Continuing Education
The VCU School of Social Work provides continuing education courses focused on clinical social work practice, clinical supervision and serious mental illness (SMI). Four new clinical-focused sessions will be available in Spring 2026, and a third SMI series will run January-April 2026.
Need more information?
If you have questions about general continuing education opportunities or those focused on mental health initiatives or clinical training, please contact Cassie DeSena-Jacobs, D.S.W., LCSW, director of mental health initiatives and assistant professor in teaching.
Coming Spring 2026
Four continuing education sessions are on tap for clinical social work practitioners in 2026, including one focused exclusively on training for LCSWs who want to provide clinical supervision:
- Feb. 6-7 - Clinical Supervision Training, Zoom
- TBD - The Creative Brain: How Expressive Arts Rewire Neural Pathways for Emotional Healing, Zoom
- TBD - Recognizing and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Social Work Practice, Zoom
- TBD - Culturally Adapting the CBITS (Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools), Zoom
Coming Spring 2026
Stay tuned for details on the VCU School of Social Work's third series on serious mental illness starting in 2026. You can view archived video of the 2025 series, Serious Mental Illness in Focus: Specialized Topics for Practitioners (seven sessions), and selected video from the 2024 series, Insights into Serious Mental Illness: A Comprehensive Seminar Series (four sessions).
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