Annual eVOLve Conference
Save the Date for 2025!
eVOLve: Meeting Community Needs
March 28, 2025
University of Tennessee Student Union
Follow us on social media and look out for a registration announcement! Registration will open January 28, 2025.
2025 Conference Sessions
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Parra-Cardona, the Roger and Carol Nooe Endowed Chair at the University of Tennessee College of Social Work, is renowned for his groundbreaking research on culturally adapted parenting programs to prevent child maltreatment and adolescent drug use in Latinx communities. A Fulbright Award recipient with 15 years of NIH-funded work, he is dedicated to making a global impact through evidence-based interventions.
Keynote Session
Healing through Parenting: Promoting Community and Resilience by Co-Implementing Parenting Programs in Adverse Contexts
– Ruben Parra-Cardona, PhD
Morning Breakouts
- AI Integration & Ethical Challenges in Social Work Practice – Sangmi Kim, MSW & Sangwon Lee, MSW
- Mapping Your Legacy: Strategic Career Planning in Macro Social Work – Jennifer Luna, CMSW, MSSW
- Supporting Resilience: Social Workers’ Role in Trauma-Informed Schools – Kia Batiste, LICSW
- Unpacking Vicarious Trauma & Reducing the Risks to Social Workers – Phyllis Thompson, PhD, LCSW
Afternoon Breakouts
- Applying the Liberatory Consciousness Framework in Therapy – Antoinette Y. Farmer, PhD
- Centering Babies in Our Work for Stronger Communities – Sarah Long, LCSW, IECMH-E & Kristin Dunn, IECHM-E
- Ethics, Boundaries and Trauma Informed Ethical Considerations – Ragan Schriver, PsyD, ACSW, LAPSW
- Evolving Culturally Responsive SEL Practices: Classroom to Community – Melody Hawkins, MEd & Emily Norris, MSSW
- Managing Dual Relationships in Clinical Practice – Christina Perkins, DSW, LCSW
- “Respect, Just a Little Bit”: 21st Century Healthcare Social Work – Tiffany Washington, PhD, MSW
- Say Gay: A Framework for Advocacy and Allyship – Melissa Newman, LCSW
- Strengthening Community Ties: Lessons from Familias Fuertes Program – Eliza Galvez, LMSW & Bonnie Ortiz, MSW
Conference Hotel Information
Hampton Inn & Suites Knoxville-Downtown
618 West Main Street, Knoxville, TN 37902
Rate: $219 for night of Thursday, March 27, 2025; includes discounted parking for $10
Booking deadline: February 15, 2025
Public Transit: The Student Union is accessible via multiple KAT bus routes, including #10 and #12.
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