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Recent immigrants to Colorado face significant challenges when accessing healthcare, including navigating complex systems, understanding shifting policy landscapes, and overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers. These challenges often result in care fragmentation, reduced access and poor health outcomes.

This ECHO series is designed to equip healthcare providers and care coordinators with practical knowledge and strategies to address these gaps through policy awareness, system navigation, culturally responsive communication and attention to social determinants of health. This series features peer-to-peer discussions and expert presentations focused on the newcomer care landscape in Colorado. By the end of the series, attendees will be better prepared to provide comprehensive, equitable care to Colorado’s newcomers.

AUDIENCE: Medical providers, care coordinators, mental health and public health professionals who work closely with newcomers in Colorado

SCHEDULE: Three monthly ECHO sessions held virtually Tuesdays 12:00 - 1:00 PM MT - March 17 | April 14 | May 12

TOPICS

• Policy and Practice in Newcomer Health
• Newcomer Healthcare Systems
• Patient Experiences in Newcomer Health

Virtual via Zoom on the 4th Thursday of each month!

This committee aims to organize social workers at all stages of their learning and career across the state of Colorado to dismantle barriers to resources and opportunities in society so that all individuals and communities can live full and dignified lives through direct and collective action.

The committee is group-led and encourages brave conversations to guide our goals. We are looking for members who can dedicate time each month to identify issues in the social work field and work toward outlining goals and strategies to address these issues. If you want to work towards rooting anti-oppression and anti-racist work in your practice and create change at the state level, please join us!

Pre-registration is not required & ALL (members & non-members) are welcome in this space.

The Private Practice Group focuses on the business management and administrative aspects of developing and operating a privately owned clinical social work practice. The group's goal is to provide tips, guidance, professional resources, collegial support, and positive encouragement surrounding the successes and challenges of starting and owning your own practice. The group meets on the 4th Saturday of each month from 9:30am-11am via Zoom (except in June, July, November and December, when the committee does not meet) and sometimes hosts external speakers on a variety of educational topics including insurance, billing, fee setting, marketing, legal business organization, and bookkeeping, as well as providing mutual support amongst group members to discuss setting up and maintaining your private practice. Pre-contemplative, new, and seasoned private practice social workers are welcome. This group is only for NASW Members (membership is required to participate). 

If you are an active NASW Member and would like to join the email distribution list for this committee contact the Chapter Office with your request.

Clinical Supervision for Licensure 101 - Live Virtual Training (6 CE Credits)

Dates:  Tuesday, April 28th (1:30pm-4:45pm) & Thursday, April 30th (9am-12:15pm) - You must attend both dates to receive CEU credit.

This training builds on graduate-level social work skills and provides clinical supervisors with new tools to become more versatile in their roles. It is ideal for those interested in becoming clinical supervisors, or those who are new to clinical supervision. This is open to ALL mental health providers, not just MSWs, LCSWs, however the content is most specific to LCSWs.

The training addresses:

• Supervisory roles and functions
• Leadership and Concepts for Further Learning
• Common Challenges to Prepare for in Clinical Supervision
• Strategies for Clinical Supervision and Best Practices for Individual and Group Supervision
• Models of Effective Supervision and Ethical Implications
• Colorado State Regulatory (DORA) Requirements

Cost: NASW Members: $120; Non-Members: $240

Register here today: https://bit.ly/Apr2026ClinicalSup

Clinical Supervision for Licensure 101 - Live Virtual Training (6 CE Credits)

Dates:  Tuesday, April 28th (1:30pm-4:45pm) & Thursday, April 30th (9am-12:15pm) - You must attend both dates to receive CEU credit.

This training builds on graduate-level social work skills and provides clinical supervisors with new tools to become more versatile in their roles. It is ideal for those interested in becoming clinical supervisors, or those who are new to clinical supervision. This is open to ALL mental health providers, not just MSWs, LCSWs, however the content is most specific to LCSWs.

The training addresses:

• Supervisory roles and functions
• Leadership and Concepts for Further Learning
• Common Challenges to Prepare for in Clinical Supervision
• Strategies for Clinical Supervision and Best Practices for Individual and Group Supervision
• Models of Effective Supervision and Ethical Implications
• Colorado State Regulatory (DORA) Requirements

Cost: NASW Members: $120; Non-Members: $240

Register here today: https://bit.ly/Apr2026ClinicalSup

The Legislative Committee reviews policy issues that deserve the attention of legislators and other officials, and develops a set of legislative priorities for the Chapter on an annual basis. Depending on the issues and opportunities at hand, members may provide testimony to legislative committees, help to draft proposed legislation, or monitor current bills and outcomes for the chapter.

Members are encouraged to join our Legislative Committee meetings. During the legislative season (January to May) the Committee meets the first and third Wednesdays from Noon - 1pm virtually via Zoom (all meetings are currently virtual due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic). Outside of the legislative season the Committee generally meets 1x/month (on the 3rd Wednesday of each month from noon-1pm via Zoom) in the Fall from August-December in order to prepare for the upcoming Legislative Session.

Location: Virtual via Zoom

The purpose of the Committee on Practice Standards is to examine areas of all social work practice and develop guidelines of ethical conduct. This committee does not function in lieu of the NASW-CO Ethics Committee, but rather in addition to such a committee. The Committee on Practice Standards focuses on areas in which standards of practice have not been developed, as well as areas where questions may have come forth regarding unclear interpretations of existing standards. The committee may issue advisory opinions regarding the practice of social work.

Register Here: bit.ly/4roBVTu

Recent immigrants to Colorado face significant challenges when accessing healthcare, including navigating complex systems, understanding shifting policy landscapes, and overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers. These challenges often result in care fragmentation, reduced access and poor health outcomes.

This ECHO series is designed to equip healthcare providers and care coordinators with practical knowledge and strategies to address these gaps through policy awareness, system navigation, culturally responsive communication and attention to social determinants of health. This series features peer-to-peer discussions and expert presentations focused on the newcomer care landscape in Colorado. By the end of the series, attendees will be better prepared to provide comprehensive, equitable care to Colorado’s newcomers.

AUDIENCE: Medical providers, care coordinators, mental health and public health professionals who work closely with newcomers in Colorado

SCHEDULE: Three monthly ECHO sessions held virtually Tuesdays 12:00 - 1:00 PM MT - March 17 | April 14 | May 12

TOPICS

• Policy and Practice in Newcomer Health
• Newcomer Healthcare Systems
• Patient Experiences in Newcomer Health

These office hours are open to ALL, but REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED - REGISTER HERE NOW!

The NASW Colorado Chapter hosts virtual office hours with Executive Director Leanne Rupp, MSW, LCSW and NASW-CO Board President Dr. Amanda Marsh Baranski, LCSW every 2nd Thursday of the month, from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm MT. This is a wonderful opportunity for social workers across the state to connect with the Chapter, stay updated on the latest news and developments, ask questions, and share their thoughts and concerns. These monthly office hours are FREE TO ATTEND & OPEN TO ALL. Registration is required. 

The Private Practice Group focuses on the business management and administrative aspects of developing and operating a privately owned clinical social work practice. The group's goal is to provide tips, guidance, professional resources, collegial support, and positive encouragement surrounding the successes and challenges of starting and owning your own practice. The group meets on the 4th Saturday of each month from 9:30am-11am via Zoom (except in June, July, November and December, when the committee does not meet) and sometimes hosts external speakers on a variety of educational topics including insurance, billing, fee setting, marketing, legal business organization, and bookkeeping, as well as providing mutual support amongst group members to discuss setting up and maintaining your private practice. Pre-contemplative, new, and seasoned private practice social workers are welcome. This group is only for NASW Members (membership is required to participate). 

If you are an active NASW Member and would like to join the email distribution list for this committee contact the Chapter Office with your request.