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.
Spring-Fall 2026
Five continuing education sessions are on tap for clinical social work practitioners in 2026, including three focused exclusively on training for LCSWs who want to provide clinical supervision:
- Feb. 6-7 - Clinical Supervision Training, Zoom (registration closed)
- Feb. 24 - The Creative Brain: How Expressive Arts Rewire Neural Pathways for Emotional Healing, Zoom
- March 6 - Clinical Supervision Refresher, in-person
- April 17-18 - Clinical Supervision Training, in-person (Registration closed-March 13)
- Sept. 18-19 - Clinical Supervision Training, in-person
- Oct. 1 - Culturally Adapting the CBITS (Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools), Zoom
Spring 2026
The VCU School of Social Work's third series on serious mental illness, Insights into Mental Illness: Practice Models, will focus on treatment modalities used with individuals who are diagnosed with SMI. The web series runs every other week on Zoom from Jan. 29-April 23.
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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