Jan 24, 2024 — Join social workers, health experts and first voice panelists to learn more about fat liberation as a social justice issue, and to understand how weight bias and sizeism affect mental health.
Jan 22, 2024 — Bring your lunch and join TESS and the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers (NSCSW) online to learn about human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation in the Nova Scotian context. The Trafficking and Exploitation Services System (TESS) is a partnership of over 70 agencies across our province who are working together to respond to the commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth.
Jan 19, 2024 — Research insights into animal hoarding from a social work perspective
Jan 12, 2024 — Nova Scotia social workers are invited to learn from someone with first-hand experience of conversion practices and unlearning bias.
Dec 13, 2023 —Nova Scotian social workers are invited to develop their professional ethics by collaboratively exploring possible scenarios. This session will explore ways to identify ethics concerns and distinguish them from other, similar concerns we might have about professional practice, the law, or issues of structural justice and equity. Learn more about the role of ethics consultation at the NSCSW and the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network.
Dec 7, 2023 — Nova Scotia social workers are invited to hear first voice perspectives on the role of peer support in creating safer care & safer practice.
Nov 28, 2023 — Nova Scotia social workers are invited to join a colleague sharing her Indigenous social work perspective on domestic violence.
Nov 9, 2023 — Nova Scotia social workers are invited to explore interprofessional perspectives on long term care services in our province.
Oct 20, 2023 — NSCSW & Treaty Partners are hosting a webinar designed to help community professionals and social workers take part in the necessary process of reconciliation, and become better treaty partners with Indigenous people and communities.
Oct 12 – Nov 30 — An 8-week seminar on Bowen family systems theory. NSCSW members only.
CONNECTION is the official newsletter of the Nova Scotia College of Social Workers.
