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Presented by Sheng Lee Yang, MSW, LCSW, PMH-C
4.0 Clock Hours

Social workers often face tough choices when professional values and legal duties collide. How do you protect confidentiality, respect each person’s dignity, promote fairness, and support self-determination while also following laws on mandatory reporting, duty to warn, or emergency detentions? These gray areas can be stressful, especially when quick decisions are required.
This training offers practical tools to handle these challenges across different settings and age groups. Participants will learn how to use the NASW Code of Ethics, Wisconsin’s MPSW 20 rules, and Reamer’s Seven-Step Ethical Decision-Making Model to guide their work. Real case examples will explore the balance between client autonomy and safety, the limits of confidentiality, and how documentation and decision-making can affect power and trust.

Through discussion and case studies with children, teens, adults, and vulnerable adults, participants will build skills to make thoughtful, defensible choices while keeping clients at the center. By the end of the session, attendees will leave with more confidence and clear strategies for staying true to professional values, even when the best path forward isn’t obvious.
1. Identify key principles of the NASW Code of Ethics and Wisconsin’s MPSW 20 rules that guide decision-making in challenging situations.
2. Analyze case examples to recognize conflicts between confidentiality, safety, self-determination, and legal reporting requirements.
3. Apply Reamer’s Seven-Step Ethical Decision-Making Model to work through real-world ethical dilemmas across different age groups and settings.
4. Demonstrate strategies to explain, document, and justify ethical decisions

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Presented by Malka Shaw, LCSW and Liz Berger, MSW
1.0 Clock Hour

As social workers and therapists, we know that bias and misunderstanding can profoundly shape the safety and well-being of our clients and are devoted to the consideration of how bias may impede clinical progress. This webinar will equip you with the tools to understand Jewish identity, history, and the contemporary lived experience—while addressing how antisemitism and its distorted narratives can impact mental health, treatment, and trust in therapeutic relationships. Through an exploration of Jewish cultural values, intergenerational trauma, and contemporary challenges, you will gain insight into how antisemitism manifests in both subtle and overt ways, and how to support Jewish clients and colleagues with sensitivity and accountability. Your professional practice will expand with learnings related to incidents, attitudes, and perceptions of antisemitism and concrete resources that offer support and empowerment for clients to develop their self-advocacy skills. Join us for this timely and essential training to build your cultural competency, strengthen your practice, and foster inclusive, trauma-informed and healing-centered care.

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Presented by Adam McCormick, MSW, PhD
2.0 Clock Hours

This training is rooted in three years of research and interviews with social workers, therapists, and other helping professionals. This training examines the profound impact of unresolved childhood trauma and adversity on the personal and professional lives of those dedicated to serving others. Drawing on real-world experiences and emerging neuroscience, participants will explore how childhood adaptations—such as people-pleasing, over-functioning, and emotional vigilance—become both strengths and vulnerabilities in their work.

Through a combination of self-reflective exercises, case examples, and trauma-informed strategies, this training uncovers the ways in which emotional contagion, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout take root in the helping professions. Participants will gain insights into how their personal histories shape their interactions with clients and colleagues, as well as their capacity to maintain boundaries and sustain emotional balance.

The training emphasizes the critical importance of self-awareness and authenticity in fostering resilience and professional sustainability. It introduces practical, neuroscience-based approaches to self-care that go beyond traditional practices, addressing the unique challenges faced by helping professionals.

By the end of the training, participants will be equipped with tools to navigate the interplay between their inner worlds and the demands of their work, enabling them to show up more authentically and effectively for themselves and those they serve. This session offers a space for healing and reflection, empowering professionals to rewrite their narratives and thrive in their roles.

Objectives:

• Identify and explain how unresolved childhood trauma and adversity shape common professional adaptations in helping professionals, including people-pleasing, over-functioning, emotional vigilance, and boundary challenges.
• Analyze the ways emotional contagion, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout develop in the helping professions, and examine how personal trauma histories influence professional relationships, emotional regulation, and sustainability in practice.
• Apply trauma-informed, neuroscience-based strategies to cultivate self-awareness, authenticity, and sustainable self-care practices that support long-term resilience and ethical, effective engagement with clients and colleagues.

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Presented by Debra Minsky-Kelly, MSW, LCSW
4.0 Clock Hours

Social workers today face unprecedented challenges: a youth mental health crisis amid provider shortages, rapid advances in artificial intelligence, and shifting demographic and policy landscapes that strain the social safety net. This workshop will examine how these emerging issues intersect with social work ethics and boundaries. Together we will explore critical questions: How can we support youth mental health with declining resources? Is Artificial Intelligence a useful tool to increase productivity and efficiency or a new threat to youth and our profession? What is the role of social workers in responding to anti-DEI policies and other harms to vulnerable groups that our profession is committed to serving? Participants will leave with practical strategies for ethical decision-making and upholding professional boundaries in an era of uncertainty and change.

After completing this workshop, participants will understand:

• Demographic changes in the US/world and how this will impact the social service landscape
• The changing federal policy landscape and how this could impact social services and the social work profession
• The growing use of AI in many settings and the implications of this for social workers and those we serve
• The increasing prevalence of people seeking MH care from chatbots and the ethical implications of this for our profession
• The magnitude and potential causes of the current youth MH crisis
• The gender differences in mental health effects associated with technology
• The impact of the post - #MeToo era on boys and young men
• Ways a female-dominated field of social work can better address the MH needs of boys and men

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Presented by Jeanne Wagner, MSW, LCSW, ACSW
4.0 Clock Hours

e management of ethics, boundaries and confidentiality is especially critical for human service professionals and is in a constant state of change. This workshop will address the unique issues encountered during the provision of social services including the emergence of artificial intelligence, managed care, dramatic federal policy changes, workforce challenges, and the ethical implications.  
 
Objectives, Content: Participants will gain increased awareness of the complicated nature of professional ethics and boundaries and will learn techniques for ethical decision-making. This program is designed to be interactive as participants share challenging ethical issues encountered while providing services both inside and outside the office setting. Ethical decision-making processes will be addressed in a variety of contexts using case examples and best practice models to identify and address complicated scenarios within human service organizations. Participants will learn how to utilize a professional Code of Ethics in managing ethical dilemmas in practice settings.

Learning Goals:
 

• Identify the range of ethical dilemmas and professional boundaries in human services
• Learn how artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting many aspects of social services today
• Discuss approaches to address the conflicts that have arisen from the recent changes to public policies and the conflict with ethical practice
• Discuss the impact of technology on clients and the ethical considerations and  pros and cons  of utilizing technology in practice settings
• Increase awareness of the complicated nature of professional boundaries
• Identify risks that may affect professional liability