2025 Capital Action Day Sponsorship Packages
Why You Should Sponsor
Sponsoring Capitol Action Day sends an important message: your organization values ethics, equity, and community well-being. Here’s what a sponsorship can do for your business:
1. Brand Exposure
Sponsoring this event will allow your organization to increase its visibility within the community. NASW-NYS’s vast membership base, containing a variety of audiences with a range of demographics, receives social media, email, and website alerts. NASW-NYS Chapter has over 60,000 people in their communications audience, combined with the communications reach of the NASW-NYC Chapter, this opportunity is one of a kind. Reach over 6.5k social workers on Instagram, with high influence followers. Discuss any inquiries about promotion options! Possibilities for your organization are endless.
2. Employee Engagement
Sponsoring this social work event can boost employee morale and job satisfaction. It creates a sense of pride and accomplishment among employees, reinforcing their commitment to your organization. Fostering an effective corporate social responsibility program at your organization shows that your leadership team values ethics and supports vulnerable populations, much like the social work workforce.
3. Community Connection
Sponsoring Capitol Action Day for social workers displays your organization’s willingness to support causes that matter to your stakeholders and the society at large. This can foster goodwill and a stronger connection within the communities where you operate and can help develop brand loyalty.
4. Support a Cause
Your sponsorship directly supports an agenda aimed at addressing New York’s mental health crisis, retaining and recruiting social workers, and ensuring the sustainability of critical mental health and social services. It’s an investment in the well-being of all of New York’s communities.
Elevate your organization’s commitment to social responsibility while driving change for New York’s most vulnerable communities.
What Is Capitol Action Day?
The upcoming Capitol Action Day on February 11, 2025, organized by the New York State and New York City Chapters of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), is a full-day event that unites social workers, community leaders, and advocates to engage directly with state legislators about the systemic needs of New York’s communities. Capitol Action Day is an advocacy event that will help address the systemic needs of your clients and employees.
Attendees participate in legislative appointments and canvassing to discuss policy changes that:
- Address critical mental health and social service gaps.
- Advance the social work profession.
- Improve the lives of underserved populations across New York State and New York City.
Secure Your Sponsorship Today
Make your mark on New York’s future by sponsoring Capitol Action Day. Together, we can advocate for policies that create systemic change, improve mental health services, and uplift social workers as the essential workers they are.
Contact apressly.naswnys@socialworkers.org to secure your sponsorship today.
Sponsorship packages fit a range of budgets and objectives. Whether you’re an organization looking to enhance your brand visibility or an individual passionate about supporting social work, there’s an option for you.
To reserve your package today:
Send a check to NASW with the memo "NYS Chapter" and email apressly.naswnys@socialworkers.org to confirm and to indicate the package you will be purchasing. An option to pay by credit card will be available soon.
Checks can be mailed to:
National Association of Social Workers
750 First Street NE, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20002-4241
Social workers and mental health professionals, it's time to make your voices heard!
Capitol Action Day is NASW-NYS’s annual advocacy event. It’s a day when we can come together, as social workers, to advocate for the policies that will help us provide better services to our communities and better serve the profession. At Capitol Action Day, on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, members and beyond will have a chance to talk with legislators about the issues that matter to us—and most importantly, to you. To adequately address the mental health crisis in the state, there must be a focus on the recruitment and retention of social workers.
Capitol Action Day is open to both social work students and professionals. Attendees will visit their legislators throughout the day via legislative appointments or blanket canvassing to advocate for our issues.
NASW-NYS/NYC cannot do this alone. We NEED your presence in this process! Your advocacy is crucial to ensure successful passage of legislation and budget commitments that will address our concerns and support an expansive and responsive mental health delivery system.
LEADERSHIP TRAINING
"Social workers should strive to become and remain proficient in professional practice and the performance of professional functions. Social workers should critically examine and keep current with emerging knowledge relevant to social work. Social workers should routinely review the professional literature and participate in continuing education relevant to social work practice and social work ethics."
Social Work Code of Ethics
CONNECT WITH REPRESENTATIVES
"Social workers should contribute time and professional expertise to activities that promote respect for the value, integrity, and competence of the social work profession. These activities may include teaching, research, consultation, service, legislative testimony, presentations in the community, and participation in their professional organizations."
Social Work Code of Ethics
ADVOCATE FOR THE FUTURE
"Social workers should engage in social and political action that seeks to ensure that all people have equal access to the resources, employment, services, and opportunities they require to meet their basic human needs and to develop fully. Social workers should be aware of the impact of the political arena on practice and should advocate for changes in policy and legislation to improve social conditions to meet basic human needs and promote social justice."
Social Work Code of Ethics
RESEARCH POLICY
"Social workers should critically examine and keep current with emerging knowledge relevant to social work and fully use evaluation and research evidence in their professional practice."
Social Work Code of Ethics
2025 Legislative Priorities
The following legislative priorities were determined by the 2024-2025 NASW NYS/NYC Advocacy and Government Relations Committee. Click here to learn more about this committee and the social workers participating in this work.
Address Inequities in Social Work Salaries
Click here to read the NASW NYS/NYC Position Paper
Expand Loan Forgiveness Programs for Social Workers Across the State
Click here to read the NASW NYS/NYC Position Paper
Improve the Ratio of Students to Social Workers in Schools and Mental Health Services for School Aged Children
Click here to read the NASW NYS/NYC Position Paper
Social Work Licensure Requirement
Click here to read the (A5291/S5975) bill text
Click here to read last year's NASW-NYS Memo of Support
Hear from attendants from last year
What was their experience like with Capitol Action Day?
One of my professors recommended that I attend NASW-NYS Capitol Action Day as a student interested in Political Action. Since I didn’t know what to expect, I loved that the chapter had resources such as videos on the structure of government and previews of the bills to prepare the participants for engagement. Through this experience, I learned more about the role of the legislature on the client populations I serve. Additionally, I was able to educate communities on the legislative priorities that impact them and empower them to share their lived experiences with their elected officials. Capitol Action Day is a gateway to the legislative sphere, providing social workers the opportunity to ensure that social work values are reflective in our state's legislation. This is an event that I will be looking forward to every year!
I attended Capitol Action Day because I wanted to learn more about the roles social workers could play in implementing social change on a policy level. I have absolutely no regrets and think that all social workers and social work students should attend this event.
Capitol Action Day showed me that regardless of the path we may choose to pursue within the social work profession, it is important to know the impact that we can make united as a collective.
Capitol Action Day was very organized and orchestrated to maximize NASW-NYS legislative priorities. I found it interesting that legislators and their policy staff were very interested and eager to hear directly from social workers. Social workers are poised, based upon experience and expertise, to provide important feedback to address social issues, social determinants of health, and weigh-in on policy concerns. The relationship and partnership developed between social workers and legislators enhances policy-making for the betterment of the clients that we serve. I would strongly urge social workers to participate in Capitol Action Day 2023 to share expertise, provide advocacy and learn about policy.
I was surprised that although it was done virtually that the legislators who participated were welcoming and sincerely interested in what we had to say. They had good knowledge of what Social Workers do and one expressed concern about the low salaries of Social Workers and believed we should be better compensated for the work we do. This has resulted in collaboration between this legislator and the state chapter to work on this issue.
The Venue
More on Empire State Plaza and the NYS Capitol!
Driving Directions to the Empire State Plaza located in Albany, New York:
Please call to request directions to hearings in other locations or use Google Maps link to generate a map and detailed driving directions.
From the North:
Take Interstate I-87 (Northway) to Interstate I-90 East (exit #1E). Take Interstate I-90 to Interstate 787 South. Take Exit #3A for the Empire State Plaza. The Division of Tax Appeals/Tax Appeals Tribunal is located in Agency Building #1, 3rd Floor.
From the South:
Take New York State Thruway (Interstate 87) to Exit 23 - straight through Toll Booth to Interstate 787, then take Exit #3 for the Empire State Plaza. The Division of Tax Appeals/Tax Appeals Tribunal is located in Agency Building #1, 3rd Floor.
From the East:
Take Interstate 90 West to Exit # B1 (I-90). Continue on I-90 to Interstate 787 South. Follow I-787 South to Exit #3A for the Empire State Plaza. The Division of Tax Appeals/Tax Appeals Tribunal is located in Agency Building #1, 3rd Floor.
From the West:
Take the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) to Exit 24 (Albany), proceed east on Interstate 90 to Interstate 787 South. Take exit # 3A for the Empire State Plaza. The Division of Tax Appeals/Tax Appeals Tribunal is located in Agency Building #1, 3rd Floor.
Parking:
There are two public lots located on Madison Avenue, which is the street directly to the south of Agency Building 1: The Madison Visitor Parking Lot located behind the Cultural Education Center (State Museum) and the Cathedral Lot located between the Cultural Education Center (Museum) and the Albany Cathedral. For a complete guide to all visitor parking available at and around the Empire State Plaza, please refer to Office of General Services parking management.
V-lot (Visitors Lot)
Located beneath the Empire State Plaza and accessed through I-787 Empire State Plaza exit. Visitors may be required to show photo identification upon entry and all vehicles are subject to search by the State Police. This lot has designated accessible parking spaces.
Hours & Fees Monday - Friday
$10.00 Flat Fee (parkers staying past 3:00 a.m. will be charged for next day parking)
90 minutes or less, no charge at Exit Gate
Hours & Fees Weekends
$5.00 Flat Fee (parkers staying past 3:00 a.m. will be charged for next day parking)
90 minutes or less, no charge at Exit Gate
Card payments only - cash not accepted.
Amtrak Directions:
From Penn Station:
Albany-Rensselaer Bound Train
Empire Service 281 Niagara Falls Amtrak Station to Rensselaer Rail Station
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