2025 Conference Tracks

Conference Track Chairs Needed!

Would you be interested in serving as a Track Chair for next year's CSWE Annual Conference in Denver, CO? As a Conference Track Chair, you have the opportunity to shape the content and direction of a specific track within the conference and interact with other professionals, researchers, and experts in your field, which can lead to valuable connections and collaborations. The conference theme is "It's Time to Act: Championing Disability Justice and Disability Joy in Social Work."

The call for applications opens Monday, November 18, 2024; apply here by Monday, December 16, and help create a positive and engaging conference experience!

The following tracks have vacancies:

  • Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders 
  • Clinical Practice 
  • Community Organization and Social Administration
  • Criminal and Juvenile Justice
  • Gero-Ed (Aging and Gerontology)
  • Higher Education/Nonprofit Leadership
  • Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
  • Indigenous and Tribal
  • Islam and Muslims
  • Military Personnel and Veterans, First Responders, and Their Families and Communities
  • Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
  • Social Welfare History
  • Spanish-Language Presentation**
  • Values and Ethics


2025 CSWE Annual Conference Social Work Tracks

Conference presentations are organized by tracks, allowing meeting participants to quickly locate and gauge their interest in specific sessions. To get more information about a track, select the track name below to review its content, scope, and leadership.

Each track is led by two volunteer chairs who review scores and comments submitted by proposal reviewers and provide recommendations regarding acceptance to CSWE. Track chairs and co-chairs may help answer questions related to the tracks’ subject areas.

Please note that there are two new tracks and two tracks have merged.

  1. Addictions
  2. African Americans and the African Diaspora
  3. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
  4. Baccalaureate Programs
  5. Child Welfare
  6. Clinical Practice
  7. Community Organization and Social Administration
  8. Criminal and Juvenile Justice
  9. Cultural Competence
  10. Disability Issues
  11. Disaster and Traumatic Stress
  12. Educational Outcomes Assessment
  13. Evidence-Based Practice*
  14. Feminist Scholarship
  15. Field Education
  16. Gero-Ed (Aging and Gerontology)
  17. Group Work
  18. Health
  19. Higher Education/Nonprofit Leadership
  20. Human Behavior and the Social Environment
  1. Immigrants, Refugees, and Displaced Populations
  2. Indigenous and Tribal**
  3. International Issues
  4. Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice
  5. Islam and Muslims
  6. Latina/Latino Issues
  7. LGBTQIA+ and Two-Spirit
  8. Military Personnel and Veterans, First Responders, and Their Families and Communities
  9. Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders
  10. Rural Issues
  11. Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
  12. Social Welfare History
  13. Social Welfare Policy and Policy Practice
  14. Spanish-Language Presentation**
  15. Spirituality
  16. Student Presentations
  17. Teaching Methods and Learning Styles
  18. Technology in Social Work Education and Practice
  19. University–Community Partnerships
  20. Values and Ethics
  21. Violence Against Women and Their Children

*Track number 13 has merged with the Research and Program Evaluation track.

**The Council on Conferences and Faculty Development approved the title change of the following tracks formerly named "First Nations and Native Americans" and "Spanish Language Paper Presentation."