Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 - 10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. CT
Presenter: Miriam Itzkowitz, MSW, LICSW
2 CEUs - Ethics

Mandated reporting is a professional responsibility for all helping professionals. Despite our best intentions, and our belief in evidence-based practice, mandated reporting remains one of the few areas in which professionals do not regularly examine best practices or look beyond their perceived legal and ethical obligations. How do we incorporate all that we know about trauma, racial disproportionality in child welfare, the importance of relationships, and ethical, evidence-based practice into our legal duty as mandated reporters? In this training, professionals will learn alternatives to mandated reporting that can prevent child maltreatment, promote family preservation, and maintain client engagement. Participants will be asked to take a critical eye to the legal and ethical implications of the decision to report and consider ways in which these decisions have impact for families, and for our professions, beyond the reporting call.

​This webinar will not be recorded.

Friday, September 26th 2025 11:30am - 3:45pm CT via Zoom
4 CEUs - may be counted as Clinical
Hosted by: NASW-MN, NASW-MN, and NASW-TX
Presenters: Dr Louis Boynton, PhD, LPC, Charles D. Safford, LCSW and Celia Grand, LCSW, BCD, PA

This four-hour core clinical program will provide important information in asystematic, readily understandable and easily digestible way about how tointegrate emerging neuroscience related to trauma and PTSD into your clinicalpractice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. Designed tobring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related toadvances in our understanding of trauma related disorders: etiology, assessmentand treatment, this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assistthe clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients affected by acuteand chronic trauma.

This is the sixth program of a series of programs designed to help master’s level clinicians advance their knowledge base in the integration of neuroscience into their practice.

Friday, October 24th, 2025 12:00pm - 3:15pm CT via Zoom
3 CEUs 
Hosted by: NASW-MN, NASW-MN, and NASW-TX
Presenters: Dr Louis Boynton, PhD, LPC, Charles D. Safford, LCSW and Celia Grand, LCSW, BCD, PA

Recent research indicates that emotional granularity – the ability to use ouremotional equipment in a precise and granular way - is essential for mentalwell-being, emotional resilience and effective utilization of interpersonaleffectiveness skills. Building upon the work of Lisa Feldman Barrett and LeonidPerlovsky, this 3-hour program is designed to bring the 21st Century clinician upto date on current research related to emotional granularity and its role inemotional development and successful functioning. This program will addressthe implications of emotional granularity for best practices in clinical work,psychoeducation, and parenting education, and will provide practical tools andapproaches to transfer the key knowledge base to clients in a readily applicableway and to address motivational complexities and resistances to change.

This is the seventh program of a series of programs designed to help master’s level clinicians advance their knowledge base in the integration of neuroscience into their practice.

Friday, November 21st 2025 12:00pm - 3:15pm CT via Zoom
3 CEUs 
Hosted by: NASW-MN, NASW-MN, and NASW-TX
Presenters: Dr Louis Boynton, PhD, LPC, Charles D. Safford, LCSW and Celia Grand, LCSW, BCD, PA

Presenting a one-day, three-hour training to bring the 21stCentury clinician up to date on current research related toadvances in our understanding of communication and learningtheory, affective neuroscience and implications for the capacity togenerate more powerful communications with clients. This coursewill provide practical tools and approaches to transfer the keyknowledge base for communicating with clients in a readilyapplicable way and to address motivational complexities andresistances to change.

This is the eighth program of a series of programs designed to help master’s level clinicians advance their knowledge base in the integration of neuroscience into their practice.