Clinical Supervision Certificate Training
Doubletree Hotel
New Bern, NC

Master's level Social Work clinicians can earn a Clinical Supervision Certificate, gain 20 Continuing Education Contact Hours (at least 4 of which are Ethics Hours), and network with other clinical supervisors in New Bern, NC. Topics include supervisory styles and techniques, skills to supervise clinical social workers at various stages of clinical development, managing challenging supervisees and situations, evaluating clinician competency, cultural competency, ethics, legal and regulatory issues.

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Cybertraps for the Young seminar will be held on May 3, 2013 from 9 am - 4 pm at Wayside Christian Mission-Hotel Louisville.

This seminar will look at the legal trouble that teens and pre-teens can get into through the use and misuse of electronic devices, and advice for parents on how to minimize the risks and protect their children. The morning session will lay the theoretical framework including an overview of technology and computer forensics while the afternoon session will focus on the practical side including types of crimes and how to work with defense attorneys.

About the Presenter:

Fred Lane is an author, attorney, expert witness, and professional speaker on the legal and cultural implications of emerging technology. After graduating from Amherst College and Boston College Law School, he clerked for two years for the Honorable Frank H. Freedman, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. After practicing law for five years and writing his first book, Vermont Jury Instructions -- Civil and Criminal (with John Dinse and Ritchie Berger), he launched a computer consulting business that in time led to his current work as a computer forensics expert and author.

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NASW Virginia's 2013 Annual Conference entitled Celebrating Our Professional Diversity will be held on March 21-23, 2013 at Kingsmill Resort and Spa in Williamsburg, Virginia. Choose from a variety of engaging workshops and earn up to 19 CEUs while continuing your education in the field of social work.

For more information, click : https://netforum.avectra.com/eweb/DynamicPage.aspx?Site=naswva&WebCode=conferenceinfo

The MS Chapter's annual statewide conference, "Weaving Threads of Resilience and Advocacy", is scheduled for March 21-22, 2013 in Natchez, MS in recognition of National Social Work Month. Among the 36 educational workshops offered during the conference will be a 3 hour session on March 22 for advanced practitioners entitled "Brain-Based Social Work Practice: How Neuroscience is Revolutionizing How We Help Children and Families Heal". Nicholas Rutledge, LCSW, QCSW, Trauma Educator & Clinical Instructor, University of Southern Mississippi School of Social Work, will present the workshop.

For more information: http://naswmschapter.org/

Our Spring Symposium, Weaving Threads of Resilience and Advocacy, will take place March 18-20, 2013, at the DoubleTree Hotel in Columbia SC. We will offer a comprehensive array of workshops to address policy, practice, advocacy and the needs of underserved populations.

For more information, click here:  http://www.scnasw.org/

2013 Show-Me Annual Symposium - Game Changers: Inspiring Hope

Country Club Hotel & Spa, Lake Ozarks, MO 

How would you like to get up to 18.5 Continuing Education credits in one weekend? Well, it's easy! Come to the 2013 NASW Missouri Chapter Show-Me Annual Symposium. This three-day event covers several areas of the practice settings for the profession and gives you the opportunity to network with your peers.

Contact: NASW-MO Chapter office, 573-635-6965 or visit www.nasw-mo.org

2013 NASW Ohio Chapter Advocacy Day - The Role of Social Workers in Healthcare
10:00am - 3:00pm

Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, OH

With healthcare reform; the push toward health homes; and accountable-care being pushed front and center, NASW Ohio Chapter invites you to the 2013 Advocacy Day to help us highlight the need for social workers in healthcare reform efforts. Participants will learn how to talk about the value of social workers in healthcare settings and then how to quantify that value to legislators when they meet with elected officials in the afternoon. Register at www.naswoh.org

The Oregon Chapter presents a workshop on March 1, 2013 from 9-4:30, "Legal and Ethical Issues in Social Work" in Portland. This program is designed to educate private practitioners about the legal and ethical considerations regarding documentation as it relates to improving the quality of patient care and the reduction of risk. Participants in this program will learn the legal and ethical issues relating to abuse reporting, including child, elder and developmentally disabled abuse reporting. This program will cover access to healthcare records in both paper and electronic formats, as well as the use and disclosure of protected health information. This program will present ethical considerations on how to avoid common Board complaints, and how to ethically cooperate with the investigation process.