Student Day

The CalSWEC Student Day, a one-day conference held in the spring, is planned and coordinated by the Student Day Planning Team, composed of first-, second-year, and third-year Title IV-E MSW student representatives from the 18 graduate schools of social work/social welfare around California. The conference features speakers, workshops, and networking opportunities for attendees.

Student Day 2008
Student Day 2007
Student Day 2006
Student Day 2005
Student Day 2003
Student Day 2002
Student Day 2001
Student Day 2000
2008

Student Day 2008 will be held on March 28 at the Mission Inn, Riverside. The theme is "Emerging Trends: The Future of Child Welfare." Please contact your IV-E representatives for details.

2007

Student Day 2007 will be held on April 27 at the Hilton San Diego Airport/Harbor Island. The theme is "Strengthening the Many Faces of Title IV-E: Program and Practice." Please contact your IV-E representative for details.

2006

The theme of Student Day 2006 is "Keeping the Vision for Title IV-E: Promoting Strength and Well-being for Children and Families.

2005

Student Day 2005, with the theme "Fostering Fairness: Tipping the Scales of Social Justice," will be held April 1 at the Double Tree Hotel San Jose. Download the schedule of events and registration form for details.

2003

2002

View photos from Student Day 2002.
View the Student Day 2002 program.

More than 200 Title IV-E MSW students and alumni attended the 2002 Title IV-E Student Day Conference on April 18. With the theme "Thinking Outside the Box: Social Workers Inside and Beyond the System," the all-day event was held at the Manhattan Beach Marriott Hotel.

Speakers
The keynote speaker was Dr. Joseph Nunn, vice-chair of the Department of Social Work and director of Field Work at UCLA.

The following panel and workshops were held:

2001

"A New Agenda: Redefining Social Work for the New Millennium" was the theme of Student Day 2001, which attracted nearly 200 first- and second-year Title IV-E MSW students. It was held April 20 in Burlingame in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Speaker Pat Reynolds-Harris, MSH, Program Officer at the Stuart Foundation for the program area Strengthening of the Child Welfare System, explained her views on "What Does It Take to Be a Child Welfare Worker in the 21st Century." Among her suggestions for how the future social workers could be effective in the "hardest job you'll ever have" were "the 3 P's": passion, partnership, and permanency.

Speaker Sylvia Pizzini, DPA, MSW, Deputy Director for Family and Children's Services in the California Department of Social Services, spoke about "California's Priorities for Child Welfare Workers." Ms. Pizzini oversees the development, implementation, and evaluation of Child Welfare Services and related programs in California's 58 counties. She gave an overview of the focus of the state's activities for 2001, which include:

  • Redesign of the child welfare system,
  • Full implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act,
  • Strengthening outcomes and accountability,
  • Development of a strategic plan for the Child Welfare Services/Case Management System,
  • Continued outreach by the Office of the Ombudsman for Foster Care, and
  • Integration of successful models of prevention and early intervention into a continuum of services.

Workshop topics were:

  • Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Youth (Eileen F. Levy, PhD);
  • Spirituality in Social Work (James F. Dyer, Jr., LCSW);
  • Absence of Fathers/Male Role Models (Enrico Gnaullati, PhD); and
  • Forensic Interviewing (Carlos M. Sosa, MSW)

2000

View photos from Student Day 2000.
The theme of Student Day 2000, held on April 14 in Manhattan Beach in southern California, was "Building Bridges for Social Justice: Empowering Ourselves for Practice."

Keynote speaker Trinity Wallace, an advocate through the California Youth Connection for people in foster care, told her moving personal story, which included entering the foster care system at age 5. She urged the future child welfare workers "not to lose sight of the opportunity to build a relationship with the child, ... a human being, ... a life." Actor Tyne Daley spoke briefly to the luncheon crowd, expressing her appreciation and admiration for social workers. The NASW California Chapter honored Ms. Daly for her realistic portrayal of a social worker in the award-winning television drama "Judging Amy."

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