NCSSA

NCSSA Structure & Principles

• We believe foremost in improving the human condition and the working conditions of our members.
• We believe that through effective customer/client service we can promote self-sufficiency and in our ability to help employees and clients of the social services delivery system to reach their full potential.
• We believe in our ability to influence public policy and legislative initiatives, and hold that we have both a right and a responsibility to use our collective efforts to advance the field of human services.
• We believe in the dignity of humankind and in the worth and value of human services.
• We believe in professionalism, in professional development leading to career enrichment and advancement, and in promoting a positive image of human services.
• We value most our efforts to improve the human condition and the treatment of our members as professionals.
• We value the political process and our worth as an agent for progressive social change through our collective effort as a representative organization.
• We value equal opportunity, professional development and commitment, the inherent worth of social work, and in efforts to improve the working conditions of social services personnel.
• We value efforts to help our members and our clients to progress.
• We value efforts to educate the public on the mission and goals of social services, and in efforts to bring about uniformity of compensation, benefits and job classifications throughout the social services delivery system.
• We value citizen support of community-based social services projects.