IN PERSON CE Event!

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Regulating Racial Reactivity and Defensiveness in Work with Youth and Families

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Catholic University

Presenter: Kenneth V. Hardy, PhD  
Saturday, October 25, 2025 | 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Cost: $45 Retiree/Graduate/Student | $75 Member | $120 Nonmember (Please make sure you are logged in to get the correct member pricing)

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NOTE: GWSCSW has applied with the National Board for Certified Counselors to be an authorized sponsor of Continuing Education for licensed counselors.

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Legislative Town Hall-Connecting Clinical Practice with Recent Legislation
Online ZOOM
Sunday, June 29, 2025 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM 
Cost:  EVENT IS FREE FOR MEMBERS - COST FOR CEUs IS $15 (Please make sure you are logged in to get the correct member pricing)

After you Register Online for GWSCSW Events -- you will have the option of paying by credit card or sending in a check.  If you send a check your profile will be updated when the check is received.  All checks can be mailed to:  PO Box 711 | Garrisonville, VA  22463

Category 1 - 1 CEU

Please join our fabulous lobbyists-Christine Krone, Mark Smith and Guy Rohling-for an hour long update on June 29^th at 11 am. We will hear what has been going on for the past 6 months regarding social work with the legislatures from DC, Maryland and Virginia. Laura Groshong from the Clinical Social Work Association (CSWA) will also join to give us an update on national issues, including the Interstate Compact. There will also be time for your questions!

This event is free to membership, but you must register to join. I look forward to seeing you there!

Judy Gallant, LCSW-C  
Director, GWSCSW Legislation and Advocacy

 

https://www.gwscsw.org/event-6153739

https://www.gwscsw.org/Behavior-and-Conduct-Guidelines

All GWSCSW CEU events are designed to be professional, ethical, safe spaces to further learning, skill-building and discussion about topics of interest within the field of clinical social work. To that end, we request that both participants and presenters take responsibility to cultivate an environment where optimal learning takes place, by:

1. Encouraging ethical, diverse, and inclusive conversation that represents the culture of clinical social work.
2. Embracing differences, promoting honest and curious discussions, responding with questions rather than ultimatums and keeping a collegial and open mind to further understanding.  
3. Behaving with respect: Not using disparaging terms, verbal insults, bullying statements, offensive racist, hateful, homophobic or sexist language, or any forms of harassment.   

5 Social Work Trends for 2025: What They Mean for the Profession

https://online.marymount.edu/blog/5-social-work-trends-2025

https://djph.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/djph-101-05.pdf

Social Work Compact implementation timeline

SW-Commission-Timeline.pdf

Town Hall: Keeping Ourselves Centered

Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 5:30-7:30 PM Eastern Time on Zoom

CSWA is offering another opportunity for members to connect! Staying centered personally and professionally is an important part of being a Clinical Social Worker, and CSWA is happy to offer this member benefit that supports both the clinician and the social work profession. This free and confidential event is moderated by CSWA's Director of Policy and Practice, Laura Groshong, LISCW. Information about returning to our offices, insurance coverage, self-care, the ASWB report, telemental health, the progress of the Compact, as well as whatever participants want to discuss, will be on our agenda. The more we can help each other, the more we can help our patients. This event will not be recorded.

https://www.clinicalsocialworkassociation.org/event-6160501

Legislative Alert: 2024 Mental Health Parity Rule Rescinded

May 20, 2025

A week ago, the Trump Administration announced its intention to stop the passage of the 2024 Mental Health Parity Rule that would have made the 2008 Mental Health Parity and Addiction Parity Act (MHPAEA) enforcement much stronger. As most CSWA members are aware, the implementation of this 16-year-old law has been a challenge [laws are the beginning of the legislative process which are implemented by rules]. The constant problems LCSWs have dealing with prior authorizations, network adequacy, reimbursement rates, timely reimbursement of claims, and more would have been largely resolved in the 2024 rule proposed by the Biden Administration. (View the proposed rule at https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/09/23/2024-20612/requirements-related-to-the-mental-health-parity-and-addiction-equity-act.)

Also about a week ago, the Trump Administration stopped putting new rules out for public comment, making it difficult for CSWA and other organizations to have a voice in the development of new rules. This is a major attack on the democratic process which allows the public to have a voice in the implementation of our laws.

One way we CAN affect rules is by contacting our members of Congress to ask that they informally influence the administration and agencies that carry out the proposed rule. An excellent summary of the dangers of eliminating the proposed rule can be found at KFF by visiting https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-biden-mental-health-parity-insurance-law-coverage-deadline/. These helpful materials can be used to develop a bill in Congress to implement this rule. Even though the current administration has announced that they are unwilling to implement any of the 2024 proposed rule, we can let our members of Congress know that we as constituents want them to push back on this attempt to allow insurers to continue practices that hurt LCSWs and our patients.

Here is a template for that you can use to send a message to your members of Congress at https://www.congress.gov/contact-us: “I am a licensed clinical social worker, a constituent, and a member of the Clinical Social Work Association. I am writing to ask you to oppose the intent of the Trump Administration to stop the 2024 Rule for the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Parity Act. For 16 years this Act has languished because passing meaningful rules has been opposed by insurers and the corporations that have become the groups that control our health care system. Please give our citizens the access to the mental health and addiction services they need by pushing for the passage of the 2024 MHPAEA Rule.”

As always, please let me know when you have sent your messages.

Laura Groshong, LICSW, CSWA Director of Policy and Practice

lwgroshong@clinicalsocialworkassociation.org

Affiliated society members: If you are receiving this communication from your state society but did not also receive it directly from CSWA then you are not an active CSWA member. Membership in a state society does not equate to membership in CSWA. Membership in both organizations is highly recommended. Please consider joining CSWA today - your support is instrumental in maintaining CSWA's ability to work nationally on your behalf and on behalf of the field of clinical social work. Please visit our membership information and registration page for additional information.

Clinical Social Work Association
The National Voice for Clinical Social Work

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