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FREE: 6 IDFPR CEU’s for LSW/LCSW, LPC/LCPC, Psychologists, and IAODAPCA (Pending)
* In order to receive the CEU’s, you’ll have to attend the FULL TRAINING.
* 1 hour Lunch on your own
Ethics and Boundaries in Trauma Informed Care
Summary: The great majority of clients seeking behavioral health services have histories of trauma. Topics covered in this skill-building presentation include: An historical perspective on the challenges in addressing trauma; advocacy and trauma informed care; Addressing 5 types of traumatic stress disorders; The iatrogenic effect and trauma informed care; How to avoid doing harm; Establishing healthy boundaries in trauma informed care and, How to become a trauma informed organization.
Objectives: by the end of this presentation participants will be able to:
- Effectively advocate for clients with trauma histories.
- Establish healthy boundaries with clients with trauma histories.
- Avoid doing harm.
- Articulate how to ethically address 5 types of traumatic stress disorders.
- Identify strategies for becoming a trauma informed organization.
Cultural Competence In The Clinical Relationship
Summary: Topics covered in this skill-building workshop include: the differences between cultural competence and cultural humility; Cultural responsive counseling; intersectionality and effective cross cultural counseling; integrating cultural responsiveness and evidence based practices; guidelines for culturally and linguistically appropriate services: organizational cultural responsiveness.
Objectives: By the end of this presentation participants will be able to:
- Articulate the differences between cultural competence and cultural humility.
- Strive for cultural humility in clinical relationships.
- Explore intersectionality in the clinical relationship.
- Be a more effective cross cultural counselor
- Integrate culture and evidence based practices.
- Use CLAS Standards to guide work across cultures.
PRESENTER

Mark Sanders, LCSW, CADC, is Founder and CEO of On The Mark Consulting an international speaker and consulting organization in behavioral health whose impact and results have reached audiences and organizations throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Africa, Lithuania, West Indies and Guam. Mark is the recipient of four lifetime achievement awards including the prestigious NAADAC Enlightenment Award. He was one of three finalists for the National Association for Addiction Professionals 50th Anniversary Legends Award. Mark is also the recipient of the Illinois Certification Board’s Professional of the Year Award, The Illinois Certification Board, Jessica Hayes Lifetime Achievement Award, Faces and Voice of Recovery Innovations in Recovery Award and The Barbara Bacon Award for outstanding contributions to the social work profession as a Loyola University of Chicago alumni.
Mark is the author of five books on behavioral health recovery. Recent writings include: Slipping Through the Cracks: Intervention Strategies For Clients With Multiple Addictions Disorders and Relationship Detox: A Counselors Guide To Helping Clients Develop Healthy Relationships In Recovery. He was lead writer on a trauma informed gun violence prevention curriculum which is being implemented in several large cities in the United States. His groundbreaking monograph Recovery Management co-authored with historians William White and Earnest Kurtz helped shift addictions treatment and recovery from the acute care model solely towards a Recovery Oriented System of Care. Mark has had two stories published in the New York Times bestselling book series, Chicken Soup for The Soul.
Mark has also had a 30 year career as a university educator having taught at The University of Chicago, Loyola University of Chicago and Illinois State University School’s of Social Work. He is co-founder of Serenity Academy Chicago, a program which sponsors recovery-oriented peer groups in local high schools.



