All Webinars

If you cannot make the live event, register now to be sent a link to the On-Demand version to view at your convenience. 

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The “Make Resilience Matter” project uses NLSCY findings which show that IPV exposed children with better psycho-social outcomes have higher levels of school connectedness, family cohesion and social supports.

The qualitative data from this project support these results with interview participants reporting school/school related activities, extended family and social supports as contributing to their resilience processes.

These findings indicate that environments are critical to resilience promotion. Helping professionals need to enlist schools as vital resilience resources for youth for healthy outlets from violent environments. Extended family members and supportive adults are also crucial for these youth to turn to, as are strong social support networks. Availability of these options outside of the home appear to contribute to resilient outcomes for vulnerable IPV exposed youth.   

This webinar will explore the following areas: 

• Overview of recent research on the impact of intimate partner violence in the workplace
• Overview of recent changes to Canadian legislation
• Recognizing the signs of intimate partner violence
• How to effectively respond
• Elements of an effective workplace response to intimate partner violence

There has been increasing emphasis on placing children with kin when removed from their families. There is a need to recognize this as an area of complex practice and to develop skilled support for kinship arrangements. This webinar will consider underlying family systems and dynamics issues in kinship care with practice implications for positive outcomes. 

This webinar is PART ONE in a TWO PART series offered by the British Columbia Association of Social Workers and the Canadian Association of Social Workers. This webinar will invite audience participation and sharing. 

We encourage you to test your system to ensure a smooth viewing experience.  

This webinar will draw deeply from the wisdom of three ground breaking women: Virginia Satir, who described metaphors as her “adjunct therapists” and used them intentionally in her therapy; Dora Kunz, cofounder of Therapeutic Touch, whose metaphors are very applicable to all who seek to embody intention and compassion in their healing work, and Joan Halifax, Zen Priest, founder of Upaya Zen Retreat Center, teacher and anthropologist, who has infused her teachings on end of life care with potent metaphorical tools.

A metaphor is a figure of speech that can be applied to something to which it is not literally applicable, but may share some commonality, to broaden perspective or meaning. Metaphors can at the same time be vitally simple and yet complex -- and have the potential to be limiting or expanding. Gaining the most power and transformative outcome from using metaphors requires a very attentive focus on client’s own language, world view and images. Metaphors also need to be culturally aligned with the unique value systems, history and life experience of each client to be effective.

The first hour:

The focus of how these can be used in clinical practice will cover the beginning stage of contracting with a client, through to endings, and any times of “stuckness” at any point in our work with clients.  We will explore the potential role of metaphors in empowering clients to be creative actors in their own healing and resolution of challenges, and in lessening potential power imbalance and dependence in the therapeutic relationship.

Participants will be encouraged to share their own examples of where metaphors worked or didn’t, from their own professional experiences and to examine both the ingredients that fostered and/or limited change in these situations. Tools for recognizing and responding to critical aspects of clients’ world views will be explored along with a process of staying alert to when we might be inserting our wisdom over that of the client’s.

The second hour:

The focus will shift to our own challenges as practitioners, both in practice and in our personal lives, and how greater attention to how we language and use metaphors, both consciously and unconsciously, can help us move forward.  We will explore “unfinished business”, regrets, and what we might consider “mistakes” with a goal of using the iceberg metaphor, so prominent in Virginia Satir’s therapeutic approach, to support less self-judgement and greater transformation of these states. The value of “emptying the attic trunk” of such regrets will be stressed. 

This webinar is PART TWO in a series offered by the British Columbia Association of Social Workers and the Canadian Association of Social Workers. This webinar will invite audience participation and sharing. 

We encourage you to test your system to ensure a smooth viewing experience.  

This webinar will draw deeply from the wisdom of three ground breaking women: Virginia Satir, who described metaphors as her “adjunct therapists” and used them intentionally in her therapy; Dora Kunz, cofounder of Therapeutic Touch, whose metaphors are very applicable to all who seek to embody intention and compassion in their healing work, and Joan Halifax, Zen Priest, founder of Upaya Zen Retreat Center, teacher and anthropologist, who has infused her teachings on end of life care with potent metaphorical tools.

A metaphor is a figure of speech that can be applied to something to which it is not literally applicable, but may share some commonality, to broaden perspective or meaning. Metaphors can at the same time be vitally simple and yet complex -- and have the potential to be limiting or expanding. Gaining the most power and transformative outcome from using metaphors requires a very attentive focus on client’s own language, world view and images. Metaphors also need to be culturally aligned with the unique value systems, history and life experience of each client to be effective.

The first hour:

The focus of how these can be used in clinical practice will cover the beginning stage of contracting with a client, through to endings, and any times of “stuckness” at any point in our work with clients.  We will explore the potential role of metaphors in empowering clients to be creative actors in their own healing and resolution of challenges, and in lessening potential power imbalance and dependence in the therapeutic relationship.

Participants will be encouraged to share their own examples of where metaphors worked or didn’t, from their own professional experiences and to examine both the ingredients that fostered and/or limited change in these situations. Tools for recognizing and responding to critical aspects of clients’ world views will be explored along with a process of staying alert to when we might be inserting our wisdom over that of the client’s.

The second hour:

The focus will shift to our own challenges as practitioners, both in practice and in our personal lives, and how greater attention to how we language and use metaphors, both consciously and unconsciously, can help us move forward.  We will explore “unfinished business”, regrets, and what we might consider “mistakes” with a goal of using the iceberg metaphor, so prominent in Virginia Satir’s therapeutic approach, to support less self-judgement and greater transformation of these states. The value of “emptying the attic trunk” of such regrets will be stressed. 

If you cannot make the live event, register now to be sent a link to the On-Demand version to view at your convenience. 

We encourage you to test your system to ensure a smooth viewing experience.  

Social workers often work with people who have experienced a traumatic event or complex trauma.  This webinar will provide you with a framework for understanding how to practice trauma informed care, at any level of service. 

In this webinar, you will learn the following:

• Types of trauma, prevalence and comorbidities

• The impact of childhood trauma on adult health and behaviours

• A framework to practice trauma informed care as a social worker

• Practical strategies to practice trauma informed care

• Additional resources on trauma informed care for various populations

• Charlene has suggested, for further reading: Blaustein, M.E., & Linniburgh, K. M. (2010). Treating traumatic stress in children and adolescents: How to foster resilience through attachment, self-regulation and competency

If you cannot make the live event, register now to be sent a link to the On-Demand version to view at your convenience. 

We encourage you to test your system to ensure a smooth viewing experience.  

At Key Assets Newfoundland and Labrador, we provide family-based care to children and youth with complex needs and challenging behaviours. In this session, we will provide an overview of our model of family-based care, with a particular focus on training, support and supervision.

If you cannot make the live event, register now to be sent a link to the On-Demand version to view at your convenience. 

We encourage you to test your system to ensure a smooth viewing experience.  

Intimate partner violence is a global issue, largely impacting on women and girls – the most frequent victims of relationship-based violence. This presentation will look specifically at the issue of exposure to violence in families on the development of children and youth and implications for intervention involving caregivers.  

This session will provide an insight into how private payer benefit plans are designed and how coverage for Social Work services is determined.

This 45 minute presentation will include: 

• Private payer environmental overview
• Review of key stakeholders, industry influencers, how they interact, and how funds flow between them
• Principles of group insurance (origins, taxation and guidelines)
• Review of risk management and profit sources for insurers in Canada
• Case studies to understand why and when Social Workers are not covered by some private health plans.

The session will be followed by a 30 minute period to take audience questions. 

In this workshop, you will learn:

• The difference between compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, vicarious trauma and burnout
• How to assess your levels of compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue
• Why social workers go from passion to fatigue
• Strategies you can begin using immediately to reduce and prevent compassion fatigue.

There will be ample time for audience Q&A at the conclusion of the presentation.