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ISP Update / August, 2005
GREETINGS Greetings, ISP members: After a summer recharging your battery(ies), I hope that those of you in academe are gearing up for a productive "policy" year with ISP assisting you in whatever way we can. To all of our "friends" and NASW chapters, we know your calendar is driven by other forces and I hope that you have been able to alter or influence them in some appreciable way to help you achieve your goals. ISP is preparing for many initiatives and we encourage you to assist us by participating in them and persuading others to enter the policy arena in some meaningful way. Below are several items to be aware of: STATE LEGISLATURE VISITS 2004-2005 You did it! By mid-summer, ISP recorded 8,078 SW student visits to state legislatures! It surpassed our 2004-05 goal of 8,000. Congrats! See where your state totals rank... Alabama: 171 Total: 8078 As you can see from the reports, there were great responses and some non-responses that seem very unlikely. We have set a new goal for 2005-06 of 9,000 visits. Start preparing now and please don't forget to report them to me. CURRENT EVENTS CALENDAR To keep up with our current events Calendar, simple go to http://www.statepolicy.org and on the home page scroll down the Upcoming Events section....as easy as ABC. Note ISP Annual Meeting in Chicago --a celebration of our 10th year! Note The Policy Conference in DC on June 17-19, 2006 (see below) ISP ANNUAL CONTEST Our ISP Annual Contest was a great success. We had 53 entires, our highest total ever. At the BSW program level, three (3) programs tied, and students will share the $1,000 cash award and faculty will share the $500 award. Go to: http://www.statepolicy.org/contest/contest-winners.html#2005 and see what students from the University of Washington at Tacoma, Union University in Jackson, TN, and the University of Texas at Austin accomplished. Students from the Southern Connecticut State University School of Social Workers and students from Tulane University School of Social work tied as MSW winners. See the same site above. Congrats to all of them. To review a summary of all 53 BSW and MSW entries, go to this link: http://www.statepolicy.org/contest/contest-winners.html#All2005 The new dates for the 2006 contest are now posted at our website as well as the rules, regulations, and deadlines for participating. Go to: http://www.statepolicy.org/contest/index.html Please notify your students and other faculty to get started now on your policy advocacy projects for the ISP Contest for 2006.ISP SITE VISITORS Over 63,379 cumulative visits to our ISP website as of today. ISP AUCTION In Chicago, February, 2006, at CSWE APM, we plan to have our ISP Auction again....be thinking what you can contribute. IMPORTANT DATE An important date: August 26. What happened on this day in 1920? See below if you cannot quite remember....... 4TH BIENNIAL POLICY PRACTICE FORUM On Thursday, October 20, 2005 , the 4th Biennial Policy Practice Forum will be held in the Cannon Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington , DC . All Social Work Programs in the greater mid-Atlantic region will be receiving a video made by ISP promoting this event. Spaces will be limited to 300. Close to September 12, 2005 , online registration will be available. A few photos from the 2003 Forum are linked at http://www.statepolicy.org/media/gallery/index.html. It is a day of learning what career opportunities are available for social workers in a policy/political venue, meeting other professionals in govt., non profits, and service organization. All speakers have an MSW! ISP is co-sponsoring and paid for the costs of the video and its dissemination. More later on....eventually, we will have the video on the ISP website as well. DR. LEON GINSBURG RETIRES Dr. Leon Ginsburg, ISP Board of Advisors charter member, has retired as the Dean of the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina.....Leon contributed much to the profession, the social work knowledge base, and advanced the profession stature of all of us. Thanks, Leon , for all your contributions to ISP. ISP WEBSITE All programs of social work education, Liaisons are urged to make the ISP website, http://statepolicy.org, the portal to policy information for ALL students. This initiative for 2005-06 will be promoted throughout the year, but we should all begin encouraging faculty and students to visit our website and see the many resources available there and urge students to return and return to it. Send an email around......speak up at faculty and student meetings....get the Dean/Director to mention it.....show the website and its contents during classes or meetings.....do something. ISP UPDATE As a reminder, ISP is no longer publishing the newsletter, INFLUENCE. As successful as it was, this new format named UPDATE is taking its place. Please refer to past issues of the newsletter and the UPDATE at http://www.statepolicy.org/newsletter_archives/index.html. There are many valuable articles in these past newsletters. THE POLICY CONFERENCE In Washington, DC at the Mayflower Hotel from June 17-19, 2006 , THE POLICY CONFERENCE will resume after a year's hiatus. Under the sponsorship of Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work, ISP, and others, the most popular "policy" conference for social workers will be meeting to share ideas, new concepts, innovative programs, teaching options, and research findings that relate to social policy. Mark your calendar! A Call for Papers will come out this fall. Contacts and other info sources will be designated by VCUSSW early this fall. We look forward to see many of you there. ISP DUES We had only approximately 200 dues payers this year, 2005, so far. Our goal was 350.....so if you want to help ISP do its mission, please make out a check for a reasonable $25 payable to ISP and mail it to me at the address below. Our EIN number is 81.0676553. NEW GOALS AND INITIATIVES Next month, I will provide you with a Board approved set of new ISP Goals and Initiatives. I will also be organizing interested parties in some policy issues that we want to disseminate to all our programs. CLOSING THOUGHTS All the best.......let's have a great year "influencing state policy!" Bob Schneider PS: Answer to #6 above: On August 26,1920 , women's right to vote was affirmed with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. Since 1971, this anniversary has been celebrated as Women's Equality Day!
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