January, 2006

2008 Delegate Assembly Process Presented to Board of Directors

Novermber, 2006

Delegate Assembly Planning Task Force Conference Call

February, 2007

Official Call-to-Meeting to the 2008 Delegate Assembly is set up on the NASW Web page

SPS and Equity Committees are contacted for list of potential authors for policy statements

April 20, 2007

Notification for intent to develop or revise policy statements is due to Chapter Services at the National Office

Feb 07–Jan 08, chapters will be requested to reserve time at annual conferences, board meetings or other meetings to review policy statements and program priority goals

May 31, 2007

Deadline for submission of proposed bylaws(full text)

July 13, 2007

Deadline for submission of proposed policy statements and proposed program priority goals

July-August, 2007

Proposed policy statements are vetted to SPS and Equity Committees

August, 2007

Delegate Assembly Planning Task Force Meeting

September, 2007

Coalition Chairs training/meeting

National Board of Directors approves preliminary agenda

September, 2007

Board approves Proposed Program Priority Goals process

September 2007-May, 2008

Coalition Meetings

December, 2007

Proposed policy statements, revised policy statements, bylaws amendments and program priority goals are placed on NASW Web site for members and delegates to comment

January , 2008

Online voting for the 2011 Automatically-referred policy statements

January-March, 2008

Online Policy and Program Priority Goals Hearing Panels are convened for policy statements
Deadline for receipt of petitions (January 18th)
Any petition-approved policy statements placed on Web site for 30 days for comment

March-May 2008

Second round of comments and online hearing panels are convened for policy statements
New England Coalition meets

April, 2008

National Board adopts final 2008 Delegate Assembly Agenda

May, 2008

Southeastern Coalition meets
Final Hearing Panel Revised policies placed on Web site for 30 Days for Delegates to comment

May-June, 2008

Program Priority Goals choices are finalized/revised by hearing panel
Final revised policy statements are posted to the Web site
Delegates vote for top ten Emerging Issues Forum topics

June, 2008

Delegates vote on automatically-referred policy statements (final)

August 8-10, 2008

The 2008 Delegate Assembly convenes (program priority goals; bylaw amendments and new policy statements are debated and approved)

January, 2009

Social Work Speaks is published

 July 1, 2009

New NASW Bylaws and Delegate Assembly program priority goals go into effect