The complete agenda will be posted on the website shortly.

Confirmed Topics Include (much more to come):

Defense, Prosecution and the Courts

• From Protection to Permanency: Evidence-Based and Trauma-Responsive Forensic Practice in Child Welfare
• Bridging Law and Social Work: The Critical Role of Forensic Social Work in Death Row Mitigation
• Working with Experts: Ethics and Practices for Mitigation
• Accepting Expertise: Immigration Judges Respond to Objections to Forensic Evaluations and Testimony in Removal Defense Cases
• Constitutional Harm and Survivor Testimony: Preparing Social Workers for Forensic Practice in Systems of Concealment
• Centering DEI in Mental Health Courts
• We Carry Our Hope and Traditions Forward: Growing Networks of Resilience and Resistance in Rural Forensic Social Work Practice
• Innovation in Public Defense- Interdisciplinary Defense System Project
• Social Work in Public Defense: Reducing Recidivism through Re-Entry Support
• Mining for Gold: In-Depth Search and Review of Client Records

Education (Primary, Secondary, Higher Education)

• The Transformative Power of Doctoral Education in Forensic Social Work Practice and Leadership
• Bridging the Gap: Teaching Tomorrow’s Forensic Social Workers Today
• Global Perspectives on Forensic Social Work Education: Emerging Frameworks and International Developments
• Reimagining ATI for Adolescents: An Anti-Oppressive, Multi-Level Framework for Training Future Forensic Social Workers
• Forensic Social Work and the Legal Desert: Reframing Law-Based Practice for Access to Justice
• Creative Opportunities for Dissemination and Translation of Forensic Social Work Research into Practice and Education
• Preparing and Supervising Social Work Students for Forensic Field Education

Juvenile Justice

• Apples & Oranges: co-creating evaluation strategies for restorative justice in rural and urban programs
• parenting, peer problems, and mobility as predictors of delinquency onset in IPV-exposed youth
• Disproportionate Minority Contact (DMC) to Racial and Ethnic Disparities (RED) in Juvenile Justice: What does it Mean and Does it Matter?
• Outlining the Development of an Evidence-Based Curriculum for Children of Incarcerated Parents

Law Enforcement

• Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Juvenile Custodial Interrogations: Implications for Forensic Social Work
• Defining and diagnosing serious mental illness (SMI): Implications for the disciplinary process in carceral settings
• Understanding Law Enforcement Response to IPV: A Collaborative Conversation
• Police Response to Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review

Forensic Practice| Mental Health

• Threat Assessment of Violence Risk: Bridging Research, Practice, and Structured Clinical Judgment
• Differentiating Bipolar Disorder and Schizophrenia in Solitary Confinement: Implications for Forensic Social Work Practice
• From Data to Defense: Integrating Community Context into Forensic Evaluation and Mitigation Practice
• Beyond Conflict: Developing Effective Co-Parenting Education for Interparental Conflict in Custody Cases
• The Role of Family in Disrupting the Pathway to Hate Fueled Violence
• Support for Those Who Support Others: The Impact of Social Workers on Mental Health of Civil Legal Aid Staff
• Digital Evidence and Authentication (or Not) in Forensics – What You Need to Know Before it “Bytes” You
• Rewriting Redemption: Narrative Therapy as a Transformative Tool in Correctional Mental Health Practice
• Sustainability Practices for Forensic Social Workers: Beyond Self-Care
• More than the Worst Moment: Empathy and Self-Care when Working with Individuals who Commit Sex Crimes