{"id":49189,"date":"2022-09-08T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/?page_id=49189"},"modified":"2022-09-08T17:10:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T17:10:25","slug":"state-of-minnesota-social-work-licensure","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/state-of-minnesota-social-work-licensure\/","title":{"rendered":"State Of Minnesota Social Work Licensure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Six months prior to completion of the MSW degree at Augsburg, students may apply to take the Licensed Graduate Social Worker (LGSW) license exam from the Minnesota Board of Social Work. To achieve LGSW licensure students must pass the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) master\u2019s level national social work licensure examination and complete the MSW degree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To seek the Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) license or the Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) license, one must work two years full-time (or 4,000 hours part-time) as an LGSW under the supervision of an LISW or LICSW, depending on the desired licensure. Upon completion of the supervision requirement, one may take the LISW or LICSW\u2019s Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) national social work licensure examination. For the LICSW, there are additional requirements for 360 clinical clock hours in six specific categories. For more information, go to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/mn.gov\/boards\/social-work\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Minnesota Board of Social Work web page<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six months prior to completion of the MSW degree at Augsburg, students may apply to take the Licensed Graduate Social &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":527,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-49189","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49191,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/49189\/revisions\/49191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/msw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}