Find out where to take your career and how to get there! The NASW Center for Workforce Studies has compiled survey results, indentified decision points, and classified the social work labor force to help you understand your place on the professional spectrum. These...
Month: October 2009
Understand your place on the professional social work spectrum
Find out where to take your career and how to get there! The NASW Center for Workforce Studies has compiled survey results, indentified decision points, and classified the social work labor force to help you understand your place on the professional spectrum. These...
NASW Health Care Reform Roundup – October 26, 2009
Congress Extends the Ryan White Act Last week, Congress passed the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009. The bill will extend for four years the Ryan White Program, which provides lifesaving and life-extending health care, medications and support...
NASW Executive Director Elizabeth Clark Leads Social Work Delegation to Egypt (Part IV)
Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH Our delegation was received today by the social work faculty of Helwan University. We were met by the Dean, Prof. Dr. Maher Abo Elmaate, and by the Vice Deans for Post Graduate Studies and Community Organization. Their faculty...
Are we all precious? On the movie “Precious”
On October 22, NASW participated in an advance screening panel for a powerful new movie called Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire. This film chronicles the harrowing journey of an obese, abused and illiterate teenager in New York City who seeks a better...
NASW Delegation to Egypt, Part 3
By Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH Today we visited The Suzanne Mubarak Regional Centre for Women's Health and Development (SMC) in Alexandria. This is a special program of Mrs. Murbarak, the First Lady of Egypt, and it is part of the national budget. We met with...
Hate Crimes Passes: On to President
The National Association of Social Workers has steadfastly been involved with hate crimes legislation for over a decade. On October 22, 2009 NASW'S tireless efforts came to fruition with the passage, by the Senate, of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate...
NASW Delegation to Egypt, Part 2
Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH As part of our delegation trip to Cairo, we visited the Children's Cancer Center which opened in 2007. It is a state-of-the-art center that is a flagship facility for the Middle East. It has 182 inpatient beds, 10 ICU beds, 22...