NASW-Illinois Chapter
With over 800 social workers and social work students in attendance yesterday, and a passionate presentation from Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, the social work community had a strong presence at the Illinois State Capitol yesterday for our annual Social Work Advocacy Day. A great deal of our legislative action and activity yesterday can be found on NASW-Illinois Chapter social media. I would also encourage all of you to check out the Advocacy Day app which you can download here (for event, type in "NASW-IL").
We thank the many schools around the state that participated in this year’s event. The following schools and their number of attendees participated in yesterday’s activities:
Aurora University - 122
Bradley University - 2
Chicago State University - 1
Concordia University - 5
DePaul University - 12
Dominican University - 145
Governors State University - 41
Greenville University - 17
Illinois State University - 79
Joliet Junior College - 2
Lewis University - 20
Loyola University Chicago - 39
Methodist College - 1
Millikin University - 4
Northeastern Illinois University - 22
Olivet Nazarene University - 30
Southern Illinois University Carbondale - 39
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville - 1
Trinity Christian College - 14
University of Chicago - 1
University of Illinois at Chicago - 47
University of Springfield - 1
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - 65
University of St. Francis - 39
Western Illinois University - 20
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