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Social Work Continuing Education.

Social Work Continuing Education (SWCE) supports the educational outreach mission of both the University of Washington and the School of Social Work. It provides an extensive curriculum of year-round, life-long learning opportunities to human service professionals to help them stay current with new developments in the field, upgrade their skills, exchange ideas with colleagues, and revitalize their commitment to their profession.

Current Continuing Education Certificate Program Offerings

SWCE offers both individual courses as well as certificates. Currently we are offering three certificate programs. The links listed below offer comprehensive information for each certificate program including program overview, courses, instructors, advisory boards and information on how to register.

Psychological Trauma: Effective Treatment and Practice. post-master's, multidisciplinary training preparing professionals to deliver current, evidence-based, multi-theoretical skilled assessments and interventions to traumatized youth and adults.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health - Students gain new knowledge and skills to provide more effective mental health services to children, adolescents and their families.

Geriatric Mental Health - Students increase their understanding of the acute and chronic mental health needs of older adults and gain important practical
skills in diagnosing and treating these needs.

Current Continuing Education Course Offerings

In addition to certificate courses we offer a range of one and two day courses for social work and human service professionals. We also offer several kinds of one-day ethics workshops. Use this link to access a complete list of current SWCE course offerings as well as all needed enrollment information and links.

Click here to see the General Social Work Continuing Education Courses

Continuing Education Hours

Professionals in a wide variety of fields complete contact hours needed for credentialing. See notations after each program for the number of contact hours provided.

Social workers, mental health counselors and marriage and family therapists
The UW is a qualified provider for continuing education requirements administered by the Washington State Department of Health. All workshops described in this Social Work Continuing Education section are appropriate (see the Courses page for course descriptions).

Licensed Psychologists
The UW is a qualified continuing education provider for licensed psychologists, per WAC 246-924-240.

School Counselors and School Social Workers
The UW is approved by the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide clock hours for all those with continuing level certificates.

Washington State Mental Health Specialists
The workshops listed within the Certificate Programs in Child and Adolescent Mental Heath and Geriatric Mental Health count toward the 100
hours of classroom training required for those working in the public mental health system who are seeking designation as mental health specialists in these fields.

Partnerships with Social Work Continuing Education

SWCE welcomes the opportunity to partner with both public and private human service providers to develop custom training programs and support training needs. Please contact Anjulie Ganti, Director of Continuing Education at 206-543-7662 or anjulie@u.washington.edu if you would like information regarding partnerships with SWCE.

Teaching for Social Work Continuing Education

We maintain a portfolio of instructors for our courses and workshops. If you have expertise in social work in human service practice and education and are interested in teaching SWCE courses, please feel free to contact Anjulie Ganti, Director of Continuing Education at 206-543-7662 or anjulie@u.washington.edu or send us an updated resume, teaching interests and copies of any teacher presentation evaluations you have to SWCE, 4101 15th Ave. NE, Seattle, WA. 98105-6299.

Questions?

If you have questions about these courses or programs, call 206-897-8939 or 1-800-506-1325 and press zero.

Information about UW Social Work Continuing Education courses and programs can also be found on the UW Extension website at extension.washington.edu , following the links for certificate programs or noncredit courses.

Degree Programs
If you are interested in pursuing a B.S.W., M.S.W. or Ph.D. degree, call the School of Social Work admissions office at 1-800-558-8703, visit the school Web site at www.ssw.washington.edu, or e-mail sswadmis@u.washington.edu.

Mailing List

If you would like to be added to the Social Work Continuing Education Mailing List please send an e-mail to requests@ese.washington.edu. Include the words 'SW mailing list' in the subject line and your complete address in the message text.