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Inpiration in Action: Extraordinary Self-Care and Inspirational Work Presented by Yolanda Fairell, MS

This dynamic, interactive keynote presentation will focus on the relationship between extraordinary self-care and inspirational work. This presentation will address our need for solitude and deep self-reflection and how these practices help create synergistic teamwork and the highest quality client care. Effective techniques for reflection, envisioning, and goal achievement will be given. This will be a fun and inspiring presentation!

Yolanda Fairell, MS, has been a motivational speaker for more than a decade, specializing in stress management, diversity, and emotional intelligence. Yolanda engages and inspires audiences with her high energy and interpersonal style.

A1: In Plain Language: Improving Health Outcomes by Improving Communications
Health literacy is so much more than “translating” health education brochures into simple language. This workshop will explore the consequences of low health literacy skills, and will identify the scope of the problem. The presenter will engage the audience with experiential activities and group exercises designed to improve health literacy.
Andée Aubrey, LCSW

A2: “Hi, My Name is…”: Marketing Yourself as a Social Worker through Networking
Competition is tough in today’s market. When a referral source needs a social worker, you want them to think of YOU! This workshop will provide information on how to market your specialty through branding and creativity.
Nikki Counce, MSW

A3: Private Practice “Do’s” and “Don’ts” when Working with Children and Families
This workshop will share challenges of being a sole practitioner in private practice, including topics such as recommendations for confidentiality and informed consent, fees/collecting payments/insurance panels, marketing your practice, documentation, dealing with crisis calls, interfacing with community resources and educational/legal systems.
Janet A. Courtney, PhD, LCSW, RPT-S

A4: Spirituality, Mood Disorders, and Addiction
This presentation will discuss the prevalence of mood disorders, specifically major depressive disorder and dysthymia, and their impact on treatment outcomes among substance abusers. It will define and discuss the role of spirituality and religiosity in the treatment of addiction. The findings of two studies will be examined along with clinical implications and recommendations.
Naelys Diaz, PhD, MSW; Gail Horton, PhD, LCSW; Michael Weiner, PhD, CAP

A5: Living and Aging with a Disability
The first generation of adults with lifelong disabilities is now living to old age. We must be prepared to meet the challenge presented by this population of older adults. This workshop will explore how aging affects older adults with lifelong disabilities. It will also compare the difference between aging with a lifelong disability and acquiring a disability in late life.
Robert Goodman, MSW

A6: Teaching Social Work Students Inter-disciplinary Skills
This workshop will address the importance of inter-disciplinary teamwork in health settings. Evidence-based research supporting inter-disciplinary teamwork for quality patient care and knowledge and skills necessary to prepare students for effective participation in teamwork will be presented. Participants will explore strategies to expose students to teamwork in the field.
Mary Helen Hayden, EdD, LCSW, DCSW; Alina Perez-Stable, MSW

A7: Counseling to Caregivers and Seniors: A Multicultural Look
Burnout, or compassion fatigue, is a frequent problem among caregivers. This workshop will present techniques for social workers to work with caregivers and prevent them from developing compassion fatigue. Special consideration will be given to multicultural issues affecting caregiving, particularly in working with Latino family issues.
Jamie Huysman, PsyD, LCSW; Maribel Quiala, LCSW

A8: Where is Your Policymaker?: Applying Clinical Skills for Macro Level Change
This workshop will delineate a legislative advocacy strategy that utilizes clinical intervention skills to understand policymaker’s roles, responsibilities, and relationships in order to create macro level change. A Title IV-E budget funding case study will be reviewed and evaluated for application to future legislative advocacy efforts.
Megan Lott, MSW

A9: Evidence-Based Group Work: What is It and What is New?
Accountability, the values and ethics of social work, and the growing research on groups require we integrate the best available evidence in our groups. The presenter will introduce a framework for advancing evidence-based group work (EBGW) and offer new resources and materials to guide participants in EBGW.
Mark J. Macgowan, PhD, LCSW

A10: Creating Safe Spaces through Storytelling
This presentation will capture the rituals of empowering the women and children survivors of domestic violence through the artistic vehicles of storytelling, including poetry, song, dance, and film. Art is a receptacle for emotions, and becomes the instruments by which therapeutic interventions are created.
Robert Morgan, EdD, LCSW

A11: Doctoral Education in Social Work
This workshop will address doctoral education for social work as well as individual considerations in doctoral education. Representatives of Florida PhD programs will discuss the role of doctoral education in the profession, the variety of models, and factors to consider when planning doctoral education, as well as their own programs.
Paul H. Stuart, PhD, ACSW; Robin Ersing, PhD; Jim Hinterlong, PhD, MSW

A12: Bridging Barriers to Health Care Access for Women Partnering with Women
Research has shown that women partnering with women have increased risks for cancer and cardiovascular disease based on biological, lifestyle, and structural factors. Lack of access to care is a primary reason. Micro, mezzo, and macro culturally relevant interventions will be shared that can reduce health care disparities for this population.
Nan Van Den Bergh, PhD, LCSW; Gina Keane, MSW

B1: Suicide and Law Enforcement: Impact on Society and the Family Unit
The objective of this panel presentation endeavors to communicate an appreciation for the risk factors that are often associated with the subject of suicide in the law enforcement community and its explicit impact on society in general and the family unit specifically.
Michael J. Alicea, MS, MFT, MSW

B2: Evolutionary Therapy: Cognitive/Behavioral Perspective of the Evolutionary and Cultural Roles in Dysfunction
There are common dysfunctional themes in clients seen in clinical social work practice that are particularly resistant to change. It is important to have an awareness of these themes when treating both Axis 1 and 2 diagnoses. This workshop provides insights, tools, and cognitive/behavioral techniques to address these themes.
G. Bert Allain, LCSW

B3: Motivational Interviewing: Facilitating Health-Related Behavioral Changes
Why don’t people change behavior that seriously impacts their health, especially when the consequences are so well known? Oftentimes, our approach does not stimulate client motivation, and we unwittingly provoke resistance. This highly interactive session will give counseling strategies, demonstrate skills, and provide a fun environment to practice.
Andée Aubrey, LCSW

B4: Social Workers as Entrepreneurs: Wealth Consciousness
A mechanic deserves to make a good living and does so fixing our cars. We counsel the people driving the cars, the mechanics, and their families. This workshop will demonstrate from empirical evidence that we can manifest wealth in our practice, as well as introducing the wealth consciousness methods .
Lorraine Blum, LCSW, DCSW, NBCCH

B5: Honoring Life: The Challenges and Clinical Best Practices with Holocaust Survivors
In southeast Florida alone, it is estimated there are more than 20,000 Holocaust survivors; 58% of whom are not yet 75. It’s critical to understand the unique needs and impact of the Holocaust experience when professionals assess older adults’ functional capacity. This interactive presentation offers a best practices model.
Jenni Frumer, MSEd, LCSW, NCG; Eva Weiss, MEd, EdS

B6: Family Centered Treatment
Family Centered Treatment® (FCT) was developed by the Institute for Family Centered Services. It is an evidence-based model achieving highly-esteemed recognition in all states it is practiced. An overview of the model will be presented with focus on the assessment phase. Participants will leave able to utilize them effectively.
Stephanie Hudak, LCSW; Dan Schimmel, LCSW, CAP

B7: Ethical Conflicts in Social Work Practice
This presentation will explore ethical decision-making, characteristics that increase risk for boundary violations, and the social worker’s role in recognizing, delineating, and addressing ethical dilemmas. Included will be interactive discussion based on actual practice situations. This workshop satisfies the ethics requirement.
Linda G. Kartell, LCSW, C-ASWCM; Barbara J. Brakel, ACSW, LCSW

B8: Brain Optimization: The Next Frontier
We are in the midst of a brain fitness revolution. Social workers need to understand Neuroplasticity and what it means to our clients so we can facilitate optimization of cognitive potential and/or restoration of cognitive skills after disability.
Ninah Kessler, ACSW, LCSW; Amy Price, PhD; Rohn Kessler, PhD

B9: Psychodramatic Techniques in Working with Trauma and Loss
Psychodrama is a powerful modality that allows clients to explore feelings in a safe environment. This workshop will focus on creating safety while teaching basic techniques to work with trauma and loss in individual and group settings.
Paul J. Lesnik, LCSW, PAT; Pamela Goffman, LCSW, PAT

B10: Divorce and the Role of the Social Worker
This presentation will discuss the stressors of divorce as well as the psychology of adjustment and conflict resolution. Participants will learn how social workers can help parents lay a positive foundation of communication on behalf of their children and help parents avoid many of the emotional pitfalls that happen throughout the process.
Ross McDonough, LCSW, CAP

B11: Good Grief: Interventions for Supporting Bereaved Children and Adolescents
A child’s cognitive, behavioral, and psychological functioning is greatly impacted by the illness or death of a loved one. Developmentally-appropriate grief reactions, interventions, memorialization, and explaining sensitive topics such as suicide and remarriage after the death of a parent will be explored.
Erica H. Sirrine, LCSW

B12: Psychosocial Issues and Practice Implications for HIV/AIDS and Other STIs
People living with HIV/AIDS and other STIs present a complex set of psychosocial, ethical, and legal challenges. Participants will gain insight into these high-risk populations as well as develop the tools necessary for assessment and intervention. This workshop satisfies the HIV/AIDS requirement.
David Syfrett, LCSW; David Portero, LCSW

Participating in a conference is not just about learning and getting new information for practice, it’s also about recharging and getting rejuvenated in the social work profession. Join us for this opportunity to network informally with colleagues and relax with friends old and new.

A minimum $10 donation to FL-PACE will admit you to a luscious poolside barbeque. This donation will benefit the NASW Political Action for Candidate Election committee, which works to elect candidates to office who are supportive of the social work profession, health and mental health services, and social justice. With 2010 as an election year, FL-PACE will get involved in the races for Governor, Attorney General, seats in the Florida Senate and House of Representatives, and several ballot initiatives to amend the Florida Constitution.

We hope that you will join us at the pool, located right off of the Grand Ballroom Foyer, for a relaxing time, great food, a celebration of all our good work, and a fundraising effort to make even more progress in the coming years.

See you there!

All proceeds from the Fundraiser Dinner for PACE go to Florida PACE in support of endorsed candidates. Donations to PACE are not tax deductible.

C1: Emotional Intelligence
Recent information indicates that it is emotional intelligence, not IQ or raw brainpower alone, that drives many of the best decisions, the most dynamic and productive organizations, and the most satisfying and successful lives. EI is the ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions as a source of human energy, information, trust, creativity and influence. It is the key skill for any individual who seeks success in both personal and work environments.
Amanda Evans, MSW, EdD is the current President of NASW-FL. She is a professor at Florida Gulf Coast University and has been a trainer for many years to social work, mental health, and corporate audiences

C2: Take Your Oxygen First: Preventing Compassion Fatigue
Social workers face constant demands on their emotional energy. Preventing burnout is essential not only for your own mental health, but it’s also an ethical imperative ensuring your ability to provide the best possible client care. This workshop will give social workers skills to “take their own oxygen first.”
Jamie Huysman, PsyD, LCSW is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation. He is the co-author with Leeza Gibbons of a new resource manual on family caregiving.

C3: Domestic Violence
The overall goal of this training is to become aware of the many challenges that survivors of domestic violence/abuse bring with them when they seek services. You will be able to define domestic violence/abuse, understand its prevalence, and the impact on your client and the community. You will become more aware of the warning signs of domestic violence. You will develop strategies for assisting your clients and providing opportunity for safety planning. You will learn about available services and how to work together to eliminate the conditions in society that allow such violence to continue. This workshop satisfies the domestic violence requirement.
Marguerite W. Jackson, LCSW is a domestic violence victim advocate and counselor with
12 years experience working to empower victims of domestic and sexual abuse by providing a full range of direct services for victims as well as community education and professional trainings.

C4: Medical Errors Prevention for Behavioral Health Professionals
This workshop focuses on clinical social work practice and prevention of medical errors in both agency and private practice settings. The course will also discuss the purpose of a professional code of ethics. The interactive format will prove to be fun and dynamic. This workshop satisfies the Prevention of Medical Errors requirement.
Beth Koon, LCSW, DCSW is a Past President of NASW-FL. Her 29-year career has included direct clinical practice in mental health centers, private practice, managed care, and health care settings.

D1: Effectively Redirecting Inflexible and Explosive Children/Adolescents
This workshop will prepare you to work with children/adolescents and families that have been identified as being “resistant,” focusing on behavioral characteristics linked to Oppositional Defiance Disorder and Conduct Disorder. Beyond the latest research, you will leave with effective strategies and tools to assist families in making positive changes.
Flo Bayot, LCSW; Erin Santil, LCSW, BCaBA

D2: Complementary Therapies for Trauma
Explore outside the parameters of talk therapy. Complementary therapies have a potential to heal the mind, body, and spirit of a person. Come learn new ways to help your trauma clients in a holistic context. Yoga, equine facilitated psychotherapy, and creative arts will be discussed. Experiential exercises will be introduced.
Teresa Bennett, LCSW

D3: Playing It Safe: Safety Awareness for Social Workers
Social workers frequently face the threat of violence at work, and this violence can lead to fear, stress, physical injury, and even death. This presentation will raise social worker awareness and offer suggestions for how to protect against potential threats of violence and abuse in various client settings.
Gwendolyn L. Burk, MEd, LCSW, CHA; Elizabeth E. Shamany, MSW

D4: Social Work Practice with Latino Families in Medical Settings
This presentation will discuss clinical factors to be explored when providing services to Hispanics/Latinos in medical settings. Social workers will acquire skills and knowledge necessary to assist individuals and families in negotiating the health care system while providing culturally competent interventions and developing therapeutic relationships.
Iraida V. Carrion, PhD, LCSW; Ingrid C. Asmar, RCSWI

D5: LifePlanning: Clinical Implications for Aging Parents with Adult Disabled Children
Many older parents are reluctant to face their own inevitable physical decline or demise and often fail to engage in a thorough planning process for the continued care of their adult disabled child. This program deals with the clinical barriers and issues of Life Planning and offers informational seminars.
Jenni Frumer, MSEd, LCSW, NCG; Joan Ensink, LCSW; Melissa Rayman, MEd, CVE

D6: Aging in Place: Resources to Help Seniors Stay at Home
One concern of seniors as they age is that they may have to leave their home, losing control of daily life and independence. More than 80% of seniors desire to stay in their homes for the rest of their lives. This presentation will site how seniors can successfully accommodate changes to “age in place.”
Wendy Hall, LCSW

D7: It Takes a Village: Preventative Mental Health Interventions for Children
Utilizing a systems approach, participants will learn how demographic risk factors can impede social and academic performance and how schools and community partnerships can help. Participants will discuss techniques for incorporating culturally-applicable mental health promotion and prevention initiatives, and tracking and monitoring progress.
Evelyn Montanez, PhD; Blanca Battino, MSA; James Rodriguez, PhD

D8: The We of Me: Living with Dissociative Identities
This presentation will give a unique look at what it’s like living with dissociative identities. The presenter will share her journey from diagnosis to recovery in a multi-media approach combining research and personal stories. Participants will be given a rare opportunity to ask in-depth questions to understand this disorder.
Jamie Pollack, MA

D9: Comprehensive Case Management: A Model for Reducing Criminal Recidivism
As Florida faces a crisis of incarceration, this workshop will address challenges faced by those with criminal records, a case management model for decreasing criminal behavior and reducing recidivism, and the process of building community partnerships.
Connie Reeves Bookman, LCSW; Lauren Anzaldo, MSW

D10: DSM IV-TR: Issues in Diagnoses
Although DSM IV-TR syndromes are social constructions, they are a necessary means of communication with other professions and advocating with insurance companies. This workshop will include a discussion of the International Classification of Disorders (ICD-10) and how the DSM is integrated with the World Health Organization’s classifications.
Dianne Rullo, PhD, LCSW, LCADC

D11: Methamphetamine Use and HIV Infection: Implications for Prevention and Treatment
This workshop will discuss issues related to Methamphetamine use and HIV/AIDS including the impact on transmission of HIV, the effects of drug interactions, problems with treatment adherence, and “unique” clinical complications. Intervention options will be explored along with an overview of current neuroscience research.
Gary Sullivan, LCSW

D12: Sex on the Brain
This workshop will be filled with cutting-edge information based on recent brain and sexuality research. We will explore the basic sexual/brain health connection; differences between the male and female brain and how it affects perception and interest in sex; and the neurotransmitters involved in attraction, infatuation, commitment, and detachment.
Sally Valentine, PhD, LCSW

E1: Anger Management Techniques with Mandated and Non-Mandated Adolescents
This workshop will describe cognitive behavioral techniques of anger management that have shown successful results in working with mandated and non-mandated adolescents and their families. Interaction of audience members will be encouraged to share questions and techniques.
Amy Lynne Adams, LCSW

E2: Gender-Specific Substance Abuse Treatment Issues for Pregnant Women and Women with Children
This workshop will address gender-specific substance abuse treatment issues for women that are pregnant and/or have children. Barriers to treatment and gender-specific programming will be discussed, along with a focus on evidence-based treatments, best practices, and program development.
Kristina Bilicki, MSW

E3: Personality Disorders: Implications for Treatment and Differential Manifestations
Personality disorders affect prognosis of co-existing mental disorders. Personality disorders have significant effects on treatment, including appropriateness of different treatment modalities and implications for compliance. Utilizing composite case scenarios, different theoretical models and treatment paradigms will be critically analyzed and discussed.
David J. Dowd, LCSW; Caysyn Creevy, MA

E4: Boundary Violations: How They Can Happen Despite our Code of Ethics
This workshop will describe the process of how a gradual erosion of the therapeutic counseling relationship can happen and its impact. The features commonly found in boundary violations will be presented and participants will identify the implications for practice. This workshop satisfies 1.5 hours of the ethics requirement.
Susan W. Gray, PhD, LCSW

E5: Care for the Caregiver
In today’s world, we are faced with many obstacles that hinder our ability as health care providers to provide adequate care. We face decreased funding sources and lack of community support, while families are in ever greater need for services. This workshop will be an interactive forum to share ideas and become part of the solution.
Valerie B. Harper, MSW

E6: Safe Transitions: Care Coordination, the Bridge to a Safe Trip Home
Clients moving from one setting to another face particular challenges in care coordination. Poor transitions can be dangerous and costly. This session will explore factors contributing to poor outcomes when services are not appropriately delivered and monitored, and will present models of coordination targeting older adults with chronic conditions.
Chris Kantrowitz, MSW, C-ASWCM

E7: Social Workers Leading the Way to Patient and Family-Centered Health Care
“Patient-Centered Care” is one of the newest buzzwords in health care. Patients and families driving their health care decisions may be a new concept for medical professionals, but it is fundamental to social work ethics. This workshop will identify ways health care social workers can promote patient-centered care in medical settings.
Beth Koon, LCSW, DCSW, CPHQ

E8: Abused Latina Women’s Perceptions of their Post-Divorce Adjustment
This workshop presents the findings of a qualitative study exploring the post-divorce adjustment of battered Latina immigrants. Particular attention will be paid to the motivations for leaving; the impact of the Latino culture on marriage, separation, and post-divorce; immigration and other legal/social issues; and implications for practice.
Olga Molina, DSW, LCSW

E9: The Use of Intergroup Dialogues as a Social Work Group Intervention
Intergroup dialogues are an innovative intervention designed to bridge cultural differences between groups who share historic tension with each other. This workshop will provide an overview, including the latest research, and will also include an activity for participants to “experience” these dialogues.
Mitch Rosenwald, PhD, LCSW; Sharron Singleton, DSW

E10: Keeping Your Balance When Life Throws You Curves
In these challenging times, social workers need to protect themselves against stress. This invigorating workshop will update you on why practicing good self care is a clinical must, and how to recharge your batteries and continue to provide quality care to your clients.
April Steen, LCSW; Stephanie Trela, LCSW

E11: What Social Workers Need to Know before Entering a Courtroom: Expert Witnessing, Court Appearances, and Other Legal Issues
This presentation will cover the differences between expert testimony and lay testimony and how social workers fit into what category. It will also cover the testimonial privileges that are afforded social workers and how a social worker can protect that privilege when called into court. Finally, social workers will learn how to best conduct themselves in court settings.
Laura L. Sterling, LCSW, PA

E12: Community Awareness of Child Sexual Abuse: A Grassroots Approach
87% of child sexual abuse perpetrators are known to the child, yet misinformation abounds. This workshop will describe how a group of BSW students launched and delivered a six-phase community awareness project utilizing electronic community networking and community outreach.
Nan Van Den Bergh, PhD; Heidy Castro, BSSW; Jessica Peña, BSSW; Alejandra Hagopian, BSSW; Marelys Garcia, BSSW

Inspiration in Action: Moving Toward Social Justice Presented by Phyllis Scott, PhD Interim Associate Dean & Associate Professor, Barry University

To officially close the conference, Professor Phyllis Scott will tie it all together and provide direction for the coming year. Whether you practice on the micro, mezzo, or macro level, social workers have a hand in moving toward social justice. The work is challenging, but social workers have the skills, knowledge, and experience to get the job done—and an obligation to use that knowledge to help those who are suffering.

Professor Phyllis F. Scott, PhD, is a powerful and fiery speaker. She has been faculty at Barry University since 2001, and has many years of professional experience.