This post is part of the monthly series, Free Mental Health Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring over 30 free webcasts that I could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health. To help you find this month’s #antiracism webinars, they are in bold.
If I’ve missed any, please feel free to add them in the comments section below!
May you and your loved ones be happy, well and safe – always!
Please note:
- This list is updated throughout the month!
- Most but not all provide CEs. A few providers may require a nominal fee.
- To register, click on desired green webinar title link; this will take you to the registration area.
- To ask Qs or confirm CE details, please contact the sponsoring organization of the webinar that is of interest to you.
- To have your free mental health webinar considered for inclusion, please provide details below.
July 2020 Webinars
- A Call to Action: Addressing Historical and Ending Contemporary Racial Inequities – National Council/July 1 at 3:30PM EST – “Together, we must work to forge solutions that will build a future that promotes healing and resilience in our practice, for our staff and for the communities we serve…”
- An Anatomy of a Protest – Red Lion Chambers/July 1… the law relating to every aspect of a protest from the initial planning stage to the Courts… click on link for recording.
- Helping Children Process Grief and Loss During COVID-19 – NYU Langone/July 7 at 11-11:45AM EST – “what to expect when children lose a loved one, about supporting the process of grief in children… challenges of COVID-19 crisis for grieving families…”
- The Bronx African American Oral History Project – Fordham University/July 7 at 12PM EST – “why it was started, who is involved, and what great stories have been uncovered along the way…”
- Coping with Crisis During COVID-19 Pt 5: Providers Report – McSilver Institute/July 8 at 12PM EST – “we will share as many as we can during our webinar…:
- Counseling Emerging Adults With Substance Use Disorders – NAADAC/July 8 at 3-4:30PM EST – “Substance use developmentally peaks during emerging adulthood (ages 18-25)…”
- Black Lives Matter: Anti-Racism Education – Notre Dame High School, Sheffield/July 9 at 11AM EST – ” we will engage with the core principles of Critical Race Theory and Anti-Racism teaching…”
- Living in Uncertain Times: Coping Strategies for Adults on the Autism Spectrum – ADDitude/July 9 at 1PM EST – “strength-based tactics for keeping in touch with others, improving self-regulation, planning alternate ways to meet needs and achieve goals, and suggestions for self-care…”
- Is There Such a Thing as a COVID-19 Budget? – Center for Financial Social Work/July 9 at 2PM EST – “budget is a living document and may be adjusted to the fluidity of life. Helping clients adapt their budgets to their lives gives them control of their money…”
- Community Strategies for Ending Historical and Contemporary Racial Inequities – Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Situations/July 9 at 3PM EST – “the historical and contemporary racial inequities faced by Black, Indigenous and other People of Color, and resilience-oriented strategies for how to address these impacts at the individual, organizational and community level to build a just future that is more inclusive and promotes healing and resilience for those you serve… click on link for recording“
- Building a Trauma Lens – Capacity Building Center for Tribes/July 9 at 3PM EST – “utilizing a trauma-informed approach when providing services to American Indian children and families involved in child welfare…”
- Identifying and Moving Away From White Dominant Culture – Associated Black Charities/July 10 at 10AM-12PM EST, Sept 18 – and Nov 13 – 3 sessions… White Supremacy Handout… the White Dominant Cultural Norms that we personally perpetuate and reimagine new habits and norms. We will be exploring: What are the norms that are impeding your health, growth and productivity? What norms do you perpetuate and how can you establish new ones?...”
- Promote Well-Being and Decrease Opioid Overdose Deaths – Center for Practice Transformation/July 10 at 1PM EST – “In Minnesota, American Indians have five to six times the opioid overdose death rate of other groups…”
- Testing for COVID-19 in Homeless Shelters & Encampments – NHCHC/July 10 at 1PM EST – “As capacity for COVID-19 testing grows in most communities, high-risk settings such as homeless shelters and encampments are increasingly being prioritized for universal testing events…”
- Introduction to the DSM-5 and Models of Substance Use – NeC-ATTC/July 14 at 12-2PM EST – “introduce participants to the DSM-5 and also present models of substance use (moral, disease, bio-psycho-social-spiritual). Also, many people are not aware of how the DSM-5 addresses culture…”
- Navigating Conversations Around Food, Weight, and Body Image in Childhood/Adolescence – Alsana/July 14 at 12PM EST – “children and adolescents are inundated with info re food, weight, and body… likely coming from social media, peers, school, television…”
- ADA Update – JAN/July 14 at 2PM EST – “the latest developments in the application of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in the workplace, some practical tips for compliance, and answers to tough ADA questions…”
- Widely Prescribed Stimulants and the Risk of Psychosis in Young People with ADHD – #BBRFWebinar/July 14 at 2PM EST – “patients prescribed amphetamine were at a higher risk of new psychosis requiring treatment with antipsychotic medicines than patients who had been prescribed methylphenidate…”
- The Impact of Alzheimer’s Disease on Swallowing – Alzheimer’s Orange County/July 14 at 2:30PM EST – “signs and symptoms of difficulty in swallowing (dysphagia)… impact of Alzheimer’s disease on the ability to swallow… interventions…”
- No Food Justice Without Racial Justice – Bondadosa/July 14 at 8PM EST – “In order to make smart and ethical choices about our food, we must first understand where it comes from and all the steps that go into food being available…”
- Motivational Interviewing: What To Do When The Client Says Something About Changing Their Behavior – Great Lakes MHTTC and PTTC/July 15 at 11AM EST – easy to access opportunity to continue to build and enhance their MI practice skills towards fidelity…”
- Social Class Bias and the Negative Impact on Treatment Outcomes – NAADAC/July 15 at 3-5PM EST – “current literature review on social class bias, culturally competent counseling, and national trends in substance use disorders, mental health diagnoses, and utilizing experiential activities… adverse effect class bias can have on the therapeutic relationship…”
- We Need to Talk about Black Fatigue at Work – BK Publishers/July 15 at 1PM EST – “What Black Fatigue is and how it affects Black communities… How Black Fatigue manifests in the workplace… How to talk about and tend to Black fatigue at work…difference between non-racism and anti-racism…”
- What Supervisors Need to Know and Do to Hold Supervisees Accountable – McSilver Institute/July 16 at 12PM EST – “information and approaches that support a supervisor’s skills, confidence and courage to have hard conversations and communicate with GRIT: Generosity, Respect, Integrity and Truth…”
- Secondary Trauma & Traumatic Stress: Behavioral Signs and Symptoms and How to Mitigate – OJJDP/July 16 at 1PM EST – “identify, reduce, and address the traumatic impact of their work in combating child sexual exploitation…”
- Self-Care During “Interesting Times” – NCHAM/July 16 at 1PM EST – “Beyond the Advice to Eat Better and Get a Good Night’s Sleep…two or more brain-based benefits of incorporating self-care into one’s regular routine… “emotional trigger” that disrupts one’s own self-care...”
- Anti-Racism Study and Discussion Group for White Folks and Non-Black PoC – Manifold Studios/July 16 at 7-9PM EST – “topics we will tackle together include White Fragility, Intersectional Social Justice, Discomfort, Activism Burnout and Fatigue, and more…”
- Do You Know Who You Are and For Whom You Provide Services? – NAADAC/July 17 at 12-1:30PM EST – “Previously unknown areas of identity are articulated, such as: societal, cultural, ethnic, familial, regional, and other points of reference with the discussion focusing on options for alignment, conflict resolution, clinical vulnerability, and previously unknown strengths available for the therapist and the client. The therapist and the client can experience the humility present in each contract for change…”
- Cultural Considerations When Diagnosing and Treating ADHD in African-American Children – ADDitude/July 20 at 1PM EST – “cultural humility embraces a lifelong process that includes self-reflection, introspection, advocacy, and co-learning… Potential causes for over-diagnosis and under-diagnosis of ADHD in African-American children…”
- Ibram X. Kendi on “How to Be an Antiracist” – July 20 at 7PM EST. no description provided.
- Basic Neurochemistry for Non-Scientists – NeC-ATTC/July 21 at 12-2PM EST – “neuron as the basic building block of the central nervous system… neurotransmitters (dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin)… 3 parts of the brain (cortex, limbic system, and brain stem) and how they work together around the use of substances and, ultimately, behavior…”
- Recovery from White Conditioning: Building Anti-Racist Practice and Community – Center for Practice Transformation/July 22 at 1PM EST – “12 steps of the Model of Recovery from White Conditioning… implementation lessons learned to date… implications for practice in various settings…”
- Marking a Milestone for CDC’s Milestone Tracker App – AUCD/July 22 at 3PM EST – “unique developmental monitoring tool, CDC’s Milestone Tracker app. LTSAE aims to improve early identification of developmental delays and disabilities, including autism…”
- Working with Child Victims of Sex Trafficking – OJJDP/July 22 at 3PM EST – “how Maryland Children’s Alliance adapted each of the ten National Standards, highlighting the unique qualities of working with child victims of sex trafficking through the child advocacy center and multidisciplinary team approach…”
- Positive Resourcing in Your Clinical Practice – McSilver Institute/July 23 at 12PM EST – “positive resourcing… roots in EMDR therapy… how to use this skill in your practice… can help clients more effectively process trauma, incl ongoing, chronic trauma… during the current pandemic…”
- When Behavior Impedes Learning: A Parents’ Guide to Advocating Objectively and Effectively at School – ADDitude/July 23 at 1PM EST – “federal requirements… What you should look for and expect from a functional behavior assessment (FBA) and a behavior intervention plan (BIP)… strategies…”
- Protective Factors and the Science Behind Resilience – Capacity Building Center for Tribes /July 23 at 3PM EST – ” in-depth exploration of protective factors… Culture, relationships, self-regulation and mastery are protective factors with strong research demonstrating effectiveness in reducing the negative impacts of trauma…”
- Building back from COVID-19 – SCIE/July 24 at 9:30AM EST – “what helps and hinders impactful practice…How we develop a strengths-based frameworks which can drive principled, consistent and effective practice…”
- Basics of Pharmacology – NeC-ATTC/July 28 at 12PM EST – “tolerance (learning, metabolic, & cellular), cross-tolerance and cross-dependence, and synergism or potentiation… agonist, partial agonist, and antagonist drugs and how they apply to our work…”
- Deconstructing & Decentralizing White-ness in Practice – Center for Practice Transformation/July 29 at 1PM EST – “history and impact of Western models of mental health care with Native communities and how this paradigm needs to shift to be able to effectively provide care that is focused on healing and wellness…”
- How to Integrate Medication-Assisted Treatment within the Healthcare Delivery System – COE/July 29 at 3PM EST – “discover what medication-assisted treatment is, identify when to implement it, and how to successfully integrate it into recovery care plans…”
- Critical Issues in LGBTQIA Patient Care – NAADAC/July 29 at 3-5PM EST – “information on gender and sexual minorities and issues they encounter in treatment, legal requirements of these facilities, and ethical policies that can be put in place to provide a safe, learning opportunity for these individuals to process and grow…”
- Ready, Set, Pivot: How to Prepare Your Kids (and Yourself) for an Unfamiliar School Year – ADDitude/July 30 at 1PM EST – “set up daily routines that reduce conflict and build skills for independence… How to deal with general anxiety and health and safety concerns…”
- Teen Matters – Meeting The Needs Of Adolescent Youth – OJJDP/July 30 at 2PM EST – “Key principles and strategies for prevention, quality substance use disorder treatment for adolescents, and recovery support…”
As mentioned above, please note:
- This list is updated throughout the month!
- Most but not all provide CEs. A few providers may require a nominal fee.
- To register, click on desired green webinar title link; this will take you to the registration area.
- To ask Qs or confirm CE details, please contact the sponsoring organization of the webinar that is of interest to you.
- To have your free mental health webinar considered for inclusion, please provide details below.
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