Congressional Briefing: Implications of Health Care Reform on the Social Work Profession, Feb 16, 2011

Feb 4, 2011

Update 2/18/2011 – Click here to view remarks from this Congressional Briefing.

NASW is pleased to announce that Congressman Edolphus Towns, sponsor of the Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young, Jr. Social Work Reinvestment Act, and a professional social worker, is holding a congressional briefing entitled, Implications of Health Care Reform on the Social Work Profession” on February 16, 2011 in the Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2218 on Capitol Hill. We hope that you can join us for this discussion on a topic that is important to our profession and to our clients. Click here for the event flyer.

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