Professional Development Registration
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2025 Professional Development Webinar Series:
- 01/28/2025: "Cultural Humility to Cultural Reverence: An Overview"
- 02/25/2025: "Healing-Focused Care: Integrating Motivational Interviewing, Trauma-Informed Care + Cultural Humility"
- 03/12/2025: "Navigating New Beginnings: Supporting Unaccompanied Children in Their Resettlement Journey: An introduction for Human Service Providers"
- 04/15/2025: "Empowering Voices: Survivor-Led Advocacy in Social Change Practice"
- 05/12/2025: "Behavioral Health Consideration when working with Individuals and Families during Pregnancy and Postpartum"
- 06/02/2025: "Supporting Families through Pregnancy and Infant Loss"
- 07/09/2025: "Moving Beyond Performance: Assessing your Organizational Landscape in Anti-Racist Work"
- 08/06/2025: "Bringing AI into the classroom: Real-World Tips and Tools for Preparing Undergraduate Human Services Students"
- 09/23/2025: "'Do I really want to tell you?': A CASE Approach to Uncovering Suicidal Ideation"
- 10/17/2025: "Expanding Caring Frameworks, A Critical Cariño Toolkit: Improving Practices when working with Latine Students and Communities"
- 11/25/2025: "From Comradery and Purpose to Questions and Uncertainty: Supporting Positive Veterans Reintegration"
- 12/08/2025: "Transformative Outdoor Programming for Youth and Youth Workers Situated in a State Child Welfare Agency"
Moving Beyond Performance: Assessing your Organizational Landscape in Anti-Racist Work
July 9th, 2025 | 1:00 p.m. EST
Presenter:
Jenise Katalina, MSW, LICSW, Women of Color Health Collective
Description: This session will guide individuals in moving their organizations toward being anti-racist and anti-oppressive beyond just initial reaction training. In racial equity, the term "organizational landscape" encompasses an organization's structure, culture, policies, and practices related to racial equity, including both visible aspects like representation and intangible elements like power dynamics. Understanding this landscape is crucial for addressing systemic racial disparities and fostering inclusivity where all members can thrive. Using a multi-dimensional framework, this session aims to help organizations assess their current state and set goals for impactful, sustainable change in diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES: This session is designed to help participants:
1. Gain an understanding of the concept of Institutional Accountability through a Cultural Humility lens
2. Gain an understanding of the seven dimensions essential to an organizational landscape assessment and their application within an organization.
3. Identify key components of data collection and their importance in the assessment process.
4. Recognize the importance of an organizational landscape assessment to sustain racial equity and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) work within an organization.
Individual Registration Fee:
- 1 person only
- NOHS Member Fee: $0.00 | Non-Member Fee: $25.00
Organizational Group Registration Fee:
- Unlimited attendees
- Fee: $50.00
Bringing AI into the classroom: Real-World Tips and Tools for Preparing Undergraduate Human Services Students
August 6, 2025 | 10:00 a.m. EST
Presenters:
Dr. Joshua Wilson and Rebecca Wilson, LMHC
Description: Curious about how AI can fit into your teaching toolkit? This session dives into practical ways human services educators can bring AI into their classrooms to make course and assignment planning easier, train students on essential skills like counseling, and keep ethical considerations front and center. We’ll talk about real examples of syllabus language that encourage responsible AI use and academic honesty, plus we’ll introduce a new framework, "Considerations for the Use of AI in Teaching and Learning," that’s designed to help you decide how to best use AI with your students. Whether you're new to AI or looking to take your skills up a notch, this session will offer straightforward advice, practical tools, and fresh ideas tailored for human services educators.
Individual Registration Fee:
- 1 person only
- NOHS Member Fee: $0.00 | Non-Member Fee: $25.00
Organizational Group Registration Fee:
- Unlimited attendees
- Fee: $50.00
“Do I really want to tell you?”: A CASE Approach to Uncovering Suicidal Ideation
September 23, 2025 | 2:00 p.m. EST
Presenters:
Dr. Heath Hightower, Ph.D., MSW, ACSW, LCSW, LICSW
Description: The Chronological Assessment of Suicide Events (CASE) Approach is a clinical interviewing approach developed by Shawn Christopher Shea to facilitate candid conversations about a client’s suicide risk. The approach applies six validity techniques to assess presenting, recent, past, and immediate suicidality experiences sequentially. This professional development program:
1. Provides current suicide mortality data
2. Describes research findings related to client non-disclosure of suicide
3. Highlights tips for addressing clients’ reluctance to discuss suicide
4. Defines the six CASE validity techniques with examples
5. Details the steps for conducting a CASE approach assessment with a real clinician-client dialogue (client information has been de-identified).
6. Outlines possible clinical interventions resulting from the CASE Approach
Individual Registration Fee:
- 1 person only
- NOHS Member Fee: $0.00 | Non-Member Fee: $25.00
Organizational Group Registration Fee:
- Unlimited attendees
- Fee: $50.00