Benefits of Membership
Connect with your colleagues, contribute to the profession, and strengthen your clinical work.
For more information about the NYSSCSW please contact the State Membership Chairperson, Richard Joelson at [email protected] or 212-369-1239.
NYSSCSW offers the following membership benefits:
Strengthening Professional Identity
- Promotes clinical social workers as providers of mental health services
- Provides educational opportunities
- Provides opportunities to teach and present papers
- Develops programs in response to member needs
- Provides a professional community
Promoting Professional Education
- Provides educational programs
- Provides arena for peer consultation
- Provides arena for sharing clinical skills
- Provides guidance in practice development
Advocating for Clinical Social Work
- Retains a NYS lobbyist
- Builds and participates in coalitions around key mental health issues
- Prepares position papers on key health care issues
- Advocates for utilization of clinical social work services in mental health settings
- Informs members about legislation and regulations which impact clinical practice
Building Professional Contacts
- Provides arena for meeting clinical social workers from diverse settings
- Provides mentoring for new clinicians
- Provides opportunities to build referral base among colleagues
- Provides arena for peer consultation
Networking with Colleagues via Email (Listserv)
- Offers opportunity to make and receive clinical referrals
- Shares professional resources
- Provides a forum for professional news, events, and clinical issues
- Offers a place to post upcoming conferences, clinical presentations, and meetings
- Lists social work job opportunities
- Discusses practical and treatment issues
- Addresses managed care and other insurance issues
The Society welcomes MSW students, recent MSW graduates who are interested in clinical social work, and clinical social workers from all settings.
Connect--Participate--Grow
Please note that our contact information has changed since this brochure was printed. It is now:
New York State Society for Clinical Social Work, Inc. 243 Fifth Avenue, Suite 324 New York, NY 10016-8703 Tel: (800) 288-4279; Fax: (718) 785-9582 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nysscsw.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/NYSSCSW/info
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