SSW Faculty and PhD Candidates Present at CSWE Conference

More than 10 UMN School of Social Work researchers, both faculty and PhD candidates, presented at the 2025 Council on Social Work Education conference in Denver.

This year's 71st annual conference for social work educators, students, deans, and directors brings together more than 2,500 individual members as well as the largest gathering of graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education.

Presentations by UMN faculty and students include:

• "Black Administrators, Researchers, & Scholars (BARS) at APM," Joan Blakey, PhD
• "Cripping Restorative Justice: Disability, Accountability, and Responding to Harm," Ceema Samimi, PhD
• "Social Work in the Jim Crow Era: Oral Histories of Black Women Social Workers," Channel Lowery
• "Extending Self-Care Conceptualization for Black Women Social Workers Based on Black Feminist Thought," Channel Lowery
• "Race & citizen molding: A historical analysis of Progressive-Era reformists’ views on the child," Johara Suleiman
• "Financial Protection Versus Self-Determination, Perspectives from Fraud Victims on a Financial Account Temporary Hold Policy (Poster)," Louise (Siyu) Gao; Marti DeLiema, PhD; Sohum Bindra
• "Development and Testing of a Long-Term Care Cost Planning and Education Tool for Caregivers (oral paper)," Louise (Siyu) Gao; Kelly Moeller; Marti DeLiema, PhD
• "Nonprofit Hospital Provision of Charity Care: The Role of Social Workers," Hannah MacDougall, PhD