Professional Education
The careers that create meaningful, lasting change in people’s lives are led by professionals who all share a determination that routinely takes them above and beyond. And you can find those individuals in the professional education programs of Smith College School for Social Work. Here you’ll find a community that recharges you in ways that go beyond networking, programs that transform careers and a commitment to greater justice and anti-racism.
Smith College School for Social Work Professional Education is where the best thinkers come together to tackle the relevant issues in clinical social work today.
Our Five Core Principles
Our School is committed to five Core Principles of racial justice that guide all areas of our programs and work as we constantly strive towards greater anti-racism – an ongoing goal to which the entire School community aspires.
SSW Professional Education Update, February 2025
After much consideration we have paused 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 will finish out the Advanced Clinical Supervision Certificate and Palliative and End-of-Life Care Certificates that began last year, and 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.
Explore Professional Education
Earn CEs
Professional Education offers a wide variety of live, interactive webinars each month, many conveniently scheduled during the lunch hour.
Contact Professional Education
Lilly Hall
23 West Street
Northampton, MA 01063
Email: sswpe@smith.edu
Phone: 413-585-7970
SSW Professional Education Policies
Review all Smith SSW Professional Education policies and CE accreditation information.