  Addressing Homelessness: Professional Boundaries and Ethics When Working with People Who Have SMI/CODs Tuesday, February 4, 2020 7:00:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time - 9:15:00 PM Coordinated Universal Time
Please join us on February 4, 2020, for the first webinar in the Effective Outreach and Engagement Series. Outreach and engagement require a rich set of interpersonal skills and deep understanding of what it means to engage with someone who is struggling with significant vulnerabilities. Direct service providers and outreach workers will learn evidence-based practices and skills related to reaching out and assisting a diverse population experiencing homelessness, including those with serious mental illness (SMI), substance use disorders, or co-occurring disorders (CODs).
Service care providers report that it is easy to become too involved in their clients’ lives and issues. Conversely, as providers become overburdened, they may distance themselves from their clients more than they should. This session will focus on improving understanding of professional boundaries; building relationships that are healthy for the provider and the client; and using information about power differentials, red flags, and the fine line between over- and under-involvement. The session will also focus on employing professional ethics in client/provider relationships.
HHRN team member Kate Rio will moderate. Participants will have an opportunity to ask questions, which will be addressed at the end of the presentation. A link to the recording will be made available.  Featured Speakers Terri Cooley-Bennett, LCSW, LSCCw, CCDP-D, TTS Outreach Supervisor Swope Health Services, Kansas City, Missouri  Ms. Cooley-Bennett is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a Licensed Specialist Clinical Social Worker, a Co-occurring Disorders Professional-Diplomate, and a Tobacco Treatment Specialist. She holds an M.S.W. from the University of Kansas. Her expertise includes homelessness, mental illness, substance abuse, sexual exploitation, trauma, and poverty. As outreach supervisor at Swope Health Services, she oversees the homeless program. She was an adjunct professor at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare and provides field instruction to social work students from various institutions. She speaks and serves on the board for the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Missouri Chapter and trained with NASW’s national Office of Ethics and Professional Review. For more than 20 years, she has presented to audiences including NASW Missouri Chapter, the Missouri Department of Mental Health, the Missouri Credentialing Board (for SUD professionals), First Call (alcohol/drug prevention and recovery), the Missouri Coalition for Community Behavioral Health Care, and Mental Health KC Conference. Sherri Downing Senior Program Manager and Deputy Director of SAMHSA’s Homeless and Housing Resource Network Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.  Ms. Downing is nationally recognized for addressing homelessness and housing issues, particularly in rural and frontier areas. Her areas of expertise include poverty, domestic and sexual violence, trauma, mental and substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders. She has contributed to resources on professional boundaries, trauma, rural opioid issues, homelessness among various subpopulations, and other issues. She currently chairs the board of commissioners of her local Public Housing Authority.  This course has been approved by JBS International, Inc. as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #86832, JBS international, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. JBS International, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6442. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. JBS International, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.   
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