District Coordinators:

Virginia Frederick ~ GinnyFred@aol.com
Joan Berman ~ berman.joan@gmail.com

We are happy to report that we had 28 social workers attend our January meeting, during which Janet Yang, Ph.D. gave a very well-received presentation on working with aging patients to create meaning in later life. Our February meeting was also very successful with a wonderful presentation from our president, Leah Reider, LCSW and Joan Berman, LCSW on “Working with High-Conflict Divorce Families.” On March 18, Greg Merrell, LCSW and Director of Field Education at the University of California, Berkeley School for Social Welfare, will present “The Move to Competency-Based Education in Social Work: Implications for Clinical Practice.” This will be a special offering for the month of March, which is Social Work Month. We encourage you to join us!

A couple of years ago, we moved our meetings out of the Stanford Department of Psychiatry, as we were getting too big for the room which only held 30 comfortably. Currently, we are meeting at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. We currently offer between seven to 10 CE programs per year. We have a wonderful group of members who help with the steering committee each year. We are always working on providing interesting and relevant programs for social workers to obtain their CEUs and know how important this is to our members. We are currently also focusing on outreach to younger members in order to engage and support the next generation of our profession.

Virginia Frederick, LCSW has been involved in CSCSW in one way or another since 1982 and has been one of the District Coordinators for about 30 years.