Register now until Jan. 31, 2025, to enjoy early-bird discounts for any of the 2025 NASW Virginia and Metro DC Joint Annual Conferences, whether in person March 13-15 in Charlottesville, Va.; live-virtually on May 1-3, or on-demand-only May 7-June 30. Social workers can pick the conference format that best suits their busy schedule, tight budget, and professional development goals. 

The event features 35 breakout sessions, five keynote general sessions, a networking reception, film discussion, and other activities that get you engaged and mingling with hundreds of fellow social workers in all specialties and settings. 

Attendees can earn 20.5 CEs at the in-person or live-virtual conferences, or up to 80.5 CEs for 

on-demand access to every recorded session and keynote at your preferred location and time. 

A Conference Review Committee of chapter volunteers created the diverse agenda from submitted proposals and peer conversations to ensure practical application and relevancy. The exciting line-up enables attendees to meet license requirements for ethics and LGBTQIAS2+ (DC) CEs, as well as CEs toward the Public Health Priorities (DC) requirement and general continuing education units. 

NASW members can double-stack savings by combining the members-only discount and early-bird rate to pay the lowest registration fee as long as registration is completed during the early-bird period ends Jan. 1, 2025.

Below are some of the professional and social justice sessions planned:

• Decolonizing Therapy: Healing Trauma Through Movement

• Ethics: A Social Work Precipice in 2025

• Engaging Clients in Expressive Art Modalities

• Social Determinants of Health: Can You Hear the I in Five?

• Using Body-Based Interventions in Trauma Therapy

• Reconciliation Therapy

• Integrative Clinical Supervision

• Empowering Black Girls: A Trauma-Informed Approach to Intersectional Challenges

• Values Assessments with Couples: Using Values Cards with Clients

• Real Radical Allyship

• Normalizing Bias

• Why Should I Care about Housing?

• Treatment Strategies and Approaches

• A Social Worker’s Role in Threat Assessment

• Addressing Domestic Violence in Youth

• Suicide in Black Children and Adolescents 

• Financial Well-Being and Psychological Trauma

• Let’s Talk Neurodiversity

• Burnout, Workplace Environment, and Job Satisfaction

• Many other topics!

In addition, attendees earn CEs at 

• keynote presentations such as “Words Create World” by Grammy-nominated musician Pierce Freelon;   

• the 2025 Awards Luncheon with an interactive workshop on authenticity and setting “good boundaries” in the workplace, 

• a Lunch and Learn with Global Sound Bath on Self-Care, and

• a powerful Movie Night (“Crip Camp”) and Panel Discussion of the Disabilities in Social Work Council about the disability rights movement.

Students and retirees receive a special reduced rate to support incoming social workers and the field’s most-experienced professionals.

The conference was “an absolutely amazing experience. I attended so many wonderful breakout sessions and brought home a wealth of knowledge. It was such a great experience that I paid additionally for the "on-demand" portion, so I could obtain access to the remaining sessions I was unable to attend in-person. It was just that good! I also was able to meet and connect with some amazing people!”—2024 attendee