NASW-NYS Leads The Way For Social Work Advocacy

Social workers can be hard on the NASW, they are they obvious target for complaints about the health of the profession. In many ways working for the NASW can be thankless, our advocates are so busy fighting for us that they have little time to fight for themselves by promoting what they are accomplishing.

NASW-NYS is one such chapter and they are doing amazing work. Recently they released their 2013 Legislative Action Report and we thought it prudent to give a glimpse into what NASW-NYS is up to so that social workers can begin to recognize those who are fighting the good fight for them every single day.

From NASW-NYS’ director of Policy Karin (Moran) Carreau, MSW…

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Protect Social Work In New York | Take Action Now!

Governor Supports Permanent Exemption from Social Work Licensure for State Workforce
We strongly urge you to contact members of the Assembly and Senate listed below. Tell them that as a social worker:

I am strongly opposed to broad-based permanent exemptions included in the Governor’s…

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