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Agents of Change

A continuing education course on home-school partnerships that involves and empowers parents to drive student success, offering 1.5 free CEs.

Agents of Change

Free continuing education course on ChatGPT and AI for Social Workers and Mental Health Professionals. Earn 3 FREE CEs by taking this course.

Agents of Change

Free continuing education course on AI for mental health professionals, offering 3 ethics CEs

Free State Social Work

This course offers a heuristic or a guide for White social workers for anti-racist social work practice that includes three sets of practices: REcover, UNcover, and DIScover. REcover practices seek to help White social workers shift to a window of tolerance with activities like brief pauses and paced breathing. UNcover practices seek to help White social workers critically examine beliefs, biases, and power. DIScover practices seek to help White social workers look at what is possible, while resisting the urge to fix and control.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course examines the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) Code of Ethics which was approved in May of 2023 and revised in August of 2023. The NBCC Code of Ethics establishes ethical standards for Counselors and is a resource for ethical decision-making and practice. The NBCC Code of Ethics offers 114 ethical standards in the areas of professional responsibilities; counseling relationships; supervision and consultation; testing, appraisal, and research; counselor education; and telemental health, social media, and technology.

Free State Social Work

This course looks at the harms of alcohol misuse, which groups are most affected, and how evidence-based community-level policies can create safer communities. Evidence-based strategies for reducing alcohol misuse are included; policies that focus on reducing alcohol availability in the community have been shown to be some of the most effective.

Free State Social Work

This course explores labor and sex trafficking and highlights the trafficking story arc of recruitment and grooming, coercion and control, and exit. Human trafficking patterns, risk factors, and misconceptions are discussed. The course offers language and practice recommendations with a focus on assistance, support, and resilience.

Free State Social Work

This course explores key considerations and concepts for understanding and identifying human trafficking and its impact. The first reading describes the multidimensional impact of sex trafficking on survivors by highlighting first-hand insights from survivors. The course examines the lasting challenges and consequences for survivors along with needed intervention strategies and support. The second reading offers key considerations and concepts for understanding and identifying human trafficking in the United States- both forced labor and sex trafficking.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course examines stigmatizing language in the electronic health record and how stigmatizing words and phrases may impact health equity. The course explores three forms of stigmatizing language: labeling someone as other, blaming, and invoking danger. Patients with diabetes, substance use disorder, and chronic pain are explored as subgroups.

Free State Social Work

This course offers basic overdose education for recognizing and responding to an opioid overdose. The course highlights overdose causes, risks, signs, and prevention. Opioid overdose reversal medications are discussed and overdose response steps are given.

Free State Social Work

This course explores young adult pathways to opioid and non-medical prescription opioid use with implications for prevention. The course highlights a qualitative and quantitative research study of thirty young adults in recovery from OUD. Risk factors, protective factors, and main themes are identified. Recommendations for prevention are offered and include a discussion of supply-side and demand-side strategies.

Free State Social Work

This course highlights an analysis of opioid use in the context of prescription opioid policy changes. Participants in the study describe their personal experiences with opioid use over time, starting with prescription opioid use.

Free State Social Work

Telehealth modalities have been shown to increase access to treatment and improve health outcomes for individuals with severe mental illness and substance use disorder. This course examines how telehealth modalities can effectively treat individuals with SMI and SUD. Examples of evidence-based telehealth treatment interventions include Behavioral Activation Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Prolonged Exposure Therapy, and Medication-Assisted Treatment.

Free State Social Work

Free State Social Work

This course examines the personal and professional experiences of mental health professionals during the Covid-19 pandemic and the rapid pivot to telehealth. 36 mental health professionals participated in interviews and highlighted the following themes: responding to the pandemic, introducing telehealth, impact on professional practice, and the future of telehealth. The course explores the strengths and weaknesses related to the adoption of telehealth during the Covid-19 pandemic, implications for practice, and the future of telehealth.