Ethics Conference 

March 6, 2009
McKimmon Center
Raleigh, NC

pre-registration is now closed

There is still space available at the conference.  If you would like to register for the conference please register onsite.  Please do not fax in your registration form.  The early bird cutoff date has passed and a $25 late fee will apply for all new registrants.

The 2009 Ethics Conference will be held on March 6, 2009 at the McKimmon Center in Raleigh, NC.  President of yourceus.com, Charles Safford, LCSW, will be presenting:

Cultural Diversity, Value Conflict and Ethical Decision Making: An Overview for Social Workers

OBJECTIVES

The objective of this course is to help the social worker address the complex ethical problems that arise in working with clients from different cultural backgrounds and value systems, and to explore how one begins to find solutions and compromises to complicated ethical dilemmas while simultaneously operating within the social worker's professional framework and honoring and respecting cultural diversity and difference. This training will use a number of scenarios to highlight some of the complex ethical dilemmas that social workers are likely to face. When the trainee completes this course, he or she will:

1) Learn the elements, purposes and dynamics of cultural material, such as values, beliefs, and rituals;

2) Understand where and why tensions exist between the values of the dominant ethos and the values of non-majority groups within the larger culture;

3) Know the overall principles of ethical decision making, and where those principles must be modified when operating with non-majority cultures;

4) Comprehend the dialogic processes that will allow the ethical decision making process to proceed in situations of value conflict.

**A Training Approval Request has been approved by the NC Substance Abuse Professional Practice Board for 5 hours of Ethics credit for Substance Abuse Certification/Recertification purposes.