This webinar defines and explores some of the ethical and moral challenges unique to correctional health care. The presentation will address how personal and systemic decision-making and accountability impact professionals’ commitment to ethical codes, examining moral dilemmas and the origins of moral injury. The session aims to equip correctional health care professionals with strategies to strengthen ethical decision-making, build resilience, and enhance moral courage in the face of institutional and personal challenges.

$69 ($59 for CCHPs), includes access to the power point presentation, the webinar recording and CE credit – 1.00 hours for ACCME, ANCC, APA, and CCHP.

Presenter

Stephanie Gangemi, PhD, LCSW, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Work at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, College of Public Service and a licensed clinical social worker in Colorado. Dr. Gangemi brings over 14 years of social work practice and academic teaching experience. She has over a decade of experience in correctional mental health practicing at Riker’s Island as well as serving as the Director of Mental Health at the El Paso County Jail. Dr. Gangemi’s clinical practice has included work with incarcerated people with severe and persistent mental illness, the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders, as well as suicide prevention. Her research is on the training and experiences of the correctional health care workforce. Dr. Gangemi became a UCCS Daniel’s Ethics Fellow in 2021 with a focus on enhancing ethics training for mental health professionals through simulation-based learning and she was the 2018 first-place winner of the international Seidenberg Paper Prize on proposed solutions to issues between guards and inmates.

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