Professional Issues

NASW is a professional membership organization that provides support to individual social workers and helps to advance professional social work practice in all settings. The national organization provides professional standards for practice in the following areas:

• clinical social work
• school social work services
• social work case management
• social work practice with adolescents
• social work personnel practices ? cultural competence
• integrating genetics with social work practice

For additional information about these practice standards, please access NASW Professional Practice

The New Hampshire chapter provides professional support to individual practitioners through networking at monthly Clinical Committee meetings. Much of the chapter's resources are devoted to advocating for social workers and the profession. This occurs through filing and monitoring legislation that protects social workers, the profession and their clients, often through the chapter's partnership with the New Hampshire Mental Health Coalition. The chapter also works with many other coalitions to advocate and support policy and practice issues.

NASW offers Specialty Practice Sections in the following areas:

• Aging
• Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (ATOD)
• Child Welfare
• Health Mental Health
• Poverty and Social Justice
• Private Practice
• School Social Work

For additional information on joining these sections and member benefits access the national Web site NASW offers practice updates in several different fields of practice. Select the areas below to link directly to the Updates on the national Web site. Adolescent Health, Aging, Behavioral Health, Children, Youth, and Families,Justice, School Social Work, Clinical Social Work, Diversity & Equity, Health, HIV/AIDS, International, Peace and Social Justice , Violence

See http://www.naswdc.org/sections/default.asp for more information.