Trauma-Informed Care with Justice-Involved Populations
This session explores the neuroscience of trauma, common behavioral patterns, and keys to successful trauma-informed service delivery within the criminal and juvenile justice systems. Ethics, diversity, and advocacy are integrated into a discussion on engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation strategies for social workers providing direct service and organizational/community-based service in forensic settings.
Learning Objectives
- Be able to articulate the basic neuroscience that underscores the behavioral patterns commonly seen in justice-involved populations
- Formulate a foundation process of building the 4 stages of trauma-informed care
- Develop a trauma-informed skill-set within the social work practice framework of engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation
Date: Tuesday, April 4, 2023
Time: 5:00-6:30pm EST | 4:00-5:30pm CST
Cost: $23
This program was approved by the National Association of Social Workers – Tennessee Chapter for 1.5 continuing education units
* Zoom details will be emailed to registrants on the morning of the event. This event is live and will not be recorded.
For alumni, field instructor, and faculty/staff discount codes, please email cswcep@utk.edu. Students: A limited number of discount codes are available for you—please contact your program staff member for access. One discount allowed per purchase.
- UTCSW Alumni: 25%
- UTCSW Field Instructors: 50%
- UTCSW Faculty/Staff and all students: 100%
- UTCSW BSSW/MSSW students: 100% (limited number available)
Please email cswcep@utk.edu with any questions, including those related to accessibility. There is space in the registration form to indicate accommodations required. Please allow adequate time for accessibility arrangements to be made.
To request a refund, please email cswcep@utk.edu. Full refunds will be granted up to 48 hours prior to the event. In the event this program is cancelled, full refunds will be issued to all registrants.
About the presenter
Dr. Ali Winters is an Associate Professor of Practice in the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee. She earned her DSW from the University of Tennessee in 2015, her MSW from the University of Alabama in 1996, and her BSSW from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1992. With over 30 years of direct social work practice experience, Dr. Winters’ primary areas of social work practice have been forensic social work in corrections and juvenile justice, direct trauma-based service delivery, program development and evaluation, and behavioral health in healthcare settings. Dr. Winters has also been active in providing clinical supervision and leadership since earning her LCSW in 2005. Her areas of research interest include mental health and solitary confinement, forensic social work ethics, trauma-informed care, and secondary traumatic stress.