By April Ferguson LCSW-C, Senior Practice Associate, Children and Adolescents On September 28, 2023, the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF) published a final rule regarding licensing and approval standards for kinship placements. The rule allows for...
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Child Welfare Updates: New Rule Regarding Kinship Placements
Rule allows for Title IV-E agencies to utilize separate licensing requirements for kinship homes and distribute payments to kinship providers
NASW disappointed Senate fails to pass Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is deeply disappointed by Senate gridlock and failure to pass the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act. All 50 Republican Senators along with Democratic Senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West...
Day of Policy Action for the Violence Against Women Act with lead Senators and Actor Angelina Jolie
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) on January 19 is joining the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence, Angelina Jolie, and Senate sponsors of the upcoming Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) reauthorization for a policy day of action to...
Update: Federal Rule to Prevent Surprise Health Care Billing: Application to Clinical Social Workers
See the "No Surprises Act Regulations 2022" page on Socialworkers.org January 5, 2022 This blog post updates information from our post of December 21, 2021. It provides updated clarifying information that was not available until now regarding Part II of a federal rule...
President Biden intends to appoint social worker Mia Ives-Rublee to Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders
President Biden has announced his intent to appoint social worker Mia Ives-Rublee, MSW, to his Advisory Commission on Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. Ives-Rublee is currently director of the Disability Justice Initiative at the Center for...
NASW on amicus brief before U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn Texas abortion law
This case involves Texas’s Senate Bill 8 (SB 8), banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy and allowing private citizens to enforce the law by suing anyone who performed, aided, or abetted an abortion in violation of the ban.
NASW, University of Michigan White House field placement paper explores macro policy practice and political social work
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and University of Michigan have released a paper, The White House as a Field Placement Reflections on the Past and a Future for Policy and Political Practice, that features a speech by social worker and White House...