Strengthening Professional Identity

• Promotes clinical social workers as providers of mental health services
• 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 healthcare issues
• Advocates for utilization of clinical social work services in mental health  settings
• Informs members about legislation and regulations that 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