Past Workshops
Office of Forensic Social Work 2008-09 Lecture Series
All Lectures held in University Center Room 780C unless otherwise noted,
Downtown Campus
Date | Time | Name/Title of Lecture |
Sept 11, 2008 | 12:00-1:20pm | Dominique Roe-Sepowitz (SSW Faculty) The Mental Health Needs of Prostituted Women. |
Sept 25, 2008 | 4:30-5:30pm | Martha Perez Loubert (Phoenix Prosecutor’s Office) Phoenix Diversion Programs. |
Oct 9, 2008 | 12:00-1:20pm | Nora Gustavsson (SSW Faculty) Demystifying Testifying: Social Workers on the Witness Stand. |
Oct 23, 2008 | 4:30-5:30pm | Janice Mickens, (Program Administrator of DCYF Child Welfare Program) and Holli Sanger (DCYF Social Worker), Understanding Assessment of Child Safety and Risk in CPS. Holli Sanger and Kaylah Ross Training Supervisors, Division of Children Youth and Families/CPS Department of Economic Security. |
Nov 6, 2008 | 12:00-1:20pm | Judy Krysik (SSW Faculty) Predicting recidivism in the Juvenile Justice System: Promises and Pitfalls. |
Nov 20, 2008 | 4:30-5:30pm | Ken Murray (Assistant Federal Public Defender) Making the case for life: Social work and the death penalty. |
Dec 4, 2008 | 12:00-1:20pm | Jose′ B. Ashford (SSW Faculty) Guidelines for reducing recidivism in mentally ill offenders. |
Jan 29, 2009 | 12:00-1:20pm | Jody Drewry (Forensic Psychiatric Social Worker at the Arizona State Hospital) Maintaining ethical relationships and boundaries: Principles for practice in forensic mental health settings. |
Feb 12, 2009 | 4:30-5:30pm | Jeff Trollinger (Former Vice Chair of the Psychiatric Security Review Board). Criminal insanity: A historical perspective on Arizona's insanity law and implementation issues. Location: UCENT 822A |
Feb 26, 2009 | 12:00-1:20pm | Celia Hodges (Forensic Social Work Supervisor in the Maricopa County Jail System) Forensic social work in the Maricopa County Jail System: The comprehensive evaluation program (CEP) and the restoration to competency program (RTC). Location: UCENT 822A |
March 19, 2009 | 4:30-5:30pm | Molly Bright (Executive Director of the Arizona Early Intervention Program AzEIP). Infants and toddlers in dependency/abuse cases: Appropriate court and service system responses. by Molly Bright, Executive Director-Arizona Early Intervention Progam (AZEIP) |
April 2, 2009 | 12:00-1:20pm | Dominique Roe-Sepowitz (SSW Faculty) John Schools |
April 16, 2009 | 4:30-5:30pm | Patricia Bishop (Forensic Psychiatric Social Worker at the Arizona State Hospital) The role of victim empathy in assessing risk in treating forensic patients. Location: UCENT 822A |
April 30, 2009 | 12:00-1:20pm | Jason Overmeyer (Adult Probation Department) Managing sex offenders in the community. |


