Dear Friends,
We are writing with an update our professional education programming. After much consideration we have decided to pause our live professional education programming during 2025 so we can take time to rebuild a sustainable, robust program that better serves your needs.
Many of our longstanding professional education offerings were thoughtfully designed for an in-person world. At the start of the pandemic we quickly shifted these in-person offerings to virtual offerings to allow us to continue our robust suite of educational programming while the world was fully remote.
As the world returned to in-person activities, we shifted our model again and began offering a mix of in-person and virtual courses. Our data shows us that, even post-pandemic, our most popular offerings continue to be those we offer virtually.
With this in mind we want to pause and reassess the program we have built and redesign it to better serve a remote audience. This pause will allow us to rethink efficiencies, identify better ways to offer virtual programming, reassess our certificate programs for the busy world we live in and launch a stronger, more vibrant professional education program in early 2026.
While our live programming is paused you will still be able to take our recorded webinars, we plan to offer the spring 2025 session of our Foundations of Supervision Certificate (pending enrollment), and we will finish out the Advanced Clinical Supervision Certificate and Palliative and End-of-Life Care Certificates that began last year. We will also still hold our annual Deepening Clinical Practice Conference on August 1. We hope you will join us!
We look forward to celebrating the re-launch of our Professional Education programs with you in early 2026.
If you have any questions, please be in touch.
Best,
Marianne R.M. Yoshioka, M.S.W., MBA, Ph.D., LCSW
Dean | Elizabeth Marting Treuhaft Professor
Smith College School for Social Work
