By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW This month marks 55 years since 39-year-old Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel as he worked for justice for striking sanitation workers in Memphis, TN. This means several generations have only...
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Martin Luther King’s Eulogy is our Call to Action | NASW Member Voices
As Bejamin Mays said, “Martin Luther King Jr.’s unfinished work on earth must truly be our own.”
Social Work Ethics in the Time of COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed every aspect of our lives over just a few weeks. The ethical dilemmas that have emerged would have been considered fodder for a disaster movie plot not too long ago, yet today these dilemmas are reality.
Mental Health Leaders Meet with President Trump to Discuss Coronavirus Impact
National Association of Social Workers (NASW) CEO Angelo McClain yesterday participated on a conference call with President Trump, Vice President Pence and key Trump Administration officials for a discussion on the mental health implications of the Coronavirus Disease...
National Healthcare Decisions Day in a Time of Pandemic
On April 16th each year, NASW celebrates National Healthcare Decisions Day (NHDD) to empower individuals to engage in advance care planning. As our communities face the COVID-19 pandemic, the importance of these conversations comes into new focus. Social workers can...
New York City Social Workers: Silenced on the Front Lines of Crisis
By Dr. Claire Green-Forde, LCSWExecutive Director, National Association of Social Workers-NYC ChapterNew York currently holds a title no city or state in America wants - the epicenter of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) crisis. As social workers we are watching...
Join the #TransKids #SoFierce Campaign on March 31, 2020
Each year on March 31, the world marks International Transgender Day of Visibility as a time to raise awareness around the discrimination that people who are transgender experience and celebrate people who are transgender from around the world who courageously live...
NASW joins legal case to stop faith groups from using “ministerial exception” to deny civil protections to staff
The amicus brief urges the Court to reject these attempts to expand the ministerial exception and instead, rule in a manner that allows teachers and other employees at religious schools to retain their critical workplace civil rights protections.