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Social Work Leaders Attend NASW Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill

Social Work Leaders Attend NASW Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill

By Dina L. Kastner, MSS, MLSP, Senior Field Organizer Nearly 100 social workers from 44 states and two U.S. territories attended 143 meetings with Congressional offices in the U.S. House and Senate on June 28, 2023, to build bipartisan support for key federal...

Connecticut passes social work title protection bill

Connecticut passes social work title protection bill

  The Connecticut Legislation on June 5 passed a social work title protection bill that the National Association of Social Workers Connecticut Chapter had worked to achieve. The bill will protect the use of the title social worker to BSWs, MSWs and Doctorate...

Government programs stand to lose millions

Government programs stand to lose millions

By Josette Keelor, News contributor The Trump administration has proposed $763 billion in budget cuts over the next 10 years. These cuts would repeal the Affordable Care Act and eliminate the Medicaid expansion, as well as greatly change how the Supplemental Nutrition...

More states consider physician-assisted death

More states consider physician-assisted death

By Alison Laurio, News contributor "Goodbye to all my dear friends and family that I love. Today is the day I have chosen to pass away with dignity in the face of my terminal illness, this terrible brain cancer that has taken so much from me ... but would have taken...

NASW attends first pain care policy congress

NASW attends first pain care policy congress

By Paul R. Pace, News staff A key step in implementing solutions for the opioid overdose epidemic was reached in San Diego in October where days later the opioid crisis was officially declared a national public health emergency. Seventy representatives from more than...