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Sunday, October 16th
5:45PM-7:30PM CST
Opening Session Presentation: Decolonizing Social Work: Uprooting Settler Colonialism and White Supremacy in Social Work
Monday, October 17th
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CST – Concurrent Breakout 1:
- W-1: DEI for All: Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Practices for Diverse Patients and a Diverse Healthcare Workforce
- W-2: Social Work Collective Leadership in a Large Urban Hospital During an Era of Unprecedented Transformational Change
- W-3: Leveling the Playing Field: Enhancing Clinical Excellence Between Social Work and Child Life Through Collaboration in Palliative Care
- W-4: Healthcare Social Workers on the Frontlines of the Covid-19 Pandemic
- W-5: Implementing Comprehensive Social Work Services for a Maternal/Fetal Care Center Embedded in a Pediatric Healthcare Setting
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CST – Concurrent Breakout 2:
- W-6: Addressing Unconscious Bias in the Healthcare Workplace
- W-7: The Evolution of the Social Work Profession Over 100 Years at Mayo Clinic and Into the Future
- W-8: Customizing an Age-Friendly Caregiver Intervention for Diverse Healthcare Settings
- W-9: “Do You Understand the Words coming Out of My Mouth?” Health Literacy’s Impact on Communication and Healthcare
- W-10: Moved to W-11
1:30 – 3:00 PM CST – General Session Presentation: Helping Farmers Weather the Farm Stress Storm
3:10 PM – 4:10 PM CST – Concurrent Breakout 3:
- W-11: Traumatic Loss Reshaped
- W-12: Community Led Change: Supporting Intrinsic Community-Based Leadership, Growth, and Healing in Neighborhoods
- W-13: Where Heart, Work and Data Meet: Building and Scaling a Social Work Focused Integrative Psychosocial Oncology Program at an Academic Cancer Center Without Losing Your Soul – Part One
- W-14: Embracing our Scars: Self-Harm 101
- W-15: Withdrawn
4:20 PM – 5:20 PM CST – Concurrent Breakout 4:
- W-16: Applying NASW Cultural Competence to Improve Health Care Outcomes
- W-17: Social Work Jeopardy and the NASW Code of Ethics: How to Navigate Ethical Binds
- W-18: Where Heart, Work and Data Meet: Building and Scaling a Social Work Focused Integrative Psychosocial Oncology Program at an Academic Cancer Center Without Losing Your Soul – Part Two
- W-19: See W-1
Tuesday, October 18th
8:00 – 10:45 AM CST – General Session: Grief and Growth: Emotional Hazards of Medical Socail Worka and Promoting Our Own Resiliency
10:00 – 11:00 AM CST – Concurrent Session
- W-20: Advancements Board Equitable Health Care for All Youth: A Review of Social Determinants of Health for LGBTQ+ Individuals
- W-21: Self & Self-Sacrificial Leadership: Building Internal Capacity for Serving and Creating Institutional Change
- W-22: Educating Social Workers in Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care (ESPEC): An Innovative Training Program to Promote Integration of Primary Palliative Care into Social Work Practice
- W-23: What’s in Our Health: Inequitable Access & Health Related Social Needs
- W-24: Resilience for Retention: Interventions at the Micro, Meso and Macro Levels
11:15 AM – 12:15 PM CST – Concurrent Session
- W-25: Social Work’s Role in Achieving Health Equity
- W-26: Withdrawn
- W-27: Hearing Their Voices: Advance Care Planning with the Homeless Population of Santa Monica and Venice
- W-28: Optimizing Care and Seamless Transitions for Services Members from DoD to VA
- W-29: After the Report: Insights from a Pediatric Physical Abuse Follow-Up Clinic
1:30 – 3:00 PM CST – General Session Presentation – Creating Cultural Change: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Social Work’s Approach to Social Justice Advocacy
3:30 – 4:30 PM CST – Concurrent Session
- W-30: Withdrawn
- W-31: Bioethics 101: An Introduction for Social Workers
- W-32: Recognizing and Confronting Ableism in Healthcare
- W-33: Bridging Gaps around Farm Stress in Your Local Community
- W-34: Growing Yourself as a Leader: The Promise of the Mentor/Mentee Relationship
4:40 – 5:40 PM CST – Concurrent Session
- W-35: Navigating Microaggressions in the Workplace: Recognizing and Dismantling Suble Acts of Exclusion
- W-36: Fostering Psychological Safety in our Workforce
- W-37: Social Work and Psychology Collaboration in Hospice: Honoring Veteran Personhood at the End of Life
- W-38: The Value and Importance of Health Care Social Work Legislative Advocacy
- W-39: De-escalation with Parents and Caregivers in a Pediatric Facility, Post-George Floyd Era
Wednesday, October 19th
8:00 – 9:00 AM CST – Concurrent Session
- W-40: A Tiger Team Approach: Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Social Work Leadership Strategies to Address Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access (IDEA)
- W-41: A Paradigm Shift in Resilience Strategies: Why the Yoga Class Isn’t Working
- W-42: Transforming Health Care: Social Prescribing is the Future of Healthcare
- W-43: Sharing Our Clinical Notes Directly With Our Patients: Social Work and Patient Perspectives of OpenNotes and the Cures Act
9:15 – 10:15 AM CST – Concurrent Session
- W-44: Emotionally Intelligent and Culturally Competent Social Work Leaders
- W-45: Moved to W-34
- W-46: Living With Invisible Chronic Illness: Best Practices for Patients with Long Covid/PASC
- W-47: Interprofessional Practice Training in Primary and Behavioral Healthcare Settings for Master of Social Work and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners