Schedule/Important Dates

October 28, 2011
8:00 AM–9:30 AM
2011 Gero-Ed Track Kick-Off
Deborah Amdur, LCSW Social Work Leader on Veterans' Issues Poverty and Resilience Among Our Nation’s Elders and Veterans For the first time since the 1950s, the poverty rate among older adults is rising. Deborah Amdur, chief consultant for Care Management and Social Work Service ...
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9:45 AM–11:00 AM
2011 Special Plenary
Adewale Troutman, MD, MPH, MA Director, Public Health Practice Program University of South Florida   Fair Society, Healthy Society: Creating Health Equity Through Social Justice and a Focus on the Social Determinants of Health The World Health Organization Commission on the ...
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12:15 PM–1:15 PM
Leadership Networking Reception
The CSWE Leadership Networking Reception is one of three CSWE Leadership Institute Initiatives and provides a lunchtime event for current, new, and future social work leaders to network at APM. This networking reception honors new leadership in the profession, including the 2011 CSWE Summer ...
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October 29, 2011
7:00 AM–8:45 AM
2011 Women's Council Networking Breakfast
The Women's Council Networking Breakfast brings diverse women and men together to network and honor feminist research through the presentation of the Annual Feminist Scholarship Awards.       This year’s annual breakfast is co-sponsored by the ...
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9:45 AM–11:00 AM
2011 Hokenstad International Lecture
Sven Hessle, PhD Professor of Social Work, Stockholm University Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Social Welfare   Global North and Global South in Child Welfare: Actors in Research and Implementation The speaker cites data from a recent investigation about child ...
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October 30, 2011
9:45 AM–11:00 AM
2011 Carl A. Scott Memorial Lecture
Caitlin Ryan, PhD, ACSW Director, Family Acceptance Project San Francisco State University   Changing the Future for LGBT Youth & Families: Returning to Our Roots   Eliminating disparities and addressing social justice among our nation’s most vulnerable ...
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