News Items – February 23, 2023

Johanna Thomas is a member of NASW-AR:Effort to merge 4 state boards into newly created mental health board
fails to clear committeeNorthwest Arkansas Democrat-GazetteJohanna Thomas, a former president of the National Association of
Social Workers’ Arkansas chapter, said the bill would likely create a
bottleneck in the licensing of more than 10,000 licensed mental health
professionals. She urged lawmakers to either vote against the bill or to remove
the Arkansas Social Working Licensing Bo