BCU Sponsors Workshop on Social Work Ethics
and Child Welfare Issues

SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar Cliff University’s Department of Social Work will sponsor a workshop titled “Social Work Ethics and Child Welfare Issues” from 8 a.m. to Noon on Friday, Feb. 20 in the Stark Student Center on the Briar Cliff campus. Pre-registration for the workshop, which is designed for all social workers, but especially related to child welfare issues, is Friday, Feb. 6.

Workshop presenter, Heather Craig-Oldsen, MSW, CSW, program director and chairperson Briar Cliff’s social work department, will focus on the basis of ethical principles involved in child welfare social work, and address conflicting and competing values in ethical decision making. Participants will have the opportunity to apply principles to current case dilemmas.

Prior to joining BCU in 2004, Craig-Oldsen served as a manager for child abuse prevention and foster family home programs in two states. An experienced supervisor in both child protective services and resource development programs, she also served as director of program development for the Child Welfare Institute in Atlanta, Ga.

For more information about the workshop, contact Sylvia Kuennen at 712-279-5478.

Briar Cliff University is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100 students from 24 states and four countries.  Students are educated in the Franciscan tradition of excellence in the liberal arts and career preparation in an environment of care and compassion. For more information, please visit briarcliff.edu.

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