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Let’s Take Pride Back to its Basics

Let’s Take Pride Back to its Basics

By Cassie Brown, MSW, LCSW PRIDE (noun): 1) a feeling of deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one's own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired 2) consciousness of...

Let’s Take Pride Back to its Basics

LGBTQIA2S+ folks are not the only community facing injustice in the United States today. And those of us living in multiple marginal identities suffer greatly.

Happy Coming Out Day from NASW Missouri Chapter Executive Director Cassie Brown

Happy Coming Out Day from NASW Missouri Chapter Executive Director Cassie Brown

For all of you who are on the Rainbow Spectrum, all of you who have known the inside of a closet, all of you who have had to tell your story and your truth again (and again, and again, and again) because of the oppressive world in which we live and the assumptions that we all live in, Happy National Coming Out Day!

NASW-Illinois Chapter Releases Workforce Report

NASW-Illinois Chapter Releases Workforce Report

In 2019-2020, NASW-Illinois Chapter Executive Director, Joel L. Rubin, MSW, ACSW, CAE, worked with the NASW Foundation (Chapter Fiscal Sponsor) and Loyola University School of Social Work on a workforce study: “An Evaluation of the Illinois Social Work Workforce:...