Presented in partnership between NASW-CO and CSCSW. Visit the CSCSW Website for more information and to register. Free for NASW-CO and CSCSW Members. $30 for Non-Members.

The Chapter's Diversity and Anti-Racism Committee meets on select Fridays at noon. This Committee is open to ALL!!! Please join us! For more information and for questions about the virtual format (see below), please contact Dr. Amanda Marsh Baranski, NASW-CO Vice President and Diversity Committee Chair at amarsh29@msudenver.edu. 

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Legislative Committee meets on the first Wednesday of the month from August to December (we generally break for June and July). During the Legislative Session, January to May, the Committee also meets on the third Wednesday of the month. Meetings are held from 12 pm to 1:30 pm. Meetings are held remotely.

For more information, please contact Sarah Lincoln, Legislative Committee chair at sarahlinco@comcast.net.

Register: https://www.msudenver.edu/socialwork/specialevents/12thannualpalliativecaresocialworkconference/

12th Annual Palliative Care Social Work Conference: "Re-Imagining Palliative Care: Interprofessional Practice for Better Outcomes"

Friday, April 23rd, 2021

This year, hosted virtually, by Metropolitan State University of Denver, Department of Social Work

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 the month (except summer, November, & December) for mutual support to discuss setting up and maintaining your private practice. Pre-contemplative, new, and seasoned private practice social workers are welcome. NASW Members only. Please contact hmclaughlin.naswco@socialworkers.org to get in touch with the Committee Chairs and for the virtual meeting information. 

Location: Virtual meetings till further notice-contact NASWCO for link

Legislative Committee meets on the first Wednesday of the month from August to December (we generally break for June and July). During the Legislative Session, January to May, the Committee also meets on the third Wednesday of the month. Meetings are held from 12 pm to 1:30 pm. Meetings are being held virtually.
For more information, please contact Sarah Lincoln, Legislative Committee chair at sarahlinco@comcast.net.

The Practice Standards Committee will be meeting virtually. Please contact committee chair, Elizabeth Schulte for more information.

The Practice Standards Committee meets monthly and we welcome all members. To confirm a meeting date check the Community Calendar or contact the Chapter office.

The Committee has a consultative process that handles questions from members. This process guides members in the ethical decision-making process, but does not provide supervision or give legal advice. The Committee will accept questions/issues that have an impact on social work practice. You are invited to attend a meeting in person or by phone to bring the question/issue for discussion. Please contact the office to request the issue be added to a meeting agenda.

Legislative Committee meets on the first Wednesday of the month from August to December (we generally break for June and July). During the Legislative Session, January to May, the Committee also meets on the third Wednesday of the month. Meetings are held from 12 pm to 1:30 pm. Meetings are held remotely.

For more information, please contact Sarah Lincoln, Legislative Committee chair at sarahlinco@comcast.net.

Presented by University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Social Work Program. UCCS Social Work Program is an NASW-CO Approved CE Provider.

Date: Friday, May 21^st, 9am-11am

Registration URL: : https://www.cvent.com/d/j7qh23

Description: In this 2 hour virtual workshop, provided with thanks to the Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative at the UCCS College of Business, participants will examine the high-risk nature of clinical practice in 2020. Guest speaker, Deborah Henson, LCSW, JD, LLM, will present vital information for participants’ ethical responses in this litigious day and age, including developing ethical, self-protective strategies to avoid high-risk cases turning into the nightmare cases! Presented by a seasoned clinician, who has a firm belief in protecting clients and guarding confidentiality, this training will offer practical approaches fashioned to protect the therapeutic relationship and the client and therapist from bullying, harassing legal activity.

Participants will have the opportunity to discuss case examples, as well as the presenter’s own work defending clinicians in Colorado and Louisiana who have faced legal and ethical dilemmas in their clinical practices. This engaging training will explore numerous cases furnished by parti

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 the month (except summer, November, & December) for mutual support to discuss setting up and maintaining your private practice. Pre-contemplative, new, and seasoned private practice social workers are welcome. NASW Members only. Please contact hmclaughlin.naswco@socialworkers.org to get in touch with the Committee Chairs and for the virtual meeting information. 

Location: Virtual meetings till further notice-contact NASWCO for link