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About the speaker

Dr. Beth Wahler is research faculty affiliate and previous director of the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and founder of Beth Wahler Consulting. She is a social work researcher, educator, and consultant that has collaborated with individual libraries, large library systems, and statewide library organizations throughout the U.S. to conduct needs assessments of library patrons’ psychosocial needs and staff challenges with these types of patron needs, provide training to library staff about trauma-informed approaches to address their patrons’ psychosocial needs and reduce staff stress, and create and pilot various interventions to address patron needs while also supporting staff. She has presented internationally on these topics and has published numerous articles on library/social work collaborations and library patron and staff needs in peer-reviewed journals. She is co-author of "Creating a Person-Centered Library: Best Practices for Supporting High-Needs Patrons," published by Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited. 

Disclosure Statements

Sheppard Pratt holds the standard that its continuing medical education programs should be free of commercial bias and conflict of interest. In accord with Sheppard Pratt's Disclosure Policy, as well as standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Medical Association (AMA), all planners, reviewers, speakers and persons in control of content have been asked to disclose any relationship he /she has with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. All planners, reviewers and speakers have also been asked to disclose any payments accepted for this lecture from any entity besides Sheppard Pratt, and if there will be discussion of any products, services or off-label uses of product(s) during this presentation.

Beth Wahler, PhD, MSW, reports that she has no relationships with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months. She will not discuss any products, services, or off-label uses in this presentation. All conflicts have been mitigated through review. 

Event Planners/Reviewers Disclosures: The following event planners and/or reviewers are reported as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 24 months: Todd Peters, MD, Elizabeth Ryznar, MD, MSc, Louis J. Marino, Jr., MD, Devi Bhuyan, PsyD, Faith Dickerson, PhD, Carrie Etheridge, LCSW-C, April Sobiech, LCSW-C, Latia Suite, LCSW-C, Rachel Smolowitz, PhD, Tom Flis, LCPC, Lisa Illum, MLIS, MEd, and Jennifer Tornabene.