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Virtual Schedule (November 9-11, 2023)

Thursday, November 9, 2023 – Schedule reflects the Eastern Time Zone

6:00pm-6:45pm (ET)  Meet the NACSW Board of Directors and the editors of Social Work and Christianity for content overview of future issues- 
7:00pm-8:30pm ET  Opening Plenary Session (1.0 CE)

– Special Welcome

Saleem Ghubril, Executive Director, The Pittsburgh Promise, “You are Loved, Empowered and Deployed”

Entertainment: Urban Impact Dance Team

Friday, November 10, 2023- Schedule reflects Eastern Time Zone

 8:00 am-8:30 am ET  Worship/Devotions – Keith Reynolds, MBA “Renewed to Renew”
 8:45 am-9:45 am ET  Workshops — Session A (1.0 CE)
 9:45 am-10:15 am ET  Break
 10:15 am-11:15 am   ET  Workshops — Session B (1.0 CE)
 11:30 am-12:45pm   ET  Alan Keith-Lucas Lecture (1.0 CE)
Keynote Speaker: Sandy Bauer, PhD & Leslie Gregory, LSW, MSW “Building on the Practice Wisdom of Alan Keith-Lucas” 
12:50 pm-1:50 pm   ET
 Lunch Break 
 2:00 pm-3:30 pm ET  Workshops — Session C (1.5 CE) 
 3:45 pm-4:45 pm ET  Workshops — Session D (1.0 CE)
 5:00 pm-6:00 pm ET
 Workshops — Session E (1.0 CE)

Saturday, November 11, 2023

 8:00 am-8:30 am ET  Worship/Devotions – Gretchen Smith, LISW “Philippians- A Treasure Trove of Encouragement”
 8:45 am-9:45 am ET  Workshops — Session F (1.0 CE)
 9:45am-10:15 am   ET  Break
 10:15 am-11:15 am   ET  Workshops — Session G (1.0 CE)
 11:30 am-12:45 pm   ET NACSW Community Conversation 

“NACSW Reimagined: Past, Present, and Future”

 Diana R. Garland Award Presentation 

Entertainment: The Heritage Gospel Chorale of Pittsburgh 

 12:50 pm-1:50 pm   ET Lunch Break
 2:00 pm-3:30 pm ET  Moderated Panel Session  (1.5 CEs)

-Moderated by Lisa Hosack, PhD, LCSW

-“Social Work and First Responders

-Panelists: David Garlock;  Hope Pallacio, DSW; Father Paul Abernathy

 3:45 pm-4:45 pm ET  Workshops — Session H (1.0 CE)
 5:00 pm-6:00 pm ET  Workshops — Session I (1.0 CE)
 6:45 pm-9:15 pm ET  Evening Banquet (1.0 CE)
– Keynote Speaker: Shane Claiborne, Speaker, Activist and Best-Selling Author “Following Jesus in Our Neighborhoods and in Our World” 

Entertainment: Rev. Nikki Porter

This schedule reflects workshops and sessions for the Eastern Time Zone.

NACSW will also be offering an onsite component for this year’s convention for those who are interested in joining us in Pittsburgh in November.

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