Megan D. Keyes, PhDAdjunct Faculty, Brown SchoolFounder, Trauma Empowered Consulting Preferred registration deadline: March 22nd This workshop will be held in person at the Brown School. 3 CEUs Although millions of Americans experience sexual violence each year, research indicates many are hesitant to disclose this experience in clinical settings unless directly asked. To provide quality mental health care for adult survivors, it is essential clinicians are equipped to sensitively and efficiently assess sexual trauma in women, men, and people who are transgender. This workshop will review our current state of knowledge regarding key clinical issues and barriers to disclosure of sexual trauma across genders. General best practice guidelines for clinically assessing sexual trauma will be discussed including how to create…

Ryan Lindsay, MSW, LCSWAssociate Professor of PracticeChair, MSW Mental Health Concentration, Brown School Katie Heiden-Rootes, PhDAssociate ProfessorMedical Family Therapy Program, Saint Louis University School of Medicine Preferred registration deadline: March 22nd This workshop will be held in person at the Brown School. 3 CEUs Working with suicidal LGBTQIA+ youth and families requires understanding broad risk and protective factors for youth and unique risk and protective factors in order to formulate a suicide risk profile. Moreover, integrating families into the suicide safety planning process requires understanding and integration of specific contextual information related to family safety, privacy and confidentiality, limits of confidentiality, and disproportionate risk to violence when utilizing emergency response systems. In this workshop, we will explore the risk and…

Trecia Davis, MSW, LCSWFounder, Equal Shares Parenting Preferred registration deadline: April 5th This workshop will be conducted in a virtual Zoom meeting format. 3 CEUs Social workers are taught to know that they should generally avoid dual (or multiple) relationships, particularly when there are risks of exploitation or harm to clients. However, social workers doing clinical work in a non-therapeutic school setting experience increased pressures as they reconcile the need to provide relevant information to the instructional staff as well as maintain confidentiality for their clinical sessions with students and their families. In this workshop, participants will explore ethical concerns that may be posed when doing clinical work in the non-therapeutic school setting of public or private schools. We will…

Sarah Buek, MSW, LCSWFounder & Principal, The IllumiLabAdjunct Faculty, Brown School Rebekah Miller, MSWSenior Program OfficerLutheran Foundation of St Louis Preferred registration deadline: April 12th This workshop will be held in person at the Brown School. 3 CEU/CPH units Writing a grant is one thing. Writing a manageable grant, executing those promises, and managing that relationship is something else entirely. With expertise in evaluation capacity building, grant making, and grant management, the presenters will share tips and tools for avoiding the most common self-inflicted wounds in grant writing, streamlining funder reporting, and managing relationships with grantors in authentic, trusting, and trustworthy ways. General Admission: $60** Class size is limited to 45. **Discounts on workshop admission are offered to the Brown…

Elizabeth SimonsCommunity Program Manager, Great Rivers Greenway Preferred registration deadline: April 19th This workshop will be held in person at the Brown School. 3 CEU/CPH units Places hold stories of the people and events that shape the culture of our region. Place-based service aims to improve the quality of life and access to opportunity for people—often for people of color and families with low incomes—who live in neighborhoods, cities, and rural communities experiencing disinvestment. When service providers have a better understanding of place, we are able to more effectively serve the people in that place. This workshop will focus on understanding the stories of place and connecting people to place. Workshop participants will be asked to discuss places with hidden…

Lili Schliesser, MSWProject Coordinator, All In Clayton Coalition Preferred registration deadline: April 19th This workshop will be held in person at the Brown School. 3 CEUs Drug overdose deaths have reached a historic high, devastating families and communities. Social workers on the frontlines help teens and families deal with the consequences of substance misuse through treatment and support services and mitigate its impact through harm-reduction strategies. But what can social workers do to help prevent youth from misusing substances or developing substance use disorders? This workshop will focus on an ‘upstream’ approach to substance misuse. We will learn about prevention science and explore effective strategies to prevent substance use among adolescents, equipping them with the knowledge and tools necessary to…