WVU Division of Social Work to offer continuing education workshops

Morgantown, W.Va., September 11, 2007: The West Virginia University Division of Social Work will offer a series of local workshops for social work and counseling professionals who wish to earn continuing education credit.

The following workshops will be offered in Charleston:

September 28- “Legal Issues for Social Workers” will be held Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Robert C. Byrd Heath Sciences Center in Room 2044. The workshop will be led by Jennifer Powell, MSW, JD, Assistant Dean, WVU College of Law. It is approved for 7 hours of continuing education credits (CEUs) for social work or 7 SW ethics hours. The registration fee is $75 (early bird rate of $67.50 if registered by Sept. 14).

November 9- “Advance Clinical Training on Violence in Families” will be held Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Robert C. Byrd Heath Sciences Center in Room 2044. Kathleen Carrick, MSW, PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work will lead the workshop. It is approved for 7 hours of continuing education credits (CEUs) for social work and 6.5 LPC hours. The registration fee is $75 (early bird rate of $67.50 if registered by Oct. 15).

The WVU Division of Social Work is part of the School of Applied Social Sciences in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at WVU.

For more information or to register for the workshops, please contact Jacki Englehardt, Coordinator of Professional and Community Education, WVU Division of Social Work, at Jacki.Englehardt@mail.wvu.edu or at 304-293-3501, ext. 3109. Additional information is also available at http://socialwork.wvu.edu/continuing_education.

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