They also reflect an optimal utilization of resources, including the expertise of very knowledgeable members. But there is an imperative for the Chapter to strive to go beyond what it is doing. Just how to do this should remain an open question that we grapple with. This is a term that refers to what you can do when agreed upon solutions are not readily at hand. It requires serious interpersonal engagement, involving openness, respect, tolerance for difference of opinion, and support.
Creative outcomes are the desired goal.
With this issue of Currents, we are beginning a dialogue involving the most distinguished members of our profession in New York City, the deans of the five graduate schools of social work. We must keep this dialogue going beyond the news-letter, spreading to the faculty, the agencies, their workers, and students. Anyone can get it going. It can be done everywhere. It can be done at NASW, in its existing committees, and we must explore having new forums.