Social workers across practice settings provide services to individuals, including pregnant people, who are consuming alcohol at risky levels. Reducing problematic alcohol use is crucial to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs)—neurodevelopmental...
Social Work Practice
Five Facts Social Workers Need to Know About Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs)
Social workers across practice settings provide services to individuals, including pregnant people, who are consuming alcohol at risky levels. Reducing problematic alcohol use is crucial to preventing fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs)—neurodevelopmental...
Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part Two)
Article by Kim M. Simpson, Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Lead As each day passes, we move farther and farther away from being dominated by the COVID-19 Pandemic that began in 2020. We view the pandemic in the rear-view mirror. COVID-19 strains continue to...
Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part One)
Article by Kim M. Simpson, Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Lead. During the COVID-19 pandemic, social workers, like most helping professionals, ramped up quickly under intense circumstances to help individuals and families to make informed decisions about...
We’re Listening: Tell Us About Your Work with Clients on COVID-19 Vaccines
Survey will help train social workers to have informed conversations with clients
How Social Workers Can Use Words to Heal
Learn how social workers can use books, and poetry to empower clients
Arizona House of Representatives continues to hold up Social Work Compact Bill
Bill needed to address social work shortage in the state
Three Key Messages to Share with Clients in Honor of National Women’s Health Week
National Women’s Health Week starts each year on Mother’s Day to encourage women to make their health a priority. This message is especially important given that women’s drinking has increased substantially over the last two decades. Though men still drink more...