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Association business
New Board Member Training
Reservations are filling up! Find out how to register at www.aswb.org.
Regular features
AZ tightens up supervision requirements, MI debates "conscience clause". Regulatory Happenings.
Keeping up with the testing world. From the staff.
The self-employed internship. Counsel's Column
Get to know a board. This issue: British Columbia and Ohio.
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Social media, social workers, and the Internet - read this issue for questions to be discussed at the Spring Meeting in Kentucky April 26 - 29.
With friends like these, who needs therapists?
Licensees and social media--clients and patients are getting the message. Even when they maybe shouldn't be. Read more.
A treasure trove of data
Kim Boland-Prom's detailed exploration of sanction records of over 2,700 social workers nationwide has uncovered a wealth of information that could help boards. Read more.
Stop horsing around (just for awhile)
ASWB's spring meeting location has a lot more to offer beyond horses, so start exploring Lexington by taking a look at ASWB's list of official offbeat, offtrack, off-hours offerings. Read more.
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The first ASWB New Board Member Training offering of the year, held in March near DC, drew 19 attendees from 15 jurisdictions. Pictured here are, front row from left: Denise Capaci (MD), Kim Spencer (NH), Lynn Labrecque King (AB), Angela Sanders (AR), Cheryl Reynolds (KS), Barbara Burks (KS), Judy Haspel (LA), and Clara Tarjan (NB); in back, from left: Spencer Blalock (MS), Sharon DeBerry (MS), Michael Gilman (VT), Nary Spears (TX), Doris Darvasi (BC), Henk Van Dooren (ON), Gary Gray (AR), Jen Syzdek (AK), Sophia Ruddock (ON), Pam Manela (MI), and David MacIver (NS).
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| Opinion: E learning--time for boards to face reality
Boards need to acknowledge the effectiveness of online learning, and stop putting so much stock in the lecture model. Read more.
 When you can write your name in the pollen that has settled on your car's windshield, you know it's time for the ASWB Finance Committee to return to Culpeper. And that's just what happened in early April, when the committee met to review the association's financial operations and policies. Pictured, from left, are members Mary Macomber (FL), Sharon Steuwe (KS), ASWB Past President Amanda Randall (NE), ASWB Treasurer Carole Bryant (SK), and John McBride (LA).
Can you hear us now?
Not even halfway into the year, and ASWB staff and volunteers have already logged miles, schlepped boxes, boothed booths, and presented presentations in an effort to educate the social work community on licensure and the examinations. Read more.
 ASWB has become a regular feature at the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors (BPD) conference. At the most recent conference, ASWB Secretary Jenise Comer, left, and Executive Director Donna DeAngelis, third from left, got a chance to catch up with former Ohio board member-now-current Minnesota board member Christine Black-Hughes, second from left. With them is Mankato graduate Tristann Carter, at right. ASWB staff and former Examination Committee chair Steve Marson also presented at the conference.
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