Running for Office as a Social Worker
Tracking # 20-1379885
$10.00
What you'll learn
Participants will:
- Attendees will leave encouraged to support social workers for office and better understand how running for office as a social worker is a great example of our ethical call to social and political action.
Course overview
Social work ethics include "social and political action". Hear from three social workers and NASW members who take action to the next level by running for office. Reggie Harris shares how is social work background led him to run for Cincinnati City Council and why being social worker makes him uniquely tuned into community issues. Then we hear from Ali Ramos and Audrey Spanko on their experiences as social workers running at the local and state-level, respectively. Ali speaks to how social work skills helped her tune in to constituent concerns about local policy dilemmas and how she combatted stereotypes about local government. Audrey shared her perspective on how important community building and networking is for running for office and how social workers across the state helped connect and support her during her run for state senate.
Subject areas
This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.
Texas State Board of Social Worker Examiners
Licensed Social Worker
Disclosure statements
The National Association of Social Workers, Texas Chapter's (NASW-TX) Continuing Education approval process meets all the requirements listed under the Texas Administrative Code under Rule 781.509 and has been approved for Social Workers, Licensed Professional Counselors, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists.
This course is provided in accordance with the criteria and standards of the Texas State Board of Social Work Examiners.
NASW-TX does not accept commercial support and none of the planners for this program have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose.
NASW-TX offers relevant and timely continuing education programs for Texas social workers, led by the state’s leading social work experts.
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