
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Family Engagement: Turning Values into Practice

Thursday, August 4, 2016
9:00am – 12:30pm (8:30am registration/refreshments )

Whether working with children, adolescents or adults, engagement with families and caregivers helps improve treatment outcomes. Effective family engagement requires understanding the benefits, challenges, strategies, and opportunities for the individual and family. Engagement models will be explored for various populations including child welfare and  adult SMI.

By attending this workshop you will:

• Define “engagement” and “family engagement”
• Learn at least 3 benefits of family engagement
• Explore the barriers and challenges of family engagement
• Review documented family engagement models
• Learn proven strategies and interventions
• Practice approaches to family engagement in the context of culture
• Develop a personal plan to increase family engagement in their practice

Agenda:

• Purpose/benefits of engaging clients’ families including review of research and exploring how treatment success is related to family involvement
• Words of Engagement: words/phrases, definitions
• Principles of engagement: explore fundamentals of engagement and family engagement
• Developing a Family Engagement Philosophy and Culture
• Predictors/Indicators of engagement success
• Barriers/Challenges
• Clinical Skills, Program Strategies &  Engagement Models
• Putting it into Practice
• Understanding Emotional needs of Caregivers
• Operationalizing Family Engagement
• Developing a personal and program plan
• Q/A

Presenter: Deborah Wolff, LCSW has worked with multiple at-risk populations for over 20 years in residential, foster-care, partial care, in-home, and outpatient treatment settings.  Ms. Wolff trains and presents for Oaks Integrated Care, NASW, DCF, and various other organizations. She has dedicated much of her career to insuring treatment environments are safe, supportive, and provide an opportunity for healing. Additionally, she serves as co-Chair of Oaks Integrated Care’s Diversity Committee and is Director of Bridging Family Support.

Continuing Education Units: This course, ‘”Family Engagement: Turning Values into Practice”  is approved for continuing education by the New Jersey Social Work Continuing Education Approval Collaborative.  CE Approval Collaborative Approval Period: through August 31, 2016.  Social workers will receive 3 Clinical education hours for participating in this course.

Registration Fee: $60 (Complimentary for Oaks Integrated Care employees - register via Oaks ELearning) Full refunds are available if cancellation occurs more than 2 days before the course. Space is limited; register today.
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Cultural Perspectives in
Out-of-Home Placement and Adoption Workshop 

Friday, August 12, 2016
9:00am – 3:30pm (8:30am registration/1 hour lunch)

Issues of cultural competency in out-of-home placements and adoption have various implications toward treatment.  Children and teens are often faced with placement in a family or residential structure far from their own familiarity and comfort.  Differing cultures affect not only the youth in care, but also foster, adoptive, and birth parents as well as other caregivers/staff.  This experiential and informative workshop will explore these issues assisting management and clinical teams in understanding how cultural competence is necessary for effective placement, clinical treatment, permanency plans, case assignments, and even recreational activities.  Additionally, the workshop will explore considerations for culturally competent policies which address out-of-home placement.

By attending this workshop you will:

• Develop self-awareness surrounding personal cultural backgrounds, issues, and biases as it relates to foster care, adoption and out-of-home placement
• Explore diversity and competency issues that are unique in-out-home placement
• Recognize how cultural diversity impacts the foster or adopted child as well as the foster or adoptive parent and children/staff  in residential settings
• Understand the challenges of fostering/adopting or treating children with differing values, beliefs, and traditions
•  Identify assessment tools and resource available
• Learn 3 techniques/strategies for clinical application

Agenda:

• Check-in and light refreshments
• Importance of Cultural Perspectives in Out-of-Home Placement
• Definitions, Misunderstandings and Assumptions, Beliefs and Knowledge
• Transcultural Families and Rituals and Routines
• System and Personal Challenges: Breaking Down the Issues
• Lunch on your own
• Child, Foster parent/ Caregiver, Birth parent, Agency/Institutions/Staff Perspectives
• Clinical Perspectives: Stages of Ethnic Identity; Ethnographic Interviewing
• Case Scenarios, Interventions and Practice Recommendations
• Closing Video: “Now I am Just Me”                          

Presenter: Deborah Wolff, LCSW has worked with multiple at-risk populations for over 20 years in residential, foster-care, partial care, in-home, and outpatient treatment settings.  Ms. Wolff trains and presents for Oaks Integrated Care, NASW, DCF, and various other organizations. She has dedicated much of her career to insuring treatment environments are safe, supportive, and provide an opportunity for healing. Additionally, she serves as co-Chair of Oaks Integrated Care’s Diversity Committee and is Director of Bridging Family Support.

Continuing Education Units: This course, ‘Cultural Perspectives in Out-of-Home Placement and Adoption,’ is approved for continuing education by the New Jersey Social Work Continuing Education Approval Collaborative.  CE Approval Collaborative Approval Period: through August 31, 2016.  Social workers will receive 5 Cultural Competence/Clinical education hours for participating in this course

Registration Fee: $100 (Complimentary for Oaks Integrated Care employees - register via Oaks ELearning) Full refunds are available if cancellation occurs more than 2 days before the course. Space is limited; register today.

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