2025 Conference Schedule & Resources
Thursday October 16
8:30-9:15 Registration, Breakfast and Informal Networking
9:15-9:30: Welcome to the WASSW 2025 Fall Conference
9:30-10:30: Jacob Campbell: Building Connections Through Service Learning: Experiences and Practice
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-11:45: Danielle Flores with Jeremy Arp: Pathway to Practice: A Guide to Social Licensure in Washington State
11:45-12:45: Lunch
12:45-2:15: Nikki York: Centering Care: Preventing School Violence Through Threat Assessment and Mental Health Intervention
2:15-2:30: Break
2:30-3:00: Kristina Miller: Strengthening Your Practice, Advocating for School Social Work, Uniting Our Profession: Utilizing the SSWAA Updated School Social Work Practice Model
3:00-3:40 WASSW Legislative/Advocacy Team: Why Advocate? Finding Your Next Steps
3:40-3:50 Break
3:50-4:30 Networking by Groups (Oregon, Groups by Advocacy Interest Area)
Friday October 17
8:30-9:00 Registration, Breakfast and Informal Networking
9:00-9:15: Welcome
9:30-10:30: Molly Matter & Leo Medina: Immigration: Upholding the Law, Supporting our Students and Families
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-11:45 Fahren Amara & Team: Community is the Recovery Plan: Supporting Youth in Foster Care
11:45-12:30 Lunch
12:30-12:45: Representative Monica Stonier
12:45-1:15 WASSW Awards: 2025 Distinguished School Social Worker; 2025 Distinguished School Social Work Leader
1:15-2:45: Rachel Barrett and John Taylor: MTSS Approaches to Chronic Absenteeism, School Refusal, and School Re-Engagement
2:45-2:55 Break
2:55-3:25 Monica Anney & Jim Cubbage Wild Grief-Grief Support Strategies
3:25-3:50 Networking: Connections going forward
3:50-4:30: Membership Empowerment & State of WASSW
8:30-9:15 Registration, Breakfast and Informal Networking
9:15-9:30: Welcome to the WASSW 2025 Fall Conference
9:30-10:30: Jacob Campbell: Building Connections Through Service Learning: Experiences and Practice
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-11:45: Danielle Flores with Jeremy Arp: Pathway to Practice: A Guide to Social Licensure in Washington State
11:45-12:45: Lunch
12:45-2:15: Nikki York: Centering Care: Preventing School Violence Through Threat Assessment and Mental Health Intervention
2:15-2:30: Break
2:30-3:00: Kristina Miller: Strengthening Your Practice, Advocating for School Social Work, Uniting Our Profession: Utilizing the SSWAA Updated School Social Work Practice Model
3:00-3:40 WASSW Legislative/Advocacy Team: Why Advocate? Finding Your Next Steps
3:40-3:50 Break
3:50-4:30 Networking by Groups (Oregon, Groups by Advocacy Interest Area)
Friday October 17
8:30-9:00 Registration, Breakfast and Informal Networking
9:00-9:15: Welcome
9:30-10:30: Molly Matter & Leo Medina: Immigration: Upholding the Law, Supporting our Students and Families
10:30-10:45: Break
10:45-11:45 Fahren Amara & Team: Community is the Recovery Plan: Supporting Youth in Foster Care
11:45-12:30 Lunch
12:30-12:45: Representative Monica Stonier
12:45-1:15 WASSW Awards: 2025 Distinguished School Social Worker; 2025 Distinguished School Social Work Leader
1:15-2:45: Rachel Barrett and John Taylor: MTSS Approaches to Chronic Absenteeism, School Refusal, and School Re-Engagement
2:45-2:55 Break
2:55-3:25 Monica Anney & Jim Cubbage Wild Grief-Grief Support Strategies
3:25-3:50 Networking: Connections going forward
3:50-4:30: Membership Empowerment & State of WASSW
Sponsored By:
The Workforce for Student Wellbeing Initiative, a project of the
University of Washington SMART Center
The Workforce for Student Wellbeing Initiative, a project of the
University of Washington SMART Center
