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
Join us for a Virtual Congressional briefing on the School Social Workers Improving Student Success Act (H.R. 7037). The legislation recognizes the critical need for more school social workers to help improve student success. WHEN: Wednesday, March 30 from 11 to noon...
Here are some organizations offering relief to Ukrainian refugees.
When the National 988 Suicide Prevention Crisis Hotline goes into effect July 16, 2022, it will probably be the most significant public policy initiative impacting behavioral healthcare since the Medicaid expansion.
A message from National Association of Social Workers (NASW) President Mildred "Mit" Joyner "NASW condemns Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s direction of the Department of Family and Protective Services to implement Attorney General Ken Paxton’s opinion and to actually treat...
NASW and the ERA Coalition, along with numerous women-centered organizations, participated in an amicus brief supporting the view that the Constitution did not intend to recognize a time limit on the ratification process of the Equal Rights Amendment.
NASW, along with 48 organizations, participated in an amicus brief in support of male students who were sexually abused by Dr. Richard Strauss of Ohio State University over two decades.