Chapter News

In follow-up to passage of House Bill 1085 (HB1085) late last month, Heather O'Donnell, Director of Behavioral Health Strategy at DuPage County Health Department, shared the following information regarding the bill. Please read through the following to learn more about HB1085 which establishes minimum reimbursement rates for in-network behavioral health services. 

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is part of a broad coalition of more than a dozen cities, labor unions, and nonprofit organizations that today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education (ED).

Thank you to the social workers and social work students who called, e-mailed, and met with their legislators this month and helped to push House Bill 1085 across the finish line and pass in the Illinois Senate. The bill, which establishes minimum reimbursement rates for in-network behavioral health services, ensuring that mental health and substance use disorder treatment is covered by health insurance under fair terms, heads to the governor's desk where it is expected he wi

As NASW celebrates its seventieth anniversary, no one could have predicted that we would be in the midst of the second longest government shutdown in the nation’s history, and that funding for major programs such as SNAP would end on November 1st. It takes tremendous efforts to continue to practice and serve individuals, families, and communities against this backdrop. We have done this over our 70-year history and will continue our important work for years to come.