FACHTAGE SW on 3 July 2025

In order to support academic and cross-degree programme discourse, specialist days of this kind are integrated into the university studies and are aimed at all students in the Department of Social Work, including part-time students.

The next symposium will take place on 27 November 2025! A barcamp is planned on the topic of "Understanding roles and attitudes in the context of AI".

The presentations and workshops on 3 July 2025

Symposium - Addiction
from 9.30 a.m., Hall 8

Presentation:
"The implementation of so-called cannabis legalisation such as the rise of highly potent illegal THC derivatives and the effects on social work practice."
Dr Bernd Hündersen (Suchthilfezentrum Gießen e.V.)

Parallel workshops

• Addiction in social work
  Dr Bernd Hündersen (Suchthilfezentrum Gießen e.V.) 
  Prof. Dr Sabine Pfeffer (HS Fulda)
• Addiction, debt and poverty
  Michael Franke (Head of the Protestant Centre for Advisory Services, Offenbach)
  Daniela Weil (HS Fulda)
• Addiction and trauma
  Dr Anne-Katharina Neddens (Medical Head Office and Chief Physician, Vogelsbergklinik Grebenhain)
  Kirsten Lamotte (HS Fulda)
• Addiction and homelessness
  Torsten Hammer (Departmental management, Caritas homeless assistance, Fulda)
  Prof. Dr Henning Daßler (HS Fulda)

Symposium - Diversity and social work in times of change
from 9.30 a.m., SSC 10.001

Presentation 1:
What security applies to whom and does the legal concept of security make us even more insecure?
Sanchita Basu (ReachOut Berlin)

Presentation 2:
Solidarity Not Charity: Practicing Mutual Aid Values in Social Work, followed by a discussion with Yossi Bartal (journalist)
Prof. Dean Spade (University of Seattle)

Workshops
Social work from a postcolonial perspective | Nadine Heil
Celebrating diversity and dismantling racism | Collet Döppner and Selina Mosig
Intersectional approaches in social work | Umut Akkuş
Antiziganism in youth welfare | Elena Troia