NASW Vermont 2023 Conference

National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Vermont 2023 Conference

NASW Vermont Chapter is excited to offer another fantastic two day conference for social workers and allied professionals. We have selected speakers and presenters to cover a broad array of clinical and systemic issues that face our clients and communities. 

Workshops Include:

• Animal Assited Social Work
• Guns, Violence, Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders, is there a connection?
• Working with ASL and spoken language interpreters
• Exploring PolyVagal Theory and Practices for Healing Trauma
• Democracy starts with a conversation and collaboration
• Leveraging the Power of Teams: The Team as Secure Base Model
• Trauma-related Dissociation and DID: Essential Understandings
• Basics of the Triple Intersection of Trauma, Neurodiversity, and Gender Diversity in Youth
• Shifting from behaviorism towards attachment and regulation centered schools, the role of Social Workers
• Broken System, Broken Promises - how our child protection system has failed children and parents alike
• Providing Affirming Care for Trans and Gender Non-binary People
• Social Workers in Court - Learning from Experience
• BEATing Anxiety: A Model for Transforming Anxiety
• A Clinician's Overview of the Intersection Between Neurodivergence and Trauma
• Supporting or Reporting: Critical reflections of the other side of the Child Abuse hotline
• Ecotherapy: Using Nature as a Healing Tool
• Transforming Trauma: Moving from Collective Pain to Collective Healing
• Systemic Interventions for Child Behavioral Health Issues
• Culturally Responsive Mental Health Care with VTs Former Refugees
• Social Work and Brain Injury

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