NASW-NYS thanks the New York State Black, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, and Asian Legislative Caucus, especially Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda and Assistant Speaker Felix Ortiz for standing with NYS social workers and the social work profession by including social workers and NASW-NYS’s legislative priorities in their 2018 Annual People’s budget, including:
- The Social Work Investment Initiative (pg 31-32) which seeks to end the licensure exemption and requests substantial state investment into the social work profession
- Increasing the number of social workers in our schools to expand access to mental health care and improve quality of care for our students (pg 31)
- Reforming school disciplinary practices to put students in front of social workers and guidance counselors, not police officers and judges (pg 17)
You can view the report at http://nyassembly.gov/write/upload/pdfs/20180208_79843.pdf
Author: Amelia Lochner Malavé
NASW-NYS