NASW Purpose Statement:

The Purpose of NASW

NASW exists…

• to promote the quality and effectiveness of social work practice in the United States through services to individuals, groups, and communities
• to further the broad objective of improving conditions of life in our democratic society through utilization of the professional knowledge and skills of social work and to expand through research the knowledge necessary to define and attain these goals
• to provide opportunity for the social work profession to work in unity toward maintaining and promoting high standards of practice and of preparation for practice and toward alleviating or preventing sources of deprivation, distress, and strain susceptible to being influenced by social work methods and by social action.