OU-Tulsa Learning Center, Room 231 (4502 E 41st Street, Tulsa, OK 74135)

Free CEUs available for Social Work and Behavioral Health

Presenter’s bio: Lauren Garder is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a decade of experience in mental health and victim services. The focus of Lauren’s career has been chronic trauma and victimization. Lauren has worked at across the spectrum of services from hotlines to therapy to working in administration for the ODMHSAS overseeing trauma services and outpatient treatment for suicidality across the State. Lauren is now “back in the chair” in private practice in Oklahoma City providing therapy, expert witness, and consulting in her areas of expertise.

Workshop description: this immersive training is designed for professionals supporting individuals and families experiencing homelessness. The workshop equips participants with the tools and mindset to provide trauma-informed, compassionate care to people who have experienced deep instability, including violence, exploitation, and systemic barriers.
With a focus on person-first approaches that honor dignity and resilience, participants will learn how to build trust, promote safety, and respond skillfully in high-stress situations. Through reflective exercises and experiential learning, attendees will strengthen their capacity to recognize and respond to trauma—both in those they serve and within themselves. Trauma-informed care is not just a framework—it’s a way of being in this work.

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CEUs available for Social Work and LPC: $10 for 1 credit hour

Presenter’s Bio:  Dr. Hank Puls is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Children’s Mercy Kansas City. The overall goal of his research agenda is to reduce child maltreatment, particularly physical abuse among infants and young children. He is especially interested in public policies as prevention for child maltreatment and improving the equitable identification of children at risk for maltreatment. He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of child maltreatment, public policy and the social determinants of health.

To learn more from Dr. Puls, check out his interview on One in Ten podcast from the National Children’s Alliance:

https://oneintenpodcast.org/episodes/do-anti-poverty-programs-reduce-child-abuse/

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CEUs available: $30 for 3 credit hours (Ethics, LCSW & LPC)

Lecturer: Charlotte Kendrick, LCSW (Instructor at OU Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work)

Charlotte Kendrick is the Graduate Coordinator and an instructor at the The University of Oklahoma Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work. She has over 17 years of social work experience in child welfare, medical casework with program and management experience as well. Over the years, she has guided numerous social work practicum students and licensee candidates as they continued their education and furthered their own professional development. Ms. Kendrick has been educating and guiding students at the Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work since 2018.

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CEUs available for social work: $10 for 1 credit hour

Lecturer: Sarah Catherine Williams, MSW (Research Scientist, Child Trends)

Short description of the lecture: Families that experience poverty-related stressors such as income insecurity or loss, material hardship, and housing hardship or instability are also more likely to come into contact with the child welfare system. The intersection of poverty and economic insecurity with neglect poses a challenge to child welfare agencies when they respond to reports of maltreatment. Of all maltreatment types, neglect is particularly difficult to identify and define because it involves the omission—rather than the commission—of actions that can harm children. Untangling whether a child’s unmet needs are due to poverty or to some other factor is difficult, which begs the question: To what degree do child welfare agencies include income-related factors in their definitions of child maltreatment? The answer is different in every state. The current lecture will discuss differences in state definitions of maltreatment and the inclusion of income-related factors, as well as the implications for the inclusion of such factors in definitions of maltreatment.

Lecture’s Bio: Sarah Catherine Williams works in the Child Welfare program area at Child Trends, a non-profit research organization in the Washington DC area that conducts high quality research to improve the lives of children, youth, and their families. She has over a decade of experience with program evaluation and is skilled in both quantitative and qualitative data analysis, as well as analyzing AFCARS, NCANDS, and state-level administrative child welfare data related to maltreatment, permanency, and placement stability. Her research experience and interests include: the intersection of poverty and child maltreatment; child welfare financing; opioid abuse and its impact on children and the foster care system; kinship caregiving; relative search and engagement techniques for children in foster care; diligent recruitment of foster and adoptive parents; child welfare court advocacy practices; unaccompanied refugee minors; and refugee resettlement services. Before starting her career in research, she was a special education teacher in Atlanta, GA and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Nicaragua.

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