2027 GSCSW Legislative Townhall

Please join Jamie Lord, our lobbyist, and our Legistlative Chair, Will Smith, LCSW, to discuss and learn more about the upcoming 2027 legislative landscape. We will be focusing on legislation that effects social workers in Georgia.

Jamie Lord is a Government Affairs Advisor and Consultant for the American Federation for Children. She lobbied to pass Georgia’s first private school choice program, a voucher for students with special needs, more than ten years ago and has been advocating for expanding educational options for children ever since. She fought to create the state’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program and also managed the c3 educational effort and coalition for charter schools during a successful campaign to pass a constitutional amendment to allow statewide authorization of charters, unfairly denied by local school boards. She has a B.S. in Political Science from Georgia State University.

William A. Smith is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a passionate therapist dedicated to making high-quality mental health care accessible throughout Georgia. A native of Atlanta, Will earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Georgia before completing his Master’s degree in Clinical Social Work at the University of Washington in Seattle. He also spent a year of service with AmeriCorps, volunteering as a full-time tutor and mentor for children in an underserved school.

Registration is required and you can register below.