Chapter Meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, for most months except December, July and August.

Guest Policy: You are welcome to attend the program as a guest, free of charge. If you would like to attend more than two programs, or if you would like to receive a certificate, you may do so upon joining ALCA. (CE certificates are only sent to active members, as it is a free membership benefit.)

Upcoming Meetings

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Please join us for the November Meeting on Zoom!

Navigating Long Term Care Medicaid Benefits

Wednesday,  November 20, 2024

4:30-5:50 pm

1.0 CE   SW
1.25 CE  CCMC

Speakers: Mary Jo Boynton, MSSW, LICSW, CASWCM
Deborah Liss Fins, LICSW, ACSW, CMC-Retired

This presentation will provide a forum to discuss clinical and business ethical dilemmas that ALCPs confront frequently.  With the assistance of vignettes, we will illustrate how ALCA’s Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics can support us in our decision-making process.  We will turn particular attention to several recent changes to existing standards and the addition of a new one. The goal of this program is to demonstrate how the ALCA Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics are continually evolving as a crucial guide for our clinical and business practices.

Learning objectives: 

  1. To identify how the ALCA Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics can assist in strengthening the ALCP’s clinical and business decision-making process
  2. To integrate and apply Standards of Practice into clinical practice and business protocols.
  3. To recognize when a practice model or behavior is outside the bounds of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice.

Meeting Agenda:

4:30 Welcome, announcements and introduction

4:35 Clinical and business decision-making processes and how they dovetail with the application of ALCA’s Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics. (15 minutes)

4:50 Review of recent changes in existing standards (10 Minutes)

5:00 Examples of Care Management integration and application of the Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics (30 minutes)

5:30 Non-compliant practice models and behavior (10 minutes)

5:40 Discussion and Q&A (10 minutes)

5:50 End of CE programm

Contact Hours

Please note that anyone arriving after 4:35 pm will not be entitled to a certificate. There is no charge for the certificate.

This program has been submitted to the Commission for Case Manager Certification to provide continuing education credit to board certified case managers with 1.25 CE contact hours.

This program has been submitted to the Network for Professional Education at the Boston University School of Social Work to provide continuing education credit to licensed SWs with 1.0 CE contact hours. Please check with your state board to verify acceptance of the Boston CE.

No fee is charged for this program.

RSVP

Members please RSVP no later than November 18th.

RSVP information will be in the weekly ListServe announcements

Individuals wishing to learn more about membership and to attend a chapter program, please email: alcanewenglandmembers@gmail.com

References

References :

  1. Blasimme, A. (2022). The Ethics of Geriatric Care in Sinclair, A. J., Morley, J. E., & Vellas, B. (Eds) Pathy’s Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine. Chapter 116. John Wiley & Sons.
  2. Chessa, F., & Moreno, F. (2019). Ethical and legal considerations in end-of-life care. Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 46(3), 387–398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pop.2019.05.005
  3. Moody, H. R., & Sasser, J. R. (2020). Aging : concepts and controversies (10th ed.). Sage Publications, Inc.
  4. Kornblau, B. L., & Burkhardt, A. (2012). Ethics in rehabilitation : a clinical perspective. Slack.
  5. FARKAS, K. J., & ROMANIUK, J. R. (2020). SOCIAL WORK, ETHICS AND VULNERABLE GROUPS IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS AND COVID-19. Society Register, 4(2), 67–82. https://doi.org/10.14746/sr.2020.4.2.05
  6. Reamer, F.G. (2012). Boundary issues and dual relationships in the human services. Columbia University Press