Google abstract google form header

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

NASW WI invites you to share your professional expertise with Wisconsin social workers.

2025 Annual Conference

October 29th, 30th & 31st

Glacier Canyon Conference Center in the Wilderness Resort
45 Hillman Rd,
Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

We are accepting proposals for four- hour intensive training sessions as well as 75 minutes, 90-minutes, and two-hour workshops.The 2025 conference will highlight practice models, tools and techniques that demonstrate excellence in social work practice and promote resiliency and a strength-based approach with our clients, community, and society.

Proposals that demonstrate excellence in serving clients, promoting advocacy and those that teach skills in social work practice to assist at-risk populations as well as those uplifting and re-energizing practitioners are invited.Suggested topics can include, but are not limited to: 

I.  Best Practice Models/Evidence Based Practice

Administration

Community Organization/Development

Ethics

Aging

Crisis/Trauma

Social Work practice in schools, hospitals, child welfare, mental health, and other settings

Casework/clinical all ages education

Education

II. Current & Emerging Social Issues [Proposals not restricted to these topics.]

Administration

  • Clinical Supervision
  • Leadership
  • Managed Care
  • Systems Collaboration

Advocacy Issues

  • Climate Change and Social Work Practice
  • De-professionalization
  • Diversity/Inclusion
  • Effective Lobbying
  • Environmental Justice
  • Health Care
  • Immigration
  • Poverty/Hunger/Homelessness Prevention
  • Sex Trafficking

Micro Practice

  • Working with Aging and those with Disabilities
  • Bullying
  • Climate Change and Mental Health
  • Death & Dying
  • Disaster Relief & Mental Health
  • Group Work
  • Multi-cultural Practice
  • Substance Abuse including Opiate, Heroin and Methamphetamines
  • Suicide (Identification & Prevention)
  • Trauma and PTSD
  • Racism, Sexism, Islamophobia Anti-Semitism, Homophobia
  • Research based interventions
  • Self-Care
  • Spirituality in Social Work

Policy and Practice

  • Child Welfare
  • (De) Colonization and Social Work
  • Economy and Related issues such as Inequality, Recession
  • Geographic Issues: Rural/Urban
  • Global Violence/ Terrorism
  • International Social Work
  • Social Work and the Justice System (Alternatives to Prison, Decarceration, Juvenile Justice, Social Work and Policing)
  • Violence, including gun violence
  • Workforce issues

Technology and Social Work

  • AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  • Social Networking
  • Technological Advances and its impact on Practice

Deadline for proposals is March 31, 2025.

(We appreciate early submission for the committee’s review)

The conference planning committee will review all proposals and presenters will be notified by April 29, 2025.

Please fill out this google form with your abstract submission: https://forms.gle/H5ZgGFav6VJ6Kuc9A

Please include the following on the form:

  • First name, Last name, Credentials and Pronouns, if you wish, of Main Presenter
  • First name, Last name, Credentials and Pronouns, if you wish, of Additional Presenters
  • Phone Number/s
  • Mailing Address of main speaker 
  • Email address/es
  • resume or biographical information.
  • Please include an approximately 100-word bio of each presenter for the conference brochure
  • Title of Your Session  
  • Abstract
  • Please include a short paragraph description of your session for the conference brochure.
  • Length of Your Session – 75 min, 90 min, 2-hours,4-hours
  • Length of Your Session 
  • Description of how your topic would demonstrate excellence in social work practice and/or promote resiliency and a strength-based approach with our clients, community and/or society.
  • Description of Session style (e.g. lecture, discussion, etc.) Sessions will be live streamed. Small group discussions and/or breakouts are not feasible with this format.
  • List at least three learning objectives for the session.
  • Please include any additional information that you would like us to consider

***Note: Sessions will be live streamed. Small group discussions and/or breakouts are not feasible with this format.

Please feel free to call (608) 257-6334 or e-mail mherstand.naswwi@socialworkers.org with questions.Email proposal to mherstand.naswwi@socialworkers.org.