Metro DC Chapter Annual Awards - 2021
Listed below are the categories and criteria
by which Metro Chapter members can identify and measure the accomplishments
of social workers, public citizens, agencies, and media in our community.
Making a nomination is an expression of appreciation for exceptional
performance and commitment to social work values by social workers,
public citizens, agencies, and the media. Our Annual Awards recognitions
endure year after year because they remain a vital source of inspiration,
reaffirmation, and gratitude. As you make your nomination, consider
the 2021 National Theme for Social Work Month –
STRENGTHENING CONNECTIONS
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
This award is to honor a member of the
Metro Washington Chapter for his/her accomplishments over a lifetime
of work in the field of Social Work. Candidates for this award have
contributed to the field in three (3) or more of the following ways:
• Demonstrates or has demonstrated
new combinations of skills that impart a positive impact on the profession
and/or an agency (give examples);
• Demonstrates or has demonstrated
extraordinary personal and professional integration of experience and
education to help people;
• Creativity demonstrated by nominee
in the transformation of programs and/or services;
• Exceptional risk taker for better
human services;
• Enlists major public support for
improved human services;
• Demonstrates or has demonstrated
superior contributions to the public’s knowledge of Social Work and
social programs;
• Represents an exemplary use of professional
ethics as defined in the NASW Code of Ethics;
• Reflects the 2010 National Theme
for Social Work Month –
SOCIAL WORKERS INSPIRE COMMUNITY ACTION
SOCIAL WORKER OF THE YEAR AWARD
This award will be chosen by the Awards
Committee from winners in the following four (4) categories:
1. Social Work Educator of the
Year
Candidates for this award must be currently
employed or recently employed during the past year in a bachelor’s,
master’s or doctoral level social work program in the Washington Metropolitan
Area and
must have contributed to the field in
three or more of the following ways during the past year (give examples):
• Demonstrates a new combination of
skills that impart a positive impact on the profession and/or an agency;
• Demonstrates, extraordinary personal
and professional integration of experience and education to help people;
• Creativity demonstrated by nominee
in the transformation of programs and/or services;
• Exceptional risk taker for better
human services;
• Enlists major public support for
improved human services;
• Demonstrates superior contributions
to the public’s knowledge of Social Work and social programs ;
• Represents an exemplary use of professional
ethics as defined in the NASW Code of Ethics;
• Reflects the 2010 National Theme
for Social Work Month –
SOCIAL WORKERS INSPIRE COMMUNITY ACTION
2. Social Work Entrepreneur of
the Year
This independently employed individual
must show creativity and initiative in practice or in expanding the
role of social work during the past year in three (3) or more of the
following ways (give examples):
• Creates new ways to do more with
less;
• Initiates new opportunities for consumer
empowerment and choice;
• Demonstrates new skills or uses for
technology to improve services and or care;
• Develops new business practices or
programs that provide viable services;
• Establishes entrepreneurial services
within the public or private sector;
• Creates new employment opportunities
for social workers ;
• Represents an exemplary use of professional
ethics as defined in the NASW Code of Ethics;
• Reflects the 2010 National Theme
for Social Work Month –
SOCIAL WORKERS INSPIRE COMMUNITY ACTION
3. Social Worker of the Year -
Private Agency
Candidates for this award must be currently
employed or recently employed during the past year in a private for
profit or non-profit agency in the Washington metropolitan area and
must have contributed to the field in three or more of the following
ways during the past year (give examples):
• Demonstrates a new combination of
skills that impart a positive impact on the profession and/or an agency;
• Demonstrates, extraordinary personal
and professional integration of experience and education to help people;
• Creativity demonstrated by nominee
in the transformation of programs and/or services;
• Exceptional risk taker for better
human services;
• Enlists major public support for
improved human services;
• Demonstrates or has demonstrated
superior contributions to the public’s knowledge of Social Work and
social programs;
• Represents an exemplary use of professional
ethics as defined in the NASW Code of Ethics;
• Reflects the 2010 National Theme
for Social Work Month –
SOCIAL WORKERS INSPIRE COMMUNITY ACTION
4. Social Worker of the Year - Public
Agency
Candidates for this award must be currently
employed or employed during the past year in a public (city, county,
state, or federal agency) in the Washington Metropolitan Area and must
have contributed
to the field in three or more of the
following ways during the past year ( give examples):
• Demonstrates a new combination of
skills that impart a positive impact on the profession and/or an agency;
• Demonstrates, extraordinary personal
and professional integration of experience and education to help people;
• Creativity demonstrated by nominee
in the transformation of programs and/or services;
• Exceptional risk taker for better
human services;
• Enlists major public support for
improved human services;
• Demonstrates or has demonstrated
superior contributions to the public’s knowledge of Social Work and
social programs;
• Represents an exemplary use of professional
ethics as defined in the NASW Code of Ethics;
• Reflects the 2010 National Theme
for Social Work Month –
SOCIAL WORKERS INSPIRE COMMUNITY ACTION
SOCIAL WORK STUDENT OF THE YEAR
Candidates for this award must be currently
matriculating or a recent graduate in a bachelor’s, master’s or
doctoral level social work program in the Washington Metropolitan Area
and must have contributed
to the field in three or more of the
following ways during the past year (give examples):
• Demonstrated academic excellence;
• Community and/or school activities
reflect understanding of social work principles;
• Demonstrates extraordinary personal
and professional integration of experience and education to help people;
• Exceptional risk taker for better
human services;
• Enlists major public support for
improved human services;
• Represents an exemplary use of professional
ethics as defined in the NASW Code of Ethics;
• Reflects the 2010 National Theme
for Social Work Month –
SOCIAL WORKERS INSPIRE COMMUNITY ACTION
AGENCY OF THE YEAR
Candidates for this award are agencies
in the Metropolitan Washington Area which exemplify social work values
through their commitment to activities that impact the social work profession,
social policy, and services to clients in three (3) or more of the following
ways (give examples):
• Promotes a new combination of skills
that impart a positive impact on the profession and/or an agency;
• Provides extraordinary in-service
opportunities for social workers to develop personal and professional
integration of experience and education to help people;
• Creativity demonstrated by agency
in the transformation of programs and/or services;
• Exceptional risk taker for better
human services;
• Enlists major public support for
improved human services;
• Develops new business practices or
programs that provide viable services;
• Demonstrates or has demonstrated
superior contributions to the public’s knowledge; of Social Work and
social programs;
• Represents exemplary values consistent
with NASW Code of Ethics;
• Reflects the 2010 National Theme
for Social Work Month –
SOCIAL WORKERS INSPIRE COMMUNITY ACTION
MEDIA AWARD
This individual or group of individuals
are employed in the print, television, or large screen media. This award
may or may not be awarded annually. Candidates for this award should
have contributed in three (3) or more of the following ways:
• Brings attention to the social work
profession or the specific practice of social workers.
• Brings attention to significant social/environmental/legal/legislative
issues that impact the work of social workers and or the consumers they
serve.
• Uses their journalistic talents to
raise funds and resources for social service or related programs in
the metropolitan area.
• Works conjointly with local groups/governments
to establish new services for individuals in need to social services.
• Has shown through their work a special
understanding of humanitarian needs and has stirred the consciousness
of the community.
• Represents exemplary values consistent
with NASW Code of Ethics
• Reflects the 2010 National Theme
for Social Work Month –
SOCIAL WORKERS INSPIRE COMMUNITY ACTION
PUBLIC CITIZEN OF THE YEAR
Candidates for this award are citizens
in the Metropolitan Washington Area who
do not possess a social work
degree
but exemplify social work values through their commitment
to and activities that impacts social issues and progress in three (3)
or more of the following ways (give examples):
• Demonstrates a new combination of
skills that impart a positive impact on the profession and/or an agency;
• Demonstrates, extraordinary personal
and professional integration of experience and education to help people;
• Creativity demonstrated by nominee
in the transformation of programs and/or services;
• Exceptional risk taker for better
human services;
• Enlists major public support for
improved human services;
• Demonstrates or has demonstrated
superior contributions to the public’s knowledge of Social Work and
social programs;
• Represents exemplary values consistent
with NASW Code of Ethics;
• Reflects the 2010 National Theme
for Social Work Month –
SOCIAL WORKERS INSPIRE COMMUNITY ACTION
Note:
All nominees must be members in good
standing in NASW, Metro Washington Chapter, except for nominees for
the following: Media, Public Citizen, & Agency awards.
Nominations
should be received in the Chapter Office
by February 15, 2010.