Qur-an Webb, MSW
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Live Webinar
2 pm – 4 pm (ET)
2 CECs

Registration Fee: $50
10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and Current SSW Field Instructors

This webinar explores the dynamic intersection of social work, sports, and societal issues, focusing on how athletics can serve as a platform for addressing social challenges. Participants will examine the mental health needs of athletes, the impact of race and gender in sports, and the crucial role of social work in supporting athletes, coaches, and officials.

Topics include mental health awareness and resilience-building and relationships within athletics. The training will also look into race while preparing participants to foster positive societal change through the lens of sports and social work.

Learning Objectives:
• Explore the role of social work in athletics and the fundamentals of mental health in sports
• Discussing the importance of fostering healthy relationships amongst the spectators, athletes’ coaches, and officials
• Explore diversity, inclusion, and strengthening self-worth and integrity in individual and team dynamics
• Develop strategies for managing goals, their impact on motivation, maintaining focus and achieving long-term success

Jennifer Berton, PhD, LICSW, CADC-II
Thursday, January 29, 2026

Virtual
9:00 am – 12 pm (ET)
3 CECs

Registration Fee: $75
UConn SSW Alumni and Current Field Instructors receive a 10% discount

Link to webinar will be included in your email confirmation

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, mental health clinicians face new ethical challenges around confidentiality, data security, and informed consent. This engaging training is designed to equip clinicians with practical knowledge and real-world strategies for using technology ethically and responsibly in their practice. We will explore best practices for telehealth, digital record-keeping, and client communication, while strengthening our understanding of privacy laws and ethical codes. Join us to gain confidence in making informed decisions that protect your clients—and your professional integrity—in the digital age.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the options for the use of technology in practice
• Learn the ethical pitfalls for using technology
• Explore how to use technology safely and effectively
• Anticipate potential future risk with technology

 

Anthony Gay and Qur-an Webb

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Live Webinar
6 pm – 8 pm (ET)

This webinar explores the intersection of neurodivergence, trauma, racial inequity, and fatherhood, equipping social workers, educators, clinicians, and family service professionals with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively support neurodivergent fathers and fathers raising neurodivergent children. Using a strength-based, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive framework, the session challenges traditional interpretations of behavior and helps participants develop practical, inclusive, and actionable engagement strategies.

This webinar reframes neurodivergence as a social-justice issue, highlighting how undiagnosed traits, systemic bias, and misunderstanding contribute to father disengagement and poor family outcomes.

Learning objectives:

Explore the core neurodiversity concepts including distinctions between neurodivergent, neurotypical, and neurodiversity terminology 

Understand the insight into how trauma, poverty, racism, and systemic inequity intersect with neurodivergence, particularly for fathers of color 

Develop strategies to recognize and support undiagnosed neurodivergence in fathers who may present as angry, resistant, disengaged, or noncompliant.

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Anthony Gay and Qur-an Webb
Thursday, February 19, 2026
Live Webinar
6 pm – 8 pm

This webinar is a safety-intensive training designed to equip child protection professionals, outreach workers, and community-based staff with the knowledge and situational awareness needed to work safely and effectively in gang-impacted neighborhoods. Building on the foundation set in Unmasking Gang Culture, this follow-up session shifts focus from gang education to real-world application, giving professionals the tools to recognize early warning signs, de-escalate tension, and preserve personal safety without compromising youth engagement.

Participants will examine how gang dynamics shape both individual behavior and neighborhood environments, and how those dynamics affect the safety of staff working in the field. Through detailed strategies, scenario practice, and visual identifiers, this training centers the reality that safety is not just about physical presence it’s about psychological readiness, cultural competence, and relational intelligence.

Learning objectives:

• Identify street-level gang indicators in high-risk environments.
• Understand how to enhance engagement with gang-involved individuals.
• Recognize environmental red flags and safety planning.
• Develop trauma-informed safety strategies, de-escalation and exit protocols

Ruth Pearlman, LCSW, LICSW, M.ED

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

10 am – 12 pm (ET)

Live Webinar
2 CECs

Registration Fee: $50
10% discount for UConn SSW Alumni and current SSW Field Instructors

Webinar link will be emailed when your registration is complete.

Magical Thinking, the cognitive process of assigning direct cause and effect to life events, was once thought to only occur in young childhood. Recent research supports that Magical Thinking is present throughout the lifespan, especially when we are confronted with traumatic and/or grief events. This workshop will explore how the Magical Thinking of traumatic events in childhood forges a narrative of self-blame that the child brings into adulthood. We will explore how to clinically expose the destructive self-blame stories that clients have carried within themselves. We will explore ways to assist clients in reconstructing their narratives. This workshop will also examine elements of Magical Thinking that child perpetrators use to manipulate their victims into silence. Lastly, we will discuss the tendency for traumatically grieved clients to re-employ Magical Thinking in their guilt and shock over the deaths of loved ones.

Please note: This workshop will contain content regarding childhood sexual abuse and suicide.

Learning objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify Magical Thinking throughout the lifespan
2. Participants will learn how to assist clients in reframing narratives that have been distorted by Magical Thinking Cause and Effect beliefs.
3. Participants will understand the role of Magical Thinking in the cognitive processing of grief.