Insurance Protection and Financial Security

NASW Assurance Services, Inc. is one of our most valuable benefits. The NASW Assurance Services connects eligible professionals to malpractice insurance with low rates and dependable coverage. Coverage is offered to individuals, students and schools, and social service agencies.  Through the NASW Assurance Services insurance programs, the NASW strives to creatively meet the changing and diverse insurance needs of social workers, thereby enhancing the value of NASW membership as well.  

Access to Leading Edge Information

As a member of NASW, you will have access to the social work profession’s premier journal Social Work and the award-winning NASW News featuring in-depth coverage of developments in social work practice. You will also receive six issues per year of the NASW Maine NEWS.

The Maine Board of Social Worker Licensure was established to provide for the regulation of persons offering social work services to safeguard the public health, safety and welfare, to protect the public from incompetent and unauthorized persons and to ensure high standards of practice by social workers.

The primary responsibilities of the Board is to evaluate qualifications, supervise examinations of applicants, to grant licenses to those who meet board requirements, investigate complaints, and take disciplinary action; and to revoke or to refuse to renew any licenses after proper notice and hearing.