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). Five clinical-focused sessions will be available from September 2025 through February 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
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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Fall 2025 & February 2026
Five continuing education sessions are on tap for clinical social work practitioners, including two focused exclusively on training for LCSWs who want to provide clinical supervision:
- Sept. 18 - The Creative Brain: How Expressive Arts Rewire Neural Pathways for Emotional Healing, Zoom
- Sept. 19-20 - Clinical Supervision Training, in-person
- Oct. 23 - Recognizing and Responding to Gender-Based Violence in Social Work Practice, Zoom
- Nov. 13 - Culturally Adapting the CBITS (Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools), Zoom
- Feb. 6-7 - Clinical Supervision Training, Zoom
