Post-Graduate Certificate Programs

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.

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Smith College School for Social Work Professional Education offers certificate programs for clinicians in Advanced Clinical Supervision, Palliative and End-of-Life Care and Foundations of Clinical Supervision.

We’ve designed the certificate programs in consultation with Smith faculty, agency directors and field experts in order to create programs that are current and responsive. Certificate instructors are master clinician/academicians whose expertise enriches the content.

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