Date: January 23, 2026
Time: 1-4 PM
Modality: Zoom
Presenters: Lauren Work, MSW, LCSW
This is a virtual course, and will take place over Zoom.
A link to this virtual course will be sent one week prior to the event.
$45.00 SLU Alumni and pre-registered SLU practicum instructors
$65.00 All others
EMS Social Work Certificate
Title: When Getting Help Hurts: System-Induced Trauma, and Social Work Solutions
Learning Objectives
Explore how System-Induced Trauma plays a significant role in outcomes for individuals, families, care systems, and communities.
Learn ways that System-Induced Trauma can cause repetitive crises for individuals and families needing or seeking help.
Apply specific clinical and non-clinical interventions to empower clients to meet their needs, design trauma-informed care systems, and promote community wellness.
Course Description: We live in a resource-rich society, yet more than ever, individuals and families need help navigating care systems. Our clients often face seemingly insurmountable barriers to care and challenges that include marginalization, stigma, systemic issues such as insufficient insurance coverage and lack of access for low-income populations, racial and ethnic minorities, and rural communities. When the challenges from being uninsured, underemployed, lacking transportation, childcare, and other social support become overwhelming, these unmet needs are chronic stressors that can lead to a major health and mental health crisis. Preventing crisis and promoting resilience requires knowledge of actionable prevention strategies, crisis mitigation interventions, and assessments of the system-level factors that impinge on the health and well-being of individuals, families, care systems, and communities.
This CE on System-Induced Trauma will amplify how social workers and other clinical professionals can intervene and positively impact the health outcomes of clients through understanding and early identification of System-Induced Trauma. In addition to defining System-Induced Trauma, common exposure points, symptoms, and unique impacts in comparison to other forms of trauma, this CE will highlight common institutions and systems of care that may expose individuals and families to System-Induced Trauma. We will explore current challenges in society related to the marginalization of those needing or seeking help, protective factors, and how to integrate them within the client/family system, care systems, and communities. Finally, CE participants will be engaged in skill-building activities to gain assessment skills to identify System-Induced Trauma in individuals and families and offered opportunities to practice using specific clinical tools to empower clients and mitigate the impacts of System-Induced Trauma on individuals, families, care systems, and communities.
BIO: Lauren Young-Work, LCSW, is Medical Social Work/ M…..I…. H…(MIH) Coordinator at Palm Beach County Fire Rescue in Florida. She is a nationally recognized expert in MIH and Medical Social Work. Lauren has worked in hospitals and EMS as both a clinician and program innovator. She has authored book chapters on EMS and social work and served as a curriculum developer and instructor for universities, national associations, hospitals, EMS, and state agencies. Lauren has won national and agency awards and currently serves as chair and lead on several national, state, and county committees related to EMS and MIH. She graduated from Florida State University with a Bachelor's in Counseling and a Master's in Social Work. Lauren is a passionate patient advocate and believes in the power of program innovation to lift patients and providers.
Price:
$65.00