Preferred registration deadline: February 7th

3 CEs

Burnout and compassion fatigue are connected to employee turnover, missed workdays, and overall organizational dissatisfaction. Perceived generational differences in employees' attitudes towards boundaries and self-care can add to a challenging organizational culture. At the same time, social workers have been told that self-care is essential to maintaining well-being and is even an ethical imperative. However, living out "self-care" is challenging for social workers without organizational support and quality supervision.  Recent research indicates that organizational cultural changes and targeted well-being strategies are essential for the health of social workers and helping professionals and that these changes do not need to be costly to be effective. This workshop will explore strategies to increase social worker well-being, provide meaningful supervision, and improve organizational culture to more effectively sustain our employees and meet our organizational mission and vision. Attendees will have the opportunity to work in small groups with their peers to craft organizational well-being plans.

This workshop meets the Missouri requirement that LCSW supervisors receive 3 hours of continuing education in supervision per licensure period.

This is an interactive synchronous distance learning course via Zoom.

General Admission: $65**
**Eligible discounts can be applied during checkout.

Class size is limited to 45

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Course Outline

Content Level: Beginner

Target Audiences: Social Workers, Therapists, other Mental-Health Professionals, and especially supervisors

Agenda:

1. Introduction to the session (10 minutes)
2. Components of “healthy organizational culture”  and challenges (15 minutes)
3. Defining key terms and concepts (20 minutes)
4. What the research says: organizational structure and strategies to promote well-being  (70 minutes)
   1. Training and support for emotional arousal recovery
   2. Psychological safety
   3. Cultural responsiveness
   4. Promote connection
   5. Defining and living out employee values and appropriate boundaries
   6. Quality, consistent, meaningful supervision
5. Strategies (50 min)
6. Wrap-up (10)

*A 5-minute break will occur approximately halfway through the workshop.  

Learner Outcomes

• Attendees will be able to describe the connection between empathic strain, moral injury, burnout, and organizational culture and identify three strategies to increase employee well-being. 
• Attendees will be able to identify three components of meaningful supervision.
• Attendees will be able to create two organizational well-being strategies to implement at their organization.

Course Completion Requirements:

• The Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, Professional Development, provider #2130, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 9/24/2024 – 9/24/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 3 general continuing education credits.

• The Brown School is also an approved provider of Social Work CEs in Missouri and Illinois.

• To earn ACE credit, attendees must arrive at the scheduled time, attend the entire course, and complete an online course evaluation. ACE credit is not provided for partial attendance.  However, you may still qualify for partial Social Work Missouri and Illinois CEs provided by the Brown School.

• Brown School CE Certificates will be available online within 10 business days of course completion by visiting your learner profile at https://ce.wustl.edu/portal/logon.do?method=load&parentSite=brown.  You will receive an email notification with specific instructions for accessing the online certificate when it is available. ACE CE Certificates, if requested in your evaluation survey, will be emailed within 10 business days of course completion.

• For more information about CEs, accessibility, refund/cancelation policy, our grievance policy, or other inquiries please visit our About Us page or email brownprofdev@wustl.edu.