Welcome to NASW Washington Chapter! 

 ...the power of social work

2012 Conference

Special Room Rates: Single Occupancy for $109.00 per night or Double Occupancy for $119.00 per night. You can reserve a room by calling them at 206-439-6146 or by using the following web address: http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/C/CTAC-DT-NAW-20120515/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG  

The Annual Conference is filling up quickly and you don't want to miss out. Please click here to register for the Conference. Please remember that after you Register for the Conference you must go through and choose one workshop for each time period. That is one from A1, A2, A3, A4, or A5, one from B1, B2, B3, B4, or B5, one from C1, C2, C3, C4, or C5, one from D1, D2, D3, or D4, one from E1, E2, E3, or E4, and lastly one from F1, F2, F3, or F4.

May 19, 2012

Check-In:  8:00 AM Workshop: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport
18740 International Boulevard
Seattle, WA 98188

Please Note: It is Advisable that you take this Course NO MORE than 90 days prior to taking the Exam!

LASW/LICSW Licensure Prep Course

Jonathan Beard, MSW, LICSW
NASW Washington State Chapter offers this course three to four times a year. The Licensure Examination Preparation Course will assist you in preparing to take either the clinical or advanced ASWB exams required for social work licensure in the state of Washington and most other states.

The course includes a 200+ manual pluse a sample test, an overview of test taking strategies, anxiety management techniques. It also helps licensure candidates to be confident in their ability to think clearly about what is being asked in order to choose the correct answers and earn a passing score.

The course also includes a review of the major content areas of the examination including;

Human development and behavior;
Assessment, diagnosis and intervention planning;
Direct practice methods;
Theories and models of treament, diversity issues; and
Professional values and ethics, and more. 

Presenter
Jonathan R. Beard, MSW, LICSW, is the owner of Progressive Strategies in Seattle, WA, where he provides a variety of project management, consulting, training,a dn program and/or organizational development services to public and nonprofet human service providers and organizations. He also provides private practice based clinical social work supervision to beginning and experienced social workers who are unable to obtain it where they work. Jonathan has many years of experience as a direct services provider, supervisor/manager and senior executive, primarily in mental health settings. He has taught this course to hundreds of social workers in Washington and thoroughout the Northwest to rave reviews.

Please Remeber Registration begins at 8 AM. Please sign in, get your name tag, and all of your materials.

Jonathan R. Beard is a Washington State Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker with many years of experience as a provider, supervisor and senior executive in nonprofit and governmental mental health and other human service agencies. Mr. Beard currently serves as a Project Manager with the Washington Institute for Mental Health Research and Training, which is located within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington.
He also operates his own business, Progressive Strategies, providing a variety of consulting, training, clinical supervision and program and/or organizational development services to public and nonprofit human service providers and organizations. Mr. Beard is particularly interested in recovery focused/consumer driven services, ethics, consumer rights, and supervision and management in nonprofit and public human service agencies.

Free Membership - New Member Recruitment Drive

Do you want to earn a free NASW WA Chapter membership? It is easy. Between July 1, 2011, and June 30, 2012, recruit three (3) new FULL members that have not been a NASW member in the last five years, and your membership dues will be paid. A Full member is one that pays the full current membership dues of $190.

All you have to do is recruit three Social Workers that have not been FULL NASW members prior to July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007. If you have paid your FULL membership dues in July or August 2011, you are still eligible for the free membership. Just send in the three new members and after the membership is verified that they have not been a member in the last five years, your dues will be refunded.  A Full member is one that pays the full current membership dues of $190.

Please carefully read the membership recruitment drive instructions and complete the new member application form with your three new Social worker members. All new members will be verified that they have not been a member prior to July 1, 2006, and June 30, 2007.  Click on the following link for more details:  Membership Drive.

Social Work Title Protection Is signed into Law!

Governor Christine Gregoire signed SB 5020 on Friday, April 15, 2011, which will protect the professional Social Workers. NASW WA Chapter and it s members have worked for many years to enact this legislation.

The legislation will prevent someone without a degree in Social Work from working in a job titled social work. Only those with a degree in Social Work from an accredited School of Social Work will be able to fill those positions.

Congratulations to all of the Social Workers in the State of Washington.

  “Photo courtesy of the Washington State Senate." 

2011 Awards Nominations

NASW WA State Chapter would like to honor people from the following categories.  If you know of someone or a agency that you think deserves to be recognized please download the nomination form and send it back to the NASW WA State office.  The list of categories are listed below (click on the position to read what the criteria for that nomination are).

• Social Worker of the Year

• Social Work Educator of the Year

• Outstanding Recent Graduate

• Outstanding Student

• Outstanding Agency of the Year

• Public Citizen of the Year

2011 Awards Nominations Form

Make a Contribution to the Chapter:

Making a monetary Contribution to the NASW-WA Chapter is easy.  There are three options:

• Using the Fundraising and Solicitation Letter

• To Be An Event Sponsor

• NASW Foundation participates in charitable workplace giving campaigns that include all federal employees, and some state, local government, and corporate employees. Through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), any federal employee can contribute to the NASW Foundation (CFC #12538). NASW Foundation has also been accepted as an eligible charity in certain state employee campaigns and other specific workplace giving programs, and employees in those campaigns may also support the Foundation.

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