Palliative Care Social Work Conference

Friday, April 8, 2022
Tivoli Student Union, Auraria Campus

Resilience in health care professionals means improved care for patients and their families. Based on conference evaluation feedback, all sessions are related to resilience and trends important for palliative care social workers and other allied health professionals to learn.

Program:

Virtual Keynote Speakers

• Morning Keynote: Carla Cheatham, MA, MDiv, PhD: Resilience, how we nurture ourselves and teach our health systems what is needed
• Lunchtime Talk: Andrew MacPherson, Healthsperien LLC: Health Policy, Hot Topics in Palliative Care
• Afternoon Keynote Panel: Resilience, self-care techniques and trends
  • Danielle Faye Jonas, MSW, LCSW, PhD Candidate, Silver School of Social Work, New York University
  • Kristin Drouin, MSW, LICSW, APHSW-C, Clinical Social Worker, Stem Cell Transplant Program, Boston Children’s Hospital
  • Eleanor Frechette, MSW, LCSW, Clinical Social Worker, Pediatric Advance Care Team, Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute
  • Lauren Cramer, MSW, LISCW, Clinical Social Worker, Pediatric Advance Care Team, Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute

In-Person Advanced Practitioner Sessions (Morning and Afternoon)

• Wonkey Grief and the Resiliency Toolbox, Kerri Boyer, LPCC, MA Clinical Health Counseling, Bristol Hospice Bereavement Counselor
• Moving Towards the Storm: Creating Meaning, Mastery and Resilience Through Palliative Care, Kay Adams, LCSW, Founder, Compassion Works LLC
• Compassion Fatigue: What It Is and How It Impacts Social Workers, Bre Holligan, MSW, LAC, EMDR Therapist, ADS, Center for Trauma and Resilience, supported by Nemayian Muthiora
• Resilience and Self-Care for Individuals and Organizations, Jenn Flaum, LCSW, MBA, Executive Director at HeartLight Center, Inc.
• What is Moral Injury and How is it Impacting Your Wellbeing?, Pari Shah, LCSW, MSW, PHD candidate, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Researcher of moral injury amongst clinical social workers
• Practitioners form Center for Trauma Resilience, station for attendee learning, topic TBA

Download the PCSWK Conference Program Brief for more program details!

Friday, April 23, 2021
Virtual Webinar

We are “Re-Imagining” our structure this year!

Based on conference evaluation feedback we’ve invited keynote speakers and interactive in-depth training sessions. “Live”, synchronous programming: 8 am – 1:05 pm, social networking: 1:15 pm – 2:30 pm. Live sessions will be recorded for later viewing.

Additionally, attendees can learn from pre-recorded content from poster contributors and sponsors accessible online before and after the conference.

All attendees are eligible for raffle prizes like SWPH memberships, local business, and self-care services!

Program:

Morning Keynote: Barbara L. Jones, Ph.D.
Barbara Jones, Ph.D., is the Josleen and Frances Lockhart Memorial Professor for Direct Practice in Social Work, University Distinguished Professor, associate dean for health affairs, and co-director of the Institute for Collaborative Health Research and Practice at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work. At Dell Medical School, Jones is associate director of social sciences and community-based research at the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes, chair of the Department of Health Social Work, and professor in the Departments of Oncology, Population Health, and Psychiatry. She is also a founding steering committee member of the UT Austin Center for Health Interprofessional Practice and Education (IPE) with colleagues at Dell Medical School, School of Nursing and College of Pharmacy.

Afternoon Keynote Speakers Cambia Health Foundation Sojourns Scholars!
Bridget Sumser, MSW, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Health
Carey Candrian, PhD, University of Colorado School of Medicine

Advanced Training Sessions:

• Updates from the field: The realities of Medical Aid in Dying, Viki Carter, LCSW, Sam DeWitt, Karrie Filios, LPC, & Carolyn Fulton. Moderator: Laurel Tropeano
• The Challenges of Aging Alone, Jane Barton, MTS, MASM, CSA
• Well-being at work: It’s Not an Oxymoron, Katie Morrison, MD
• Maximizing communication access for people in palliative care: Interdisciplinary considerations, Christina Perkins, MA CCC-SLP, Aleaza Goldberg,MA,CCC-SLP/L & Jessica Rossi-Katz, PhD, CCC-A
• Cannabis and Mushrooms as Medicine for End of Life, Deborah A. Mathias DNP, RN, CNE; Shannon Hughes, MSW, PhD; Rob Colbert, MA, PhD
• Palliative Care in Colorado: Trends, gaps, and Opportunities to Improve Care, Jenn Klus, MPH; Cordt T. Kassner, PhD

CE Credits

Up to 6 hours of CE Credits approved by NASW-CO. Participation in the training will count towards the requirements of DORA’s 40 hours of Continuing Professional Development all LCSW and LSW.