Welcome to the ISSWLHC website. ISSWLHC provides support to social work in health care through our education programs and events, and by being advocates for health care.

The Indiana Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care is an association of Social Work health care administrators, leaders and Social Workers interested in the area of macro practice/leadership in agencies. ISSWLHC is dedicated to all areas of health care, social work case management, policy and communities. This is a statewide organization with members representing a number of different hospitals and health care organizations from Fort Wayne to Evansville, Gary to New Albany.

Montreal International and Indiana State Conference Updates:
At least seven of us from Indiana made the trip to Montreal, Canada for the international Society for Social Work Leadership In HealthCare Conference during the first week of April. One of our state chapter members was a presenter at the conference and Polly Jones; Past President received the Ida B. Canon Award at the conference. It was a very good conference and Montreal is a beautiful historic city. Next year’s conference is scheduled to help in the City of New Orleans. I believe the dates for this are April 22nd-25th 2009. Please check the SSWLHC website for more information as it is posted. The SSWLHC website has been updated and has an Indiana Chapter page as well.

I attended the chapter president’s meeting and the website updates were brought up. Another issue that was brought up will affect state chapters. There is an interest and need to change the membership dues structure. This has generated a lot of discussion. Two Indiana members (including myself) participated in a national task force on this issue last fall. No decision has been made on this at this time. The change in whatever form it takes is not immediate and you will hear more about it at our conference. The Society for Social work Leadership In health Care will send a board representative to our conference in May to present information on this and to get your input. We will keep you informed on this.

Our conference with the theme “Social Work Leadership In Action for Indiana” will be held May 8th and 9th at St. Vincent’s Marten House in Indianapolis. Our conference committee has done a very good job and has a great conference ready to go. If you would like more information, flyers and registration can be found at our website at www.isswlhc.org on the Events or Education pages. It is an important time in Social Work, for the Society for Social Work Leadership In Health Care and our Indiana state chapter. The board and conference committee hope to see you there! If you have friends or co-workers who would like to attend please pass this information along to them with a flyer or registration. Dr. Rob Stone will present our keynote address.

Montreal was great but there was still a lot of snow there…It is good to be back home, Cher!

Click here for pictures from Montreal SSWLHC Conference.