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Welcome to National Association for Social Workers - Delaware Chapter

  •   The purpose of NASW is to:
    • Promote the quality and effectiveness of social work practice
      in the United States through services to individuals,
      groups, and communities.

    • Further the broad objective of improving conditions of life
      in our democratic society through the utilization of professional
      knowledge and skills of social workers and to expand through
      research the knowledge necessary to define and attain these goals.
    • Provide opportunity for the social work profession to work in unity
      toward maintaining and promoting high standards of practice and
      of preparation for practice, and toward alleviating or preventing
      sources of deprivation, distress and strain susceptible to being
      influenced by social work methods and by social action.

    Mission Statement:

    NASW is a membership organization with a dual mission to:

    • Promote, develop, and protect the practice of social work
      and social workers; and
    • Seek to enhance the effective functioning and well-being of
      individuals, families, and communities through its work and
      through its advocacy.
               

    NASW Delaware
    Board of Directors 2009- 2010

    Debra O’Neal, MSW, ACSW, President

    Cynthia D. Healey, MSW, Vice President

    Sheridan Quarless Kingsberry, PhD, MSW, Treasurer

    John F. Mucha, MSW, Treasurer-Elect

    Sarah Wyshock-Wolfe, MSW, Secretary

    Nanci Woodson, MSW Student Representative

    Angela Greenwood, BSW Student Representative

    Mike Goldsmith, ACSW, LCSW, Past President

    Edgar S. Huffman, ACSW, Executive Director