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• December 2025 Elevate & Educate

  • When
    12/11/2025
  •  
    11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
  • Location
    Via Zoom (link will be sent via email 12/10)

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  Join colleagues from across Minnesota for a day designed to inspire, equip, and energize school social workers.

  The MSSWA Educate and Elevate event brings together practical strategies, expert speakers, and meaningful networking opportunities to support the critical work you do every day.

  Whether you’re looking to deepen your skills, gain fresh perspectives, or simply recharge alongside peers who “get it,” this event is built for you.

  December's Session: 

  Date: December 11th
  Time: 11-12:30pm
  Location: Via Zoom (link will be sent on 12/10)
  Registration Closes: December 9th @ 5pm
  CEUs: 1.5 BOSW Clinical CEUs
  Cost: 
  $15 - MSSWA Members
  $80 - Non MSSWA Members
  $25 - Other Professionals

  Session Title:

  Supporting Educator Well-Being

  Presenter: 

  - Mandy Weinkauf, MSW, LICSW, LSSW

  Learning Objectives: 

  Supporting Educator Well-Being is a critical component to supporting student success. When adults are able to be aware of their brains and bodies, their regulation, and their ability to support students through co-regulation, school systems can support healing. Grounded in research and science, this presentation supports an evidenced-based paradigm shift that will support all humans involved in our school systems.

  Objectives:

  1. Participants will increase their awareness of the impacts of toxic stress and trauma on how educators show up each day.

  2. Participants will explore brain and autonomic nervous system basics and the impacts of secondary and vicarious trauma on educators.

  3. Participants will understand how a paradigm shift to trauma stewardship, with support from trauma-responsive workplace structures, can support educator well-being.

  
  

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