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Valuable Benefits of NACSW Membership!

During the past few years, NACSW has concentrated much of its time and energy to expanding the array of supports and services its offers to its members.

 

Our goal is to provide NACSW members with the ability to tap the resources of faith to provide more effective and faithful social work services.

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2. Click Here for Benefits of Organizational Membership

Valuable Benefits of Individual NACSW Membership

Free or Discounted Publications/Materials Focusing on the Integration of  Faith and Practice

  • A free subscription to NACSW’s quarterly newsletter - Catalyst
  • Access to NACSW's member section on NACSW’s website including current and selected archived issues of NACSW’s newsletter, journal, and book reviews, proceedings from recent conventions, and unlimited access to a new on-line bibliography
  • A 20% discount on a variety of books, monographs, and video and audio tapes. You can check out current selections by visiting our bookstore
  • In cooperation with Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA), NACSW offers a subscription to ESA's premier magazine, Prism, for only $20 - that's about 40% off the regular price! 
  • In cooperation with Haworth Press, NACSW offers subscriptions to three of Haworth's journals that integrate faith from a variety of with traditions in several areas of practice at 20% off their regular subscription rates, including their Journal of Religion, Disability and Health, Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Social Work: Social Thought, and the Journal of Religious Gerontology
  • Regularly updated on-line bibliography providing references to books and articles on topics of particular interest to Christians in social work.

Opportunities to Network with Other Christians in Social Work throughout North America

  • A mentor program connecting students and new members with longer-standing NACSW members
  • Multiple listservs to enable members to correspond on the Internet on topics of special interest to Christians in social work
  • A wealth of information available from experienced Christian educators and practitioners 

Conventions, Regional Conferences, and Audio Conference Workshops at Discounted Rates - NACSW Is an Approved Provider of Continuing Education Contact Hours by the Association of Social Work Boards 

Access to Current Employment Ads and Grant Funding Options

  • NACSW’s Christian JobNet service providing free access to Internet job postings of interest to Christians in social work, eligibility to post no-cost job ads and resumes, and links to other Internet job posting services
  • A current on-line listing of faith-based organizations in the US and Canada
  • An electronic version of GrantStation Insider, a weekly email providing current information on new funding programs, upcoming grant deadlines, conferences, trainings, and relevant information for grantseekers

Eligibility for NACSW’s Professional Liability Insurance at Competitive Rates 

  • Insurance coverage available for individual members and student interns (only available for members working in the US)
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Opportunities to Support a Growing Christian Presence within the Social Work Profession
  • NACSW representation and participation at various levels in other professional organizations

Links with Other Outstanding Christian Organizations and Resources 

  • NACSW/CAPS joint membership program (a program in which NACSW and CAPS - the Christian Association of Psychological Studies offer discounted membership rates to its non-student members who join both associations).
  • Co-sponsorship of the Churches at Work website with World Vision, Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), and Evangelicals for Social Action (ESA), among others
  • Growing links section on this  website listing a variety of sources and resource information of special interest to Christians in social work

A Handsome, Frameable Certificate Signifying Membership in NACSW

 

Click Here to go to New Member or Renewal On-Line Application Form

Valuable Benefits of NACSW Organizational Membership

Organizational Member 

Benefit
Approx. Value of Savings/Benefit
1. One designated member within the organization is entitled to all the rights, responsibilities, and benefits of individual NACSW membership. This designee will:

·Receive the organizational copy of NACSW's newsletter (Catalyst) and journal (Social Work and Christianity)

·Be eligible to purchase individual Liability insurance

·Be eligible to vote in NACSW's elections
$83/year
2. The designated member plus up to three additional staff members will be eligible to benefit from the following NACSW services and discounts:

·Be eligible for annual convention, regional conferences, audio conference workshops, and publication discounts

·Be eligible to use NACSW’s member-only section on NACSW's website

·Be eligible to subscribe to any of NACSW's listservs

 $50/year x 3 = $150/year
3. All staff may use the organizational issue of NACSW's journal to earn CEUs offered through NACSW’s journal home study program
Valuable as an employee "perk"
4. An unlimited number of on-line job ads for social work and related positions on NACSW’s Christian JobNet service.
$50 for each 30-day job ad
5. 20% discount for advertising job openings in NACSW's newsletter
$20 - $80 per ad, depending on the size of the ad
6. Free organizational listing (to include logo, organizational mission, link to website if applicable, etc.) on NACSW’s website
$300/year
7. Free quarter-page ad each year in either NACSW's newsletter or journal
$75 - $125/year
8. Frameable certificate signifying organizational membership in NACSW
9. Complete set of books published by NACSW (Note: this does not include books NACSW distributes, but does not publish)
$135
10. 40% discount for individual NACSW membership rates for up to 3 additional staff
$30 per employee, up to $90/year
11. Opportunity to subscribe to ESA's Prism at a 40% discount
$10/year
12. 50% discount for Annual convention exhibits $75/year
13. 20% discount on quarterly audio conference workshops individuals and groups can participate in from any phone $24/audio conference, or up to $96/year
14.  An electronic version of GrantStation Insider, a weekly email providing current information on new funding programs, upcoming grant deadlines, conferences, trainings, and relevant information for grantseekers Valuable as an employee "perk"

Eligibility for organizational memberships includes: 

1. An authorized individual in the organization signifies the organization’s support of NACSW’s mission and statement of faith and practice and mission statement (see other side)

2. Organization pays annual membership dues, which are as follows:

    $460 (Canadian or US dollars) for organizations with budgets over $500,000

    $372 for organizations with budgets between $250,000 - $499,999

    $285 for organizations with budgets between $100,000 - $249,999

    $230 for organizations with budgets under $100,000

Click Here to go to Organizational Member On-Line Application Form

http://www.nacsw.org/benefits.html
2007-08-09

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