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June 25, 2021Regulatory research literature review to get under way
After the COVID-19 pandemic caused the 2020 ASWB Education Meeting on regulatory research to be canceled, it seemed that the third pillar of the strategic framework, Curate research for best practices in regulation, would become stalemated.
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Live session held May 20 drew hundreds of attendees.
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June 25, 2021Hard work recognized … with your help
“We know how hard the work can be,” said Tim Brown, former president of the ASWB Board of Directors, when he introduced the awards session at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Delegate Assembly.
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June 30 marks the five-year deadline set by the ASWB Board of Directors in 2016 for member boards to comply with exam use policies, and the majority of boards that use the exams have done so. The COVID-19 pandemic slowed things down considerably as emergency orders changed the landscape of regulatio
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June 25, 2021Can you see the conflict?
The concepts of perceived bias and conflict of interest principles remain critical to social work boards and their important public protection mandates.
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The Association of Social Work Boards is committed to embracing the profession’s values of diversity, equity, and inclusion in every step of developing the social work licensing exams, now and in the future. We are also committed to providing high-quality exams that take into account the historically diverse nature of the social work profession, a […]
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Compacts were not where ASWB and our members started with mobility, but compacts can coexist with endorsement provisions.
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April 22, 2021What to know to be prepared for the compact kickoff
The news arrived March 15 that the Council of State Governments, in partnership with the Department of Defense, had selected the social work profession to receive technical assistance to develop an interstate compact for occupational licensing portability.
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April 22, 2021Why compacts?
The issues of states’ rights, uniformity of criteria, and mobility and portability related to the regulation of the professions are not new.