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 defi ne 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 infl uenced by social work methods and by social action.

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.