This webinar has been cancelled. Registrants will be contacted and refunded.

Please note that there are no CEU credits associated with this training.

Priority early registration is available only to NASW members until Wednesday, April 6, 2022.

Please ensure that your e-mail is correct in registration as all correspondence for the webinar will be sent via e-mail. If you have not received any e-mails, please check your spam/junk folders first.

Given the NASW Code of Ethics commitment to lifelong learning and professional development, continuing education for social workers in New York State is an important way for social workers to meet this commitment. Lifelong learning correlates with our professional commitment to being impassioned actors in our work. Professional social workers know that seeking, attending and using ongoing training beyond graduate school is the way to improve foundational skillsets and knowledge gained in graduate training. A bedrock of the role of a social worker is to always gain knowledge and awareness of new ideas, interventions, modalities and ways to support our clients, communities and organizations. This program will give an overview of the continuing education process in New York State and beyond.

This 1-hour workshop will address the regulatory processes that lead to continuing education for licensed professionals in New York State. The program will share the varying types of learning social workers can engage in, how other surrounding states (like New Jersey) address continuing education for social workers, and a brief overview of what other licensing boards expect depending upon the state or region the licensed professional is from. Very basic information on becoming a provider of continuing education will be shared.

With this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Grasp the regulatory provisions in New York State that require continuing education for licensed social workers (e.g. types, what counts and does not, etc.).
• Understand the modalities in which continuing education can be provided.
• Compare and contrast how continuing education is handled for licensed professionals in neighboring states (e.g. NJ, CT and PA) and beyond.
• Gain a beginning understanding of the steps to becoming a provider of continuing education.

NASW-NYC Member: $10 | Other Chapter Member: $15 | Non-Member: $20

Please note: This is not a continuing education workshop and this workshop will not provide any continuing education credits.

For most of his 27 year career in social work, Benjamin R. Sher, MA, LMSW has presented numerous workshops and programs at the organizational, local and national level. He has presented in a number of formats, from live training to online. In addition, Ben is currently the Director of the Office of Global and Lifelong Learning at the New York University (NYU) Silver School of Social Work. Prior to this position, Ben held numerous titles at the Institute for Community Living, Inc., (ICL), including as a Program Director overseeing mental health residential services, and then Director of Training and Staff Development. In addition to this work, Ben has been an Adjunct Instructor with Metropolitan College of New York in the School for Public Administration and Public Affairs, CUNY/Queensborough Community College and the NYU Silver School of Social Work. At these schools, he has taught classes on research, program evaluation, organizational development, grant-writing, human behavior in the workplace and social work practice.

Ben is the immediate Past President of the National Association of Social Workers-New York City Chapter of NASW-NYC. His two-year tenure ended on July 1, 2020. Ben has presented at numerous conferences on mental health, program development, succession management, re-tooling staff development initiatives and clinical practices in residential settings. He published a chapter on “Social Work and Mentoring” in the book, Hope Matters: The Power of Social Work, published by NASW Press. In 2016, Ben was awarded the title of Adjunct Associate Instructor for his long tenure of fieldwork supervision of NYU social work students.    

Please note that new members take up to 3 business days to transfer information to NASW-NYC's system. Please plan accordingly to allow enough time for registration.

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NASW-NYC is happy to try and fulfill any reasonable special accommodations requests following NYS laws, submitted in writing to workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org at least  fifteen business days prior to the workshop date. Requests received after the deadline may not be able to be processed or fulfilled in time for the event.

 NASW-NYC Refund Policy

All refund requests must be submitted in writing to accounting.naswnyc@socialworkers.org no later than four business days prior to the workshop date. Refund e-mails must include the subject line "Refund Request" as well as the attendee's name, workshop date and title in the body of the e-mail. If a refund is requested later than four business days prior to the workshop date, NASW-NYC has the right to refuse the request.

- All refunds are subject to a fee of 25% for administrative processing fees

- Refund requests typically take 1-2 weeks processing time

- Refunds ONLY. Credit cannot be issued toward a future program date or substituted for another workshop.

If the workshop is cancelled, you will be informed ahead of time and fully refunded.

NOTICE OF FILMING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Please be advised that photography, and audio and video recording of participants at NASW-NYC events may occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to interview(s), photography, audio recording, and video recording (referred to as the “Recordings”) and its/their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction for promotional purposes, telecasts, advertising, inclusion on websites, social media, or any other purpose reasonably related to the mission of the National Association of Social Workers.

You release NASW-NYC, its officers, employees and agents from any liability connected with such use of the Recordings and waive all rights you may have to any claims for payment or royalties in connection with such use of the Recordings. You also waive any right to inspect or approve any photo, video, or audio recording taken by NASW-NYC or the person or entity designated to do so by NASW-NYC.

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For any questions or issues, please contact workshops.naswnyc@socialworkers.org

NASW New York City Chapter is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0027, and the Office of Addiction Services and Supports as an approved provider of CASAC credits #0288.