NASW-FL - Supporting Professional Social Work

COMMITTEE ON AGING
Provides leadership, training, research and advocacy regarding aging issues in Florida and gerontological social work practice.

COMMITTEE ON GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ISSUES
Advocates for the civil rights of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgendered persons, seeks to recognize and meet the specialized needs of these populations in treatment, and seeks to identify the needs of social workers in these groups.

COMMITTEE ON ETHICS
Monitors membership compliance with the NASW Code of Ethics, reviews and provides hearings for consumer complaints against members.

CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE COMMITTEE
Advocates and does program planning for clinical social workers especially in the area of private practice, managed care and mental health.

COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS AND LEADERSHIP IDENTIFICATION (CONLI)
Works to identify and recognize leaders in the profession: collects nominations for NASW elected positions and annual social work awards.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Plans the NASW-FL annual conference: selects hotels, presenters, events, and activities.

DIVERSITY COMMITTEE
Seeks to enhance ethnic and gender diversity in the state of Florida and in NASW-FL membership.

FINANCE/PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
Prepares the annual NASW budget and monitors chapter expenditures and income and reviews chapter personnel policies and monitors staff evaluations and needs.

LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
Identifies and pursues legislative priorities of NASW, coordinates grassroots legislative activity of NASW members.

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Strives to promote NASW membership and involvement to social work professionals and students, seeks to increase diversity of membership.

POLITCAL ACTION FOR CANDIDATE ENDORSEMENT (PACE)
Works to identify, endorse, and elect candidates for Florida office that will promote the legislative ideals of NASW.

FLORIDA IMAGE TEAM (FIT)
Strives to enhance the social work profession and the public image of social work.

DELEGATE ASSEMBLY
Members elected to represent FL-NASW at the 2002 National Delegate Assembly

COMMITTEE ON DISABILITY AND PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
To serve as an advisory body and provider of resources and education on matters pertaining to disability and persons with disabilities to the Executive Board, committees and members-at-large of NASW, as well as society at large.

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL WORK TASK FORCE
Provides support for social work service projects in foreign countries and disseminates information on international social work issues to Florida membership.

DISASTER RELIEF TASK FORCE
Formed in 2004 - works to involve professional social workers in disaster relief.

DISASTER RELIEF TASK FORCE

Mission Statement:
To involve professional social workers in disaster relief.

Hurricane season is fast approaching and the Disaster Relief Task Force still has much work to do in meeting the goals that was set out for it.

The Disaster Relief Task Force was created a little over a year ago in an effort to:

1. Establish and maintain a disaster relief database
2. Facilitate disaster-related educational opportunities
3. Link professional social workers with disaster relief programs.

Since the origin of this task force, there has been some constructive work towards these goals.

Last year, we held the disaster relief summit where we ironed out what was expected from the task force, what the role of the task force would be, and how to get people involved.

In addition, we have engaged in additional discussions with American Red Cross (with whom NASW has a national partnership with) and have promoted some trainings throughout the state.

But, there is much to do still. In previous newsletters, we had a survey for those interested to complete, this survey is again being printed here to offer opportunities for involvement. The purpose of this survey is to gather information on social workers throughout the state of Florida who have the training, or are interested in receiving the training, to be called into action in case of an emergency. If you are interested in being more involved with the disaster relief task force, please complete this survey and then fax or mail it to NASW Florida Chapter office.

We are also in need of volunteers to serve as regional coordinators. If you are interested, please send an email to jim@naswfl.org.

In the upcoming state conference, we will be further discussing the role of the disaster task force. I hope you will be there to network and to build our plans for an effective disaster relief team. If you would like to discuss this committee further, please email me at kat_land@bellsouth.net.