Full course description
Friday, March 6, 2026, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM ET
Online via Zoom
Continuing Education Offered
- 6 hours regular live interactive online
Description
Restorative practices focus on fostering interpersonal and community trust, respect, and relationships. This workshop will explore restorative practices as they relate to social work practice. We will apply restorative conceptual frameworks and principles, while teaching applied restorative practice skills. Participants will learn to apply restorative practices to a number of social work settings and across client populations, and will be able to identify how restorative practices can impact those involved.
Objectives
- List the benefits of preventative restorative practices.
- Identify the major principles that underlie restorative practices.
- Describe commonly used preventative restorative practices.
- Identify the benefits of restorative conversations.
- Describe how restorative conversations can be used in various social work settings.
- Identify common restorative practice tools and techniques and how they relate to social work practice.
Agenda
- 9:00am–10:00am Introductions & Community Building Circle
- 10:00am–11:00am Major principles of restorative practices
- 11:00am–12:00pm Restorative Practices: Preventative practices
- 1:00pm–3:00pm Restorative Conversations
- 3:00pm–4:00pm Restorative Tools and Techniques
Instructor
CE Approval Statement
The University of Michigan School of Social Work, provider #1212, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The University of Michigan School of Social Work maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 5/15/2023-5/15/2026.
Social workers participating in this course will receive 6 general continuing education contact hours.
Please see the CE Policies page for more information about continuing education.