Continuing Education
The College of Health and Human Services offers continuing education programs on evidence-based practices and emerging health issues relevant to health care and human service professionals.
Often these programs are led by our own faculty, leading sessions in topics in which they are expert practitioners. But we also partner with outside organizations to provide training that is relevant to the disciplines we serve - including our instructors and alumni.
We hope to provide quality CE programming that helps practitioners grow as professionals and meet CE requirements related to professional licensing.
Live (Virtual and In-Person) Training
May 8, 2025
Understanding Your Own Personal Values and Beliefs and Connecting Those with Cultural Identity to Ensure Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion of Those We Serve
1 to 2 p.m.
Presented by: Dr. Anna Yelick
This webinar will begin by exploring personal values and beliefs through an exercise. This will provide learners with an opportunity to begin to take an introspective review of their personal values and beliefs and reconcile any of those personal values and beliefs with their professional values and beliefs. This will be the framework for this important work. Once learners have fully explored their personal values and beliefs, this webinar will then provide an opportunity for learners to reflect on their own personal cultural identity, connecting their personal values and beliefs as they go, as well as identify how their personal values and beliefs align and conflict with the cultural identity of those they serve. This webinar will provide opportunities for learners to engage with scenarios that will help to highlight misalignment and steps to ensure cultural humility and respect is being practiced. Finally, this webinar will wrap up with the beginning steps to reconcile any misaligned values and beliefs to help learners ensure they are working toward diversity, equity, and inclusion for all those serve as well as social justice for their community and the larger system, as well. This webinar will utilize exercises, small and large group discussion, and visual displays.
Synchronous live webinar format
Cost: $25.00.
WMU faculty, staff, and current year instructors can apply a 25% fee adjustment before checkout.
WMU students can apply a 50% fee adjustment before checkout.
May 13, 2025
Mental Health Challenges Among First Generation Americans: Clinical Recommendations
9 a.m to 12:15 p.m.
Presented by: Maria Laguna
First generation Americans (born to immigrant parents or naturalized U.S. citizens) are vulnerable to experiencing a number of unique challenges: conflicts between family values and society values, ambivalent relationship with their bodies and sexuality, imposter syndrome, parentification as children, internalized oppression, amongst others. Exposed to the immigration trauma their parents suffered, 1st generation Americans navigate two cultural worlds. In families of immigrants who have limited access to the English language, first generation Americans become cultural brokers of their parents, acting as translators, assistants, etc. This workshop will introduce best practices when working clinically with this population, technical recommendations, and assessment skills to sensitize clinicians to common issues and ways to address them. The presenter will use a clinical vignette and identify potential issues and interventions relevant to this population.
Synchronous live webinar format
Cost: $75.00.
WMU faculty, staff, and current year instructors can apply a 25% fee adjustment before checkout.
WMU students can apply a 50% fee adjustment before checkout.