Interrupting Generational Poverty through Mobile Counseling

12:00p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Online Webinar

Presenter: Ward Halverson, LCSW-R, M.Ed

NASW Members: $15 | Non-Members: $30

This workshop is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit hours for licensed social workers, licensed mental health counselors, and licensed marriage and family therapists

Date: Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Presenter: Ward Halverson, LCSW-R, M.Ed.
NASW Member Fee: $15
Non-Member Fee: $30
Time: 1:30pm to 4:30pm

Mobile counseling progresses the future-driven practice of social work directly into the home and community, providing a penultimate environment for deep and life-changing intervention- driven familial change. New adaptations of the best-practice methodology are necessary, however, alongside a greater priority on safety, confidentiality, operational logistics, efficiency, inventiveness, resourcefulness, and case management balance. The training block summarizes unique operational challenges, poverty extremes, and clinical needs within the statewide low-income population, as well as cycling causes and sustained family system causes of generational poverty. Recent research and best-practice interventions will be interspersed continually. Common challenges covered will include: clinical autonomy, related health issues, self- determination, home learning environments and systemic behavioral interventions, modification strategies and ongoing support, housing, job/vocational readiness, time management, suicidality, school phobia and panic patterns, home routine, sleep-related interventions, nutrition, DV, LGBT/gender-related challenges, guns, stress management, obesity, electronics, smoking/nicotine, grief, powerless/enabling. Emphasis will remain on research, best practices, immediate and accessible clinical strategies, and regional resources specific to mobile counseling. 

Learning Objectives:

After the completion of this webinar, participants will:

• Summarize the history and power of generational poverty and identify scientific new 21st-century mobile social work interventions for direct practice work.
• Identify and utilize appropriate interventions to address immediate safety considerations, risk factors and culturally-appropriate responses within home and community environments.
• Manage and immediately apply unique mobile strategies in direct work with clients ensnared in seemingly-intractable generational poverty
• Evaluate the impact of learned helplessness and use mobile counseling strategies with clients to formulate opportunities for enabling them with hope, regional connectivity, innovation, accessible resources, and medium/long-term directional strategies.
• Critique mobile counseling strategies for further investigation of and assessment of the impact of this rapidly-scaling and unique statewide model.

This workshop is approved for 1.5 continuing education credit hours.

NASW-NYS is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers (Provider ID #0014), licensed mental health counselors (Provider ID #MHC-0053), and licensed marriage and family therapists. (Provider ID #MFT-0037)

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