Ph.D. alumnus receives the 2016 leadership award at ASWB Annual Meeting
David Hamilton, Ph.D., LMSW, ACSW, a 1998 alumnus of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Social Work Ph.D. Program, was recognized for his outstanding service to the New York State Board for Social Work by the Association of Social Work Boards during its 2016 Annual Meeting of the Delegate Assembly, held in November in San Diego, California.
Hamilton, executive secretary of the New York State Board for Social Work, was awarded the Glenda McDonald Board Administrator Award for Outstanding Commitment to Social Work Regulatory Board Service. He was recognized for his years of dedicated service to licensed social workers, the social work board and his supportive leadership within ASWB.
Hamilton is the first recipient of the award for social work regulatory administrators since the award was renamed by the ASWB Board of Directors in 2015. The award was named in memory of Glenda McDonald, longtime registrar of the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers and an active ASWB volunteer. The award is given annually by the Association of Social Work Boards to a regulatory board staff member.
The Association of Social Work Boards is the nonprofit association of social work licensing regulatory bodies in the United States and Canada. Members include 50 states, Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and all 10 Canadian provinces. ASWB’s mission is to strengthen protection of the public by providing support and services to the social work regulatory community in order to advance safe, competent, and ethical practices. M. Jenise Comer, LCSW, M.S.W., ACSW, of Missouri is the current president. Learn more at www.aswb.org.
Photo: David Hamilton receives the ASWB Glenda McDonald Board Administrator award from Carmen Collado, chair of the New York State Board for Social Workers.
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