WICS Summer Symposium

The Summer Symposium is an annual event that addresses health, mental health and access from an ecological perspective. 

The theme for the 2025 Summer Symposium is Culturally Responsive Care and Supporting Families as a Social Justice Imperative.

Key sessions will be streamed live at webster.edu/live for those outside the greater St. Louis region. We highly encourage those who reside in the St. Louis region to attend the event in person. Breakfast and lunch will be served.

Through the Symposium, WICS scholars at Webster and grant recipients at SIUE have an opportunity to come together to share the lessons they are learning from their experience in the field of health and mental health care for the high-need communities in the St. Louis metro area.

Presentations include educational sessions, clinical case study presentations and poster presentations. The Symposium also includes panel discussions with subject matter experts, who have knowledge and practical experience pertaining to topics of significance to our region.

The Summer Symposium will provide a CEU opportunity for site supervisors, faculty, local counseling professionals and other HRSA-BHWET grantees at no cost.

Webster University Department of Professional Counseling has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4505. Please check with your state requirements as to whether NBCC CEUs are approved for your licensing body.

The Webster Institute for Clinical Scholarship’s BHWET grant is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as part of an award totaling $1,083,454, with 0% financed with non-governmental sources.

The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement, by HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit hrsa.gov.

The Summer Symposium is a collaboration between Webster University through the Webster Institute for Clinical Scholarship and Southern Illinois University Edwardsville's HRSA-BHWET Scholars Program and is made possible by the generous support of Chiron Community Giving Foundation.