By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor As many are aware, there is a looming food security crisis directly related to the current government shutdown. The Trump administration announced that for the month of November 2025, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
The Trump Administration’s withholding of funding for food aid is a callous policy decision
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!
The Senate Finance Committee (SFC) released its mental health workforce discussion draft component of its mental health legislative package
We train for years to help folks at risk of falling through the gaping holes in the country’s safety net. These too are small acts of everyday heroism.
NASW members are encouraged to comment on an important proposed rule to strengthen nondiscrimination protections in health programs through Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act.