Past Workshops
1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. CST via Zoom
- 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
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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