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Day, Month Date, Year 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. ET
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OASW members: $ + HST (OASW member ID required)
Non-members: $ + HST
Family Law 101 for Social Workers
Social Work & The Law Series | Presented by SALCO
Monday, October 26, 2026
12:00 to 1:30 p.m. ET
This webinar will provide a practical introduction to Ontario family law and explain how family law issues intersect with day-to-day social work practice. Participants will learn to identify urgent concerns, understand key legal concepts and processes, and support clients in obtaining timely legal advice.
OASW Members: Free (OASW member ID # required) Non-Members: $30 + HST per webinar
Narrative Therapy: Re-Authoring Stories Through Unique Outcomes
Presented by Angel Yuen MSW, RSW
Tuesday, November 3, 2026
11:30 am to 1:00 p.m. ET
Narrative therapy invites us to listen for moments that look beyond problem-saturated stories and notice 'unique outcomes' and explore how they can become openings to re-authoring stories. In this webinar, Angel Yuen will explore practical narrative therapy approaches for discovering 'unique outcomes' in conversations with individuals and families. Through sharing a story and a self-reflective exercise, participants will explore how a single overlooked experience can become openings to preferred stories and new possibilities and meaningful change.
OASW Members: Free (OASW member ID # required) Non-Members: $30 + HST
Understanding Ontario’s Privacy Laws: Information Sharing and Intimate Partner Violence Prevention
Presented by Karishma Firdausi, Senior Policy Advisor, Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Friday, November 27, 2026
12:00 to 1:00 p.m. ET
This webinar will start an explainer of the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario’s (IPC), including its access and privacy mandate. The IPC’s implementation of jury recommendation 78 resulting from the 2022 Office of the Chief Coroner’s Inquest into the tragic deaths of Nathalie Warmerdam, Carol Culleton, and Anastasia Kuzyk will follow. In response to the jury recommendation, the IPC’s Sharing Information in Situations Involving Intimate Partner Violence: Guidance for Professionals will be discussed, clarifying how Ontario’s privacy laws permit the responsible disclosure of personal information for health and safety concerns.
OASW Members: Free (OASW member ID # required) Non-Members: $30 + HST
Gender-Based Violence and Its Intersection with the Law
Social Work & The Law Series | Presented by SALCO
Wednesday, December 9, 2026
12:00 to 1:30 p.m. ET
This webinar will examine how gender-based violence intersects with family, immigration, housing, criminal, human rights, and civil law. It will include a focused discussion of Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, 2026 SCC 16, in which the Supreme Court of Canada recognized the tort of intimate partner violence and explained how coercive and controlling conduct may include isolation, humiliation, surveillance, financial control, sexual coercion, and intimidation.
OASW Members: Free (OASW member ID # required) Non-Members: $30 + HST per webinar
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