Professional development training to advance your social work and human service career
Buffalo Niagara Summer Institute
Where can you train with a top clinical expert one day and view the awe-inspiring Niagara Falls the next? At the Buffalo Niagara Summer Institute, a thought-provoking series of workshops held in one of Western New York’s most picturesque and lively locations.
The Buffalo Niagara Region features breathtaking sights, and our regional, national and international experts will inform and inspire new thinking about social work therapies, techniques and client approaches.
Our annual Buffalo Niagara Summer Institute offers an intensive combination of one- and two-day workshops as well as one-credit MSW elective courses that can be taken on a degree or non-degree basis. Topics include trauma, addictions, child and adolescent mental health, and more. CEUs available - check course descriptions for details.
Location
Most courses will be held at the UB Center for Tomorrow, Flint Road & Maple Road, Amherst, NY 14260. Please check course descriptions carefully as some will be held at the UB South Campus in Buffalo.
Highlights of the Buffalo-Niagara Region
Bring your family along for a few extra days of sightseeing! The Buffalo Niagara Region has so much to offer:
- See Niagara Falls, one of the great wonders of the world!
- Tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s grandest Prairie Style house.
- Stand where Teddy Roosevelt took the Oath of Office.
- See one of the world’s greatest collections of modern art at the Albright Knox Art Gallery.
- Stroll through Buffalo’s system of public parks and parkways, designed by the renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.
- Explore the birthplace of the American Arts & Crafts Movement at the National Historic Landmark Roycroft Campus.
- Discover Niagara-on-the-Lake, a quaint town just across the border in Canada with world-class theater, fine dining and shopping.
- Visit Chautauqua Institution - performing arts, lectures and recreation on the shores of Chautauqua Lake.
- Tour the Niagara Wine Trail - discover local award-winning wineries.
Contact
For questions about the summer institute courses, contact us at sw-ce@buffalo.edu or 716-829-5841.