Financial Planning Gets Personal at SmartMoney.com Source: www.smartmoney.com More financial planners are playing counselor with their clients. “Sherri Morgan, associate counsel for the National Association of Social Workers, says putting too many emotions on the table can cloud clients’ judgment. An adviser typically has complete access to client accounts; if an adviser also has access to a client’s personal... 

NASW’s brief was cited by the Supreme Court in the decision on Safford Unified School District v. Redding. “Savana’s subjective expectation of privacy against such a search is inherent in her account of it as embarrassing,frightening, and humiliating. The reasonableness of her expectation (required by the Fourth Amendment standard) is indicated by the consistent experiences of other young people similarly... 

Take action today! We need you to speak out on behalf of our nation’s service men and women once more.  Congressman Denny Rehberg from Montana has introduced the companion bill to S. 711, the Post Deployment Health Assessment Act of 2009.  We appreciate the immense support for S. 711 and we must ensure these bills garner broad support in the House and Senate. As you may know, this legislation is based on the... 

National Association of Social Workers Executive Director Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH recorded this important message about the future of our profession and I hope you will take a moment to view this video. Social Work Reinvestment Act Send a Letter to Your Representative in Support Send a Letter to Your Senator in Support  Read More →

NASW Launches Web Page on Health Care Reform NASW has been working on health care reform for decades. Most recently, we have collaborated with a number of groups that are aiming to enact health care reform now. To highlight NASW’s current efforts on Health Care Reform, we have launched a Health Care Reform Web page. See the plans proposed in Congress and NASW’s response to these plans. We have also posted the NASW... 

Earn FREE CEUs with SPS Live Practice Teleconferences – Register Now! Managing Professional Grief Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:00-2:00 EST, 1 CEU offered Presenter: •  Elizabeth Clark,PhD, ACSW, MPH Moderator(s): •  Tracy Whitaker,DSW, ACSW Social workers understand the importance of maintaining good boundaries when dealing with client issues. Yet witnessing suffering in any form is difficult, and when a client... 

Carole Bowdry, social worker who confronted child abuse, dies at 71 “Carole Bowdry spent most of her career confronting a problem that some people would rather have just ignored: child abuse.” Dallas Morning News Social workers, psychologists to aid religious courts in divorce “Social workers and psychologists could soon become an integral part of the country’s religious legal system, with the... 

June 12, 2009 The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) applauds President Obama’s historic nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.  We appreciate Judge Sotomayor’s distinguished judicial record, highlighted by her respect for human dignity and the needs of all Americans. The federal courts often are called the guardians of the constitution because their rulings protect the rights and liberties... 

Blogger Baby Hoax Writer Beccah Beushausen is NOT a professional social worker.  Social workers say she is a young woman in pain who needs professional help with her grief. In response to a June 12 article in the Chicago Tribune and a related Associated Press story about “April’s Mom”,  http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-baby-hoax-12jun12,0,5601624.story, the National Association of Social Workers has... 

To honor Gay Pride Month we asked Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) social workers to tell us why they chose social work as their profession and to describe the unique challenges facing their community. Annmarie K. Agosta, MSW, LCSW, LMSW, East Brunswick, New Jersey Patti Aldredge, MSSW, PhD, New York New York Gary Bailey, MSW, ACSW, Boston, Massachusetts Bruce M. Beckwith, MSW, LCSW, New York,...