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Available Training Topics

We offer a growing catalog of professional development trainings focused on supervision, workforce sustainability, equity-centered practice, and more. Topics listed below are currently available or in development, and can be delivered as a webinar, live virtual workshop, or in-person training. Summaries are condensed for easy review; detailed outlines, learning objectives, and customization details are available upon request.

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Culturally Responsive Feedback: Maintaining Clarity And Standards While Reducing Shame And Defensiveness

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A practical training on giving feedback that is direct and standards-based while attending to culture, power, and shame responses; so feedback becomes usable rather than crushing.

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Avoiding Diagnostic Overshadowing: Ethical Assessment And Differential Considerations In IDD Populations

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Focuses on ethical assessment with IDD populations, including how to avoid diagnostic overshadowing and strengthen differential thinking while honoring communication differences and context.

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Beyond Self-Care: Professional Sustainability As An Ethical Practice

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Reframes sustainability as an ethical practice issue (not a personal failing), with concrete strategies for boundaries, workload design, and collective care in high-demand roles.

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Field Instruction As Identity-Conscious Teaching: Power, Belonging, And Feedback In Practicum

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Supports field instructors in teaching through an identity-conscious lens, with attention to power, belonging, evaluation, and feedback in practicum settings.

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Open Pedagogy For Social Work Educators: Co-Creating Syllabi, Learner-Led Projects, And Inclusion Outcomes

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Introduces open pedagogy strategies for social work education, including co-created course elements and learner-led projects, with attention to inclusion, accessibility, and power.

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