By Sue Coyle, MSW In October 2022, NASW published Undoing Racism Through Social Work Vol. 2. The report emphasized NASW’s commitment to an anti-racist profession and society. It recognized that while social work and social workers may be starting from a different...
By Sue Coyle, MSW In October 2022, NASW published Undoing Racism Through Social Work Vol. 2. The report emphasized NASW’s commitment to an anti-racist profession and society. It recognized that while social work and social workers may be starting from a different...
By Rena Malai, News staff NASW was active in five high-profile cases that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on this summer. The cases covered the issues of same-sex marriage, voting rights, affirmative action and adoption — all areas of special concern to social workers....
Rena Malai, News staff The major provisions of the Affordable Care Act, which aims to ensure that all Americans have health insurance, will go into effect Jan. 1. The next significant step in implementing the law is the open enrollment process for health care...
By Paul R. Pace, News staff More than 200 million Chinese workers migrated from rural plantations to urban labor markets between 2000 and 2010, and the surge in economic growth has resulted in hardships for millions of people in the country. The Chinese government is...
NASW News' "Social Work in the Public Eye" NASW member Evan King’s mantra is “hungry kids can’t learn,” she says in an article on Oregonlive.com. King’s efforts to prevent hunger among students at Rowe Middle School in Oregon were recently recognized when she received...
The NASW Pennsylvania Chapter held a rally on April 16 at its state capitol rotunda in honor of its annual Legislative Advocacy Day. More than 800 social work students and professionals carried signs that read, “Social Workers Change Futures.” Throughout the day,...
By Rena Malai, News staff Attending a virtual party might sound more like a video game experience than a sophisticated research tool. But according to Amy Traylor, assistant professor at the University of Alabama school of social work, virtual reality experiences can...