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(new date) Lunch & learn: Caregiver needs in suicide prevention

Sep 29, 2025 – A webinar exploring the Family/Friends of Individuals at Risk of Suicide Training (FIRST) Program with Dr. Sakina Rizvi.(originally planned for Sep 17, postponed)

Workshop: Anti-oppressive documentation for social workers

Sep 19, 2025 — A workshop exploring how social workers can disrupt harmful documentation practices in their work and adopt anti-oppressive strategies.

Lunch & Learn: Depathologizing suicide

Sep 10, 2025 – A webinar focused on unpacking suicide and suicide prevention for social workers in Nova Scotia from a social justice lens.

NSCSW Connections: Queering social work

Aug 26, 2025 — A closed space for 2SLGBTQIA+ social workers to discuss ethics, practice issues, and build connections for safe(r) social work practice.

Lunch & learn: Understanding social work burnout

Aug 18, 2025 — Learn how social workers can go from feeling burned out to feeling confident in their practice so you can maintain your overall wellbeing.

Lunch & learn: “But what do I say?” Eating disorders & social work

Aug 13, 2025 — An introduction to eating disorders will help clinicians feel more confident and competent about what to say to their clients.

Lunch & learn: The power of mentorship

Jul 31, 2025 — An opportunity for current and potential NSCSW mentors to meet, discuss, and learn about strategies for impactful mentorship.

Lunch & learn: Embodying relational strategies as social workers

Jun 16, 2025 — Explore empowering social workers to embody and live into relational strategies with service users, coworkers, and community members.

Lunch & learn: Ethical marketing for clinical specialists

May 23, 2025 — Ethical business development practices for social work entrepreneurs, grounded in our Code of Ethics & Standards of Practice.

Lunch & learn: Active hope, Environmental racism (part 4)

Dr Ingrid Waldron brings her knowledge of environmental racism to this ongoing series on integrating climate justice into ethical social work praxis.

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