How do you feel about social work licensure?

Are you concerned about managed care?

Worried about reimbursement of Social Work Services?

Take a Few Moments to Tell Us What You Think!
2009 NASW-NYS Advocacy Survey

This is your opportunity to inform NASW-NYS about what issues relating to the profession and those we serve are most important to you.  Results of this survey are provided to the Chapter’s Advocacy & Government Relations Committee, which is comprised of members representing all of our Divisions. The Committee uses this and other information to assist them in developing a proposed legislative agenda and legislative priorities that will guide our advocacy activities throughout the coming year.

2 Lucky Winners Will Receive
A Certificate for $25 Off the Registration to a
Statewide NASW-NYS Event
(Annual Conference or Training Institute)
Each survey respondent will be entered (one time) into our prize drawing (Must provide name and contact information-phone number and/or e-mail address for prize notification).
Prize Drawing:  August 15, 2009

1. Please Number the Following Professional Issues in Order of Importance.
(Use numbers 1 through 6 each once, with 1 being most important)

Compensation such as reimbursement rates for social workers, salary, and benefits.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:

Title Protection such as legal protection for the title ‘social worker.’
List some of these issues that matter most to you:

Professional Image such as public image media and legislative campaigns, social worker license plates, licensee badge and parchment display requirements, etc.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:
Consumer Protection such as mandatory ethics and other continuing education courses, maintaining evidence-based practice standards.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:

Preserving/Expanding Scope of Practice such as developing the role of social work with different populations and institutions/agencies.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:
Social Work Higher Education Standards such as maintaining quality of future workforce, promoting curricula relevant to contemporary needs.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:
 
2. Please Number the Following Areas in Order of Importance.
(Use numbers 1 through 6 each once, with 1 being most important)
Economic Security such as welfare grant, childcare funding, promoting a living wage, other economic entitlement programs, etc.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:
Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse such as universal health care, institutional and community-based services for mental illness, mental health parity, treatment access, etc.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:
Children and Family Issues such as Universal PreK, full funding for the education of all NYS children, quality and affordable childcare, foster care and adoption reform, etc.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:
Aging Issues such as adult home reform, enhancing community-based care models, Single Point of Access for aging services, enhancing protections for vulnerable adults, etc.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:
Human and Civil Rights such as abolition of the death penalty, LGBT rights, the Dignity for All Students Act, and measures to combat discrimination by institutions and individuals in New York.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:

Women’s Issues such as protection of reproductive rights, and gender pay & education equity.
List some of these issues that matter most to you:
   

3.

Are there any other specific social policy or professional issues that are important to you? Please write them below.

 
4. How knowledgeable, would you say you are personally of NY State social work licensure laws regulating practice and supervision of social work services? Indicate your level of awareness from 1-5, 1 being totally aware and 5 being completely unaware:
 
1      2      3      4      5   
Don't know/not applicable


5. Using the same scale, how knowledgeable would you say, is your workplace on social work licensure and supervision laws and regulations?
 
1      2      3      4      5   
Don't know/not applicable

6.

Do you think that current social work licensing laws/standards should be changed? Yes    No   Don't Know

6a. IF YES TO ABOVE: What do you think should be different?

7. Did you respond to the NASW-NYS Advocacy Survey last year (2008)? Yes    No
   
   

DEMOGRAPHIC INFORMATION

NASW Membership Status: 
If Member, Division:

Social Work Degree(indicate all):  
Social Work Student   BSW   MSW   PhD/DSW
Select the one setting in which you currently work the most:


If Other, Please Describe:

Select the task that you perform the most:


If Other, Please Describe:

 

OPTIONAL Contact Information (Required for Entry in Prize Drawing):

Name:
Address:
Primary Phone:
Email:
 
 



     
   
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