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December 2008
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The Aging Boom: Is Your Clinical Practice Ready?
March 15-16, 2009
Las Vegas, Nevada
NASW Member Price:
$195/register by January 23, 2009
$245/thereafter
Ready your practice for more than 58 million elderly baby boomers. Join your colleagues for a learning and networking event that will bring you face-to-face with preeminent social work experts and help you prepare for the boom that will change your practice and service delivery. Earn CEUs for NASW professional credentials in gerontology, health care, case management, and other practice areas.
NASW is offering this conference 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 more information, online registration, and hotel reservation details, visit www.socialworkers.org/agingconference. |
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 Click here to view your special holiday e-card from us to you. This card expresses the 2009 “Purpose & Possibility” National Social Work Month theme, which focuses on the future of social work and the need to recruit more social workers into the profession. Happy Holidays from all of us at NASW. |
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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. Earn CEUs for this credential at NASW’s Annual Practice Conference—The Aging Boom: Is Your Clinical Practice Ready?, March 15-16, 2009, in Las Vegas. |
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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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 Starting January 1, the discounted annual listing fee for NASW members will go up from $25 to $30. List today at $25/year, which is $50 off the regular listing price. More than 5,000 of your colleagues have listed their practices in the Finder, available at both www.HelpStartsHere.org and www.HelpPRO.com. 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. Be sure to register by December 31, 2008, before the listing fee increases. It takes less than 20 minutes. List here today and save. For a sample listing, click here. |
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Learn How You Can be an Effective Community Organizer
Community Organizing for a Change: Applying Community Practice Models, Strategies, and Skills to Agency Competency
Presenters: Jacqueline Mondros, DSW, and Terry Mizrahi, PhD, MSW
January 23, 2009 | 1 pm - 2 pm EST | 1.0 FREE CEU
With a community organizer (CO) in the White House, this free teleconference will provide timely content on various CO models and strategies and skills to increase your effectiveness and mobilize constituents. Learn more here and register.
Our Reinvestment Efforts at Work
Social Work Reinvestment Initiative: Building on Successes at the State Level
Presenter: Elizabeth Franklin, MSW, NASW
January 27, 2009 | 1 pm - 2 pm EST | 1.0 FREE CEU
In just one hour, you’ll gain important updates on the Social Work Reinvestment Initiative at federal and state levels, find out what your NASW chapter is doing to support this initiative, take away key talking points to rally colleagues and others to support the progress made thus far, and earn 1.0 social work CEU when you pass the online post-test for this teleconference. For more information and to register, click here Lunchtime Series Schedule: Click here for more upcoming teleconferences. Lunchtime Series teleconferences are free and available to NASW members only. |
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Your role as a social worker in a divorce can change if the divorce is litigated instead of mediated. Find out your specific role, how it may change, and issues you need to consider in a divorce. For more information and to register, click here. For information on SPS and to join a Section, click here.
SPS Practice Teleconference Schedule: Click here for more upcoming teleconferences. Specialty Practice Sections (SPS) teleconferences are free and available to Section members only. |
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“e-Book” 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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For a fraction of the cost of the hardback 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. Now, as an NASW member, you can subscribe to the online version, which usually has been available to library and institutional members only. For more information and to subscribe, click here. |
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 Did you know you can learn how to avoid ethical complaints, licensing board violations, and malpractice lawsuits AND receive the continuing education credits you need to keep your license? Participate in a local risk management workshop (3.0 CEUs) or take the free NASW WebEd online course Understanding Malpractice Risk: What Social Workers Can Do (2.0 CEUs).
NASW member professional liability insurance premium rates have not increased in 15 years. In these days of rising costs and reduced value, isn’t that the kind of plan you want to be with? For more information, call 800.421.6694 or visit www.naswassurance.org. |
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| The NASW HIV/AIDS Spectrum Project will be holding a Training of Trainers (TOT). Persons selected for TOT will participate in a three-day training event in early June 2009. Once trained, participants will be asked to continue the education cycle by providing workshops and outreach in their own communities. Experienced trainers with (at minimum) an MSW degree and who have expertise and experience in HIV/AIDS mental health are encouraged to apply. Applications are due by January 8, 2009. Click here to apply. To learn more about the HIV/AIDS Spectrum: Mental Health Training and Education of Social Workers Project, click here. |
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 Join a national network of nearly 2,500 colleagues and volunteer therapists providing pro bono mental health services to U.S. military personnel and their families. Give an Hour also offers services to parents, siblings, and unmarried partners who are not entitled to receive mental health benefits through the military. As professional social workers, we have a responsibility to give back to the communities where we live. Let’s work together to provide easy access to professional mental health treatment for everyone affected by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Learn more about this national effort and register here. |
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The groundbreaking documentary telling the intimate stories of families facing childhood cancer across six years now offers educational video modules that sensitively address critical issues of childhood and young-adult cancer. Click here for descriptions of the modules, ordering information, and links to downloadable companion educational curricula. |
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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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