Target Audience: This activity is designed for social worker educators and practitioners. This activity is accredited for social workers.
Webinar Description: This interactive webinar explores harm reduction as applied to social work practice with substance use and misuse across all systems levels. Discussion begins with the tenets of harm reduction and social work values, the language we use to talk about substance use and misuse, as well as examples of harm reduction in practice (like New York City’s overdose prevention sites). Some tools for incorporating harm reduction in everyday practice are shared. Then, we check in with ourselves about acceptance, ambivalence, and resistance to harm reduction-based practice in our clinical work, our communities, and our systems and collaborate on ideas for implementation of harm reduction in social work and in our daily lives.
Educational Objectives:
- Identify the tenets of harm reduction in social work practice with substance use and misuse
- Compare tenets of harm reduction with social work values
- Integrate a harm reduction lens into your social work practice and beyond
Continuing Education information: CSWE (ACE Approval #1163) 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. CSWE maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 1/23/2021–1/23/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1 CE continuing education credits.
