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November 2008
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NASW Annual Practice Conference
The Aging Boom: Is Your Clinical Practice Ready?
March 15-16, 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada
About 58 million baby boomers age 66 to 84 are expected to be living in 2030, an aging phenomenon affecting every area of social work practice, including yours. Get prepared for the boom by attending this conference and earn CEUs for NASW professional credentials in gerontology, health care, case management, and other practice areas. Register by January 23, 2009, and save more than $50 on your registration fee.
NASW is offering this conference specifically for social workers in conjunction with the American Society on Aging/National Council on Aging’s Aging in America conference March 15-19, 2009, in Las Vegas. For registration and conference information, visit www.socialworkers.org/agingconference. For hotel reservations, visit www.agingconference.org. |
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| Launched this past October, the new NASW Social Work Career Center is the place to go to find your first social work job, move up the career ladder, and continue your professional development. From an interactive social work job bank, career-coaching, and résumé critiquing and writing, to professional development and training opportunities, and more, the Social Work Career Center has the tools you need to excel in the profession. Get started here. |
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 The Advanced Certified Hospice and Palliative – Social Work (ACHP-SW) credential confirms your experience, advanced skill, ongoing professional development, and leadership in hospice and palliative care and shows organizations, interdisciplinary team members, colleagues, and clients you have met national standards of specialized practice. Membership in both the National Association of Social Workers and the National Council of Hospice and Palliative Professionals (NCHPP) is required. For eligibility requirements and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s specific application for individual membership into NCHPP, click here. |
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President-elect Obama stood up for the future of our profession by signing on to the Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act (H.R. 5447/S. 2858). Join him, and more than 32,000 of your colleagues, in supporting this crucial legislation by urging your members of Congress to sign on, too. It takes less than two minutes to send the preformatted letters to Congress. Click here to send your letter in support of social work reinvestment to your House Representatives and here to send one to your Senators. This legislation will help ensure that you and more than 600,000 social work colleagues in the United States can continue to serve individuals, families, and communities for years to come. We must assure the future of our profession today.
Forward These YouTube Reinvestment Messages to Students and Colleagues. Click here . |
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Learn about the most common ethical issues and complaints you will face on the job today. This free teleconference will equip you with tools for recognizing these potential conflicts and making the best ethical decisions. As with all NASW Lunchtime Teleconferences, this teleconference is free, one-hour long, and available to NASW members only. You will earn 1.0 FREE CEU when you successfully complete the online post-test. Click here to register. Lunchtime Series teleconferences are available to NASW members only.
Lunchtime Series Schedule: Click here for more upcoming teleconferences. |
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Each year, about 2,000 adolescents in the United States commit suicide. One in four high school students considers suicide. Spot suicide risk factors and enhance your assessment and intervention skills. Click here to register. Specialty Practice Sections (SPS) teleconferences are available to Section members only. For information on SPS and to join a Section, click here.
SPS Practice Teleconference Schedule: Click here for more upcoming teleconferences. |
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Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th Edition
Co-published by NASW Press and Oxford University Press
Terry Mizrahi and Larry E. Davis, Editors
NASW Member Price: $59.99/annual online subscription
NASW Student Member Price: $39.99/annual online subscription |
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| The “eBook” Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th Edition is now available to NASW members, which means a significant savings for you. For a fraction of the cost of the hardcopy version, you’ll gain 24-hour online access to the new, completely updated cornerstone reference work for our profession. This convenient and authoritative core reference work is an essential tool for fact-finding, studying for licensing exams, supplementing course work, initiating literature searches, and supporting practice decisions. The online version of the 20th edition Encyclopedia of Social Work is a part of the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf (DRS), usually available to library and institutional customers only. For more information and to subscribe, click here. |
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| More than 5,000 of your colleagues have listed their practices in the National Social Worker Finder online database of licensed social workers, available at both www.HelpStartsHere.org and www.HelpPRO.com. If you are not yet listed, sign up now at the low NASW member price of $25/year, which is $50 off the regular $75 price. Be sure to register today. Starting January 1, 2009, the discounted NASW member listing fee will be raised. Click here to list your practice. It takes less than 20 minutes. For a sample listing, click here. Each month thousands of individuals, professionals, schools, hospitals, and government agencies make more than 10,000 searches in the Finder, which is free for them to search. Help people who need you find you. List now and save. |
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| Access the NASW Legal Defense Fund "Legal Issue of the Month" online library for overviews of legal topics relevant to the profession from the perspective of a particular legal decision. It’s free and available exclusively to NASW members. This month, learn about the Supreme Court’s death penalty decision in Social Workers and the Louisiana v. Kennedy Death Penalty Case. Log in here using your NASW username and password. |
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 You can support charitable and educational social work projects by choosing NASW Foundation, CFC #12538, in the 2008 Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). Learn more about the NASW Foundation here. |
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