** High Priority **

Fax, call in, or postmark your registration today, 2/19/10, to receive
the reduced "early bird rate" on the following workshops sponsored by
WVU Division of Social Work.  Info below and registration form attached
(last page).

March 4, 2010, 1-4:30pm, Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center, Room
4020, Charleston, WV
Promoting Ethical Practice When Working with People with Disabilities
Debra Young, MSW, EdD Candidate, Teaching Instructor, WVU Division of
Social Work and Jacki Englehardt, ACSW, Coordinator of Professional &
Community Education, WVU Division of Social Work
Registration Fee:  $40 (Early bird rate of $36 by February 19, 2010)
CEUs:  3.5 Social Work hours (Approved for 3.5 SW Ethics hours)

Being a professional social worker enables one to flexibly work in a
variety of systems with a variety of populations, and view things from
different perspectives. This workshop will target those professionals
who work with (or have an interest in working with) people who have
disabilities.  Every day social workers focus on values such as service,
social justice, dignity and worth of the person, self-determination,
integrity, diversity, and the right to have basic needs, but these
values can be tested when working with people who have disabilities and
their families/guardians. Through interactive content, participants will
reflect on their own ethical standpoints, discuss and apply the NASW
Code of Ethics to working with people who have disabilities, and develop
an awareness of People First Language in order to promote human rights
and advocate for fair and equitable treatment of all persons. 

March 5, 2010, 9am-4:30pm, Gaston Caperton Center, Room 306,
Clarksburg, WV
Disasters and Social Work Practice:  Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
D. Steven Hardin, MSW, EdS, LICSW, EdD Candidate, Teaching Assistant
Professor, WVU Division of Social Work
CEU’s: 6.5 Social Work hours; 6 LPC hours
Registration Fee: $70 (Early bird rate $63 by February 19, 2010)

Hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast in August 2005.  The world watched
as the storm caused massive destruction.  This workshop will use Spike
Lee's HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke, along with a curriculum
developed by Teachers College, Columbia University entitled "Teaching
The Levees" to discuss many of the issues faced by the gulf coast
residents, including issues of poverty, race, class and the perceived
neglect by the United States government.  Social work interventions at
the micro, mezzo, and macro levels will be discussed.  Parallels will be
drawn between the Katrina disasters and the disasters that have occurred
in West Virginia.  Participants will learn that there really is no such
thing as a true natural disaster.



Jacki Englehardt, MSW, ACSW
Coordinator of Professional and Community Education
Division of Social Work
West Virginia University
PO Box 6830
Morgantown, WV 26506

phone: 304-293-3280
fax:  304-293-5936
cell: 304-282-0321
Summer Institute on Aging Website:  www.wvsioa.org
WVU Division of Social Work Website:  http://socialwork.wvu.edu