By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor Texas lawmakers have made a decision that is a deeply troubling afront to voting rights. Its aggressive and unprecedented gerrymandering strategy that — if it comes to fruition — challenges the fundamental principles of...
In the long run, as matter of principle, gerrymandering as a tool for gaining political power is wrong
By Mel Wilson, MBA, LCSW NASW Senior Policy AdvisorThe U.S. District Court in Houston on July 16 issued a decision that the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program is unlawful, thereby partially halting it. The decision declaring DACA unlawful is based...
By Sam Hickman, MSWExecutive Director of the National Association of Social Workers West Virginia Chapter The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) West Virginia Chapter, and the other state advocacy groups, are cognizant of our state’s unique position in...
By Mel Wilson, MBA, LCSW NASW Senior Policy AdvisorWhile much of the nation is beginning to return to a degree of normalcy since the start of national COVID vaccine distribution, there are still nagging and serious barriers to ending the pandemic in the United...
By Mel Wilson, MBA, LCSW NASW Senior Policy AdvisorJust days after the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act of 2021(MORE Act) was reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives Amazon, the nation’s second largest private employer, announced it...
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the rest of the Civil Rights and Social Justice community should be elated that the nation now has a seasoned and committed head of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Civil Rights division. On June 25th, the Senate...
National Association of Social Workers member Bette Freedson is a clinical social worker in South Berwick, Maine. She recently authored the book Other Realms, Other Ways: A Clinician's Guide to the Magick of Intuition." We talked to Freedson about how social workers...