Past Workshops

• Know the dynamics of domestic violence and elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation
• Know the effects of domestic violence and elders abuse, neglect, and exploitation
• Know the legal remedies for protection; lethality and risk issues; model protocols for addressing domestic violence and elders abuse, neglect, and exploitation
• Know the available community resources and victim services and reporting requirements for domestic violence and elders abuse, neglect, and exploitation

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Instructor: Rudy Garcia, LCSW

Rudy Garcia is the District Student Support Specialist for Hardin County School, which is the 4th largest district in Kentucky, and he is the only Social Worker at the district level. He is responsible for 22 schools and 1 alternative school. He oversees the Positive 
Behavioral Intervention and Supports (PBIS) program, the drug and alcohol violation program (Title 4), the Trauma Informed Care program, the transition program for the alternative school. He is also a supervisor for Social Work interns from several Universities and is an adjunct professor for Western Kentucky University & University of Louisville. Rudy retired from the Army after 22 years of service and moved to Radcliff, Kentucky after University of Louisville and Kent School of School of Social Work accepted him into the MSSW program. He is very active in the community when it deals with children, his family does foster care and he is a member of several organizations within Hardin County such as the Mission Hope for Kids, the Hardin County Restorative Justice Youth program, the Social Justice Partnership program, and the Juvenile Detention Alternative Initiative program. 

Rudy’s motto is “Social Work is not my profession; it is who I am!”

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Keeping Current with Kentucky's Code of Ethical Conduct

November 14th, 2024

• Apply the code of ethical conduct contained in 201 KAR 23:080 as it relates to ethical decision making in the context of professional practice
• Practice use of core values and principles of the SW profession as articulated in NASW Code of Ethics
• Integrate ethical principles of NASW Code and the code of ethical conduct (KAR 23:080) via application of a model of ethic

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Instructor: Lynn Hazlett, MSW, CSW

Lynn M. Hazlett is an instructor in the Master of Social Work Program at Western Kentucky University. With over a decade of teaching experience, Lynn has developed and taught a wide range of courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, focusing on topics such as generalist social work practice, diversity, and ethical issues in social work.

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November 22, 2024

• Review common patterned injuries
• Describe pediatric abusive head trauma
• Discuss risk factors for physical abuse
• Review prevention tools
• Briefly review safe sleep practices

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Instructor: Dr. Dana Sullivan, CSW