Welcome to the New York State Society for Clinical Social Work
Connect with your colleagues, contribute to the profession, and strengthen your clinical work. NYSSCSW offers the following membership benefits:
Strengthening Professional Identity
- Promotes clinical social workers as providers of mental health services
- Provides educational opportunities
- 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 health care issues
- Advocates for utilization of clinical social work services in mental health settings
- Informs members about legislation and regulations which 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
The Society welcomes MSW students, recent MSW graduates who are interested in clinical social work, and clinical social workers from all settings.
Connect--Participate--Grow
If you wish to complete the New Member Application online Click Here
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