Presented by Gary U. Behrman, PhD, MSW, M.Div., LCSW

3.0 Clock Hours

*** This course meets the 3.0 hour Ethics requirement for licensure renewal. *** 

Our Code of Ethics provides valuable tools and insights into acting ethically. However, the needs of vulnerable populations such as persons with life threatening illnesses, brain disease, poverty, unemployment, homelessness, minority status, and others can be exploited and overlooked. This workshop will closely examine our responsibilities when working with vulnerable populations and how to be both sensitive and effective in meeting their healthcare goals.

Objectives:

1. Identify what it means to be empathic, compassionate, and ethical
2. Understand how vulnerable populations can be disenfranchised by the healthcare system
3. Explore how to build character to act ethically
4. Apply Code of Ethics principles to working with vulnerable populations

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Virtual Platform: Zoom Meeting
Presenter: Darby Morhardt PhD, LCSW
Available CEUs: 1.0

Description:
This class will describe the demographics of dementia including the prevalence in different race and ethnicities. The differentiation of normal cognitive aging, mild cognitive impairment and the most common dementia disorders will be presented with examples. The role of the caregiving family will be highlighted with an emphasis on clinical social work interventions, including ecologically informed biopsychosocial assessment, application of an understanding of family systems and ambiguous loss, advance care planning and linkage to helpful resources and education. There will also be a discussion of health care policy around dementia and caregiving at the local, state and national levels.

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Presented by Gary U. Behrman, PhD, MSW, M.Div., LCSW

3.0 Clock Hours

With addictions and other behavioral challenges, clients present with overwhelming emotions that tempt them to give up. Instilling hope through surrender is a breakthrough understanding in how clients can achieve their goals and change their behaviors. This workshop will distinguish between giving up and surrendering and provide practical approaches to helping clients achieve their goals.

Objectives:

1. Learn how surrender serves as a powerful framework for addressing the intertwined challenges of mental health disorders and substance abuse.
2. Demonstrate techniques to help clients overcome denial, mistrust, and fear about surrendering as part of their healing journey.
3. Understand how to incorporate surrender as a therapeutic principle to help clients navigate internal conflicts and external challenges.
4. Address ethical issues in aiding clients in adapting to the principle of surrender from various religious and spiritual backgrounds.

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Presenters: Barney Straus, LCSW, PCGC, and Jeffrey Roth, MD
Virtual Platform: Zoom Meeting
Available CEUs: 1.5

Description:
This ninety-minute workshop will explore how interpersonal group psychotherapy can be used to support individuals recovering from addictions and compulsive behaviors. The workshop leaders will present the foundations of Interpersonal Group Therapy. The theory will be demonstrated using video clips from two online demonstration groups. A discussion focusing on opportunities to apply the techniques to back-home groups will conclude the workshop. Dr. Jeffrey Roth, an addictions psychiatrist based in Chicago, is both the leader for the demonstration groups and a co-presenter for the workshop. This will allow participants to comment and ask questions to the group leader. Dr. Roth will share the thought process that led him to make the various interventions in the groups. In addition to exploring the role of the group leader, workshop participants will have an opportunity to learn about other aspects of group dynamics, including the elements of boundaries, authority, roles and primary task. The impact of addiction on all family members will likewise be explained.

Missouri voters decide the fate of Amendment 3 this November: a measure that would ban abortion in nearly all cases and prohibit gender-affirming care for minors. Join NASW-Missouri's contract lobbyist and PACE Committee for a 30-minute session breaking down what the amendment actually says, how it got on the ballot, and what passage or defeat would mean for social workers and the clients they serve. We'll cover the current landscape, talking points for conversations with clients and colleagues, and how members can get involved before Election Day.
 

Register here: Click here.

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You're invited to participate in the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Virtual Career Fair!

Whether you're searching for new employees or looking for an exciting opportunity in social work, you'll want to join us for this virtual event on September 24th, 2026 from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm Eastern.

Why participate in NASW’s Career Fair?

For employers:

• At this event, you can efficiently fill your pipeline with qualified candidates, find the right candidates for your hard-to-fill roles, and reach new audiences.

• You will gain the opportunity to have 1-on-1 interactive conversations with engaged, diverse social work professionals.

For job seekers:

• Registration for this event is completely free and open to those who are actively seeking new work and to those who are currently employed, but open to learning about good career opportunities.

• You will gain the opportunity to make connections with multiple companies in real time from the comfort of your own desk.

• You can add fuel to your job search by engaging in multiple 1-on-1 interviews over the course of this virtual career fair.

How does the Virtual Career Fair work?

• After registering for the event, job seekers and employers will schedule their interviews.

• Job seekers will be able to explore participating companies and send out invitations for interviews.

• Employers will have the ability to review job seekers’ resumes and reach out to individual job seekers for interviews.

• Employers will respond to job seekers requesting interviews, and all participants will have a scheduling calendar where they can view and manage all of their interviews.

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Presenter: Stacy McCann, LCSW
Virtual Platform: Zoom Meeting
Available CEUs: 1.5

Description:
Until recently, the extent of support for mothers beyond postpartum was to nod with pity and shout “you deserve self-care, mama!” But in 2026, when parenting comes with a warning from the Surgeon General as a “significant health concern,” mothers need more. This workshop will provide a roadmap for clinicians to identify maternal burnout, acknowledge the history and societal factors at play, and support mothers in going beyond "self-care, mama!" and expanding our clinical interventions to support a mother's sharing of the mental load, self-advocacy and communication skills, finding and utilizing their creative energy, and paving a path through motherhood that fulfills them.

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Presenters: Courtney L.K. Haworth, LMSW and Katherine Lee Best, LMSW
Virtual Platform: Zoom Meeting
Available CEUs: 1.5 

Description:
Immigrant communities across the U.S. face unique barriers to reliably access nutritious food. This engaging presentation examines how shifting nutrition program policies, immigration enforcement, and systemic inequities limit access to safe, affordable, and culturally appropriate food for non-citizens and their families. Participants will engage with real-world insights from case studies and explore social work core values to understand the impact of these policies on immigrant households. Participants will gain a better understanding of culturally responsive micro, mezzo, and macro practice strategies while learning how to advocate for ethical and equitable policies that protect food access for all people.

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Presenter: Mariah Maurice, DPA, LMSW
Virtual Platform: Zoom Meeting
Available CEUs: 1.5 Ethics

Description:
Social workers are increasingly asked to hold space for complex trauma, ethical tension, and systemic barriers while maintaining professional effectiveness and personal well-being. In today’s practice environments—marked by high caseloads, organizational constraints, and growing emotional demands—strength in social work is not simply about endurance. It is about intentional, ethical, and trauma-informed action that uplifts clients, defends professional values, and transforms both practice and systems.

This interactive session explores how trauma-informed principles, ethical decision-making, and professional resilience intersect in contemporary social work practice. Participants will examine how moral distress, emotional labor, and misaligned organizational expectations can undermine both practitioner well-being and client outcomes. Rather than framing burnout as an individual failure, the session situates it within broader systems, power dynamics, and ethical responsibilities outlined in the NASW Code of Ethics.

Using real-world practice scenarios, reflective discussion, and audience polling, participants will explore how trauma—both client-centered and systemic—shapes decision-making, boundaries, and advocacy efforts. The session emphasizes practical strategies social workers can use to strengthen ethical clarity, support client autonomy, and remain grounded in their professional values while navigating high-pressure environments. Attention is given to relational dynamics, interdisciplinary challenges, and the emotional toll of sustained advocacy work.

Participants will also explore how strength in action includes advocating not only for clients, but for ethical practice conditions. The session highlights ways social workers can uplift themselves and colleagues through reflective practice, values alignment, and intentional boundary-setting. Participants will be encouraged to identify actionable steps they can take within their own roles—whether clinical, supervisory, or administrative—to promote sustainable practice and ethical resilience.

Designed to be engaging and immediately applicable, this session incorporates audience polling, brief case vignettes, and guided reflection to support learning and peer connection. Participants will leave with concrete tools to recognize ethical strain, respond to trauma-informed challenges, and transform how they approach their work with greater clarity, confidence, and sustainability. By reframing strength as ethical presence and purposeful action, this session supports social workers in continuing to uplift, defend, and transform the profession.t food access for all people.

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Presented by Linda Richards, MSW, LCSW

16.0 Clock Hours

**This course meets the Missouri Licensure Requirement to supervise for the licensure process.**

Educational Objectives and Outcomes:

• Explore styles and techniques of supervision and assess your learning style and personality type
• Know your ethical and legal boundary issues when providing supervision for licensure or if supervising employees
• Tips and techniques to document the supervision process
• Learn how to stay personally excited about being a supervisor and avoid burnout
• Learn to evaluate the effectiveness of your supervision
• Review rules for licensure supervision in Missouri
• Explore the responsibilities of work-related supervision versus licensure supervision

Prerequisite: Attendees must download and read state statutes/rules prior to attendance. To obtain this information please use this link: http://s1.sos.mo.gov/cmsimages/adrules/csr/current/20csr/20c2263-2.pdf .

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Presenter: Joyce Harduvel, LCSW
Virtual Platform: Zoom Meeting
Available CEUs: 1.5 Cultural Competency

Description:
For justice-involved and gang-affiliated youth, the systems they encounter every day label them and treat them as disposable, dangerous, adult, and often less than human. In the courtroom, they are a case number. In the school, they are a safety risk. So when they walk into a therapy room, they don’t see a "safe space," they see another place to be misunderstood and harmed. This session pulls back the curtain on how social workers can effectively break this barrier while working within whatever setting they encounter justice-involved young people, radicalizing their therapeutic relationships and outcomes.

Attendees will learn why standard boundaries and cookie-cutter modalities must be traded for radical authenticity, including the strategic use of self-disclosure and the necessity of naming structural racism and systemic failures out loud. Using case studies from working with justice-involved young people in the community, in schools, and in the court system, attendees will walk away with a new framework for understanding this work and concrete strategies that they can use to enhance their work tomorrow.

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Presented by Gary U. Behrman, PhD, MSW, M.Div., LCSW

Often, behavioral health providers do not distinguish between trauma, anxiety, and stress. If we treat pneumonia with cold remedies as if it were a cold, it will get worse. So too with trauma, if treated with stress management strategies only, the trauma symptoms will worsen and lead to clinical depression, addictions, and broken lives. In this workshop, we will distinguish these symptoms and provide knowledge and skills to effectively treat trauma symptoms. 

Objectives

1. Distinguish between trauma, anxiety, and stress
2. Learn the bio-psycho-social-spiritual impact of trauma
3. Identify characteristics and traits that enhance resilience 
4. Apply skills and strategies to improve health following trauma.

Virtual Platform: Zoom Events
Join us for this two-day conference focused on uniting social workers and other similar professions to uplift communities, defend justice, and drive transformation. Hosted by: NASW-Illinois, Missouri and Nevada Chapters Cost: Up to 8 CEUs / $159 Nonmember / $99 NASW Member

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Presenter: Tara Genovese Ramos, LCSW
Virtual Platform: Zoom Meeting
Available CEUs: 1.0 Cultural Competency

Description:
This NASW-IL training aims to introduce multiracial experiences in the United States. It will go beyond the stereotype of internal identity conflict of people who identify as multiracial. It will focus on external barriers to access to supportive community, systemic discrimination, such as mislabeling or being generally invisible, and barriers to defining themselves. The presentation will walk through a brief history of multiracial identity, specifically in the United States, and how race differs across countries. We also examine the intersection of race and immigration, which can often be overlooked in trainings of this caliber. Then the training will walk through the discrimination that those who are multiracial will have to face, whether systemically, community-wise, within the family, or in the therapeutic dyad. The presentation will go beyond discussing concepts of becoming more culturally competent and discuss the importance of cultural humility and how that can look in different social work settings.

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Presented by Gary U. Behrman, PhD, MSW, M.Div., LCSW

3.0 Clock Hours

For over a decade, the suicide rate in Missouri has been higher than the national rate.  Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S., with suicides outnumbering homicides by more than two to one. With the increase in opiate addictions, it is critical that social workers are educated in how to assess, treat, and refer to appropriate levels of care to lower the risks for suicide.

By the completion of this seminar, participants will:

1. Recognize the warning signs of suicide risk,
2. Address family concerns with at-risk clients, 
3. Incorporate behavioral health screens and safety plans,
4. Apply best practices that facilitate resilience and improve health outcomes, 
5. Identify resources and recent research for suicide prevention.