By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Adviser President Donald Trump’s proposed FY2027 federal budget represents a continuation of the pronounced shift in federal priorities that are clearly designed to substantially reshape the U.S. social safety net. The proposal seeks...
This Budget Is Not Motivated By A Sense Of Obligation To Improve The Well-Being of Marginalize and Vulnerable Citizens
Recent headlines signal that the federal government is willfully ignoring the potential dangers of climate change. In April, Reuters published an article titled, “State Department Nixes Climate Office.” A New York Times headline read, “Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report.” And Bloomberg featured an exposé, “Lights Out: How Trump’s War on Climate Science Is Weakening the U.S.”
Social workers help clients navigate attacks on the undocumented
NASW, state governments hold the line against unregulated chatbot therapy
In honor of FASD Awareness Month, social workers can help reduce the prevalence of FASDs by conducting alcohol screening, brief interventions, and referral to treatment for all clients—including pregnant women—and clearly communicating the importance of avoiding any alcohol throughout pregnancy.
We are holding victims, families, and community in our hearts
Here are additional resources provided by panelists from the August 28 Facebook/YouTube Live Chats with Chase - Climate Change: How Should Social Work Respond: Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health Endangerment Finding Toolkit (The Medical Consortium on...