Grant Writing from the Heart: Why clinical social workers can be good grant writers! (Continuing Education for Social Workers

Instructor: Jeri Mendelsohn, LCSW, Consultant, Former Executive Director and CEO of the Samuel Field Y and Central Queens Y

There is often a disconnect between clinical practice, providing services, and developing proposals that fund and sustain programs. There is a commonly held belief that there are specialized skill sets that differentiate clinicians from grant writers. Within this workshop, we will explore the premise that social work clinicians can and should write program grants; that the grants they write will enhance clinical practice, program effectiveness, and increase the social worker’s professional value within the organization. We will explore how proposals written by a clinician can leverage the practitioner’s deep understanding of client populations, of evidence-based practices, and the nuances of the communities in which they work. Grant writing can provide the social worker with the empowering opportunity to create and implement programs that address critical community needs.

This session will take place virtually and pre-registration is required.  If you’d like to register for a class, please fill out our form and submit payment below. Each course is worth two contact hours.

The cost for each CEU course is $50, and $25 for DGMH partnering organizations of Commonpoint. These organizations include:
HANAC Harmony JVL ISC
Peter Cardella Senior Center
Rego Park Senior Center
Self-Help Benjamin Rosenthal ISC
Sunnyside Community Services
Theodora Jackson NSC
Self-Help Clearview NSC
Elmhurst Jackson Heights NSCA
Maspeth Senior Center
Pomonok Senior Center
JASA Leap
SNAP
Gural JCC

If you have any questions please contact Jordana at jdavidson@commonpoint.org

All NYS licensed psychologists, social workers or mental health practitioners are required to complete continuing education and must complete 3 hours of acceptable course work in appropriate professional boundaries, in each 3-year registration period starting April 1, 2023. The Board of Regents approved regulations on October 4, 2022, that requires psychologists, social workers and mental health practitioners licensed and registered under Articles 153, 154 or 163 of the Education Law, to complete 3 hours of acceptable continuing education on issues related to maintaining appropriate professional boundaries between licensees and patients. The course work must be taken from a provider approved by the Department and counts toward the 36 hours of continuing education required in each 36-month registration period. The regulations apply to each psychologist, licensed master social worker, licensed clinical social worker, mental health counselor, marriage and family therapist, creative arts therapist and psychoanalyst licensed and registered for registration periods starting on or after April 1, 2023. Licensees with a registration period commencing prior to April 1, 2023, do not have to complete coursework in appropriate boundaries until their next registration period. A licensee does not need to submit continuing education certificates to the State Board, unless audited by the Board or applying for a delayed registration.