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Climate Change and the Human-Animal Bond: Social Work’s Role

Room B

Hybrid
1 CE Hour
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Description

In this session, participants will receive an overview of the diverse range of scholarship within the Social Work in Mental Health special edition on Ecological Justice and the Human-Animal-Bond.

Target Audience
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Counselors
  • Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to increase social workers’ awareness of the intersection of climate injustice and the human-animal-bond while providing useful research and resources to meet those new challenges within their practice.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Define ecological justice.

  • Explain how ecological justice relates to Veterinary Social Work/Veterinary Medicine.

  • Give at least 3 examples of how to incorporate ecological justice principles and practices into social work practice.

References
  • Abrahms, B., Carter, N.H., Clark-Wolf, T.J. et al. Climate change as a global amplifier of human–wildlife conflict. Nat. Clim. Chang. 13, 224–234 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01608-5 Atteberry-Ash, B. E. (2023). Social work and social justice: A conceptual review. Social Work, 68(1), 38-46.

  • Gupta, M., & McDonald, S. (2023). Co-Occurrence of Animal Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence. In The Routledge International Handbook of Human-Animal Interactions and Anthrozoology (pp. 331-346). Routledge.

  • Hollway, W., Hoggart, P., Robertson C. & Weintrobe, C. (2022). Climate psychology: a matter of life and death. Phoenix Publishing House Ltd.

General
Social Workers

TPN.health, #1766, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 03/31/2022 – 03/31/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credits.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LCSWs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LCSWs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0654.

Psychologists

TPN.health is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for psychologists #MHC-0220.

Counselors

TPN.health has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7267. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. TPN.health is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Course meets the qualifications for hours of continuing education credit for LPCCs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. TPN.health is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LPCCs. TPN.health maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.

Trusted Provider Network, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0220.

Substance Use Disorder Professionals

This course has been approved by TPN.health, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #198061, TPN.health is responsible for all aspects of the programming. Counselor Skill Group: Legal, Ethical and Professional Development.

CE Policy
This course is fiscally sponsored by International Association of Veterinary Social Work . There may be potential biases or conflicts of interest inherent to this relationship, and it must be disclosed to participants. These conflicts of interest have no bearing on the course content and have been resolved.
Bailey Fullwiler

Bailey Fullwiler, MSSA, LSW (She/Hers) is a Regional Organizer for The Climate Reality Project, supporting local petrochemical campaign work in her home state of Ohio. Bailey has a background in social work and supporting communities in the mental health impacts of climate injustice and environmental trauma. In her consulting, Bailey researches ecological grief and partners with environmental groups throughout the Midwest to tend to trauma and build resilience in the climate movement. Outside of her roles, Bailey is a trauma-informed yoga instructor who teaches with the nonprofit Queer Behavior and in local halfway houses, as well as, serves on the board of the International Association of Veterinary Social Workers. She has chapters in Careers in One Health: Social Workers’ Roles in Caring for Humans and Their Animal Companions and EcoSocial Work: Environmental Practice and Advocacy.

Aviva Vincent, PhD, LMSW

Aviva Vincent, PhD, LMSW is a Veterinary Social Worker  and co-owner of Healing Paws LLC. She is social work faculty at Cleveland State University and Program Director at Fieldstone Farm Therapeutic Riding Center. Dr. Vincent is trained in Results Based Accountability for organizational strategic planning and evaluation. She holds facilitator training through the Harwood Institute, Sustained Dialogue, and the Institute for Social Change. As a social justice advocate, she centers DEI in her practice inclusive of Access and Belonging. She is on the board of trustees for PATH International Board of Trustees wherein she chairs the Diversity Equity and Inclusion Committee, and she chairs the conference committee for the International Association of Veterinary Social work. Dr. Vincent was awarded Cleveland Crain’s 40 under 40 (2023), and the Early Career Success Award by Case Western Reserve University (2022). She has twenty peer-reviewed publications and chapters in Career Paths in Human-Animal Interaction for Social and Behavioral Scientists, The Comprehensive Guide to Interdisciplinary Veterinary Social Work, The Handbook on Human Animal Interactions and Anthrozoology, and Integrating Horses Into Healing.

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