Philadelphia Connections will be offering FREE CEs for behavioral health workers!
You will have the opportunity to earn 3 CEs for each elective listed below. Please note that these are in-person training located at 1601 Market St. 6th floor, Philadelphia, PA. Click to learn more and don't forget to sign up before the classes fill up!
Please check out the descriptions of each elective, along with the accompanying event registration link.
Addressing the Impact of Historical
10/4/2023Register for this elective
Family Inclusion Standards
10/11/2023Register for this elective
Revitalizing the Social Work Soul:
11/3/2023Register for this elective
LGBTQIA+ Fundamentals
1/11/2024Register for this elective
Direct Service AND Advocacy:
2/9/2024Register for this elective
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Please click a name below to see the instructor's biographical information.
Andrea October, MSS
Andrea October, MSS
Brienne Jennings, MA, CGRS
Brienne Jennings, MA, CGRS
Delarue Brumskine MSW, LSW
Delarue Brumskine is a creative International Social Worker/Consultant & Entrepreneur on a mission to encourage helping-professionals to “do good while being good to themselves.” Delarue specializes in self-care, policy writing, designing, and standing up service delivery systems. Over the past decade, her noteworthy accomplishments include founding her consulting firm, Delarue Ink, and her Real Estate Company, Logistics Stars. In her free time, Delarue enjoys reading, traveling, and writing for her health and wellness blog, coachdelarue.com/blog .
May Booth
May Booth holds the role of lead Education Specialist at Mazzoni Center, where they work to create a broad, LGBTQ+ competent resource network for LGBTQ+ survivors of interpersonal violence. They do this by developing curriculum, educating about trauma informed care and LGBTQ competencies, and acting as a resource for other agencies working with LGBTQ+ folks and survivors of interpersonal violence. They hold a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado State University in Political Science with a minor in Women’s Studies. Their educational background focused on evaluating the intersections of politics, social movements, and systemic injustices with the hope of creating lasting change.
Laurie Friedman, PhD, LCSW, MPA
Dr. Friedman’s personal and professional experiences inform the connections she makes between individuals’ and communities’ well-being and our larger social-political context. She is a licensed clinical social worker in Pennsylvania, with over a decade of direct and administrative social work practice experience with children, youth and families in a number of settings. She has been trained in Multisystemic Therapy(MST) and focused her dissertation research on better understanding how potential foster parents experience the licensing process. Dr. Friedman is active in local and state politics and currently serves as a finance consultant working to support local and state candidates. Dr. Friedman's scholarship and teaching have focused on foster care, civic engagement, self-care, trauma and pedagogy. She holds a Teaching Certificate from Bryn Mawr College in addition to Quality Matters’ Teaching Online certificate. She has presented at multiple conferences and written articles regarding civic engagement and teaching in the virtual and in-person spaces.
