All times are PDT.
Thursday, May 1
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast | City View Living Room |
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. | ASWB Board of Directors meeting | Design |
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Administrators Forum | Fashion |
9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Board Member Exchange | Culture |
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | Welcome reception and dinner Hosted by the 2025 ASWB Nominating Committee | Nines Ballroom |
Friday, May 2
Daily agenda
7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Breakfast | City View Living Room |
8:45 a.m.–9:00 a.m. | Welcome and announcements Jared Ferguson, MSW, LCSW Chair, Regulatory Education and Leadership Committee | Nines Ballroom |
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. 1 CE credit | Professionalization of social work: A unified voice Exploring social work through a comparative lens Dale Atkinson, Esq ASWB Legal Counsel Barb Whitenect, MSW, RSW President, Canadian Association of Social Workers | |
10:00 a.m.–10:15 a.m. | Break | |
10:15 a.m.–11:15 a.m. 1 CE credit | Insights from the Social Work Census Driving data toward social work workforce development Joy Kim, MSW, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Rutgers–The State University of New Jersey | Nines Ballroom |
11:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | ASWB Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice Committee survey | |
12:15 p.m.–1:30 p.m. | Lunch Llama therapy (Pioneer Courthouse Square) Mtn Peaks Therapy Llamas and Alpacas | City View Living Room |
1:30 p.m.–2:30 p.m. 1 CE credit | Progress toward understanding the impact policies have on scaling up the social work workforce and mitigating harm Defining public harm through measurable data Cole Hooley, Ph.D., LCSW Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University School of Social Work | Nines Ballroom |
2:30 p.m.–2:45 p.m. | Break | |
2:45 p.m.–3:45 p.m. 1 CE Credit | Advancing equity in social work licensure Discovering challenges and consequences of licensure pathways Marette Monson, LCSW, MBA CEO/Clinical Director, Center for Counseling Excellence Former board member, Utah Social Work Licensing Board | |
3:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m. | ASWB Regulatory Education and Leadership Committee | |
4:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m. | Wrap-up and announcements Jared Ferguson, MSW, LCSW Chair, Regulatory Education and Leadership Committee |
Saturday, May 3
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m. | Breakfast | City View Living Room |
8:30 a.m.–8:45 a.m. | Welcome and announcements | Nines Ballroom |
8:45 a.m.–10:15 a.m. 1 CE credit Cultural competency | Compassionate regulation: Building a culturally connected future-ready workforce Advancing DEI skills for effective policy change Robert Wright, MSW, RSW, Ph.D. Consultant and therapist | |
10:15 a.m.–10:30 a.m. | Break | |
10:30 a.m.–11:30 a.m. 1 CE credit | Artificial intelligence in regulation Learning lessons and emerging best practices Zachary Boyd, Ph.D. Director of the AI Policy Office for the State of Utah | |
11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | Awards presentation | |
12:00 p.m.–1:00 p.m. | Lunch | City View Living Room |
1:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m. 1 CE credit | Advancing workforce research: Insight from the workforce CPMDS Transforming health workforce research and development Hannah Maxey, Ph.D., MPH, RDH Associate Professor, Family Medicine, and Founding Director of the Bowen Center for Health Workforce Research & Policy, Indiana University School of Medicine Richard Woolf, PT, DPT Vice President of Professional Standards, Federation of State Boards of Physical Therapy | Nines Ballroom |
2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. | Break | |
2:30 p.m.–3:45 p.m. 1 CE credit | Early regulatory education A panel discussion on engaging and informing students Barb Temmerman, MSW, RSW Executive Director, Manitoba College of Social Workers Patricia Desrosiers, Ph.D., LCSW Department Chair of Social Work, Western Kentucky University Vicki Verge, MSW, RSW Director of Regulatory Practice, Manitoba College of Social Workers Scott Wilkes, JD, Ph.D., LCSW Assistant Dean, Academic Affairs, Case Western Reserve University, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences | Nines Ballroom |
3:45 p.m.–4:15 p.m. | Into the Light Report on the planning session and inspirational charges for regulators and administrators Stacey Hardy-Chandler, Ph.D., JD, LCSW, PGDip CEO, Association of Social Work Boards Curry Smith Director of Public Relations and Communications Strategy, Association of Social Work Boards | |
4:15 p.m.–4:30 p.m. | Closing |