On this day of Transgender Remembrance, social workers denounce the political attacks and harmful misinformation about transgender people and their families. The NASW’s National Committee on LGBTQ+ Issues recognizes Nov. 20th as Transgender Day of Remembrance, which...
A core value of Social Work is Social Justice
Recent cases involving the injury or deaths of people of color during encounters with law enforcement officers have put more attention on racial profiling, according to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Social Justice Brief The Role of Racial Profiling...
Many social workers may be unaware that on November 14 the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it would take up the case King v. Burwell, which challenges the legitimacy of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In previous challenges to ACA, the opposition questioned the...
President Barack Obama issued a World AIDS Day Proclamation - recognizing December 1st as World AIDS Day. On Monday, December 1, 2014, The White House will honor this worldwide observance of World AIDS Day using the theme: Focus, Partner, Achieve: An AIDS-Free...
In recent years, there has been a growing national movement to challenge the practice and premise for using solitary confinement as a method of behavioral control in the nation’s prisons, jails and juvenile facilities.The strong opposition to solitary confinement is...
National Association of Social Workers (NASW) senior staff members joined up to a hundred Tanzanian social workers on Oct. 27-31 for the Tanzanian Association of Social Workers (TASWO) annual meeting. NASW Deputy Director of Programs Heidi McIntosh, MSW, and NASW...
It has been more than two months since a policeman in Ferguson, MO, shot and killed unarmed African American teenager Michael Brown, sparking protests in that city and around the nation. Despite the tragedy the National Association of Social Workers and other...