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Connect to End COVID-19:

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Vaccine Confidence Training for Social Workers

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Upcoming Webinars: Register for Live Virtual Trainings

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How to Support Clients in COVID-19 Vaccine Decision Making

January 12, 2023, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (ET)

 

This interactive training will introduce motivational interviewing (MI) and Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT), and how these evidence-based modalities can be effectively deployed to help guide collaborative conversations with clients about COVID-19 vaccine decision-making.

 

MI is a collaborative conversation approach that develops and strengthens a client’s motivation for and commitment to change around health-related behavior(s). The MI framework recognizes the client as the expert in their own lived experience. Research on MI has demonstrated its benefits with marginalized populations who have not necessarily received equitable and affirming experiences in care and health settings. Topics will include the MI spirit and MI core skills to help clients resolve ambivalence towards positive change. The training will also introduce SBIRT, a five-step model for working with clients with substance use disorders which can be adapted for use in supporting vaccine decision making.

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The training is provided through Connect to End COVID-19, an initiative of NASW, the NASW Foundation and the University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work, with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. For more information about this effort, visit NASW National Office's page.

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Speakers:

  • Lloyd Berg, PhD, ABPP, board-certified clinical health psychologist at UT Health Austin's Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences

  • Leslie Sirrianni, LCSW-Senior Research Project and Training Coordinator; Health Behavior Research and Training Institute; The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work

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Note: The training will not be recorded. Space is limited so please do not register unless you can definitely attend.

Past Webinars: Register For Complimentary Self-Study

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What’s Next in the Pandemic, Through a Social Work Lens

February 24, 2022, from 3:00 to 4:30 PM (ET)

 

At this webinar, hear from social work and infectious disease experts about the evolving COVID-19 landscape, what’s on the horizon, and how social workers can continue to play a role in vaccine uptake, especially among special populations. This is the third in a three-part series offered through the Connect to End COVID-19 initiative in which NASW is partnering with the University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work.

Speakers:

  • Mona K. Gahunia, D.O., Associate Medical Director, Infectious Diseases/Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente

  • Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Deputy Director of Programs, National Association of Social Workers

  • Angelo McClain, PhD, LICSW, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Social Workers

 

Webinar materials include

  • COVID-19 Update for NASW, Mona K. Gahunia, D.O., Associate Medical Director, Infectious Diseases/Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente

COVID-19 Vaccination Through a Social Work Lens: Current Landscape and Special Populations, Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH

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COVID-19 Vaccines Through a Social Work Lens: Supporting Informed Client Vaccine Decision Making Through Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT)

January 12, 2022

 

At this interactive event, participants learned how to apply MI and SBIRT frameworks in supporting clients in their decision making around the COVID-19 vaccines and boosters. The complimentary webinar and CEUs are available for self-study.

 

This webinar is the second in a series of three webinars that are part of NASW’s Connect to End COVID-19 initiative, undertaken in partnership with The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The third webinar in the series, “Supporting Special Populations in Vaccine Decision Making,” will be conducted February 24, 2022.

 

Speakers:

  • Angelo McClain, PhD, LICSW, CEO, National Association of Social Workers

  • Anna Mangum, MSW, MPH, Deputy Director of Programs, National Association of Social Workers

  • Leslie Sirrianni, LCSW-S, Senior Research Program and Training Coordinator, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin

  • Stéphanie Wahab, PhD, MSW, Professor, School of Social Work, Portland State University

 

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COVID-19 Vaccination Through the Social Work Lens: Myths and Facts

November 9, 2021

 

As part of the NASW 2021 Virtual Forum: “Reimagining Social Work In Health,” a complimentary webinar, COVID-19 Vaccination through a Social Work Lens: Myths and Facts, was offered. The complimentary webinar and CEUs are available for self-study.

 

Millions of people are becoming partially or fully vaccinated each day. However, there are many others who have not gotten vaccinated, despite the demonstrated safety of the vaccines and their high degree of effectiveness in preventing severe illness and death. At this webinar, learn more about the vaccines, including myths and facts, and special considerations for social workers.

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Have you checked out all of the resources for this initiative? Click here to skim publications, articles, and other information.

 

Did you read our section on statistics, trends, vaccination rates, and other information about special populations in Virginia that could assist you? Click here to check it out.

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