NYSED-Approved Continuing Education for Social Workers

This 3-hour live webinar (Part 1 of 2 with Dr. Kathryn Krase) explores the legal and ethical obligations of mandated reporters in cases of child neglect. Participants will examine physical, medical, and educational neglect, address complex issues like parental supervision and corporal punishment, and leave with practical frameworks for deciding when to report and how to support family functioning. 

Free CE for NASW-NY Members | World Suicide Prevention Day

This training deepens clinical competency in assessing and treating suicidal ideation and self-injurious behaviors across the lifespan. Drawing on evidence-based CBT and DBT approaches, participants will gain practical frameworks for evaluating risk, building collaborative safety plans, and implementing emotion-regulation and distress-tolerance techniques. Guidance on engaging and supporting caregivers is woven throughout.

Part 2 of 2 | Child Welfare & School Social Work Series with Dr. Krase
Each session is a stand-alone offering. Register for Part 1.

From armbands protesting the Vietnam War to book bans and vaccine mandates — what happens in schools has always been contested ground. This workshop examines the rights of students, parents, and educators through international, federal, state, and local law, and equips mental health professionals with practical tools for proactive and responsive advocacy on behalf of justice in schools.

Social workers play a central role in ensuring safe, effective transitions after psychiatric hospitalizations and emergency visits — yet timely follow-up remains a persistent challenge. This webinar examines the NCQA FUH and FUM quality measures, exploring how 7-day follow-up reduces risks including medication non-adherence, suicidal ideation, relapse, and avoidable readmissions across the lifespan. Participants will gain practical strategies for strengthening care transitions, coordinating essential supports, and advocating for system improvements across hospitals, clinics, community behavioral health programs, and FQHCs.

Part 1 of 3 | Ketamine Series with Erica Sandoval

This introductory session explores Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) as a transformative healing modality, examining its benefits alongside the cultural stigma and systemic barriers that limit access in BIPOC communities. Participants will leave with tools to advocate for equitable, culturally humble KAP practice.

Each session in this series is a stand-alone offering.

This CE training reframes how clinicians approach difficult group therapy participants — moving beyond behavioral labeling to a developmental engagement framework based on Vaillant's hierarchy of defense mechanisms. Participants learn to recognize a member's stage of group engagement and apply stage-matched interventions that build group safety, cohesion, and therapeutic growth.

CE Program recruited and planned by NASW-NY CE Taskforce, Micro Subgroup.

A hybrid, discussion-based CE session hosted by the Hudson Valley Solution Focused Network (HVSFN), exploring the role of feelings in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). Participants co-construct client conversations, apply solution-focused techniques, and learn to navigate problem-saturated systems — best suited for clinicians already familiar with SFBT.

Part 2 of a 3-part Ketamine series with Erica Sandoval. This CE training explores how ancestral wisdom, holistic healing, and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) can be integrated into trauma-informed, decolonial social work practice — breaking down barriers to healing in BIPOC communities.

This CE training helps social workers recognize how intimate partner violence manifests across the lifespan and across identities — moving beyond one-size-fits-all screening to trauma-informed approaches that account for how power, control, and access to support differ by age, identity, and culture.

This CE session gives social workers an introductory understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) in mental health practice — how it's currently being used, the ethical and legal risks it raises, and a framework for evaluating AI at both a practical and policy level. Part 1 of a 2-part series with Dr. Kathryn Krase.

This 4-hour CE session provides social workers with essential groundwork to strengthen engagement with mandated, resistant, and justice-involved clients. Grounded in Motivational Interviewing, therapeutic alliance building, and the Stages of Change, this course offers practical strategies to navigate defensiveness, address professional bias, and foster trust and accountability through a trauma-informed, culturally responsive lens.

CE Program recruited and planned by NASW-NY CE Taskforce, Macro Subgroup.