Presented by Gigi Tsontos, LCSW, MPA, PCC

The political landscape continues to shift, influencing policies, funding priorities, and the organizational environments in which social work administrators operate. This session explores how changes in political climate affect decision-making, program sustainability, advocacy efforts, and workforce morale within social service organizations. Participants will examine strategies to navigate uncertainty, uphold ethical leadership, and maintain mission alignment amid evolving political and social pressures.

Once Continuing Education Hour

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Members - $25
Student or Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35

Presented by Heather Rose Artushin, MSW, LISW-CP

Due to their widespread availability and lethality, guns fuel the United States’ high suicide and homicide rates, with devastating mass shootings on the rise across the nation. Social workers can lead the way in mitigating gun violence through careful assessment, education, and policy advocacy efforts rooted in our profession's core values. Together, we will learn more about how gun violence is affecting our clients and communities, and ways that social workers can intervene at the micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice.

One Continuing Education Hour

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Members - $25
Student or Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35

Presented by Adam McCormick, MSW, PhD

This workshop explores the profound and often overlooked traumatic stress experienced by children growing up in undocumented and mixed-status families in the era of mass deportation, surveillance, and heightened immigration enforcement. Drawing from trauma-informed and family systems perspectives, participants will examine how chronic fear, separation threats, and systemic discrimination shape attachment, development, and identity among these children. Through case examples, current research, and reflection, we will consider the emotional, relational, and educational toll of living in constant uncertainty while identifying practical, culturally responsive strategies for promoting safety, connection, and healing in clinical, school, and community settings.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explain how chronic immigration enforcement stress and family insecurity shape developmental trauma, attachment patterns, and early narrative formation in migrant children and children of undocumented parents.
2. Identify trauma adaptations and triggers commonly seen in this population and distinguish between behaviors rooted in survival responses versus pathology.
3. Apply trauma-informed, connection-based strategies that promote co-regulation, safety, and relational healing in everyday social work interactions with migrant children and their families.

1 Continuing Education Hour

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Members - $25
Student or Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35

Presented by Jack Paul Gesino, DSW, LCSW

Webinar Description:

This webinar presentation will review the neurobiological benefits of play for adults, covering the properties of play, assessing the audience’s own level of playfulness, differences in play for the purpose of therapy or simply for “FUN”. The examination of various play forms will be offered including improvisation, therapeutic humor, play groups, novelty, and surprise. Explanation of how to incorporate these play modalities into clinical practice will be explored through experiential exercises with the audience.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to identify the components of play.
2. Participants will be able to identify five play types.
3. Participants will be able to identify three therapeutic benefits of play.

1 Continuing Education Hour

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Cost:
Members - $25
Student or Retired Members - $20
Non-Members - $35

Description: Join NASW-WI for a town hall providing information on immigration, food insecurity, and housing. This Town Hall will also provide the opportunity for attendees to ask questions and share their experiences and perspectives on the issues covered.

Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Location: Zoofari Center

9715 W Bluemound Rd, Milwaukee, WI 53213

1.5 Continuing Education Credits

FREE for NASW Members, Students, and Milwaukee County Employees

$10.00 Future Members

Pre-registration for this event has closed. You are welcome to attend and register onsite.

Schedule

5:30-5:00pm-Reception with light refreshments

6:00-7:30pm-Panel Conversation

Speakers include Emily Kenney, LCSW, Strategic Initiatives and Transformation Director, Milwaukee County DHHS; Mary Beth Reynoso, Psychotherapist, Sixteenth Street Community Health Centers; and Matt Stienstra, Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement, Feeding America Wisconsin.