Date/Time
3 CEs
As the frequency and severity of natural disasters increase due to climate change and as there human-caused disasters, including technological disasters and incidents of mass violence, grow in number, fully of half the U.S. population has or will experience a disaster.
This course is designed to prepare social workers in a variety of practice settings, including behavioral health services, schools, human services programs, and domestic violence programs, to understand the effects of disasters and public health emergencies (including pandemics) on their clients and how to mitigate or address the harms disasters inflict on individuals, families, and communities.
The course will cover four types of crisis events—natural disasters, technological disasters, incidents of mass violence/terrorism, and public health emergencies—and the different ways these events disrupt community life and create stress, grief, and trauma.
Specific strategies for addressing population-level crisis events, and how they are both similar to and differ from individual-level crisis responses, will prepare social workers in a variety of settings to help individuals, families, and communities mitigate disaster harms and recover from disasters.
Location: Virtual
Sponsored By: University of Maryland School of Social Work
Cost: $70.00-$90.00
For questions, email cpe@ssw.umaryland.edu