UNE Online Continuing Education
On-Demand Social Work Workshops
On-Demand Workshops
Keeping Our Expectations High: Trauma-Informed Principles Training
This training provides a understanding of how Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and trauma can affect a student’s learning abilities. The topics covered include the differentiation between the Learning Brain and the Survival Brain, various stress responses, the trauma continuum, and…
Grief and Loss Training
No matter your profession, if you support, guide, and/or teach others, grief and loss will be part of your work. In this fully asynchronous training, we will discuss grief basics including types of grief, the experience of grief across youth…
Poverty-Informed Practice Training
Explore the impacts of poverty on individuals and families through a trauma-informed lens by engaging in reflective practice to identify positionality and privilege that contribute to the disempowerment of individuals and families. Identify ways to engage in strength-based, person-centered approaches…
Self-Care Training
The work you do is hard and vitally important! Leaning about how to care for your professional self is critical in order to prevent burnout and promote efficacy and longevity in the work you do. In this fully asynchronous workshop,…
Compassion Fatigue, Trauma Stewardship & Sustainable Good Work
In this historical context, educators are experiencing compassion fatigue. Also referred to as vicarious trauma, this outcome of working with people who have experienced their own trauma and mental health challenges, can lead to burnout. The concept of Trauma Stewardship…
Responding to the Complex Needs of Students: Helping Without Burning Out
Educators, social workers, and counselors are often called upon to respond to a variety of complex needs and challenges that their students may have. Naturally, there is a strong desire to want to support students to succeed, to grow, and…
Self-Care in the Aftermath of the Pandemic
Self-care has been a topic of discussion in our professional worlds for many years. Pre-Pandemic, we did not embrace the need and benefit of true self-care. Post-Pandemic we now know how critical self-care is but now struggle to find time…
Accreditation & Recognition
UNE’s online Master of Social Work program is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), which is recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in the U.S.
Meet Our Workshop Speakers
Wanda L. Anderson, MSW, LCSW
Rebecca Diggins, MSW, LCSW
Patricia Coccoma, Ed.D., LCSW
Lacey Sawyer, LCSW, LADC, CCS
