Thursday – August 18, 2022
Utah Cultural Celebration Center
West Valley City, Utah
Theme:
“Bouncing Forward in a New World; Finding Hope in Resiliency”
Vendor Registration is closed for the 2022 UTAHSWA Annual Conference at this time
Thank you to all the vendors that will be at the 2022 Conference this year, we can’t do it without your support. Thanks so much, Andrew will be in touch with all of you about details for the layout this year and instructions.
Please contact us via email for any questions or concerns you have for this year’s conference or needs for your booth. We are working on additional marketing options, logos on flyers/handouts as well as possible video to help the virtual zoom participants feel more a part of the conference. More details to come or email us with any suggestions you have. contact@utahswa.org
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Gregory Hudnall
Dr. Gregory A. Hudnall is a former high school principal and associate superintendent with the Provo City School District. He has been involved with suicide prevention for the past 25 years. Dr. Hudnall is the founder of Hope4Utah, a community-based nonprofit organization dedicated to suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. His school-based peer-to-peer suicide prevention program, Hope Squad, has been responsible for over 5,000 students referred for help and over 1,000 hospitalized. The Hope Squad program is now in over 1,000 schools in the U.S. and Canada.
For over 15 years, Dr. Hudnall has led a state-wide volunteer suicide crisis team that has responded to over 54 youth suicides. Dr. Hudnall has presented at over 100 national and state conferences on suicide, bullying, connectedness, community collaboration, and making schools a safe place for students.
Dr. Hudnall was invited to testify before the United States Surgeon General on suicide in Utah. He has presented to the U.S. Department of Health and at the national conferences of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Association of Suicidology. Dr. Hudnall was also invited to participate in a webinar on African Americans and suicide by the White House. He has trained over 50,000 in suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. He has presented across the United States and three countries on suicide prevention, including to the Minister of Education for Madrid, Spain.
Dr. Hudnall is considered one of the leading experts in community- and school-based suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. He lives by the mantra, “While it takes a village to raise a child, it takes an entire community to save one.”
Dr. Brian Miller
Brian Miller, Ph.D. provides training and consultation on topics of secondary trauma, trauma informed supervision, and implementation processes nationally and internationally. His book, Reducing Secondary Traumatic Stress: Skills for Sustaining a Career in the Helping Professions was released in July of 2021.
Dr. Miller’s experience includes tenure as Director of Children’s Behavioral Health at Primary Children’s Hospital, Director of Mental Health Services for Salt Lake County; Director of the Trauma Program for Families with Young Children at The Children’s Center in Salt Lake City; Clinical Director of Davis Behavioral Health, Associate Director of the Utah State Division of Mental Health; and as a psychotherapist in private practice. He holds a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio, where he was a Mandel Leadership Fellow. He is the past board president for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Utah Chapter, and serves on the editorial review boards for the journals Traumatology and Contemporary Psychotherapy and the Secondary Traumatic Stress Consortium. He serves on the Governor’s Commission on Education and Mental Health and is a member of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Dr. Susan Madsen
Dr. Susan R. Madsen is considered one of the top global scholars and thought leaders on the topic of women’s leadership, has authored or edited eight books, and has published hundreds of articles, chapters, and reports. Her research has been cited in the U.S. News and World Report, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Parenting Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Washington Post. She is also a regular contributor to Forbes and other local and state newspapers. Professor Madsen is the Karen Haight Huntsman Endowed Professor of Leadership in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University and serves on many nonprofit and community boards. She is also the Founding Director of the Utah Women & Leadership Project, and her passion is to strengthen the impact of girls and women in Utah and worldwide.
Dear Friend of the UTAHSWA,
The Utah Social Work Association (formerly USSWLHC) is a statewide organization that values and strives to promote and support the development of social workers at all levels and in all settings. We emphasize the vital contribution social workers have in this community through a multitude of career paths and specialties. Our strength in meeting these goals is due to our outstanding members, offering educational opportunities, and advocacy for positive change in our field.
It is time to start preparing for our annual conference which we are so pleased will be happening in-person and virtually making it a hybrid conference again this year! We are excited to announce that it will be on August 18th, 2022 at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center in West Valley City, Utah.
Here are our plans for this year:
We are preparing a full day conference, we will have participants in-person and also participating through Zoom virtually. We anticipate 100-150 participants in-person for this year’s conference.
– With this, we are again going to offer vendor time to visit each booth
– We are planning to have approximately an hour of member/vendor time during our regular 15 minute breaks throughout the day.
– Set-up on August 18th beginning at 7:00 am, registration starting at 7:15 am with conference at 8:00 am. The vendor booths will be located upstairs in 6 rooms and we will have 4-5 vendor booths in each room and participants of the conference will visit those rooms during the breaks.
– Fee for the day is $600 which will include food, breakfast and lunch (from Meier’s Catering) for up to 2 representatives from your agency
Vendor registration is preferred by Friday July 29th – Registration is closed at this time due to capacity
The cap for vendor booths wil be 25 this year. In registering, please let us know if you need power for your booth, so we know where to have your table located at the utah cultural celebration center.
We look forward to having you take part in this wonderful opportunity to connect with our members!
Please let us know if you have any questions!
Feel free to email us at contact@utahswa.org with any questions.
Sincerely,
Andrew Layne, 2022 President
UTAHSWA
PO Box 255
Kaysville, UT 84037
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