Spring 2023 Legislative Committee Report

Post was written by James Stolz, LICSW MSCSW is very active on your behalf in advocating for policy change that affects clinical social workers. To that end, we are active with two different groups: the Mental Health Legislative Network and the Minnesota Coalition of Licensed Social Workers.  We are your voice of change in these […]

Fall 2022 Legal Committee Report

Ellen Luepker and Clay Sankey continue to provide consultations to MSCSW members who have questions and dilemmas related to clinical/ethical/legal issues. One hour of consultation per year is free as a MSCSW member benefit.  Clay has been doing most of the consultations lately due to Ellen working on the 3rd edition of her book on record […]

History & Contributions

Elizabeth W. Horton, MSW, LICSWJune 20, 1933- March 7, 2016 The name Betsy Horton is synonymous with the very best in clinical social work. When Betsy told us last month the radiation to her liver cancer she’d hoped could allow her to live another year was ineffective and she was moving to hospice care, we […]

Family Separation

MSCSW was one of three professional organizations to endorse a letter to the editor, “Immigrant children separated from parents could suffer profound psychological trauma” published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on Sunday, July 9, 2018.