• 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