The December 2022 – January 2023 issue of Social Work Advocates is available online. NASW members can sign in to read the flipbook. Some of the stories in this issue: When Prisoners Go Home: Preventing Recidivism Among Top Goals for Social Worker Social workers are...
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Social Work Advocates December 2022 – January 2023 Issue is Online
The December 2022 – January 2023 issue of Social Work Advocates is available online. NASW members can sign in to read the flipbook. Some of the stories in this issue: When Prisoners Go Home: Preventing Recidivism Among Top Goals for Social Worker Social workers are...
National Recovery Month
September is National Recovery Month! Every September, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) sponsors Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of mental and substance use disorders and celebrate the people who recover....
Arizona CHIP
Last week, enrollment for Arizona’s Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP) opened after being frozen for years. Now every state has a CHIP plan to cover low-income children and provide them with access to health services:...
Formal and informal neighborhood social organization: Which promotes better resident health?
Residential neighborhoods have an effect on residents’ health, according to increasing research in health and social sciences. Neighborhood structural characteristics are consistently associated with individual health outcomes. For example, living in disadvantaged...
LGBT and Disabilities Issues, Transgender Equity, the Stonewall National Monument, and Recovery Month
The final week of Pride Month included an event at the White House, the naming of a new National Monument, a sea-change of policy at the Department of Defense. On Monday, June 27, 2016, the White House convened a White House Forum on the LGBT and Disability Issues. ...
Relationships between Adolescent Well-Being and Friend Support and Behavior
Numerous studies have pointed out the correlation between adolescent delinquency and negative peer pressures. But do positive peer associations also impact adolescent behavior? In a recent issue of the journal Children & Schools, published by NASW Press, Amy C....
Promoting Young People’s Participation: Exploring Social Work’s Contribution to the Literature
In a 1998 article in the NASW-published journal Social Work, Janet Finn and Barry Checkoway argued that the field of social work had largely pathologized, victimized, and problematized young people. They argued that constructing and conceptualizing young people as...