Working with Individuals with Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
ACHHS webinars are free and open to paid members, Facebook group members (ACHHS or TCCSW), or if you are referred by a member, please include their name on your email when you rsvp. Only paid members can access the past webinars on our website. We are working to become CEU providers for Social workers, LPCs, & LMFTs.
To rsvp for this webinar, please send an email to admin@achhs.org. A zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before the event.
Discussion details:
The presenter will present for 30-40 minutes followed by question and answer/discussion.
Human service professionals frequently work with families and children with cognitive disabilities and challenges. In this workshop, Dr. Lori Goss-Reaves will share her personal and spiritual journey as a Christian parent raising a child with Downs Syndrome and Autism. She will also share her professional experience with community resources and lessons she’s learned regarding how to best serve children with disabilities and their parents.
The goal of this presentation is to explore some challenges with parenting/providing service for individuals with special needs, particularly those with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Along the way, Dr. Goss-Reaves hopes to encourage Christians regarding how this work can deepen our Biblical faith, and how Christians can become more empathic, effective caregivers.
What is Diverse Discussions?
- Live Discussions for Christian helping professionals and students; conversations, interviews, and Q & A with experts and professionals.
- Topics include working with diverse populations and challenging issues from a Christian worldview.
- Focus is on integrating faith and practice to increase skills, knowledge, and ability to effectively engage and serve others in pluralistic contexts.
Integration of Christian Faith in Practice: Confronting the Challenges
ACHHS live webinars are free and open to members, as well as prospective members in our Facebook groups (ACHHS or TCCSW). You may also attend if you are referred by a member, so please include their name on your email when you rsvp. Recordings of past webinars will only be accessible on this website as a benefit of ACHHS members.
To rsvp for this webinar, please send an email to admin@achhs.org. A zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before the event.
Discussion details:
The presenter will present for 30 minutes followed by question and answer/discussion.
In addition to the ethical challenges helping professionals often encounter daily with individual clients, patients or families, increasingly, workers face areas of moral tension between areas of public policy and agency or professional expectations that may clash with their Christian faith. This discussion will identify key areas of tension between Christian faith and professional practice and discuss implications and challenges for Christian professionals. Ideas for responding ethically using a worldview model will also be discussed along with a Q and A.
What is Diverse Discussions?
- Live Discussions for Christian helping professionals and students; conversations, interviews, and Q & A with experts and professionals.
- Topics include working with diverse populations and challenging issues from a Christian worldview.
- Focus is on integrating faith and practice to increase skills, knowledge, and ability to effectively engage and serve others in pluralistic contexts.
Dissecting Critical Race Theory from a Pastoral Lens–Racial Reconciliation
ACHHS webinars are free and open to paid members, Facebook group members (ACHHS or TCCSW), or if you are referred by a member, please include their name on your email when you rsvp.
To rsvp for this webinar, please send an email to admin@achhs.org. A zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before the event.
Discussion details:
The presenter will present for 30 minutes followed by question and answer/discussion.
When providing services in the health and human services fields, whether as a social worker, nurse, counselor, minister, human service provider, or even when teaching in these service oriented professions as a university professor, some Christians may experience conflict between their orthodox or Catholic Biblical worldview on how to approach helping others and the popular culture’s call to advance social justice systemically.
Pastor Alex Bryant of Alex Bryant Ministries will focus this presentation on:
- What does reconciliation look like from a Biblical perspective? How is it the same and how does this differ from established social justice initiatives?
- Considering reconciliation takes forgiveness for past wrongs, who should take the lead in initiating the reconciliation process?
- Racism affects us in many different ways; mentally, intellectually, physically, socially, and spiritually. This is why it has been such an effective tool the enemy has used to cause division for centuries. What does it take to stop the vicious cycle from continuing? What tools do we have to fight against the strong urge to retaliate or harbor hatred in our hearts when we are the victims of racism?
What is Diverse Discussions?
- Live Discussions for Christian helping professionals and students; conversations, interviews, and Q & A with experts and professionals.
- Topics include working with diverse populations and challenging issues from a Christian worldview.
- Focus is on integrating faith and practice to increase skills, knowledge, and ability to effectively engage and serve others in pluralistic contexts.
Dissecting Critical Race Theory from a Biblical Lens
ACHHS webinars are free and open to paid members, Facebook group members (ACHHS or TCCSW), or if you are referred by a member, please include their name on your email when you rsvp.
To rsvp for this webinar, please send an email to admin@achhs.org. A zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before the event.
Discussion details:
The presenter will present for 30 minutes followed by question and answer/discussion.
When providing services in the health and human services fields, whether as a social worker, nurse, counselor, minister, human service provider, or even when teaching in these service oriented professions as a university professor, some Christians may experience internal conflict between their orthodox or Catholic biblical worldview and their profession’s new cultural shifts that emphasize values of “diversity, inclusion, and equity at all costs”.
The goal of this presentation is to focus on clarifying some key tenets of CRT and then explore some key problems with CRT in light of Biblical truth, including the concept of sin and redemptive nature of faith. Along the way, Dr. Owens would also like to explore what is “redeemable” within CRT, and to discuss ways that compassionate, ethical Christians can still pursue biblical values of empathic care, justice, and loving thy neighbor while not compromising Scriptural truths.
What is Diverse Discussions?
- Live Discussions for Christian helping professionals and students; conversations, interviews, and Q & A with experts and professionals.
- Topics include working with diverse populations and challenging issues from a Christian worldview.
- Focus is on integrating faith and practice to increase skills, knowledge, and ability to effectively engage and serve others in pluralistic contexts.
Dealing with Death and Dying as a Christian Helping Professional
ACHHS webinars are free and open to paid members, Facebook group members (ACHHS or TCCSW), or if you are referred by a member, please include their name on your email when you rsvp.
To rsvp for this webinar, please send an email to admin@achhs.org. A zoom link will be emailed to you a few days before the event.
Discussion details:
The presenter will present for 30 minutes followed by question and answer/discussion.
When working with clients at end of life, some practitioners may experience internal conflict between professional ethics and the Great Commission or other aspects of their faith.
This discussion will revolve around how professionals can manage spiritual anxiety when working with clients at end of life, particularly with clients who do not appear to have an understanding of the Gospel or a saving faith in Jesus Christ.
What is Diverse Discussions?
- Live Discussions for Christian helping professionals and students; conversations, interviews, and Q & A with experts and professionals.
- Topics include working with diverse populations and challenging issues from a Christian worldview.
- Focus is on integrating faith and practice to increase skills, knowledge, and ability to effectively engage and serve others in pluralistic contexts.