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New from National NASW
National Call for Nominations – Elected and Appointed
It is time again for the important task of identifying nominees for national elected and appointed positions. Your active participation in the nomination process is necessary to ensure a strong pool of candidates for leadership positions. Your role is vital to the National Committee on Nominations & Leadership Identification (NCNLI) that develops the election slate and to NASW’s President who makes appointments to national volunteer units. The deadline date for receiving all nominations for elected positions is close of business (5:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time) on Friday, October 29, 2010. The deadline date must be adhered to. A postmarked date is not acceptable. Applications received after the deadline date will be considered for appointments only. The application form is accessible through NASW’s Web site at http://www.socialworkers.org/governance/voting/nominations2010/bioApp.pdf. Materials may be faxed to the national office at 202/336-8313 to the attention of NCNLI/President’s Office or may be sent to us by U.S. mail. National NASW 2010 Awards As you know, we are transitioning the submission process for nominations for the NASW and NASW Foundation Recognition Awards from paper to online. Our goal is to have the system up and ready by the end of August. We anticipate that complete submissions will be due by late October and will make an announcement when we have a more definitive schedule with which we can all work. The online process will mirror what currently exists e.g., criteria and support documentation. In the interim, please visit the NASW Website at http://www.socialworkers.org/governance/awards/default.asp and the NASW Foundation Web site at http://www.naswfoundation.org/recognition/default.asp to familiarize yourself with the information that is available. If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact Doreta Richards at drichards@naswdc.org or Kerri Criswell at KCriswell@naswdc.org .
New Practice Update: Part II: Advocating for Change in Home Health Care Attached is a copy of a new practice update, Part II: Advocating for Change in Home Health Care, http://www.socialworkers.org/assets/secured/documents/practice/clinical/WKF-MISC-48510.ClinicalSW.pdf. This practice update clarifies reimbursement for mental health services rendered by a clinical social worker when a patient is receiving home health care services. If you have any questions, contact Mirean Coleman at mcoleman@naswdc.org or ext. 265.
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IMPACT OF HEALTH CARE REFORM
In response to numerous questions, the National NASW office offers
these on line resources regarding the impact of health care reform
ion states. The Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., as well as the U.S. role in global health policy. The Foundation serves as a non-partisan source of facts, information, and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the public. The Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries. Statehealthfacts.org is a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and is designed to provide free, up-to-date, and easy-to-use health data on all 50 states. Statehealthfacts.org provides data on more than 700 health topics and is linked to both the Kaiser Family Foundation website (www.kff.org) and Kaiser Health News (http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org). http://www.statehealthfacts.org/ State Health Facts – Health Reform: http://www.statehealthfacts.org/healthreform.jsp AAMC The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) represents all 133 accredited U.S. and 17 accredited Canadian medical schools; approximately 400 major teaching hospitals and health systems, including 68 Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers; and nearly 90 academic and scientific societies. This document highlights the health care workforce provisions in the Act: http://www.aamc.org/workforce/healthcarereformleg.pdf Grants.gov Grants.gov provides a unified site for interaction between grant applicants and the US Federal agencies that manage grant funds. Once on the site, if you type in Affordable Care Act, you will be linked to the grants available through the health law. Scroll down to search for specific state health care workforce planning or implementation grants. Affordable Care Act: State Health Care Workforce Implementation Grants Affordable Care Act: State Health Care Workforce Planning Grants The National Academy for State Health Policy The National Academy for State Health Policy, an independent academy of state health policymakers working to improve state health policy and practice, offers a comprehensive set of policy and planning resources for state implementation of health care reform. The site includes ten aspects of federal health reform that states must get right, if they are to be successful in implementation. The Academy’s portal for these advisory materials is here. Families USA Families USA, an advocacy organization dedicated to achieving high-quality, affordable health care for all has collected many useful materials on health care reform implementation issues on its website. The site includes a variety of materials for state advocates to prepare for implementation, along with more technical materials on parts of the law that will need attention over the coming years. Families USA’s portal is here. HRSA The new Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) site to sign up for workforce grants available under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: http://www.hrsa.gov/grants/index.html In late March we sent out an update about the programs available in health care reform. That can be found here. You can still view information about health care reform here.
Advisory Committee to Help Raise Public Awareness of Social Work The National Association of Social Workers Communications Network Advisory Committee. Top row from left: Sherry Amatenstein, George Anderson and Matt Anderson. Second row from left: Matt Conn, Kirstin Downey and Suzanne Dworak-Peck. Third row from left: Antwone Fisher, Kathy Gurland and Jenna Mehnert. Bottom row from left: Oren Moverman, Maribel Quiala and Terrie Williams. Not pictured: Ellen Rostand. The National Association of Social Workers is announcing it has formed an advisory committee of Hollywood writers, award-winning journalists, social workers involved in the media and others to educate the public about social workers and increase awareness of the profession. The NASW Communications Network (NCN) Advisory Committee members include author and Pulitzer-winning Washington Post reporter Kirstin Downey; Academy Award-nominated director and screenwriter Oren Moverman; social worker, anger management expert and movie consultant George Anderson; author and screenwriter Antwone Fisher; and social worker, author and national columnist Sherry Amatenstein. “Social work is an exciting and rewarding profession that sometimes does not get the notice and respect it deserves in media and society,” said NASW Executive Director Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH. “We are thrilled that the members of our new advisory committee want to help attract civic-minded students to the profession, help more people find and support social work services in their communities, and include social work perspectives in a variety of media.” The NCN Advisory Committee will identify ways to promote social work roles in television and film, position more social workers as consumer education experts, inform public policy debates with social work research, and increase interest among youth about the social work profession. Below is a list of advisory board members. Please click on their names to read full biographies:
NASW’s new media advisory committee builds upon the work of NASW Past President Suzanne Dworak-Peck, who founded NCN in the early 1990s. Part of the NCN’s activities include acting as a Hollywood referral source. NCN has now been incorporated into the multi-year National Social Work Public Education Campaign, which is made possible by donations made to the NASW Foundation. Since the awareness campaign launched in 2005, NASW has placed print ads in national women’s magazines, conducted national consumer issue surveys, placed billboards around state capitals and in Times Square, implemented social media campaigns, aired a national video, built a series of educational websites, and connected hundreds of media professionals with social work experts. |
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