By Marisa Markowitz, LCSW, CASAC, C-DBT There are trips that simply take you to a new place, and then there are trips that immerse you fully - body, mind, and spirit - into an environment that shifts something inside you. My recent six-day, five-night trip to Belize...
A Social Workers’ Surf Yoga Beer Adventure
The true takeaway is that many Americans made an affirmative statement with their vote. They affirmed that they will not passively allow out of control autocrats and White supremacists to destroy 244 years of a flawed but mostly successful experiment in democracy called America.
Open Enrollment for the health insurance marketplace is November 1, 2022, to January 15, 2023. For coverage to begin on January 1, 2023, enrollment must be completed by midnight on December 15, 2022.
By Hannah LiuImmigration and Immigrant Families team, Center for Law and Social PolicyFor more than two years, children and families fleeing danger have been turned away at the U.S.-Mexico border without a chance to seek asylum under a misguided policy called Title...
We are social workers, and we labor in a world of brokenness. We are surrounded by so much death, which makes me question my social work practices.
Recent FBI data regarding low-level marijuana possession as a crime shows there was one marijuana arrest every 90 seconds in this nation in 2020.
For all of you who are on the Rainbow Spectrum, all of you who have known the inside of a closet, all of you who have had to tell your story and your truth again (and again, and again, and again) because of the oppressive world in which we live and the assumptions that we all live in, Happy National Coming Out Day!