By Rena Malai, News staff The NASW Specialty Practice Sections is offering SPS members a series of newsletters correlating to hope. The series of hope articles now available online for Section members detail a true experience of how hope prevailed and aided social...
Month: February 2013
Specialty Practice Sections offers series of hope-related newsletters
By Rena Malai, News staff The NASW Specialty Practice Sections is offering SPS members a series of newsletters correlating to hope. The series of hope articles now available online for Section members detail a true experience of how hope prevailed and aided social...
NASW Applauds Pentagon Support for Same Sex Couples
This policy change is expected to positively affect tens of thousands of military service members and veterans.
Social workers take action after Hurricane Sandy
By Paul R. Pace, News staff Social workers volunteered to aid the recovery effort for those impacted by Hurricane Sandy, which caused severe structural damage and flooding in the mid-Atlantic region in late October. NASW New Jersey Chapter Executive Director Walter...
100 Ways To Celebrate Social Work Month
By Paul R. Pace, News staff There are literally 100 ways social workers can take part in National Professional Social Work Month this March. Visitors to SocialWorkMonth.org can view the suggestions that are conveniently grouped in 10 categories: Students;...
Protect Our Kids Act signed into law
By Paul R. Pace, News staff NASW, as a member of the National Coalition to End Child Abuse Deaths, celebrated the recent passage of the Protect Our Kids Act (H.R. 6655/S. 3705) in the 112th Congress. President Obama signed the bill in January. The legislation will...
Comprehensive Immigration Reform
On January 29, 2013 President Obama gave his "The Time is Now" speech which ushered in his administration's Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislative initiative. A day earlier, a bipartisan group of four Republican and Four Democrats (the "gang of eight") also...
Positive impact of social work intervention in pediatric primary care
The February 5th issue of Annals of Internal Medicine features an article that cites positive outcomes for the Baltimore-based SEEK Project (Safe Environment for Every Kid). Sponsored by the University of Maryland Medical Center, the SEEK project integrates...