Billye J. Jones, LCSW is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board of Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0468. This approval is for a three-year term beginning June 1, 2023, and ending June 30, 2026.
Treatment approaches and special considerations for clients who experience trauma
NYSED Approved for 1.5 CE Credits
Working with clients who have experienced trauma requires us to develop as many additional skills as possible. Before a client can begin to reprocess trauma we need to assess if the client is ready, the current level of stability, and which treatment modalities and interventions to use.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- How to assess for safety and current level of stability
- Understand coping mechanisms being used by the client
- Grounding and self-care techniques
- Review of current treatment modalities
- Trauma-informed interventions
- Holistic approaches that can be used in addition to treatment
Format: Live online
What social workers need to know about child sexual abuse
NYSED Approved for 3.0 CE Credits
One-in-four girls and one-in-six boys will be sexually abused by 18 years of age. Why does this happen? This workshop will help you identify the signs and symptoms of child sexual abuse, risk factors, family dynamics that lead to abuse, and current social norms that increase vulnerability to abuse. Red flag behaviors in children and adults at risk of abusing children will also be addressed. By the end of this workshop, you will walk away with specific action steps to improve the protective factors to keep children safe.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- Signs and Symptoms of Child Sexual Abuse
- Understand the prevalence of abuse
- Identify the myths and facts about abuse
- Identify current risk factors
- Know the steps to increase protective factors
- What makes children vulnerable to abuse
- Be able to identify red flag behaviors in children and adults who are at risk of abusing children
- Increase protective factors to prevent child sexual abuse
- Understand and identify the long-term impact of child sexual abuse
Format: Live in-person and live online
Long-term impact of adverse childhood experiences: looking through a complex trauma lens
NYSED Approved for 1.5 CE Credits
There are so many experiences a child can have which are traumatic. Many of these experiences will lead to complex trauma in children, which will have a long-term impact. This workshop will explore the type of traumatic experiences, which can lead to complex trauma. Additionally, workshop attendees will be introduced to the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire (ACE’s).
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- Understand types of traumatic experiences that impact children
- Definition of complex trauma in children
- Introduction to the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire and study
- Identify the possible physical and behavioral consequences of complex trauma in children
Format: Live in-person and live online
Children and youth with problem sexual behaviors
NYSED Approved for 3.0 CE Credits
Children and youth may demonstrate problem sexual behaviors, which have many consequences, including the abuse of other children and youth. This workshop will help understand and identify problem sexual behaviors as well as help differentiate between problem behaviors and healthy age-appropriate behaviors. We will explore how to address problem behaviors, treatment interventions, and how to deal with problem behaviors in the home.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- Definition of problem sexual behaviors in children and youth
- Recognizing and identifying problem behaviors
- Identifying red flag behaviors
- Recognizing grooming behaviors in youth at risk of harming other children
- Understanding the difference between problem sexual behaviors and healthy age-appropriate sexual behaviors in children and youth
- How to keep children with problem behaviors in the home with other children
- Reviewing promising treatment interventions
Format: Live in-person and live online
Child sexual abuse, complex trauma and long-term effects
NYSED Approved for 6.0 CE Credits
Childhood sexual abuse not identified until adulthood will often have a life-long impact on the survivor. A child who is sexually abused is more likely to experience Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), complex trauma, depression, substance abuse, relationship problems, and chronic health issues in adulthood. We often work with survivors of child sexual abuse unknowingly, as they may not be able to tell us what happened. This workshop will focus on the long-term impact of the abuse, understanding how complex trauma presents differently single incident PTSD, assessment, and treatment implications. Prevention, intervention, breaking multi-generational cycles of abuse, and healing will be addressed.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop participants, will learn the following:
- Understand the prevalence of child sexual abuse
- Identify the myths and facts about child sexual abuse
- The long-term impact of unidentified abuse
- Reasons why clients are unable to disclose abuse
- How to assess abuse
- Introduction to Adverse Childhood Experience Questionnaire and study
- Definition of complex trauma and treatment implications
- How to handle disclosures of abuse
- How to engage complex trauma survivors
Format: Live in-person
Trauma-informed care: A client-centered approach
NYSED Approved for 6.0 CE Credits
This workshop will address the special considerations in treating trauma such as assessment, establishing trust and safety, stages of healing, current trauma treatments/interventions, and developing trauma-informed practices. A special emphasis will be placed on understanding complex trauma. Complex trauma is the exposure to multiple traumatic events occurring in childhood and adolescence. The results include a damaged sense of self, inability to trust others or the environment and significant brain changes. Complex trauma is often mistaken for personality disorders, resistance and non-compliance, which impacts treatment success.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- Learn the definition of trauma-informed care
- Understand the principles of trauma-informed care
- Be able to define complex trauma
- Understand the difference between complex trauma and PTSD
- Be introduced to the Adverse Childhood Experience Questionnaire and study
- Differentiate complex trauma from personality disorders
- Understand how trauma changes the brain
- Engage complex trauma survivors
- Establish trust and safety
- Be able to work with people during all stages of healing
Format: Live in-person
How trauma manifest in older adults
NYSED Approved for 1.5 CE Credits
Getting older is not traumatic in and of itself, but there can be circumstances such as illness, loss, involuntary retirement, leaving home, and having to engage in systems for the first time, which can be traumatic. Also, many older adults may have un-identified and or unresolved trauma which can be triggered by the events mentioned above. Additionally, we will explore the importance of ongoing assessment, intervention, and treatment of trauma in later life.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- How illness, loss, hospitalization, or nursing home placement can re-traumatize older adults
- Behaviors in older adults which might indicate trauma
- Trauma-informed practices that can help us work better with older adults
Format: Live online
How trauma manifests in youth in foster care
NYSED Approved for 1.5 CE Credits
After years of consistent decline, the rate of children and youth in foster care has increased due to the opioid crisis. Youth in foster care and young adults who have aged out, face unique challenges and experience higher than average rates of trauma. This workshop will address the consequences of trauma, disrupted attachment and systematic challenges children and youth face in foster care.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- Long-term implications of foster care placement
- How to identify the attachment style of youth in care
- Needs of aging out young adults
- Understand the systemic challenges impact children and youth in care
Format: Live online
How trauma manifest in survivors of intimate partner violence
NYSED Approved for 2.0 CE Credits
Intimate partner violence (IPV) remains a pervasive issue, which impacts approximately one in four households. This workshop will provide a comprehensive definition of IPV in addition to highlighting the long-term consequences. Recognizing the traumatic responses of survivors of IPV, which can be subtle will be addressed. Assessment and intervention will be a focal point of this workshop.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- The comprehensive definition of Intimate Partner Violence
- The long-term impact on individual and family members and friends
- Enhanced assessment tools
- How to recognize trauma triggers
Hiding in plain sight: How sexual violence manifest in the classroom, workplace, and the community
NYSED Approved for 4.0 CE Credits
Sexual violence is a pervasive problem, which remains hidden. Sexual violence is still often viewed as an individual problem only being perpetrated by a handful of “bad people.” The reality is something different; sexual violence remains a pervasive problem mainly because we still hold on to stereotypes, attitudes and belief systems that allow a culture of sexual violence to thrive. Sexual violence is not a problem to be dealt with only by victims and perpetrators, but by all of us if we are ever going to take real steps to end it. This workshop will define sexual violence as a community issue and demonstrate the impact on all of us, paying particular attention to our classrooms, workplaces, and communities at large.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- Defining sexual violence (including sexual harassment)
- The definition of consent
- Signs and symptoms of sexual violence (typical and atypical)
- How does sexual violence hide in plain sight? (examples in classroom, workplace and the community)
- How to intervene on behalf of survivors of sexual violence
- Be able to identify and walk away with specific tools to intervene on behalf of victims
Format: Live in-person and live online
What Trauma Looks Like in an Educational/After school Setting
NYSED Approved for 1.5 CE Credits
There are so many traumatic experiences that can have a long-term impact. When children and youth enter our educational/after school settings, we frequently don’t know their trauma history but might see the behavioral, social, and emotional consequences which may include: substance abuse, low self-esteem, depression, angry outbursts, self-harm, and violence. We will explore specific steps to deescalate trauma triggers.
Learning Objectives: At the end of the workshop, participants will learn the following:
- The various types of traumatic experiences impacting children and youth
- How to recognize trauma triggers
- How to de-escalate children and youth who are triggered
- Childhood Adverse Experiences Scale and Study