23rd Annual POWER Conference
February 26-27, 2026
Eugene M. Hughes Metropolitan Complex
Wichita, KS
Registration
Pre-Conference Half Day
Regular: $50
Add a boxed lunch: $10
Pre-Conference Full Day
Regular: $100
Add a boxed lunch: $10
Main Conference
Regular: $175
SPECIAL PACKAGES
Pre-Conference Full Day (includes lunch) + Main Conference: $225
Student (includes both days and the pre-con boxed lunch): $50
Theme
Back to Our Roots: Reclaiming Community-Centered Social Work and Human Connections
This conference is designed so we can have an exploration of grassroots approaches that elevate lived experience, cultural wisdom, and collective care—beyond the limits of institutional systems. Our conference theme calls us to re-center authentic relationships, community knowledge, and local networks at the heart of social work practice, reconnecting with the foundational values of justice, solidarity, and healing.
Through a series of engaging presentations and speakers, we will delve into the innovative practices, new research, social work resources, and new ways of thinking that are shaping our field. There are many fields of practice which intersect with this topic – clinical, aging, education, forensic, health, child welfare, housing, leadership, aging, substance use, and veterans... just to name a few!