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Association of
Social Work Boards

Volume 22, no. 3
May/June 2012

Association business

 


The Board of Directors met in Lexington, KY, on April 26. Here's what happened.

It's time to nominate board and staff heroes for the association's annual awards. To honor someone for the Sunny Andrews Award or the Administrator award, look here.

Regular features

NJ has amendments for CE and TX has new rules.  Regulatory Happenings.

 

Speaking of licensure... Counsel's Column.  

 

Executive director explains what's going on. From the staff.

 

Get to know a board. This issue: Delaware

 

Mint juleps and "My Old Kentucky Home" in the land of horseracing and hats. Asides

Bonus! Spring meeting slideshow. 

 

Regulation and testing in the news

 

International: Wales may be extending its social work regulation.

National Association of Social Workers celebrates support of same sex marriage.

While everyone's thinking about social media; not only social work regulators think it should be better controlled.

OR: Executive Director Martin Pittioni gave a Powerpoint presentation at Portland State University. To borrow ideas, maybe?

CA: Effective July 1, 2012, the Board of Behavioral Sciences will be required to deny an application for licensure and to suspend the license/certificate/registration of any applicant or licensee who has outstanding tax obligations (but only if the person is on a list of top delinquencies "over $100,000".
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Executive Director Donna DeAngelis announces retirement 

It's been almost 18 years since DeAngelis took the helm, and many, many changes in the association. Read more.  

 

President Pat Heard signs the memorandum of understanding for cooperation with the Korean Association of Social Workers. With her for the event at the April Board of Directors meeting in Lexington, KY, are Secretary Jenise Comer, left, and Executive Director Donna DeAngelis, right. DeAngelis spoke in January in Seoul, Korea, resulting in the invitation from the association. Read more about the memorandum in the Board of Directors report. 

Dr. Rick Reamer at spring meeting: What Facebook?

The last time he spoke to the association was 2000. What a difference a decade makes. Read more.

 

The 2012 Nominating Committee met in Lexington to plan out the year's work. From left are Melinda Pilkinton (MS), Bob Johnson (AB), Ronnie Saunders III (IN) and Past President Amanda Randall (NE).

 

This is the year to choose the next ASWB president.

The Nominating Committee wants to hear from you. Read more.

 

This beautiful Key West sunset photo was taken by Leslie McCarl (PA), one of this year's exam committee co-chairs. As a reward for working hard and incessantly, the committee met in Key West, its one travel meeting of the year.

From the 2012 Spring Meeting 
Help from friends welcome in the e-world
Some boards are ahead of others in moving into scary territory--the court cases are no doubt on the way. Read more.

Okay, so what's good about the new communication? 
Social media has its uses, plus it's there if you want to tell people you just ducked into a bathroom. Read more
 
Here's what happens if boards don't report to the PPD 
And you don't want this kind of thing. Read more.

Strictly legal 
All this technology comes with legal issues. Read more

They really, really liked the spring meeting 
But anxiety was mentioned prominently in the evaluations. Read more. 
 

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