Webinar: Re-Imagining School Social Work: Leveraging your Consulting Role

Description

This course (1 hour Live Webinar, Synchronous Distance Learning) will be focused Re-Imagining School Social Work and making a shift to consulting

Webinar Description:

Many MSW degrees provide some training in the specialization of school social work.  Most of that training focuses on integrating into a school system, operating as a multi-disciplinary team, understanding the school environment (and jargon), practicing boundaries, and learning about the hierarchical structures that schools operate under.  What if school social work could look different from that?  Imagine an opportunity where you work for yourself, determine your own objectives, your own use of time, how you share expertise, and charge an consultant rate that values the years of education and training you have invested in becoming a school social worker.  Sheri Koller, LCSW, LCSW-C, NCSSW, PPSC made the shift to a consultant role after 20 years of working for non-profits and school districts.  In this short webinar she will touch upon her experience (including what worked and what didn’t), offer suggestions for funding, and tap into how to market a consulting business.  Let’s shift the narrative of who school social workers are (and can do), whilst continuing to serve the schools, personnel, students, families and communities that school social worker love.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore opportunities for 3 funding sources as a consultant.

2. Identify 3 ways that a SSW consultant operates similarly and differently than a SSW in a paid district employee position.

3. Learn 2 challenges that come from switching to a consultant role. 

Speaker: Sheri Koller, LCSW, LCSW-C, NCSSW, PPSC

Sheri Koller, LCSW, LCSW-C, NCSSW, PPSC is the third individual to become a National Certified School Social Worker (NCSSW). With over 20 years of experience as a school social worker, Sheri is an expert in the field of student mental health and suicide prevention. She is an experienced clinician who focuses on individual and family therapy, clinical supervision, program development, advocacy, data analysis, crisis intervention and training. As a professor for seven years, Sheri educated hundreds of MSW students on mental health and human behavior. As the owner of Brave Journeys LLC, she currently supports schools nationwide through her consulting business, and is passionate about helping schools understand the intersection between student mental health, social justice, and academic outcomes. Sheri develops programs to address the complex mental health issues facing our schools, including a fundamentally different approach to suicide prevention and intervention. Contact information: sheri@bravejourneys.net, (657) 204-4024, www.bravejourneys.net

Content Level: Beginning

Target Audience: School Social Workers

Refund policy: No refunds will be given if you are unable to attend the live webinar.

School Social Work Association of America, 1789, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. School Social Work Association of America maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 7/27/2023-7/27/2026. 

Many state licensing boards impose specific limitations on course content, distance education, or other elements of continuing education, even when courses are taken from approved providers. It is your sole responsibility to ensure that the courses taken will meet the requirements for your license.

Social workers completing this course receive 1 CE continuing education credit. Certificates will be emailed to participants upon successful completion of the webinar and completion of the course evaluation. Participants must stay the entire length of the webinar and complete the evaluation to receive credit. No assignments will be required for this course. System Requirements-- Participants must have a computer and audio to participate in the webinar. Attending by phone is strongly discouraged and may result in not receiving CEs. Accessibility Accommodations are offered upon request, please reach out to PDlearning@sswaa.org . For questions or concerns please contact Capella Hauer at contactus@sswaa.org or Dr. JR Bullard-Batiste at PDlearning@sswaa.org