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The National Association of Social Workers, Rhode Island Chapter was founded in 1963, eight years after the national organization was formed. The chapter now boasts around 1100 members who work in just about every facet of human services in Rhode Island.

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National Association of Social Workers

Rhode Island Chapter

Last Update

8/14/08

Click Here for Many More Testimonies and

Policy Statements.

2. Cost of the Iraq War:

How Would You Spend It?

3. Read or download:

"Three Billy Goat's Gruff or How Rhode Island Got it's Structural

Deficit" Click Here.

4. "Rhode Island’s Hidden Budget:

A Game of Hide and Seek". Click Here

1. Sample letter to legislators against Budget Cuts: by Deborah Siegel, Ph.D. .

7. Testimony on H-7549 - Governor's Powers.

6. Testimony on Budget Articles 16 & 17: Welfare & Medicaid.

5. Letter written as:

Chair of the Rhode Island Mental Health Coalition Against S-2529.

8. Tesitmony on Emergency Contraceptives.

Important News

New Rhode Island Social Work Regulations are in effect NOW.

Click here for Rules & Regulations

as well as other laws pertaining to Social Workers.

9. Testimony for RI Growth and Economic Bill

2008 NASW - RI Legislative Agenda. Click Here.

Managed Care Directory for Clinical Social Workers in Private Practice. Click Here

NASW - RI has provided minimal to extensive lobbying on 588 pieces of legislation. For Office Secretary of State Lobby Report. Click Here.

Opinion Letter "Rhode Island and Hope Lost" by Rick Harris, LICSW, Executive Director, regarding 2009 RI State budget passed by the RI General Assembly. Published in the Newport News (6/26/08) and submited to numerous printed media outlets. Ckick Here

2008 Medicare Bonus Incentive Program for Clinical Social Workers http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/clinical/2008/csw063008.asp.

The Chapter office will be closed from

August 18 -

August 22, 2008