Board Positions
Responsible for tracking attendance at board meetings, serves on the Executive Committee, taking minutes, tracking board reports, and uploading to Mobilze.
What is the Secretary?
With a quiet and strong leadership style, led efforts with board reports, and is highly passionate about youth and racial equality.
Who is Derrik Anderson?
The number of Chapters in the US and its territories.
What is 55?
Current number of committees?
What is 8?
Volunteer based, holds free/ low-cost CEUs, serves as the local and most direct connection for NASW NC, offers networking opportunities and support, and there are 15 across the state.
What are Local Program Units?
Responsible to collaborate with the LPUs and Schools of Social Work in addition to serving as an ambassador to NASW and attending conferences and board meetings
What is a District Representative?
Previous NASW NC president, NASW Delegate, and 2019 Social worker of the year?
Who is Jessica Holton?
The number of NASW members, which reflects the largest membership organization of professional social workers in the world.
What is 117,000?
Mandated by the National office, provides free consultation to members on ethical concerns
What is the Ethics Committee?
The number of membership districts of NASW-NC.
What is 7?
Provides a fiscal report at the board meeting, leads any fiscal discussions, serves as the primary liaison between the Chapter board and the Executive Director on financial matters, and ensures adherence to required financial policies and practices.
What is the Second Vice President?
The NASW-NC Award for an outstanding BSW graduate in the state was established in memory of this much-recognized educator and practitioner.
Who is Toby Brown?
To strengthen and unify the profession by promoting the development of Social Workers to advance social justice and social welfare.
What is the mission of NASW?
In existence for 30 years, structured by laws and policies, recommends candidate endorsements, funding for endorsed candidates and three levels of organizing for candidates races.
What is the NC Political Action for Candidate Election NC PACE?
Some of the 17 examples include Aging, Clinical, GLBTQ, Men's, Military, School SW.
What are Practice Area Networks?
Takes a lead role with the NASW NC Student Liaison Program, represents BSWs and MSWs during board meetings, and speaks to student groups about NASW membership, benefits, and activities.
What is Undergraduate and Graduate Student Representatives?
Ethics expert and Committee chair, providing presentations and newsletter articles.
Who is Ravita T. Omabu Okafor?
The national office, that is incorporated with the state offices is located here.
What is Washington DC?
Recommends actions to be taken on legislative issues and assists with developing the NASW-NC Legislative Agenda. Assist with plans for lobby days, legislative conferences and legislative fund raising, and in reviewing and commenting on proposed legislation. Selects the Myrna Miller Wellons Advocacy Award winner annually.
What is the Legislative Committee?
A world where Social Workers are empowered and enabled to see those most vulnerable and social justice and social welfare are the norms.
What is NASW NC vision?
Promotes the social work profession, attends all board meetings, attends a chapter conference and LPU, assist with NASW NC award funds, and follows the chapter on social media to promote the NASW NC reach.
What is the responsibilities of all board members?
Experience with diversion efforts for individuals with opioid use disorders, presented in statewide conferences, and quoted in the National NASW newsletter about this incredible work.
Who is Amanda Flory?
The trade/professional membership association designation which offers professional expense deductions, allow a lobbyist, PAC and endorsement of candidates?
What is the 501-C-6?
Recruits and vets NASW members who wish to run for the board, makes reasonable efforts to select two or more candidates (double slate) for each board position.
What is the Committee for Nominations and Leadership Identification (CNLI)?
The goal of this biennial event is to further social workers’ knowledge about policy issues in substantive areas of social work practice, teach participants about legislative advocacy, and provide an opportunity for social workers to educate their legislators about the social work profession and important client issues.
What is Advocacy Day?