Member-driven chapters not tied to a single campus — organized around a geographic area (state or region) or a shared field of practice. These are led by a volunteer coordinator who is an NACSW member, and are formed by a small group of individual members. A local agency, church, or university may sponsor the chapter as an Organizational Member.
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Chartered Chapters
Chapters of this type that have been chartered by the NACSW Board of Directors are listed here.
Status: Active
Volunteer Coordinator: Contact information coming soon. In the meantime, please write to in**@***sw.org.
Local Groups Now Organizing
The areas below have a local contact but are not yet chartered chapters. They are the natural starting point for a regional or state chapter, and in most cases the work of forming one is already part-way done. If you live or practice in one of these areas, write to the contact listed and say you are interested — a chapter needs a volunteer coordinator who is an NACSW member and a minimum of five to ten individual members.
If you do not see your area, see Starting a Chapter. Several of these areas also have an NACSW group on Facebook; see Social Media.
Status: Active
Contact: Amy-Lynne Hilderbrand
Phone: (805) 540-8388 (Cell)
E-mail: hi***********@***il.com
Status: Active
Contact: Eleanor Speakes
Location: PO Box 11303; Fresno, CA 93772
Phone: 559-313-1837 (cell) / 559-278-2454 (work)
E-mail: es********@***il.com
Status: Organizing
Contact: Bob Nield
Location: 58 E Washington Rd; Terryville, CT 06786-6816
Phone: 203-755-9300
E-mail: bo******@*****il.com
Status: Local contact listed; chapter status to be confirmed
Contact: Marleen Milner
Location: Southeastern University
Phone: 863.667.5163
E-mail: mm*****@*eu.edu
Status: Local contact listed; chapter status to be confirmed
Contact: Robin Paino
Location: Coral Springs, Florida
Phone: 954-804-4949
E-mail: ro*********@***il.com / ro*********@************ls.com
Status: Organizing
Contact: Shaina Blair
Phone: 404-542-9511 / 404-788-2716
E-mail: sd*******@***oo.com
Status: Active
Contact: Jeff Bryant
Location: University of Indianapolis – Phylis LAN Lin Dept of Social Work; 1400 E Hanna Ave; Indianapolis, IN 46227
Phone: (317) 788-3999 / (317) 956-6988
E-mail: jb*****@***dy.edu
Status: Local contact listed; chapter status to be confirmed
Contact: Tim Moseley
Location: PO Box 7249; Louisville, KY 40257
Phone: (502) 584-3711 / (502) 345-6100
E-mail: Ti*@*********************on.org
Status: Organizing
Contact: Brent Thornton
Location: Cumberland, MD
Phone: (301) 697-1070
E-mail: Sn**********@***il.com
Status: Active
Contact: Jana Donahoe
Location: 400 East Percy St, Indianola, MS 38751
Phone: 662.887.6069 / 662.846.4795
E-mail: jd******@********te.edu
Status: Organizing
Contact: Terri Bennett
Location: 617 NW Cortland Dr, Blue Springs, MO 64015
Phone: 816-421-7643, ext. 14
E-mail: ne**********@***oo.com
Status: Organizing
Contact: Lacey Nunnally
Location: Evangel Univ.; 1111 N Glenstone, Springfield, MO 65802
Phone: (417) 865-2815
E-mail: nu*******@*****el.edu
Status: Organizing
Contact: David Fritz
Phone: 718-286-2177 (office) / 631-332-9354 (cell)
E-mail: dm******@***il.com / dm*****@*******id.org
Status: Organizing
Contact: Ken Smith
Location: 3600 Jeffrey St, Sanford, NC 27332
Phone: (919) 718-9923
E-mail: kt*******@***il.com
Status: Organizing
Contact: Gayla Sherman
Location: Charles Hall Youth and Family Services; 513 E. Bismarck Expressway; PO Box 1995, Bismarck, ND 58502
Phone: 701-255-2773, Ext. 304 (Fax: 701-255-6261)
Status: Organizing
Contact: Linda Openshaw
Location: Commerce, Texas
Phone: (903) 468-6095
E-mail: Li************@***uc.edu
Status: Local contact listed; chapter status to be confirmed
Contact: Kim Parker
Phone: 713-291-2272
E-mail: pa******@*sn.com
Contact listings are updated as areas charter or as contacts change. To be added, removed, or corrected, write to in**@***sw.org.
The Volunteer Coordinator
Each member-driven chapter has a volunteer coordinator who is an NACSW member and who convenes the chapter’s members and activities, and serves as the chapter’s point of contact with NACSW. Chapters may also elect officers — President, Vice-President, Secretary/Treasurer, Chaplain, and Member-at-Large are the usual roles — as the chapter grows.
Joining a Chapter
Every member of a chapter of this type holds their own NACSW membership. Unlike university and congregational chapters, there is no organization paying on your behalf — the chapter is the people in it. Joining is therefore two steps:
- Join or renew your NACSW membership on the Membership page. Practitioner, student, retired, and recent-graduate rates are all listed there, and your membership renews annually.
- Write to the chapter’s volunteer coordinator — listed above — to be added to the chapter roster and put on the list for meetings and activities.
If your area appears under Local Groups Now Organizing rather than as a chartered chapter, the same two steps apply: join NACSW, then tell the local contact you are in. That is how an organizing group reaches the five to ten members it needs to charter.
If there is nothing near you at all, see Starting a Chapter.
Questions: in**@***sw.org · 888.426.4712
Members and friends can also network at the Annual Convention.