November 11, 2025

Update by By Laura Groshong, LICSW, CSWA Director of Policy and Practice

I attended a 6-hour meeting on the Compact Commission on November 5, 2025. It was the first annual meeting of the Commission. About 40 people attended, mostly delegates from the 30 states that have joined the Compact. At that time, there were 5 states with pending legislation. Here are the high points from the meeting.

A data system was chosen to process all the LCSWs who join the Compact. Unique identifiers will be assigned to each Compact member.

As for finances, there is still a lot of work to do by the Commission to figure out what the fees will be to join the Compact. More information will be coming in 2026. The Commission itself is primarily a home for all the data collected by the states and a way to make states aware of any disciplinary issues that arise across Compact states.

The Compact should be set up by the end of 2026 as states start to process Compact members. States will on-board in groups, not all at once. There are many more steps to getting the Compact ready to start. CSWA will keep you informed as the Commission puts the rest of the structure in place.

Let me know if you have any Compact questions by emailing me at lwgroshong@clinicalsocialworkassociation.org.