2019 Path to Licensure – ASWB Annual Report

Photograph of 2019 Path to Licensure institute scholars

The six scholars in the 2019 Path to Licensure Institute will complete a three-year commitment to take a leadership role in enhancing learning about licensure and regulation at their schools and producing regulatory research.

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Darrin Wright listens to Path to Licensure Institute intensive faculty members Carl Brun and Anwar Najor-Durack.

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Path to Licensure Institute faculty member Anwar Najor-Durack consults with one of the scholars on her ideas for regulatory research.

Photograph of Jan Fitts giving a presentation

Janice Fitts, ASWB education and research senior manager, presents on the Path to Licensure program and ASWB resources for educators.

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Social work educators share information in small groups at the educator–regulatory board collaboration in Columbus, Ohio.

Photograph of two smiling women in a conference room

A pair of social work educators are ready to learn about regulation when the Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board hosted more than 50 educators and guests for a day of information sharing.

Leadership for the educator–regulatory board collaboration included, from left, Brian Carnahan, executive director; Erin Michel, board member; Janice Fitts, ASWB education and research senior manager; and Ryan Pickut, board chair.

ASWB’s Path to Licensure program is designed to bring the worlds of education and regulation together in the classroom to strengthen student and faculty knowledge of professional regulation and its important connection to public protection and social work values and ethics.

Path to Licensure highlights:

Six scholars chosen from colleges and universities across the United States attended the 2019 Path to Licensure Institute intensive, which was led by two faculty members who have a longtime affiliation with ASWB through their service as regulators. Scholars make a three-year commitment to take a leadership role to enhance learning about licensure and regulation at their schools and produce regulatory research.
An innovative collaboration between an ASWB member board and a group of educators took place in September in Columbus, Ohio, when that state’s Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage and Family Therapist Board hosted more than 50 educators and guests for a day of information-sharing. Janice Fitts, ASWB’s education and research senior manager, presented on the Path to Licensure program.