Upcoming International Conferences

In addition to planning to present and attend our IASWG Symposium, we encourage submission of group work-related abstracts to a number of international conferences. Feel free to share additional announcements for posting by email to [email protected]

In 2020, the IASSW and the IFSW will be hosting separate conferences. They have agreed to return to a combined, biannual conference in 2022 and 2024.

November 8-11, 2020, Rimini, Italy: Joint World Conference on Social Work Education and Social Development International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW) & International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW)

Website: http://www.swesd2020.org

July 15 – July 18, 2020, Virtual Event (Originally scheduled to be hosted in Calgary, Canada): The International 2020 Social Work Conference International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)

Website: https://swsd2020.com

November 12-15, 2020, Virtual Meeting (Originally scheduled to take place in Denver, Colorado, USA): US Council on Social Work Education's Annual Program Meeting

Deadline for Abstract Submission: February 24, 2020
Website: www.cswe.org/Events-Meetings/2020-APM

June 15-18, 2021, Tallinn, Estonia: European Association of Schools of Social Work

Website: https://www.eassw.org/

Past Events

Pre-Conference: From Local to Global Conference of Social Work with Groups - June 3, 2019

US Council on Social Work Education's Annual Program Meeting: Denver, Colorado, USA, October 24–27, 2019

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Announcements

IASWG is actively in search of grants and sponsorships to continue its mission. If you are interested in being part of this initiative or know of foundations, grants opportunities or sponsorships with funding initiatives that would be a good fit with IASWG's mission and international educational activities (e.g. symposia), please contact us at [email protected]

NEW! President's Pen by Barb Muskat

NEW! Charles Garvin elected as an NASW Social Work Pioneer!

Western USA Virtual Chapter invites all IASWG members to attend a special presentation on Diversity in Groups by our own IASWG member Dr. Ken Saldanha on Tuesday, November 17th at 7pm PCT.

The Massachusetts Chapter is hosting When It Gets Real, film presentation and workshop on December, 2nd from 6:30PM to 8:30PM ET. All IASWG members are welcome to register for this virtual event. CEs available!

IASWG New Member Networking Hour - Meetings will occur on the third Monday of every month via Zoom. The next meeting is scheduled for Monday November 16th at 8pm ET.

SPARC Application Deadline is November 13 - To "spark" IASWG members' innovative practice, education, training and research projects through endorsement and small grants to advance the IASWG mission.

The special issue of Groupwork in French is now published: Échos de la francophonie: Critical Reflections and Innovations in Group Social Work Research and Practice. Groupwork (2020), Vol. 29 (1).

Call for Group Work and the Pandemic Stories - Tell You Pandemic 2020 Group Work Story: The Social Work with Groups journal is inviting narrative essays of 5 to 9 manuscript pages, about group work practice and the coronavirus pandemic of 2020. Your story can take place in any setting and with any population in response to the pandemic. For more information, click here.

Call for Editors: Proceedings of the IASWG Annual Symposia have been published continuously for 42 years as a resource for group workers throughout the world. We invite you to apply for the position of editor or co-editor of the next volume in this esteemed series, the 2019/2020 IASWG Symposia Proceedings, which will be published as a double issue. For more information, click here.

Teaching Group Work Online and in Hybrid Models: We have recently added a section on Teaching Group Work Online. Here you’ll find full syllabi and other resources contributed by IASWG Members. Currently, many of us are moving to online social work education to as an alternative to In Person teaching during the Coronavirus pandemic. Therefore, we are also posting resources that we believe will be valuable immediately.

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