📢 NASW-ND 2025 Scholarships & Awards – Apply Now!

The North Dakota Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers is now accepting applications for our 2025 Scholarships & Awards!

Scholarships Available:
🎓 BSW Scholarship – $500
🎓 MSW Scholarship – $500

Awards Categories:
🏆 Social Worker of the Year
🏆 Lifetime Achievement Award
🏆 Citizen of the Year

📅 Deadline: October 15, 2025

💻 Apply here:

• Scholarship Application
• Award Nominations

Why Join NASW?

In addition to all the benefits of regular member, our student membership has expanded programming and resources to support the scholar in their environment.

How does student membership enhance your social work education?

• Enjoy all the benefits of a regular member 
• Take any of our continuing education trainings for FREE
• Strengthen your advocacy skills with hands on experience at all levels 
• You will be eligible for state and national awards
• Apply to NASW scholarships and grants 

How can you gain experience and use your power at NASW-ND 

• Guide the future of social work in ND as a NASW-ND Board member 
• Chair or sit on a NASW-ND committee that aligns with your interests and will boost your resume 
• Advocate and develop permanent support systems in the ND Chapter for yourself and other social workers 

1. Why Join NASW

a.  As a Social Work Student, you are already part of a dynamic profession. Now is the time to join your professional organization! NASW is the largest and most recognized membership organization of professional Social Workers in the world, with 150,000 members across the nation. Being an NASW member means not only having access to our unique membership benefits but also promoting, developing, and strengthening the professional practice of social work. NASW is the leading organization in lobbying for social work student loan forgiveness, improving salaries for professional social workers, and monitoring social work licensing regulations. Don't wait until after graduation to join, why not promote the social work profession now?

b. Benefits

•  Access to chapter committee meetings.
• Advance your Career. Connect, learn, and network with Social Workers from across the state.
• Take part in MyNASW Community and MyNASW Student Community. Connect online with thousands of social workers from across the country. Create posts and reply to others' feeds.
•  Attend training offered monthly by the chapter to enhance your educational background. Most are little to no cost for Student Members of NASW.
• Protect your practice; Legal Resources and free ethical consultations.

c. Student Board Members: MSW members and BSW members. Each year one student from the state of North Dakota MSW and BSW programs is elected through an application process to sit on the NASW-ND Board.

d. Joining NASW as a student is ¼ of the cost as a licensed social worker joining the association. This cost is grandfathered in when you maintain membership through licensure for two to three years at only a fraction of the regular price or membership. Click here to sign up now.

2. Advocacy

• Action Alerts- Action alerts can be sent to your email address or found on the home page of the chapter website. These inform you
• about real time action that is needed for a social justice issue such as support or opposition a bill in the state House or Senate. This is a quick and easy way to advocate for human rights, remote sign in to hearings, and find petitions to sign that will help advance humanity with the click of a button.
• Policy Issues
• Voter Voice- NASW ND Voter voice platform allows you to keep up with the state legislature. The website outlines what bills the chapter and profession are in support or opposition of and which require action.

3. Find a Job

• NASW chapters send out current job openings on a regular basis.
• Click here for interviewing tricks, tips and questions.
• Be prepared with knowledge of Social Work salaries by state and position. Projected growth in the number of Social Work professionals in practice.
• Check out NASW Joblink here.