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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"

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.
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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
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“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
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  • Fee: $50.00
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Expanding Caring Frameworks, A Critical Cariño Toolkit: Improving Practices when working with Latine Students and Communities

October 17, 2025 | 10:00 a.m. EST

Presenters:

Dr. Carmen Veloria, Ed.D. (she/her, ella), Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Central Connecticut. State University and Dr. Anthony De Jesús, Ed.D., MSW (pronouns he/his/el), Associate Professor of Social Work & Equitable Community Practice, Director of the MSW Program at University of Saint Joseph, CT

 

Description:A great deal has been written about notions of care and caring in school and other educational contexts, such as caring for and with students, caring for and with fellow educators, and caring about the socio-context of education (Beauboeuf-LaFontant, 2002, Noddings, 1992, 1984; Valenzuela, 1999, Antrop-González & De Jesús 2006, Bartolomé 2008, McKamey, 2011).  This workshop aims to introduce human services practitioners, educators and students a Latine-centric Critical Cariño Toolkit that emphasizes notions of care and caring through a Latine lens. It includes background information, activity ideas, and information to help practitioners across various settings draw on cultural, familiar, and gendered notions of Cariño, Cuentos/Conocimientos y Consejos (care, stories/ways of knowing, and advice) to demonstrate care and to uphold a culture of high expectations and accountability, while offering authentic and respectful insights on ways of being and moving about the world that are grounded on lived-experience, wisdom, and a desire to help young people thrive in all aspects of their lives.

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Individual Registration Fee:
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  • NOHS Member Fee: $0.00 | Non-Member Fee: $25.00
Organizational Group Registration Fee:
  • Unlimited attendees
  • Fee: $50.00
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