The purpose of Recovery Month is to raise awareness and promote evidence-based treatment and recovery practices, celebrate the recovery community, and acknowledge service providers and communities that assist individuals with their recovery.
Social workers play an important role in health care, even more so as health care services become increasingly integrated.
The first edition of Burnout and Self-Care in Social Work was a breakout hit, providing a guiding light for those who were struggling.
September is Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Awareness Month. As providers of mental and behavioral health services, social workers play a critical role in preventing FASDs by sharing key messages with clients who are pregnant or may become pregnant.
Social Work Advocates magazine is accepting submissions for the Viewpoints column from current NASW members.
Jessica Marcrum, MSW, LSW, has put her private practice on hold as she focuses on building her tabletop game-design hobby into a business.
Social workers play an important role in health care, even more so as health care services become increasingly integrated.
When Brenda Mitchell’s 31-year-old son Kenneth was gunned down in 2005, she took on the role of raising his three young children amid her own devastation.
Social Work Advocates magazine is accepting submissions for the Viewpoints column from current NASW members.
Jessica Marcrum, MSW, LSW, has put her private practice on hold as she focuses on building her tabletop game-design hobby into a business.
Social workers play an important role in health care, even more so as health care services become increasingly integrated.
When Brenda Mitchell’s 31-year-old son Kenneth was gunned down in 2005, she took on the role of raising his three young children amid her own devastation.
W.E.B. DuBois is being honored in October 2023 as a social work pioneer by the NASW Foundation.
When the Supreme Court finally declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, Frederick Douglass, amid an outpouring of outrage, advised that we must first take a collective deep breath.
NASW, including our Missouri Chapter, on July 20, 2023, requested Missouri Governor Parson grant clemency to Johnny Johnson, who was scheduled to be executed on Aug. 1, 2023.
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) reintroduced the Democracy Restoration Act, federal legislation that seeks to restore voting rights in federal elections to the millions of disenfranchised Americans who have been released from prison but are still denied the right to vote.
This expansion of the ministerial exception risks threatening the civil rights of thousands of New Jersey employees.
When the Supreme Court finally declared the Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, Frederick Douglass, amid an outpouring of outrage, advised that we must first take a collective deep breath.
On July 24, 2023, the Michigan Supreme Court in Pueblo v. Haas ruled in our favor, granting unmarried people in same-sex relationships the right to seek custody and parenting time with their children even if there was no genetic connection.
NASW, including the NASW Michigan Chapter, submitted an amicus brief on March 10, 2023, to the Michigan Supreme Court as it hears the case Pueblo v. Haas to determine custody rights for separated, unmarried LGBTQ couples.