NASW rejoices in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling striking the California Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional in Perry v. Brown, available at http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/opinions/. Read NASW’s amicus brief, coordinated by the NASW Legal Defense Fund, at www.socialworkers.org/ldf/brief_bank
Loneliness and Isolation: Physical and Mental Health Could be at Risk
By Jaimie Seaton In May 2023, social isolation and loneliness were declared an epidemic. The declaration, made in a report from the U.S. surgeon general at the time, Dr. Vivek M It would be logical to attribute the findings in the report to the COVID-19 pandemic,...


