2025 NASW-SD West River Symposium

Rapid City, South Dakota 

October 9th & 10th, 2025 

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The NASW-SD West River Symposium convenes social workers, helping professionals, advocates, and students for 1.5 days of collective learning and reflection. Through keynotes, panels, and hands-on practice, we’ll explore ethical, relational care across systems and communities. Centering intergenerational leadership and lived experience, this gathering deepens our capacity to disrupt harmful systems, practice with cultural humility, and honor the responsibility that comes with helping work.

2025 West River Conference will be held at the Best Western Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center

2025 Symposium Program

  •    9.25 CEU's available
    • 2.25 Supervision CEU's
    • 3.75 Ethics CEU's

Register for the NASW-SD West River Symposium 

Sponsors the Symposium

This year’s event is immersive and connection-focused, so we are not hosting a vendor hall. Instead, we offer a Community Resource Sponsorship, aligned with vendor table cost, as a way to support the profession and share your resources with attendees. Sponsorship benefits are designed so this level of sponsorship still provides a valuable way for organizations, agencies, and businesses to support the profession while sharing their resources with attendees.

NASW-SD 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award


Monique M. Apple, DSW, MSW (Išnála Wášte Wiŋ)

Learn more about Monique Apple, DSW, MSW


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2025 Keynote Speaker

Delaney Apple

"Strengthening Ourselves through Indigenous Cultural Ways"

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With the help of our sponsors, we can make it possible for students and other professionals to attend at low or no cost. Please consider sponsoring this event! 

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