By Chad Dion Lassiter, MSW Sixty years ago, on the day before the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, NASW Social Work Pioneer W.E.B. DuBois died. The famed sociologist and civil rights activist was 95 years old and had moved to Ghana several years earlier to...
W.E.B. DuBois is being honored in October 2023 as a social work pioneer by the NASW Foundation.
It seems that every few months another painful chapter in our nation’s history is unearthed by the national media. A recent MSNBC report on involuntary sterilization in North Carolina by medical correspondent Dr. Nancy Snyderman was a sobering reminder for American...
The Gender Forum recommendations were released in November 2011, and provide recommendations that are in alignment with the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS) goals of reducing new HIV infections, increasing access to care and improving health outcomes for people...
The Institute of Medicine (IOM), Forum on Global Violence Prevention, will convene a 2-day workshop to explore gaps in the four areas of knowledge management (knowledge generation, integration, dissemination, and application) and how closing these gaps might...
Today, NASW staff will join a number of women’s rights organizations, Senator Boxer (D-CA), Senator Casey (D-PA) and other women's right's experts at a hearing on November 2nd at 2:30pm. The hearing, "Women and the Arab Spring: Spotlight on Egypt, Tunisia and Libya"...
Please join the Center for American Progress, the Family Equality Council, and the Movement Advancement Project for a special presentation: All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families October 25, 2011, 10:00am – 12:00pm Introduction:...
– submitted by Luisa Lopez, MSW NASW Foundation Consultant http://www.socialworkers.org/practice/intl http://socialworkers.org/nasw/swan/default.asp It was a little over a year ago, January 2010, when NASW first worked with American International Health Alliance...