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- # 1 Using Energy Psychology Techniques to Heal Trauma
- # 2 Inner Self-care for Caregivers
- # 3 Get Your "Stuff" Together and Get Your Message Out
- # 4. Child Welfare Client Outcomes in Counselling Practices
- # 5 Rekindling a LIfe of Enough: Beyond Technology
- # 6 International Social Services (ISS): Resources for Social Work
- # 7 Shifting Towards Research Oriented Approaches in Clinical Settings
- # 8 Sexual Addiction and Electronic Technology: a Treatment Response
- # 9 Face to Face in the Age of Technology: Newcomers and Sexual Health
- # 10 The Truth about Tackling Overwhelm and Overload
- # 11 Saving Face on Facebook with a Recognizable Face
- # 12 Community Development @ the Women's Centre
- # 13 Circles of Understanding: Reclaiming and Restoring the Aboriginal Family
- # 14 Online Social Work Teaching: Best Practices and Examples
- # 15 Being Self: On Confidence, Self Esteem and Human Identity
- # 16 ACSW & Parkland Institute 2012 Social Policy Framework
- # 17 The Case for Aboriginal Technology
- # 18 Biological Implications of Talk Therapy: Managing Old and New Memories in Therapy
- # 19. Candles of Kathmandu: Video as Tool for Capacity Development
- # 20 Leveraging Technology for Bereavement Support
- # 21 Technology and Social Movements / Social Justice: Global and Local Perspectives
- # 22 Create a Practicum: finding A608
- # 23 Building Bridges, Expressive Arts and Social Work
- # 24 Tipping Point of Cybercounselling and other Timely Tips!
- # 25 Emotion Focused Therapy for Couples
- # 26 Blended Learning: Application of Teaching Online with a Face-to-Face Component
- # 27 The Use of Technology in Medical Social Work Practice
- # 28 We All Can Use More Fun at Work
- # 29 Promoting Social Justice in the 21st Century
- # 30 Workplace Bullying is More Complex for Social Workers
- # 31 CANCELLED
- # 32 Utilizing the Power of Social Media to Advance Children's Rights
- # 33 Foster Care Globally: Discovering the Value of Partnerships between Universities and Non-governmental Organizations
- # 34 Indigenous Technology: Sacred Sites and Healing
- # 35 Outcome Based Service Delivery: Policy, Practice & Research
- # 36 Social Work in an Electronic World: Emerging Ethical and Risk-management Issues
- # 37 The Anti-Stress Cocktail - Stress Management for Social Workers
- # 38 My Path to Social Justice: Finding Voice for Passion
- # 39 Relational Ethics: Working in the Third Space
- # 40 Investing in Healing: Recovery from the Trauma of Sexual Exploitation
- # 41 Library Outreach - a Collaborative Response to Community Need
- # 42 Ethics and Practice Issues with Technology in Social Work
- # 43 Service Outcomes for Children Investigated for Maltreatment in Alberta
- # 44 Technology and Health Care Provisions: Implications for Social Work with Culturally Diverse Communities
- # 45 Indigenous Social Work Gathering
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2012 Annual Conference
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Workshop Information (2012)
- # 1. Hope and strength tools for counselling and group work
- # 2. CANCELLED
- # 3. Using energy psychology techniques to heal trauma
- # 4. Advocacy - The intersection between theory and practice
- # 5. Foster care globally: The search for best practice
- # 6. Not just the marginalized benefit from decolonization
- # 7. Supporting mental health clients with mindfulness
- # 8. Awakening virtues within: Create a culture of character
- # 9. The hustle for worthiness: Exploring the power of love, belonging, and being enough
- #10. The 2011 Cost of Poverty in Alberta report
- #11. Better health for all: Defining ourselves
- #12. Foreign Credential Recognition in Canada
- #13. Compassion fatigue & vicarious trauma awareness & solutions
- #14. Stress management for the social worker soul
- #15. Balancing the mind and body: Techniques and explorations
- #16. CANCELLED
- #17. Assessing and working with self-injury
- #18. ACSW Continued Competence Portfolio Workshop
- #19. Who I am: From client to social worker
- #20. Wounded faith and trauma: Making room for compassion
- #21. Contemporary social work practicum supervision: Joys and challenges
- #22. ACSW Social Policy Framework update
- #23. CANCELLED
- #24. Pommaksinni - Transfer of traditional healing practices
- #25. Understanding social justice: Child welfare social workers' perspective
- #26. Understanding your client: A transactional analysis perspective
- #27. Listening to our bodies
- #28. Facilitating health sexual decisions: A framework for everyone
- #29. Child protection errors: What tragedies teach us
- #30. Hakomi Therapy: Mindful exploration of the self's organization
- #31. Celebrate your life with yoga observe your mind and your breath, within your own vessel
- #32. Integrating mindfulness into clinical practice
- #33. Trauma: Impacts and healing
- #34. Managing youth self-harm: do's and don'ts
- #35. Domestic violence: Current realities
- #36. After 50 years is the personal still political? (All smartened up and no place to go!)
- #37. Rural social work practice: Similarities and differences
- #38. Learning gained from an international practicum in Peru
- #39. Lessons we are learning from OBSD implementation
- #40. Bulding protective factors and strengths
- #41. Larger systems advocacy
- #42. Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Society: What have we learned?
- #43. A recipe for happiness for social workers
- #44. From chaos to C.A.L.M (Creative Adaptive Lifestyle Management): Stress management matters
- #45. The case for Aboriginal technology
- #46. Social work burnout: Its understanding and prevention
- #47. Bundling and unbundling psychosocial interventions in the context of your workplace
- #48. Healthy vibrations: The healing power of the drum
- #49. Possibility & collaborative social change
- #50. Thriving in child protection
- #51. Community capacity building at the Women's Centre
- #52. Healing ourselves so that we can heal others
- #53. Poverty reduction in Alberta; The potential for change
- #54. Learning together: Integrated practice and education for capacity building in social work
- #55. ACSW Continued Competence Portfolio workshop
- #56. Hoarding: How it hurts, how to heal
- #57. We all can use more fun at work
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2011 Annual Conference
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Workshop Information
- # 1 Understanding racism in Alberta and its impact in social work practice
- # 2 Hope and strengths tools for counselling and group work
- # 3 Immigrants building a nation: the social workers' role
- # 4 LINK body, breath, mind; HEIGHTEN awareness, acceptance, stability. PRACTICE YOGA!
- # 5 Advocacy - the intersection between theory and practice
- # 6 The Elder's legacy; recognizing kinship care
- # 7 Dementia - developing a positive perspective
- # 8 Power tools for psychotherapy
- # 9 Building community together: the power of intergenerational programs
- # 10 The impact of motivational interviewing on abuser's readiness for change
- # 11 Attack problem behaviors while developing virtues and self-discipline
- # 12 Living with HIV: best practices for ethical services
- # 13 Application of neurosequential model of therapeutics in domestic violence prevention shelters
- # 14 We all can use more fun at work
- # 15 ACSW's social policy framework and public speaking
- # 16 Supervising practicum students: approaches, challenges and best practices
- # 17 Effective co-parenting: putting kids first
- # 18 Supporting growth and development using mind-body strategies
- # 19 Integrating sexual health into your social work practice
- # 20 Children cross borders
- # 21 Being a truth-teller: what it takes to dissent
- # 22 How my wife and I eventually overcame schizophrenia stigma
- # 23 Supporting transitions: from institutions to community care
- # 24 Getting to the "heart" of the matter
- # 25 Accreditation: the pursuit of quality improvement
- # 26 Speaking truth: the legacy of Gayle Gilchrist James
- # 27 Speaking truth about counselling: what the last 10 years of research tell us about practice
- # 28 Advanced motivational interviewing skills: working with change talk
- # 29 Narrative outsider witnessing practices in family art therapy
- # 30 Mindfulness and yoga practices for mental health
- # 31 Healing historic trauma in Aboriginal families and communities
- # 32 Outcomes Based Service Delivery (OBSD) - an overview
- # 33 Identifying and responding to human trafficking in Alberta
- # 34 Making communities stronger: engaging African communities in response to HIV / AIDS in Calgary
- # 35 The power within - the power of self to heal
- # 36 Engaging the multigenerational workforce
- # 37 The 'healthy' world of eating disorders
- # 38 The experience of growing up in care
- # 39 ACSW continued competence portfolio workshop
- # 40 Baby boomers as volunteers: who they are and how to recruit them
- # 41 Everyday social worker helping to make a better Canada
- # 42 Living outside the box: gender diversity, truth and power
- # 43 Making the connection: harm reduction and high risk youth
- # 44 Connecting with immigrants and refugees by enhancing cultural competency
- # 45 Social work ethics for research and evaluation
- # 46 (The) new social code: it's not sex, it's popularity
- # 47 The power of symbolism: helping clients speak their truth
- # 48 Storytelling for life: holistic use of story
- # 49 Community activism
- # 50 Aging in place
- # 51 ACSW continued competence portfolio workshop
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2010 Conference
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- # 1 Case study: evaluation of seniors' outreach to improve service
- # 2 Engaging the community in working with high risk youth
- # 3 Inspired leadership: getting to the heart of what matters
- # 4 Social work practice in the capacity assessment process
- # 5 From trauma and adaptation: finding healing; creating hope
- # 6 Portfolio Development Workshop
- # 7 Ma'motowin, working together: a discussion about knowledge translation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people
- # 8 Emergency room outreach: innovative programming in mental health
- # 9 Awaken the virtues within: yours and your client's
- # 10 Igniting resilience: building resilient and inspired teams!
- # 11 Using energy strategies for wellbeing and therapeutic effectiveness
- # 12 Personal liability of social workers
- # 13 We all can use more fun at work
- # 14 Facilitating resilience and independence - lessons from lived experience
- # 15 Ethical and unbiased couple counselling
- # 16 Success factors for inter-agency collaboration
- # 17 Healing the wound: reconnecting children to nature
- # 18 From acknowledgement to action
- # 19 Portfolio development workshop
- # 20 Social work without borders "supporting children and families in a global community"
- # 21 Social work in a correctional setting
- # 22 ACSW's Social Policy Framework
- # 23 Healing the spirit: sacred journeys
- # 24 Seniors a GOGO: a theatrical journey
- # 25 Positive collaboration in child and family services: a way forward in working with Aboriginal communities
- # 26 The clinical specialty registry - a mystery no more
- # 27 How my wife and I eventually overcame schizophrenia stigma
- # 28 Burden experienced by caregivers of youth with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder
- # 29 Making a difference in one session
- # 30 Legal representation for children and youth - why is it important?
- # 31 Therapy with a larger aim
- # 32 Serving humanity - with a calm, focused mind
- # 33 The Elder's legacy; recognizing kinship care - sharing our thoughts and wisdom
- # 34 Eco - social work & health
- # 35 Applied mindfulness: the hakomi way
- # 36 Recognizing and managing child abuse cases
- # 37 Working with older adults - part I
- # 38 Cultural crossroads for social workers
- # 39 Portfolio Development Workshop
- # 40 Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act - New decision-making options
- # 41 Lessons from the bereaved: revisiting traditional discourses
- # 42 The Edmonton diversion program
- # 43 A success story: the social work initiative within the highland primary care network
- # 44 Project Ko-ombuko - Our journey to Africa. Tales from an international practicum experience
- # 45 Closing the disparity gap campaign training: implementing our Social Policy Framework
- # 46 International adoption and its impact on Alberta families
- # 47 Responding to human trafficking in Alberta
- # 48 Doing collective social justice: How can the individual contribute to change?
- # 49 Supporting immigrant youth in Calgary
- # 50 Portfolio Development workshop
- # 51 Honoring the spiritual dimension in therapy: best practices
- # 52 Reality and risks of youth in a virtual world
- # 53 Discover your compass - take back your time
- # 54 Its all about me (or you) - contemplative action oriented practice
- # 55 Social work: the mother of all professions
- # 56 When cultures collide: How do we deal with the cultural gap around issues of family violence?
- # 57 Creating synergy: a whole organizational approach to quality service
- # 58 "Supervision circles": creative alternatives for the supervision of social work students
- # 59 Clients living "at risk": the role of professionals
- # 60 The basics of bioethics for health care social workers
- # 61 Engaging seniors in digital stories of home
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2009 Conference
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- # 1 A relationship based strengths approach (RBSA) to discipline with youth
- # 2 Good grief - saying hello to saying goodbye
- # 3 Popular education - moving beyond community development
- # 4 Reclaiming and restoring the Aboriginal family; circle of understanding
- # 5 Listening for meaning - spirituality in treatment
- # 6 The environment and restoring mental-physical health
- # 7 Planning to practice: using appreciative inquiry to build a strengths based future in child welfare
- # 8 Getting started as a leader in the social work profession
- # 9 Family violence/trauma among immigrants/refugees: awareness, prevention and healing (in the 21st Century)
- # 10 Family violence & addictions: current issues and debates
- # 11 Social work practice for the reconciliation of the residential school era
- # 12 Beyond Alberta - beyond Canada - casework with global proportions "the growing challenge of social work with internation elements"
- # 13 Partners for kids and youth (PFKY): a community interdisciplinary team in action
- # 14 Lifestyle management - an essential skill
- # 15 Experiential introduction to the field of art therapy - come and play!
- # 16 Diversity in groups: harnessing the power of difference
- # 17 Assessing couple relationships: the resilient marriage model
- # 18 Facilitating change: social workers in primary care improvement
- # 19 Simple steps to avoid a complaint
- # 20 Making a difference: effectiveness in social justice advocacy
- # 21 "Isspommotsi'op" - sharing, supporting, and giving for the collective well-being
- # 22 Bridging a false dichotomy: medical and mental illness
- # 23 Fostering resiliency in clients with childhood trauma histories
- # 24 Complementary and alternative healthcare practices in social work
- # 25 Changing landscape of grief: integrating contemporary theory into practice
- # 26 Why social workers make great leaders!
- # 27 Elder abuse: the tools to make a difference
- # 28 The changing face of HIV/Aids
- # 29 Everything old is new again!
- # 30 Starting a private practice: some considerations
- # 31 "The pursuit of justice": ACSW's social action agenda
- # 32 Feminist supervision: promoting best practices for social workers
- # 33 The best friends TM approach to dementia care
- # 34 Interventions for nonverbal children impacted by domestic-war violence
- # 35 Alberta diploma programs: a long journey to here
- # 36 Impact of state and family violence on refugee women
- # 37 American Management Association (AMA) DISC survey workshop
- # 38 Eating disorders, sexual trauma and group therapy
- # 39 "Do you know what I mean" photovoice project
- # 40 Give & go: new strategies for youth community engagement
- # 41 Is it time for a team tune up?
- # 42 Open adoption: a journey for a lifetime
- # 43 All work and no play?
- # 44 Enduring change and ensuring best practice through accreditation
- # 45 The pride centre of Edmonton's youth theatre project
- # 46 Social work, self discovery and the United Kingdom
- # 47 Family centered practice in residential care
- # 48 Interprofessional practice in mental health and addictions
- # 49 Positive collaboration in child and family services: a way forward in working with Aboriginal communities
- # 50 Trauma recovery through indigenous research and language
- # 51 The color of fear: the paradox of race and oppression in the new millennium
- # 52 Change in the changeless, hatha yoga as an alternative healing modality
- # 53 Social workers within the animal world
- # 54 Conscious and mindful leadership
- # 55 "Kerby centre for seniors - 35 years and beyond of serving seniors in the community"
- # 56 Human trafficking here? How can I tell?
- # 57 Effective co-parenting: putting kids first
- # 58 Integrative body psychotherapy
- # 59 Jungle gym or career ladder?
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Children First Act News Release - May 15 2013
ACSW responds to the Children First Act, Bill 25 that recently passed the third and final reading on May 14th.
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Alberta College of Social Workers (ACSW) serves as the regulatory body for the profession of social work in Alberta. Its regulatory obligations are legislated under the Health Professions Act (HPA). Mandated objectives of the ACSW include: to serve and protect the public interest; to provide direction and to regulate the profession; to establish, maintain and enforce standards for registration, continuing competence and standards of practice and to establish, maintain and enforce a code of ethics. The ACSW also represents the social work profession in Alberta and supports membership activities that promote skilled and ethical social work practice.
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