Access the Free Transcript of Reamer’s March 10 Ethics Teleconference. Earn 2.0 FREE CEUs and a 10% Discount on Reamer’s New Ethics Casebook
If you missed Rick Reamer’s March 10, 2009, Specialty Practice Sections teleconference on ethical decision-making, the perfect complement to his new ethics casebook, you have free, exclusive access to the transcript and audio file as a Specialty Practice Sections member. Pass the online post-test, and you’ll earn 2.0 free CEUs. Click here for the teleconference archives. If you are not yet a Specialty Practice Sections member, you can join today and listen to Reamer’s teleconference. As a special bonus, if you join SPS for the first-time, you will receive a 10% off NASW Press coupon that can be applied to Reamer’s ethics casebook. Learn more about NASW SPS here and join. NOTE: The NASW Press discount coupon can be used only with telephone and faxed book orders.

PRACTICE ADVANCES

Stress, Burnout, and Competent Practice: Prioritizing Professional Self-Care
During these tough economic times, professional self-care is especially important for supporting competent, compassionate, and ethical practice. For a limited time only, NASW members may download NASW’s full policy statement on the effect of secondary trauma and other stressors on social work practice. This policy and others are now available in the newly released eighth edition of Social Work Speaks. Click here to read the self-care policy statement for free. Click here to read a related November 2008 NASW NEWS article on prioritizing professional self care.
Hot Topics from the April 2009 Issue of Social Work
New email address? Click here to update your email at the Member Center or call NASW Member Services at 800.742.4089 or 202.408.8600 ext. 499.	Be on the lookout for your email notification that the April issue of the Social Work journal is now online. All NASW members receive Social Work online as a member benefit. Here’s a preview of what’s inside April’s issue: • Older Adult Inmates: The Challenge for Social Work (Snyder, van Wormer, Chadha, Jaggers) The population of older adult inmates in the United States is steadily growing, increasing the need for social work practitioners who will work with and advocate for these older prisoners. • Maltreated Children’s Thoughts and Emotions as Behavioral Predictors: Evidence for Social Work Action (Maschi et al.) A comprehensive social work response is needed to reduce behavioral outcomes for maltreated children. • Innovative Service or Proselytizing: Exploring When Service Delivery Becomes a Platform for Unwanted Religious Persuasion (Sherr, Singletary, Rogers) Service delivery, particularly within religious organizations, can cross the line and become an opportunity for proselytizing. Learn guidelines for ethical social work practice in religious settings.

New Titles from the NASW Press
Incorporating Intersectionality in Social Work Practice, Research, Policy and Education Learn how race, class, gender, age, and social orientation intersect with one another, contributing to the oppression of marginalized groups in modern society. Social Work Speaks, Eighth Edition: NASW Policy Statements 2009­–2012 Understand the policies that guide the Association’s many activities, including advocacy and practice efforts. Person-In-Environment (PIE) System Manual, 2nd Edition Use this guide to facilitate communication across practice specialty areas.
Are You Ready to Adopt Evidence-Based Practices in Suicide Prevention?
	The NASW Workforce Center has released a free online toolkit to help you assess the prevalence of suicidal behavior among adolescent girls in your community; organize state teams to advance evidence-based practices (EBPs); and select and implement appropriate EBPs in your community, organization, or practice. Access the toolkit here. Read the full NASW NEWS article here.

NEW  Ensure HIV Individuals Get Timely Care
Individuals diagnosed as HIV positive tend to seek care only within a narrow window after diagnosis. Are you prepared to arrange timely follow-up care? The NASW HIV/AIDS Spectrum Project, in collaboration with the American Academy of HIV Medicine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other organizations, has developed best practices for arranging critical HIV follow-up care. Click here to download Connecting HIV Infected Patients to Care: A Review of Best Practices.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Lunchtime Teleconference Your Social Work Career Ladder | April 16, 2009 | 1.0 FREE CEU | 1 PM – 2 PM ET
	Take control of your career planning. Pick up job searching, interviewing, and negotiating tips, and more. For more teleconference information and to register, click here.
SPS Teleconference Coming Out in Care: What Social Workers Need to Know About “LGBTQ” Youth | April 8, 2009 | 1.0 FREE CEU| 1 PM – 2 PM ET
	The average “coming out” age for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth is thirteen. Identify strategies for providing culturally competent programs for these teens. For more information and to register for this SPS teleconference, click here.

PUBLIC EDUCATION

Why Did You Become a Social Worker?
	Recruit new social workers to our profession by posting why you became a social worker, how you are using your degree, and more, on the newly released social work social media tool 50 Ways to Use Your Social Work Degree.

CAREER AND PERSONAL PROTECTION

NASW Assurance Services Offers a 10% Premium Relief Discount to Members

To help with the current economic crisis, NASW Assurance Services is giving current group insured members a discount on term life, long-term disability, hospital daily cash benefit, and personal accident insurance products. Learn more here.

LEGISLATIVE AND LEGAL ADVOCACY

Safeguard Our Ability to Serve Individuals Across the Lifespan
	The Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act, H.R. 795 and S. 686, ensures our ability to provide essential services and necessary care across the lifespan by addressing challenges we face, such as on-the-job safety, significant educational debt, and insufficient salaries. Learn more here and how to get your members of Congress to support the bill.

MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS

Upcoming April NASW NEWS
Look for these articles in the upcoming April issue, available soon at NASW NEWS online.
From the President: We Have Much to Offer Veterans By James J. Kelly Veterans and their families face extraordinary challenges that will continue to grow. We will have an increasing need for social work services in the coming years as we have much to offer those who risk everything in service to our nation. New Technology Transforming Profession Evolving technology is changing the way social work professionals do their jobs – and is sparking many questions. Should social workers offer telephone or Internet therapy? Should they embrace social networking sites? And what privacy and security standards should social workers use? Social Work Research is Widely Distributed The special December issue of the NASW Press Social Work Research journal,  “Research Capacity and Infrastructure Development in Schools of Social Work,” is being distributed free, thanks to funding from the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. Association Urges Inclusion in DSM-V Group NASW is advocating for the inclusion of social workers in a task force for the development of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V). NASW Backs Patient Privacy NASW has joined more than 30 organizations in the Coalition for Patient Privacy to advocate for the inclusion of privacy safeguards with any funding for implementing health IT systems that is included in the stimulus package.
Subscribe to the “e-Book” Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th Edition for Less than $60/Year
	Gain online access to more than 400 subject entries, 300 biographies, and 2,200 hardcopy pages of social work content – anytime and anywhere you want! The new, expanded edition includes relevant topics such as gerontology, evidence-based practice, and trauma and disaster. The online subscription offer is available to NASW members only. Use the Encyclopedia to prepare for your licensing exam and support practice decisions. Click here for more information and an online subscription. NASW Member Price: $59.99/annual online subscription. NASW Student Member Price: $39.99/annual online subscription.
Last Chance for a Free Listing in the Finder. Offer Expires March 31
First-time listees who register in the National Social Worker Finder online referral database during Social Work Month, which ends March 31, receive a free one-year listing, a $30 value. If you are a first-time listee, you can upgrade your free listing to a premium listing, which offers a dedicated Web page accessible through Internet search engines like Google and Yahoo, for the discounted rate of $50. The Finder is a free consumer resource on HelpStartsHere.org and is searched by thousands each month for licensed social workers. Take this special opportunity to get free Internet exposure for your practice for an entire year. First-Time Listees: Register in the Finder here. Only the first 1,000 qualified registrants will receive a free listing. Offer expires March 31, 2009. For more information, click here. For a sample free listing, click here.

NEW NASW Wireless Center
Enjoy exclusive member savings, including free phones and discounted calling plans and accessories. Start shopping here.

Earn a Free Night Stay with Choice Hotels®
Sign up for the Choice Privileges® rewards program today to start earning points toward free nights or flights. Now through April 30, 2009, two separate stays with Choice Hotels® will earn rewards program members a free night stay. Click here or call 888.770.6800 to join today.

Volunteer Outreach

More Than One Million Veterans are Expected to Return from the Iraq War. Volunteer Your Mental Health Services Today
Help veterans and their families cope with the effects of wartime service. Register with the Give an Hour national volunteer program today. Volunteers will receive a free one-year listing in the National Social Worker Finder online referral database, a $30 value. To volunteer and receive a free listing, you must first register with Give an Hour. Click here to learn more and register.