Trainings
CEU trainings are provided on a variety of topics with some in partnership with the SC Area Health Education Consortium (AHEC). Topics include:
USC COSW Annual Field Education Meeting
August 11, 2023 | 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
NASW SC Fall Symposium
October 17, 2024 | 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.
AHEC
March 5, 2024 | Noon – 2 p.m.
USC COSW Annual Field Education Meeting
August 16, 2024 | 10:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
AHEC
May 21, 2024 Noon – 2 p.m.
NASW SC Spring Symposium
March 28, 2025 | 9:05 a.m.--11:05 a.m.
Recruitment and Retention of Social Work Students into Rural Behavioral Health Practice
The project aims to recruit at least 20 social work students per year into rural behavioral health field placements. These students are placed in a range of rural behavioral health field settings and are tracked and monitored on their post-graduation careers.
Practice Briefs
Our practice briefs focus on several topic areas critical to rural behavioral health practice. Each summarizes current research on the topic and shares implications for rural behavioral health practice. These briefs are intended for both students and practitioners.
Rural behavioral health practitioners may need to assess youth for risk of suicide as part of their practice. This practice brief describes two valid and reliable assessment tools to use when conducting youth suicide risk assessments.
Community coalitions and partnerships bring behavioral health practitioners from different organizations together to address the needs of rural and underserved areas in SC. This practice brief offers a community-level model for assessing, building and maintaining strong and effective community coalitions and partnerships.
Recovery-focused behavioral health interventions are valued by practitioners who seek to empower their clients. During the recovery process, a client’s progress requires close monitoring if treatment plans are to remain relevant. This practice brief provides an overview of two conceptualizations of recovery and two corresponding recovery instruments useful for measuring and monitoring recovery in accordance with these conceptualizations.
Rural school mental health providers often face complex and ethical challenges working in rural school settings. This practice brief elaborates on some of these challenges identified by SC rural school behavioral health providers and offers recommendations for practice.
Case Studies
Four case studies have been developed through this project that highlight the ethical complexities of rural behavioral health practice. Each case offers learning outcomes targeted through the case, identifies the type of class where the case could be useful and then has key discussion questions an instructor might use to help unpack the case.
Rural behavioral health practitioners may face ethical dilemmas when conducting suicide risk assessments. This case considers some ethical dilemmas practitioners might experience when working with youth to assess suicide risk.
Community coalitions and partnerships are critical for rural behavioral health practice. This case highlights some of the interpersonal challenges inherent in community coalition and partnership building.
Recovery-focused behavioral health interventions are valued by practitioners who seek to empower their clients. This case considers some of the complexities inherent in this work for rural behavioral health practitioners working with their clients.
Rural school mental health providers often face complex ethical challenges working in rural school settings. This case illuminates some of these challenges.