Training Details

Ethics – The History of Poverty, Racism and Social Welfare in America

Purpose:

Social workers, case managers, and other helping professions focus on ensuring social justice for those who are marginalized. These same professionals have long been the providers of services set into motion by governmental social policies. However, social policy has held a particular bias. This session will explore the possible outcomes, both negative and positive of assisting in implementing questionable social policies both historically and in our contemporary time. Furthermore, this session will help participants to understand the ethical obligations which attach to this work and our participation in it. Finally, this session will offer tools to positively impact our work in social justice through policy advocacy, development of appropriate service delivery standards, which reduce client trauma or traumatization in keeping with the social worker code of ethics, and other important ethical standards

Learning Objectives:

Participants will be able to:
1. Explore the inter-related domains of social policy and ethical social
work practice both historically and currently.
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2. Understand the practice implications of changing governmental social
policies as related to the Social Worker Code of Ethics.
3. Utilize tools which more accurately articulate the narratives of poverty
and racism to engage in systemic change and reduce the potential for
trauma

Event Cost:

$45.00 / 3 ETHICS CEUs for Counselors and Social Workers

Event Information:

ETHICS – The History of Poverty, Racism and Social Welfare in America

Thursday, November 14, 2024
Time: 1:00 pm – 4:15 pm

Columbus State Delaware Campus

Presenter: Amy VanDyke, MSW, LSW, PhD

Cost $45.00 / 3 ETHICS CEUs for
Counselors and Social Workers

About the Presenter(s):

Amy VanDyke, MSW, LSW, PhD

Dr. VanDyke earned a Master’s degree in clinical social work from the University of Pittsburgh and a PhD in Ethics from Duquesne University, also located in Pittsburgh. Dr. VanDyke currently serves as the VP of Programs for Catholic Social Services of Columbus. She has over two decades of program design and implementation experience both in social services and in ethics. Dr. VanDyke is a member of National Association of Social Workers (NASW), The American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), the European Society for the Philosophy and History in Medicine (ESPMH). She is an international speaker on ethics having made peer reviewed presentations in 6 countries and throughout the United States. Dr. VanDyke maintains teaching associations with the University of Pittsburgh and through the school of social work at the Ohio State University.