Indigenous and Tribal Social Work Educators’ Association
CSWE/ITSWEA APM 2024
The 2024 ITSWEA 28th Annual Conference is a peer-reviewed program of educators working with and serving Indigenous people and communities.
The conference will take place in person in Kansas City, MO, on Thursday, October 24th, 2024, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM CST.
2024 Conference Agenda
9:00-10:00 Opening
Introduction of participants
Welcome & overview of meeting
Hilary Weaver
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10:00-10:45 The long road to educational sovereignty: Designing an Indigenous Knowledge Roadmap as
an act of resilience
Rebecca Maldonado Moore
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10:45-11:30 Cultural equivalence of the scale for ethnocultural empathy with Indigenous populations
Lisa G. Byers
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11:30-12:15 Local Content - Issues affecting Indigenous people in Kansas: NAGPRA, MMIW/R, and State
of Kansas's proposed bill that limits DEI
Melissa Peterson, Sierra Two Bulls, & Laura Ramirez
12:15-1:45 Lunch break
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1:45-2:30 Parenting patterns of urban American Indian parents in Arizona
Chao-Kai Huang
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2:30-3:15 Lesson learning from a Tribal child welfare-university partnership
Nicole Henry, Olivia Ben, Cedar Dancing Bull, Reese Cummings, Carenlee Barkdull, Bret Weber & Jennifer Russell
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3:15-4:00 Strengthening & sustaining: Translating & sustaining long-term translation of culturally grounded
programing
Kristi Ka’apu, Gail Lilly, Tamela Solomon, Michelle Johnson-Jennings, Tia Grisham, Tina Routh, Jeremy Chickaway, Dan Isaac, Kya Locklear, Juliette Christian & Catherine E. McKinley
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4:00-4:45 Business meeting
- ITSWEA participation in the APM
- Indigenous & Tribal track
- Treasurer’s report
- Student support initiatives
- Other business
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4:45-5:00 Closing