By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor President Trump's recent executive order (EO) on homelessness, which seeks to forcibly remove unhoused individuals from public spaces and redirect them into institutional treatment, represents a troubling shift away from...
Action is a giant step backwards regarding policies and treatment of unhoused people living with a mental illness
Here are some of the featured stories in the October – November 2022 issue of Social Work Advocates magazine.
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.
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.
By Paul R. Pace While every election matters, the November 2022 midterms are imperative because human rights like voting, reproductive health and LGBTQIA+—issues central to social work’s mission and values—are in deep jeopardy. In some states, these rights are...
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.