Useful Links

There is a lot of information out there about social work licensing. We hope this can be a useful place to find links that are relevant to our advocacy. Think we're missing something? Please let us know.

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• Our social media pages provide access to previous posts as well as our recorded presentations. Please find them on our contact page.

• Baltimore Sun article featuring a SWEAR founder and detailing our advocacy, Feb 2023. (paywall)

• Maryland Social Work Licensure Workgroup (Be sure to check out the interim and final reports)

• Social Work Interstate Compact (a separate but related issue to our work) Lines 289-90: "Nothing in this Compact shall affect the requirements established by a Member State for the issuance of a Single State License."

• SWEAR MD-BSWE Application - Advocacy Ideas

• Illinois doubled their Masters level workforce by removing exams

• ​Maryland Behavioral Health Workforce Assessment

• ASWB links:

  • Pass Rate Analysis​

  • 2022 Pass Rates​

  • ASWB presentation to BSWE, Jan 13, 2023 (slides only here)

  • A flyer that ASWB gave to Virginia legislators during attempted licensure reform in that state. 

  • Results of "Community Conversations" that happened following the data release

  • RFP following the data release

• Press Release: NASW Opposes ASWB Licensure Exams​

• Scholarly Articles 

  • "I Was Told to Think Like a Middle-Aged White Woman": A Survey on Identity and the Association of Social Work Boards Exam

  • Mental health clinical exams’ evident adherence to industry standards for testing

  • Construct-Irrelevant Variance on the ASWB Clinical Social Work Licensing Exam: A Replication of Prior Validity Concerns

  • Assessing Measurement Invariance in ASWB Exams: Regulatory Research Proposal to Advance Equity

• Articles

  • Report: Clinical exams in mental health licensing are structural racism

  • AI Analyzes the Social Work Licensing Exam, and Concerns Deepen