Facilitated Conversation on the Ethical Challenges Impacting the Child Welfare Workforce

You are invited to join this facilitated conversation on the ethical challenges facing the child welfare workforce and their impact on personal, professional, and organizational dimensions. This session is set up to provide a safe and structured forum for interdisciplinary professionals to talk. During this conversation, a particular emphasis will be placed on the challenges of professional responsibility and professional ethics in a highly complicated, ever-evolving sociocultural and political environment. The practical components of the session will become platforms to host similar conversations—focusing on local issues—within the participant’s agency and unique community context. 

The facilitated conversation seeks to foster mutual learning, enduring support, and team cohesion “in the here and now.” A systemic framework of collaboration, resilience, and wellness will be applied to counter escalating burnout, frustration, stress, anxiety, and anger that impact our clients, colleagues, and communities on a daily and very personal basis. Underlying the facilitated conversation is the belief that as helping organizations and professional staff enhance their capacity to rebound from immediate crisis and weather persistent stress, they also gain vital resources to deal more effectively with future challenges. Thus, in building organizational resilience among professionals, every learning moment is a preventive measure.

This session is designed for a smaller group, so please sign up early! Also, please note that the session is a companion to the Training Institute session Addressing Secondary Traumatic Stress and Worker Wellness through Group Facilitation, taking place on Friday, April 12 from 2:30 pm – 5:30 pm. Be sure to register for the Training Institutes (with a “Premium” Full Conference Registration) and plan to participate in both. 

Session Facilitator: Michael J. Schultz, Ed.D.