Free Mental Health Webinars, April 2025

This post is part of the monthly series, Free Webinars for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals, featuring 55 free webcasts that we could find for you this month in the field of social work and mental health.

To make it easier for you to find a webinar that is of interest to you, they are now organized by the following categories: addiction, ADHD, advocacy, aging, child welfare, clinical practice, self-care and other.

If we’ve missed any free webcasts that you are aware of, please feel free to add them in the comments section below!

Please note:

• Most but not all provide CEs. A few providers may require a nominal fee.
• To register, click on the 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.

April Webinars 2025

Addiction

• SBIRT for Crisis Services Learning Collaborative – ATTC/April 1 at 12 PM ET – “SBIRT is a comprehensive public health approach for delivering prevention, early intervention and referral to treatment services to people using substances in a harmful or risky way”
• Cognitive Processing Disorder (CPD) 101: Awareness and Support in the Field of SUD Treatment – ATTC/April 8 at 10 AM – 12 PM ET – “define and exemplify what cognitive processing disorder is, how it presents, and some basic considerations for navigating it”
• How the Americans with Disabilities Act Applies to Addiction and Recovery – ATTC/April 9 at 2 PM ET – “Understand how and why addiction is a disability under the ADA; Identify protections when applying for a job, and on the job; Outline one’s rights to utilize medication for opioid use disorder while involved in: the courts, jail or prison, recovery residences, and in health care.”
• Socioeconomics and Gambling Harm – NYCPG/April 10 – “gain knowledge on how socioeconomics and lack of opportunities can increase risks of gambling harm. All participants will know how to access local help and support”
• Person-Centered or Provider Driven? – ATTC/April 18 at 10 AM – 12 PM ET – “discuss strategies to reduce the provider-driven potential by using person-centered and recovery-oriented approaches that focus on client strengths and goals”
• Start With Hope: Supporting Mothers With SUDs Panel – NC/April 22 at 1 PM ET – “learn how providers address these challenges [of pregnant and postpartum women with SUDs], strengthen care coordination and share solutions rooted in hope of improving the quality of treatment and recovery.”
• PHQ-9 Training for Co-Occurring Depression and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Learning Collaborative – ATTC/April 23 at 12 PM ET – “Explain the PHQ-9 and its application in Substance Use Disorder (SUD) treatment”
• Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders and PTSD – ATTC/April 23 at 1:30 PM ET – “discuss why these two disorders often co-occur and how those who have both differ from those who have either SUD or PTSD in terms of their physical and mental health and treatment outcomes”
• What Do Women Want? Combatting Stigma and Developing Gender-Responsive Services for Women Who Use Drugs – ATTC/April 23 at 3 PM ET – “xplore the current landscape of care for women who use drugs and equip providers with strategies to combat stigma and meet the healthcare needs of this community.”
• Motivational Interviewing for Edible THC – NAADAC/April 23 at 3 – 4:30 PM ET – “identify how to assess a client’s readiness to change THC use. Participants will also identify how to apply Motivational Interviewing for those living with Marijuana Use Disorder”
• Using SBIRT to Address Substance Use in Mental Health Settings – ATTC/April 24 at 10 AM – 1 PM ET – “review intersections of psychoactive substances and mental illness, impact on mental illness diagnosis and treatment, and benefits of how SBIRT can augment successful outcomes for individuals with co-occurring disorders.”

ADHD

• Social Anxiety in Middle School to College Students – ADDitude/April 2 at 1 PM ET – “What does research say about the causes and effects of social anxiety among those with and without ADHD? Which treatments and interventions work best to help and support students in social situations?”
• Dispelling Myths About Supplements for ADHD – ADDitude/April 10 at 1 PM ET – “explore the latest research findings about non-medication approaches to ADHD management”
• The Power of Behavioral Parent Training for ADHD – ADDitude/April 15 at 1 PM ET – “Behavioral parent training (BPT) can be especially effective for children with ADHD and related behavioral struggles. BPT teaches caregivers the skills and strategies that can help improve their child’s behavior, self-control, and self-esteem”
• Are My Student’s ADHD Accommodations in Danger? Fallout from the Department of Education Changes – ADDitude/April 23 at 1 PM ET – “the role of the Department of Education as it relates to special education and higher education issues, with a focus on IEP and 504 Plans for students with ADHD and learning disabilities;How the Trump administration’s DoE developments would likely or potentially impact students’ accommodations”

Advocacy

• Advocacy Skills for Underserved Communities – NAADAC/April 9 at 3 – 4:30 PM ET – “learn the importance of advocacy skills and how to adjust caseload management expectations to support the unmet needs of underserved communities”
• Supporting LGBT Youth and Their Families – Millersville/April 10 at 12 – 1:30 ET
• Who Needs Financial Social Work? – FSW/April 10 at 2 PM ET – “Learn how Financial Social Work addresses the lives of those experiencing systemic barriers or economic transition and how to include this work in your practice, casework, client work, classrooms, workplace, conversations, and personal life”
• Culture is Healing: Supporting Belonging for Indigenous Youth – CPT/April 11 at 1 PM ET – “provide practitioners with culturally rooted ways to support belonging for and empowerment of Indigenous Youth”
• Uniting Communities, Strengthening Networks and Raising Awareness on Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Access to Safe Housing for Native Survivors – NIWRC/April 16 at 3 PM ET – “discuss how building networks and strategizing with other organizations can lead to comprehensive, successful efforts in understanding and addressing the complex challenges survivors face, including housing insecurity, homelessness, and access to safe shelter”

Aging

• Rights-Based Dementia Care – AlzOC/April 8 at 2:30 PM ET – “exploring the principles of rights-based dementia care. This course highlights how professionals and caregivers can uphold the dignity, autonomy, and human rights of individuals living with dementia”
• Aging Adults and Medication Use: Staying Safe – ATTC/April 16 at 10 AM – 12 PM ET – “review the current prevalence of medication misuse among older adults. Content will also include a discussion about pain management challenges within the potential realities of older adult living.”
• Older Adults and Substance Use Disorder – ATTC/April 17 at 11:30 AM – 1 PM ET – “raise awareness, enhance clinical competency, and promote evidence-based interventions for substance use disorders (SUD) in older adults”

Child Welfare

• Healing Preschool Children After Natural Disasters With Play & Optimism – ECI/April 3 at 2 PM ET – “Discover the power you have as a caregiver in building life-changing relationships with the children you serve and feel validated & energized in the essential work that you do regardless of the circumstance”
• Parenting Autistic Teens and Young Adults: Supporting Growth and Autonomy – NYU/April 8 at 1 PM ET – “review the challenges that parents of autistic teens and emerging adults face and will provide information about strategies to facilitate growth and autonomy and minimize conflict throughout the journey.”
• Technical Interference: Screens and the Parent-Child Relationship – Children and Screens/April 9 at 12 – 1:30 PM ET – “share the latest evidence on how digital media use can affect parent/child dynamics. Learn helpful tips on how to strengthen this important bond in an increasingly digital world”
• Project WITH – Dibble/April 9 at 4 PM ET – “Project WITH empowers participants to explore the impact of “who they do life with” while equipping them with the knowledge and skills to build and nurture meaningful relationships.”
• Conducting Preventive Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in Youth (Part 1) – CTAC/April 10 at 1 PM ET – “assist behavioral health providers in identifying risk factors, prevention strategies, and management options for threats of violence and violent behavior”
• Child Abuse: From Suspicion to Disclosure – OJJDP/April 15 at 10 AM – 5 PM ET – “Develop the basic skills and techniques necessary to engage a child in such a way as to minimize suggestibility but still provide support, beyond what is taught in first responder training”
• Considerations for Youth with Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Diagnoses – CTAC/April 23 at 1 PM ET – “Children and youth with mental health conditions can present with co-occurring intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) that often go underexplored and unaddressed.  Promotion of the overall wellbeing of youth and their mental health must include systematic considerations of co-occurring intellectual and developmental disabilities”
• Conducting Preventive Behavioral Threat Assessment and Management in Youth (Part 2) – CTAC/April 24 at 1 PM ET – “will highlight the contextual examination of threats, what to do, and how to do it. Violent attacks can be prevented when we understand threatening behavior, know how to identify signs of attack, and then move quickly to assess and de-escalate a situation.”
• Mindfulness for Neurodiverse Children and their Families – NYU/April 29 at 1 PM ET – “will talk about the reasons for emotion regulation difficulties and share some data about the stress that families of autistic individuals experience”

Clinical Practice

• Avoiding and Preventing Claims of Therapist Unethical or Unprofessional Conduct – NACHAS/April 1 at 11 AM – 1 PM ET – “instruct the participant about the legal and ethical issues pertaining to therapist unethical and unprofessional conduct, the potential consequences of that conduct, the state disciplinary process, and how to avoid unethical or unprofessional conduct in practice.”
• Clinical Intensive on Creating Trusting Relationships: The LEAP Approach for Developing Partnerships with Adult Service Participants Who Lack Self-Awareness of Their Mental Health Condition – CTAC/April 1 at 1 PM ET – “how to develop a new relationship with a client focused on problems from their perspective; (ii) how to support collaboration among treatment team members, including the client, provider, caregivers and other supports”
• Applying the Science of Story in Therapy – PESI/April 1 at 4 PM ET – “A look at the major theories that utilize narrative in psychotherapy: Noting specifically Narrative Family Therapy, Jungian Analysis, and traditions of Ericksonian/Solution-Based Psychotherapies.”
• Immigration 101: Navigating the System and Advocating for Human Rights – NASW/April 1 at 7 PM ET – “provide a comprehensive overview of the U.S. immigration system, helping social workers and advocates better understand the policies, procedures, and challenges immigrants face”
• Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Contemporary Immigration Policies and Practices – NASW/April 3 at 7 PM ET – “reflect on the Code of Ethics and moral theory for the grounding of our field’s deep commitment and involvement in the immigration issue, covering the racist and prejudiced underpinnings and functioning of the American immigration system historically.”
• Effectively Managing and Treating Trauma Disorders, Including PTSD – McLean/April 4 at 12 PM ET – “provides an overview of PTSD and other trauma-related disorders, offers practical tips for recognizing their key signs, and shares evidence-based treatment options for those impacted by them”
• Professional Boundaries – ATTC/April 4 at 12 – 2 PM ET – “discuss professionalism and ethics, dual relationships, and how to build a safe working environment.”
• What Do You Do When One Partner Is the Problem? – RLT/April 4 at 1 – 2:30 PM ET – “Why taking sides is essential in couples therapy
When one partner is creating harm, staying neutral can keep your clients stuck.”
• Navigating Postpartum Depression – McLean/April 8 at 11 AM ET – “breaks down the distinctions between common baby blues and postpartum depression, offers tips around proper diagnosis and how to find the right support, and explores how new research could help identify women at risk of developing PPD.”
• Developing a Potential New Treatment for Chronic PTSD: Ketamine Combined with Written Exposure Therapy – BBRF/April 8 at 2 PM ET – “present results of the first open-label clinical trial combining a course of repeated ketamine infusions with a brief, evidence-based psychotherapy for PTSD called written exposure therapy (WET)”
• Navigating Social Work Practice with Immigrants in Today’s Shifting Landscape – NASW/April 8 at 7 PM ET – “examines the impact of the 2025 executive orders on immigration, including limited asylum access, increased deportations, and expanded enforcement”
• “Change Talk” is Motivational GOLD – ATTC/April 11 at 11 AM – 1 PM ET – “review the types of change talk and provide opportunities to practice identifying this truly essential part of the language of ambivalence, along with it’s often vilified counterpart, sustain talk”
• Recognizing and Treating Anxiety Disorders in Adults – McLean/April 16 at 12 PM ET – “breaks down the array of common anxiety disorders, debunks the many myths about them, and offers an overview of proper treatment and how to find it.”
• Change Talk, What to Do Once You’ve Evoked It – ATTC/April 17 at 11 AM – 1 PM ET – “During this learning community conversation (LCC), we will review how to evoke change talk and how to employ it, once it’s spoken by the client/patient.”
• Person-Centered or Provider Driven? – ATTC/April 18 at 10 AM – 12 PM ET – “discuss how stigma and cognitive bias develops and the importance of intentionality in language and engagement. Content will also discuss strategies to reduce the provider-driven potential by using person-centered and recovery-oriented approaches that focus on client strengths and goals”
• Lessons from Clinical Social Work Practice in the Global South during Times of War, State and Community Violence – NASW/April 23 at 7 PM ET – “explore psychodynamic principles developed by social workers on the frontlines of state terror in Central and South America, the Guatemalan genocide, and the wars in Mozambique and Angola”
• Out of the Shadows: Shedding Light on Lesser-Known & Unofficial Eating Disorders – Renfrew/April 25 at 9 – 11 AM ET – “learn the distinctions between eating disorders and disordered eating, as well as risk factors and key symptoms of OSFED (i.e., atypical anorexia and night eating syndrome), ARFID, orthorexia, diabulimia, food and alcohol disturbance, and unique eating issues in athletes.”

Self Help

• Stress and Burnout in the Crisis Workforce – SAMHSA/April 3 at 2 PM ET – “explore evidence-based tools for managing stress, preventing burnout, and fostering resilience”

Other

• Job Search and Beyond – Cancer + Career/April 2 at 6 PM ET – “Knowing how to sell yourself is a key skill when applying for jobs, writing a cover letter, and in an interview. You know why you are perfect for the job, but how do you get the potential employer to see it as well?”
• How to Write a Systematic Review – SAGE/April 9 at 11 AM ET – “provide a step-by-step roadmap for crafting a comprehensive systematic review, from defining your research question to synthesizing and interpreting the findings”
• Integrating Disability Artistry – Great Lakes ADA Center/April 10 at 2 – 3:30 PM ET – “Bodies of Work, a consortium of four programs at three Chicago organizations, will share the practical side of the ADA to integrate disability artistry into arts programming”
• Understanding the Intersections of Disaster Preparedness & Health Emergencies – NIWRC/April 23 at 3 PM ET – “explore strategies for climate adaptation and resilience, centering the voices of those most affected”
• Using Your Plan to Achieve Self-Support – SSA/April 23 at 3 – 4:30 PM ET –

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