Your NASW Membership
Benefits & Special Offers
As a social worker, you face difficult challenges every day. You work hard to improve the lives of your clients and help them confront and resolve their personal dilemmas and cope with loss and change. You are a skilled professional who helps people help themselves by providing useful information and a wide range of resources available for those in need. This requires access to cutting-edge ideas, current information, and high-quality resources to be familiar with all of the available resources for your clients. Your NASW membership entitles you to a wide variety of benefits and special offers that range from business services that save you time and money to publications and programs that can help advance your career.
§ Insurance Protection
o The NASW Insurance Trust, an affiliate of the National Association of Social Workers, gives members access to valuable member benefits...
§ Professional Development
o Professional Credentials and Specialty Certifications
o Special Practice Sections
o Continuing Education
§ Advancing the Profession
o Code of Ethics
o Professional Review
o Standards
§ National and State Chapter Membership
o Join now. If you are in the DC Metropolitan Area, Request “DC Metro Chapter” on the Chapter Preference line and call Richard Nash at 202.336.8395 to CHAPTER LOCK your membership!
§ Leading Edge Information
o NASW News
o NASW DC Metro Chapter NewsReport (5 times a year)
o Additional Journals
§ Legislative Advocacy and PACE
o NASW is instrumental in assuring that the social work perspective is incorporated into pending legislation before Congress and in state legislatures
§ Financial Marketplace
o National Association of Social Workers Platinum Plus® Credit Card, now with WorldPointssm
o The National Association of Social Workers, with Bank of America , has a program to help ensure your success - the NASW Platinum Plus® for Business MasterCard® credit card!
§ Rental Car Discounts
o To receive rental car discounts from Budget, Alamo, National, Hertz, or Avis go to *Member Discounts and Benefits from NASW Partners and contact your preferred agency with the appropriate discount code.
§ Hotel Discounts
o Members receive 15% discount at participating Clarion, Quality, Comfort Suites, Comfort Inn, Sleep Inn, MainStay Suites, Econo Lodge, and Rodeway Inn hotels world wide
- Additional Benefits
- Members receive a 10% discount off Therapist Helper, a top-selling practice management product from Brand Software, a division of VantageMed Corporation. Members of the NASW Private Practice Section receive a 20% discount. Call 1-800-343-5737 or access Therapist Helper online at www.helper.com.
- Unlimited access to NASW’s toll-free information service, providing answers to practice and membership questions. Simply call 1-800-638-8799.
- Volunteer, leadership, and networking opportunities at the state and national levels on NASW board committees and task forces.
- Advocacy listserv for legislative alerts and Congress Web for contacting Congress.
- Discount on Pennywise office supplies. Click here for more information.
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