Fall 2009 CE Schedule
Intermediate/Clinical Level Exam Prep
(LMSW, LMSW-AP, LCSW)
Patricia Taylor, Ph.D., LCSW & Susan Robbins, Ph.D., LCSW
In this revised format learn the skills necessary to take the licensing exam. Intensively review major topics with a section devoted solely to four major categories of the DSM-IV-TR. Handouts and practice tests for the LMSW, LMSW-AP, and LCSW exams are included. Develop the necessary confidence to take the exam.
Course Time: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Course Dates:
Part I Course #: 10FSW0200C, Friday, September 25, 2009
Part II Course #: 10FSW0201C, Friday, October 9, 2009
Course Cost: Sign-up for both courses for $150.00 or each individual course is $90.00
Course Objectives:
Part I: Participants will be able to 1) list the values and standard areas in the NASW code of ethics; 2) list the primary concepts for at least three different theories of psychosocial development; and 3) list at least three theoretical frameworks for direct social work practice with individuals, families and groups.
Part II: Participants will be able to 1) identify the diagnostic criteria for five different types of schizophrenia; 2) identify the diagnostic criteria for Bipolar I and Bipolar II mood disorders; and 3) identify the diagnostic criteria for three different types of personality disorders.
About the Instructors:
Patricia Taylor, (Trish), is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and approved Texas LCSW supervisor. An experienced practitioner, she currently is the Curriculum Coordinator for the Child Welfare Education Project and Adjunct Faculty at the Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston. She has presented numerous workshops for the Protective Services Training Institute of Texas and invited papers at professional meetings.
Susan P. Robbins is an Associate Professor at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work. She holds licenses as an Advanced Clinical Social Worker and Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC) in Texas and a Diplomat in Forensic Social Work from the American Board of Forensic Social Workers. She also holds a Diplomat in Clinical Social Work from the National Association of Social Workers and from the American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work. She has presented numerous workshops and invited papers at professional meetings as well as for the Texas Protective Services Training Institute and the State of New Mexico Permanency Planning Project. She also serves on several editorial boards and is a consulting editor for Social Work and the Journal of Social Work Education.
Evaluation as a Management Tool
Cache Steinberg
Course # 10FSW0100C • Friday, October 23, 2009 • 9am – noon
Fee: $45.00 • 3 contact hours/.3 CEUs
Most funders require agencies to conduct evaluations of the grant funded programs. Unfortunately, the results are often end up on the shelf hidden in the final report. In this workshop manager will learn how to identify a useful evaluation design and how to use the data for continuous program improvement.
Course Objectives: Participants will: 1) identify the components of a useful evaluation, 2) list two questions they can answer about their operation using evaluation data and 3) identify elements that would be helpful to include in future program evaluations.
About the Instructor: Dr. Cache Steinberg has over 25 years experience in human services program development, management, evaluation and clinical practice. She presently serves as the senior researcher in Office of Community Projects at the University of Houston’s Graduate School of Social Work. Completed project include a comprehensive gang needs assessment of Houston’s East End in partnership with the Mayor’s Anti-Gang Office and a comprehensive evaluation of state funded child abuse prevention programs for the Interagency Coordinating Council for Building Healthy Families. Dr. Steinberg is currently serving as the evaluator for Spaulding for Children’s Project Corazón de la Familia, ACYF funded demonstration grants and the YMCA of Greater Houston’s Trafficked Persons Assistances Program funded by the Office for Victims of Crime. Dr. Steinberg teaches program evaluation and is a frequent presenter at conferences and workshops on evaluation design, program development, and child welfare.
The ABCD’s & F’s of Medicare
Barbara McGinity, LCSW
Course # 10FSW0101C • Wednesday, November 4 • 1pm – 4pm
Fee: $45.00 • 3 contact hours/.3 CEUs
Medicare is front and center in the debate on Healthcare Reform, but how much do you really know about it? In this workshop, we will cover the four parts of Medicare, programs for low income beneficiaries, how Medicare fraud impacts the bottom line, and how you can help to detect and report fraud.
Course Objectives: Participants will 1) identify components and benefits of Medicare programs, 2) describe eligibility and enrollment requirements of Medicare, Medicaid and other assistance programs, 3) describer how Medicare programs are subject to fraud, waste and abuse; and 4) identify strategies to combat fraud.
About the Instructor: Barbara Parrott McGinity has worked for the Better Business Bureau Education Foundation for eight years. As Program Director, she works on educating individuals and professional service providers about schemes, scams and fraudulent business practices in the Greater Houston area. As an outgrowth of the BBB Education Foundation SMP Project, Barbara headed up the educational efforts of the Access to Benefits Coalition – Houston in reaching Medicare beneficiaries with information and education about Medicare Part D. Through her efforts and the staff of the BBB Education Foundation SMP Project, they made over 300 presentations to consumer and professionals.
Fundamentals of Grant Writing
Allen Grundy
Course # 10FSW0400C • Wednesday, November 18 • 1pm – 4pm
Fee: $45.00 • 3 contact hours/.3 CEUs
In Fundamentals of Grant Writing learn to understand and interpret foundation guidelines and preview the grant writing process. See what's involved in describing your mission, creating a needs statement, and producing goals and objectives. All key components of a successful grant will be covered with a list of resources.
Course Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) identify grant writing terms, potential sources of grants, 2) understand basic communication needs of Grant Writing, 3) understand the fundamental elements of a grant proposal such as the objectives, problems addressed, methodology, 4.) know the basics on how to research for and find available grants, and 5.) know what funding agencies are looking for.
About the Instructor: Allen Grundy (BA, Rutgers U, and M.Ed, UH) has worked for nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies since 1985 and is a graduate of American Humanics, a nonprofit leadership management program of the UH Graduate College of Social Work 2004. He has had many years of experience with grassroots organizations in the field of Arts and Humanities including employment as a grant writer, and strategic planner.
Ethics and Clinical Skill Building
(Ethics)
Robyn Ott, LCSW
Course # 10FSW0102C• Friday, November 20 • 9:00 am – noon
Fee: $90.00 • 6 contact hours/.6 CEUs
Do you want to improve your clinical skills? Tired of the same old ethical routines? You can do both in this 6 hour course. Earn ethics credit in an imaginative and creative way and build your clinical skills in this course. Core values, ethical standards and case study applications are taught in an enjoyable and interactive format. Boundaries are presented in a productive way relevant to social work practice settings. Benefit from the interaction, discussion, and clinical case studies that occur in the classroom when social workers gather to review ethics and their relevance to clinical settings.
Course Objectives: Participants will 1) identify core values of ethics and apply to boundary setting; 2) generate accurate record keeping; 3) describe essential components of a good assessment; 4) identify minefields to avoid in clinical work; 5) demonstrate your own personal development of clinical boundaries; and 6) demonstrate the use of ethical standards in a sample case study.
About the Instructor: Robyn Ott has an interactive teaching style using techniques that are replicable in the work place. Insightful clinical skills honed by over 13 years experience in agency, private practice, and teaching blend well in this fast paced course. Robyn has taught ethics since 2004 for the University of Houston's Graduate College of Social Work' Continuing Education Program as well as wrote the online ethics course in 2005.
“Homosexuality; the Bible and the NASW Code of Ethics (Ethics)”
George Bement, LCSW
Course # 10FSW0103C• Friday, December 4 • 1pm – 4pm
Fee: $45.00 • 3 contact hours/.3 CEUs
Many social workers, and many of a social worker’s clients, are of a religious orientation that considers homosexuality to be a sin, a perversion, or an aberrant condition that elicits responses ranging from condemnation to sympathy to curative therapy. This workshop will provide an overview of theories concerning the origin and development of a person’s gender orientation, an overview of biblical/religious responses to homosexuality, and consideration of the NASW Code of Ethics in relation to contemporary religious perspectives.
Course Objectives: Participants will be able to: 1) Identify significant bio/psycho/social theories concerning the genesis of sexual orientation; 2) Understand the origins and contexts of biblical/religious perspectives on homosexuality; 3) Identify one’s own personal beliefs and feelings towards homosexuality; and 4) Engage in respectful conversation with others who hold an opposing view, including colleagues and clients.
About the Instructor: Reverend George Bement, LCSW, has been an ordained pastor in the Lutheran Church for 26 years, and received his Master in Social Work from the University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work in 2000. He is currently working as a therapist, case manager, and is the manager of the Jail Inreach Project with Healthcare for the Homeless – Houston, a program of Baylor College of Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine.
