Upcoming Webinars

Welcome! I am Veronica E. Cruz, MSW, LCSW-C, a clinical and forensic social worker and CEO of Cruz and Associates, with over 18 years of experience providing workshops and seminars on an array of social work and mental health principles. This webpage contains the most current training schedule, resources and available workshop topics. Remember if you enjoy one of our workshops; tell your employer, Cruz and Associates, is authorized by the board of social work examiners to offer continuing education workshops. 

To date, I have presented over a hundred workshops at various venues both locally and nationally. My goal is to strive to develop and present cutting edge mental health and social work workshops that are both informative and engaging. I specialize in presenting ethics and trauma workshops and attribute my numerous years of working within the hospital and the legal setting in helping my to conceptualize and see a situation from various perspectives. With humor, candor and a mixture of academia (I am an adjunct professor at The University of Maryland, where she teaches advance trauma) and hands on experience (I maintain a clinical and criminal defense practice) am able to provide participants with a set off tools that they can share with their clients. Ms. Cruz enjoys presenting and creating topics and states that she prides herself in making her workshops interactive with case vignettes and immersing the audience in the topic and allowing them to process and apply the new information in the form of small group discussions and activities. The ability to present continuing education workshops is a delicate balance between theory and practice and Ms. Cruz has mastered this ability.