By Amber Sutton, PhD, LICSW As part of a BSW diversity course at Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama, I used a collaborative poetry exercise as a way to center the lived experiences of the students and to showcase how research can be creative and meaningful. By...
As part of a BSW diversity course at Auburn University at Montgomery in Alabama, I used a collaborative poetry exercise as a way to center the lived experiences of the students and to showcase how research can be creative and meaningful.
Shifts in the educational landscape affect services for students and the context in which school social workers practice. Broad changes in education have consequences for social work practice—specifically, the ability of school social workers to align services with...
Recidivism and Survival Time: Racial Disparity among Jail Ex-Inmates Hyunzee Jung, MSW, Solveig Spjeldnes, PhD, and Hide Yamatani, PhD A recent study was conducted to compare the recidivism rates between black and white males for jail time. Although prison recidivism...
Introduction NASW (National Association of Social Workers) hosts professional social workers from foreign countries for time limited exchanges. The purpose of such exchanges is to provide the exchange professionals with a close up view of the various mechanisms...
Friends: Yesterday, we launched www.cuidadodesalud.gov, the first website in Spanish of its kind to help consumers take control of their health care by connecting them to new information and resources that will help them access quality, affordable health care...
The Affordable Care Act contains many provisions that strengthen the Medicare program. However, polling data recently released by the National Council on Aging (NCOA), a nonprofit service and advocacy organization whose mission is to improve the lives of older...
Although the National Institute on Aging predicts 70,000 social workers will be needed by 2020, a study by the NASW Center for Workforce Studies found that only 9% of licensed social workers in the United States identify aging as their primary practice area. A 2008...