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Conference
Highlights
Wednesday, October 25
Pre-conference Tours
4:45 –
5:45 New Member Orientation
6:00 – 7:00 Opening Session (Welcome)
7:00 – 11:00 Opening Reception in Exhibit Halls – Latin Jazz Band
Thursday, October 26
8:00 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 9:30 Ron Federico Lecture -“Bridging
Borders: How Boundary-Spanners Build Ties and Transform Relationships.” Paul Stuart, PhD –
University of Alabama
Student Poster Session Exhibit Hall – Judging
1:00-3:00
President’s Address/Award Ceremony
President’s Wine and Cheese Reception
Shameless Blues Band
Friday, October 27
8:00 - 8:45 Regional Meetings
9:00 - 10:00 Special Plenary – “Tattoos on the Heart: Lessons from the Barrio”
Father
Gregory J. Boyle, S.J - Founder / Executive Director -Jobs For A Future / Homeboy Industries
Membership Luncheon/Membership Meeting
Special Constituencies Meeting
Students Reception and Graduate Recruitment in
Exhibit Hall
Salons – Immigration, Sweatshops, Transgender
Persons, Spirituality and Social Work
Laura Chick, MSW, Los Angeles City Controller http://www.lacity.org/ctr/
Author Chats
Entertainment (DJ Hosted Dance)
Saturday, October 28
Jim Wahlberg Walk/Run ( Venice
Beach )
Lunch at Home Girls Café (limit 24)
1:00 - 2:30 Special Plenary – Barbara J. Solomon, PhD, DSW
Vice
Provost for Faculty Diversity, University of Southern
California
2:30 - 5:30 Accreditation Workshops – Afternoon
LA Historical Society Walking Tour
Annual Banquet
Sunday, October 29
8:00 - 8:45 Continental Breakfast
9:00-11:00
“Immigration:
The Interplay of Economics, Ethics, Immigration Policy Development, and the Social Work Profession.”
Panel
presentation sponsored by the California Chapter of NASW (NASWCA).
Attendees will receive CEU credits for attending this workshop.
The workshop will focus on the economic impact
that immigrants have on local, national, and global economies, ethical issues/dilemmas confronting the, the role of social
workers have in shaping immigration policy development and ideas for advocacy.
Leaders: Sally Alonzo Bell, PhD, LCSW –
Dean Azusa Pacific University
Janlee Wong, MSW, Executive Director NASWCA | 
