The National Association of Social Workers, the major professional social work organization in Maine, committed to advancing professional social work practice and promoting human rights, social and economic justice and unimpeded access to services for everyone, has made the following endorsements:

• House 2 (Eliot, Kittery and South Berwick): Mark Lawrence

• House 9 (Biddeford, Kennebunk and Kennebunkport): Diane Denk

• House 15 (Saco): Maggie O’Neil

• House 40 (Portland): Herb Adams

• Senate 7 (Hancock County): Ted Koffman

• Senate 27 (Cumberland County): Ben Chipman

• Senate 28 (Cumberland County): Ann Peoples

• Senate 31 (York County): Barry Hobbins

These candidates’ positions were congruent with social work issues and values, including MaineCare expansion, addiction treatment and prevention, general assistance for immigrant and refugee populations, K-12 education funding, background checks for the purchase of firearms and increasing the state’s minimum wage.

Cathleen E. Dunlap

board president, National Association of Social Workers, Maine Chapter

Augusta