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General Information

SSWAA is a volunteer organization of professional school social workers. We depend on income generated from membership dues to support the work of the organization. If you are a social worker currently working in a school setting, a student, or are working in the area of education and social work, check out the membership categories and please consider joining the School Social Work Association of America as a way of enhancing your professional practice.

SSWAA is dedicated to promoting the professional development of School Social Workers in order to enhance the educational experience of students and their families.

Membership Benefits include:

• Professional advocacy at national , regional and state levels.
• An annual national conference - 2009 National Conference is in Philadelphia, PA.
• An active voice in the development of public policy.
• This web site and other technological innovations to come which will improve professional development.

Newsletters
• SSWAA Bell
• EBELL
  
  Publications and Resources:
• Functional Behavioral Assessment and Behavioral Intervention Plans: Implementing the Student Discipline Provisions of IDEA '97
• School Social Work as a Career
• School Social Workers and Confidentiality
• The Connection of Federal Legislation to the Practice of School Social Work
• SSWAA Annual Legislative Agenda
• New: SSWAA members may subscribe to the School Social Work journal, published by the Illinois School Social Work Association, at a reduce subscription rate of $20.
  
  Resolutions
• School Social Work Training Programs
• Help to Prevent Bullying
• Psychotropic Medications and School Interventions
• Helping Students Stay in School
• Federal Education Funding Priorities
• Functional Behavioral Assessments and Behavioral Intervention Plans
• School Social Work Services
• School Social Worker Staffing Needs Ratio
• Professional Development and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Questioning Youth
• Opposition to the "65 Percent Solution" Initiative
• Response to Intervention (RTI) 

SSWAA Represents You At:

• US Department of Education
• Congress and Committee Hearings (House and Senate & National Department of Education)
• Committee for Education Funding
• National Association of Pupil Service Organizations
• Juvenile Justice Roundtable
• Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities

Membership Categories:

Affiliate • $60.00 (includes retired)

• A person eligible for Active Membership may become an Affiliate Member if retired or unemployed. Affiliate Members shall have all the rights of Active Members.

Associate • $120.00

• A professional person working in an agency which provides services to children. Additional persons, if they perform similar functions to school social work and are authorized within their state to do so, may be Associate Members. Associates do not have voting rights and cannot hold office, but will have all other benefits associated with active membership.

Student • $60.00

• A person enrolled in a college level study of social work, with an interest in school social work. A person with membership under this category shall hold all the rights and privileges of Active Membership, except to hold office.

Full • $120.00

• A person who meets a state's requirements for the position of school social worker, however that position is titled in a given state, and is actively employed by a public or private school or state education agency.
• Any person who has an MSW, is employed by a school and is providing school social work services.
• A person who meets the requirements for the position of school social worker and who is employed as an administrator or supervisor.
• A university faculty person involved in school social work instruction or supervision.