• Understand the role, processes, and impacts of defense-based forensic social work, including relevant statutes and case law, justice system operations, key evidence-based practices, cross-system clinical case management processes, and death penalty mitigation.
• Recognize how social work values and ethics apply when working with justice-involved clients, especially in confronting clinician bias in clinical praxis.
• Develop a cursory understanding the intersectional importance of applying the criminogenic Risk-Need-Responsivity model and rigorous differential diagnostics in achieving successful justice outcomes.

Once you have successfully registered for the event you will receive an email and link to attend the event.

We hold our Virtual Lunch and Learns on the 2nd Wednesday of each month. This event will be on Wednesday, October 14, 2026 from 12 PM to 1 PM.

If you are an active member of the UTAHSWA, please register with the button on the right and a Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.

For Non-Members, click the button to the right to pay the $6 registration fee first, then you can click the member registration button above to get the Zoom link. We verify membership or payment before emailing CE credit.

We also accept Venmo, @UtahSocialWork-Association