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
Vaccine distribution is being managed in phases and groups on a state level. NASW anticipates social workers fall in every phase depending on population served, level of direct client interaction, work setting, age and health status.
By Mel Wilson, MBA, LCSWNASW Senior Policy Advisor, Social Justice and Human RightsLeadership in the U.S. House of Representatives on Jan. 4 reintroduced the For the People Act (H.R. 1). This legislation, the first bill introduced in the 117th Congress, reaffirms the...
Two recent incidents of apparent police misconduct have received national attention that NASW finds to be deeply problematic.
Social worker Michael Lindsey, PhD, MSW, MPH, has been appointed to the Centers for Disease Control's Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) for a five year-year term starting in 2022. Lindsey is executive director of the McSilver Institute for Poverty...
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is thrilled that the Seeding Rural Resilience Act, which we endorsed, has passed Congress and will go to the President's desk for signature. The bill is crucial in reducing the high rate of rural suicides. NASW is...
NASW’s Task Force for Private Practice Guidelines is seeking public comments for the document, Clinical Social Workers in Private Practice: A Reference Manual. This manual provides a useful set of guidelines for clinical social workers starting a private practice and...