CE Webinar: Foundations of Caregiver Mental Health: A Systemic, Liberation-Focused Lens for Professionals

This foundational course offers a real-world, systems-informed blueprint for understanding what the 63 Million family CareGivers are truly up against in America today.

Moving past basic "self-care" talk, we will explore how rigid workplace policies, complex healthcare bureaucracy, and the CareGiver identity gap actively fuel burnout, strain, and depression. You will learn how to map the way CareGiving impacts a person's entire life—across mental, emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial wellness—and practice using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model and the Liberation Health Triangle through a realistic, intersectional case study.

Whether you are a clinician looking to lift the weight of personal guilt off your individual clients, or a manager, case coordinator, or macro practitioner looking to build more supportive community programs and workplace policies, this course gives you the structural tools needed to drive meaningful change at every level of practice. 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

After completing this webinar you will be able to:

1. Define what a family CareGiver is and what CareGiving labor means, including the difference between daily personal care (ADLs) and household or medical management (IADLs). 

2. Explain how history and economic changes in the United States shifted CareGiving from a shared community effort to an isolated responsibility inside the private home.

3. Differentiate between CareGiver burden, stress, strain, and burnout, while identifying the distinct stages of the CareGiver identity gap. 

4. Evaluate a complex family CareGiving story by mapping out how a person's surroundings and daily life affect their mental health using Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model. 

5. Deconstruct a CareGiver's struggles using the Liberation Health Triangle to separate their personal grief and guilt from outside institutional and cultural hurdles.  

INSTRUCTIONAL LEVEL: Beginner, Intermediate, an Advanced

NUMBER OF CE HOURS: 2

YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Dawn Shedrick, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker, consultant, educator, and trainer specializing in mental health, CareGiver wellness, organization development, and curriculum design. She is the founder of JenTex Training & Consulting and The CareGivers Clique, a digital platform supporting burned-out family CareGivers, and serves as Board Chair of the Caregiver Action Network. A 2024 Caring Across Generations Care Fellow alum and doctoral candidate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, Dawn draws on three decades as a primary CareGiver for her mother alongside her clinical expertise to design training that closes the gap in CareGiver mental health. Dawn's CareGiver story has been featured on NPR, AARP, and Next Avenue.

OUR POLICIES:

Course Completion Requirements:

In order to receive your CE certificate, you must:

1. Remain present for the entire webinar.

2. Complete and submit a course evaluation.

Refund Policy:

All course purchases are final. We do not issue refunds. Please click here to read more about our policy on our Terms & Conditions page.

Grievance Policy:

Please click here to read our Grievance Policy.

Accessibility Statement:

We are committed to ensuring that all of our programs are accessible to every learner. Please click here to read our Accessibility Statement and contact us here to discuss accommodations for any of our programs.

OUR CE AUTHORIZATION STATEMENTS:

NEW YORK LICENSED SOCIAL WORKERS

JenTex Training & Consulting, LLC, is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0136.

SOCIAL WORKERS LICENSED IN ALL OTHER U.S. STATES, WASHINGTON, D.C., AND CANADA

JenTex Training & Consulting, provider # 1441, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. JenTex Training & Consulting maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 2026-2029. Social workers completing this course receive two (2) General continuing education credits.

CERTIFIED CASE MANAGERS (CCM)

JenTex Training & Consulting, LLC authorized to provide continuing education for Certified Case Managers (CCM). We are an authorized provider of The Commission's Continuing Education Approval Program (CEAP).

WEBINAR AGENDA FLOW

Total Run Time: 2 Hours, 15 Minutes (135 Minutes Total)

CE Credit Time: 120 Minutes

Non-CE Time: 15 Minutes

• 00:00 – 00:05 (5 mins) | Welcome, Technical Housekeeping & Presenter's Lens (Non-CE Element)

• 00:05 – 00:20 (15 mins) | The Cultural & Historical Evolution of Care (CE Content)

• 00:20 – 00:45 (25 mins) | National Landscape, Demographics & Core Taxonomy (CE Content)

• 00:45 – 01:05 (20 mins) | The Six Pillars of CareGiver Wellness Impact (CE Content)

• 01:05 – 01:15 (10 mins) | Case Conceptualization: Marcus & Roberto Vignette (CE Content)

• 01:15 – 01:20 (5 mins) | Mid-Webinar Rest Break (Non-CE Element)

• 01:20 – 01:40 (20 mins) | Systems Analysis: Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model (CE Content)

• 01:40 – 02:00 (20 mins) | Systems Analysis: The Liberation Health Triangle (CE Content)

• 02:00 – 02:15 (15 mins) | Reframing the Practitioner’s Role & Future Certificate Pathways (CE Content)

• 02:15 – 02:20 (5 mins) | Course Close-Out, CE Administration & Evaluation Link (Non-CE Element)

  
  

AN IMPORTANT NOTE BEFORE YOU REGISTER

You will need your professional license number when registering. To ensure a timely, smooth registration process, we encourage you to have your license number handy before completing the registration form.