ISP is developing a national network of faculty liaisons who implement critical tasks, without which, the mission and goals of the project cannot be attained. Each social work educational program (approximately 600) has been invited to assign one or more faculty members to serve as its liaison to the national committee. Any faculty member is eligible and the committee asks only for a commitment to the following:

1. willingness to distribute information about committee goals and activities to students and other faculty;
2. readiness to respond to questions about the committee, its projects and plans from others; and
3. agreement to respond to an annual survey by the committee regarding successes, failures, changes, and/or planning options.

To date, there are 778 liaisons. Their universities and names are published on this website. If there is no liaison appointed at your program, consult your Dean/Director or call Dr. Robert Schneider, National Chairperson, 804.828.0452.

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Below are listed some of the STRATEGIES that liaisons are encouraged to try in order to promote faculty and student participation in state-level policy-making. Experience indicates that four main points of entry can lead to a successful campaign to promote involvement: clear, expressed sanction from top administrators; use of the field practicum as a site of student state-policy projects; direct encouragement of students by faculty members through class assignments or advising; and alerting and involving student organizations in committee activities.

1. Ask your Dean or Director to make announcements by memo or at meetings about the committee's mission and the national contest. Their support is very crucial for promoting participation.
2. Use the national contest and student projects as applied ways to inject policy and macro content into field practica and agency assignments. Such projects are ready-made assignments for busy field instructors.
3. Announce by email or memo to your colleagues and students that you are the LIAISON for the committee at your school or department.
4. Make copies of the newsletter, INFLUENCE, and distribute to all faculty and students. Ask Dean or Director to cover the copy costs.
5. With a computer/projector, invite faculty and students to a presentation of our website. This meeting will introduce participants to the Committee's mission and you can illustrate the number of resources available to them. [http://www.statepolicy.org/]
6. Suggest to faculty colleagues that they incorporate the triad of problem, policy, and practice into their assignments or lectures.
7. Distribute a sheet of sample student projects to class sections. See the website.
8. Invite a selected group of faculty to a special meeting in order to ask for their ideas and recommendations about incorporating the contest or state policy content into courses. This will increase a sense of ownership on their part.
9. Identify faculty representing all or many areas of the curriculum to a meeting in order to show them how state policy can be a part of their instruction. E.g., HBSE, research, direct or clinical practice, social justice, macro practice, field instruction.
10. Meet with the leaders of student associations to explain the contest. Ask to attend a general meeting of the association to provide more details.
11. Attempt to incorporate the contest and state policy content into existing events, structures, assignments and program activities. Rallies, retreats, forums, panels, guest speakers, alumni gatherings, school newsletters, field agency fairs, etc.
12. Distribute national contest flyers to each faculty member or at faculty meetings.
13. Send a copy of the contest flyer to your local or state chapter of NASW.
14. In your program's curriculum committee, build support for a review of course content on state policy in course syllabi.
15. Distribute the Committee's Rationale handout to faculty and students in order to provide them with the significance of the projects and content.
16. Recommend to students that they volunteer to work in an upcoming political campaign.
17. Using former graduates of your program, plan a seminar for students and faculty that focuses on the impact of social policy on social work practice.
18. Distribute individual copies of the national contest flyer to students by giving colleagues sufficient copies to pass out in their class sections.
19. With other social work educational programs in the state, plan a rally day for social workers at the state capital or during the state legislative session.
20. Invite state legislators who are social workers or support human service priorities to your program for an opportunity to speak formally or informally with them and to recognize them for their efforts.
21. Offer to speak briefly in colleagues' classes about the projects, contest, or Committee.
22. Share newspaper or journal articles with colleagues on issues about state policies.
23. Invite students to a brown bag lunch session in order to talk with them (BSW, MSW, Ph.D.) about the contest or projects in which they may be interested.
24. Be sure to give to faculty the address to the Committee's website and suggest that they include it on their course syllabi each semester. [http://www.statepolicy.org/]