It’s National Women’s Health Week (May 14-20), an opportunity for social workers to encourage women to make their health a priority, including avoiding drinking too much alcohol. With their distinctive skillset and as key providers of mental and behavioral health...
National Women’s Health Week (May 14-20) is an opportunity for social workers to encourage women to make their health a priority, including avoiding overconsuming alcohol.
Julio Diaz has a daily routine. Every night, the 31-year-old social worker ends his hour-long subway commute to the Bronx one stop early so he can eat at his favorite diner. But one night last month, as Diaz stepped off the No. 6 train and onto a nearly empty...
For Immediate Release March 31, 2008 Contact Amber Moore 202-336-8277 or amoore@naswdc.org WASHINGTON— The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), in collaboration with other national, state and community organizations, supports the Hospice Foundation of...
CLINICAL SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE UPDATE Mirean Coleman, MSW, LICSW, CT Senior Policy Associate March 2008 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Quality Insights of Pennsylvania (QI) to develop quality measures to improve the quality of...
For Immediate Release February 27, 2008 Contact Gail Woods-Waller 202-336-8236 or gwaller@naswdc.org Allison Nadelhaft 202-336-8228 or anadelhaft@naswdc.org Dr. Dorothy I. Height Joined U.S. Congressmen Ed Towns and Chris Shays Today to Seek Support for H.R. 5447, The...
Dear Colleague, Over the years, NASW has asked you to speak out on behalf of many causes and issues. You have always risen to the occasion. Significant strides have been made in areas such as children's health care, employment nondiscrimination, and fair pay...
The School of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign would like to express its deepest sympathies to victims’ families and to the entire Northern Illinois University community in the wake of Thursday’s tragic shootings on the DeKalb campus....