Male survivors often face struggles that are shaped by stigma, invisibility, and systemic barriers
Breaking the Silence: Supporting Male Survivors During Domestic Violence Awareness Month
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New Study Finds Significantly Increased Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke Among Cannabis Users
This Substance Use Prevention Month, join #NASW as we raise awareness about the health risks of cannabis use, even for healthy young people.
Social Workers Address Authoritarian Crack down on Unhoused Population
In a recent NASW Facebook Live event, a panel gives marching orders to their colleagues to stand up for vulnerable populations.
Social Work: Your Digital Footprint, Your Professional Reputation
As professionals who carry both influence and responsibility, we must be mindful of how we show up online. Social media can be a powerful tool for advocacy, education, and connection, but it can also carry risks if we’re not careful.
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Social Workers of TikTok
The platform takes viewers on episodic adventures in the field of social work
Social Workers’ Travel Guide to Chicago!
Check out these spots during the 2025 NASW National Conference
Faculty: Request Your NASW Press Exam Copy Today
NASW Press invites you to decide before you buy! Faculty affiliated with a US university or college can place an order for books that they are considering adopting for the classroom. You will have 90 days to make a decision. Visit the NASW Press website to learn more...
Celebrate Your 2025 Graduate with the Gift of an NASW Press Book
The NASW Code of Ethics is a set of standards that guide the professional conduct of social workers. The 2021 update includes language that addresses the importance of professional self-care. Moreover, revisions to the Cultural Competence standard provide more...
Social Work Advocates Magazine
Where Are the Men? Addressing the Gender Imbalance in the Social Work Profession
Learn Why it is Important that More Men Become Social Workers
There’s No Place Like Home at the End of Life
“There is a growing recognition that a hospital death may be over-medicalized, impersonal, noisy, and isolating,” Myra Glajchen of the MJHS Institute
Targeting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: What It Means for Social Work Education
By Sue Coyle, MSW When NM*, a lecturer at a school of social work in the Midwest, was a graduate student, she says there was not a place for her and other students to go with their concerns, to feel seen and heard. “With the issues that I experienced belonging to a...
Integrating Mind and Body: Somatic Therapy offers Holistic Approach for Patients and Practitioners
For those looking for something additional or different from talk therapy, there are other modalities
Advocacy
Negative U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Could Erode Voting Rights
Learn more about the impact of Louisiana v. Callais
2025 Government Shutdown is Divisive and Harmful
“A government that shuts down its services is a government that shuts out its people – and that is not just unacceptable, it is un-American.”
Social Workers Address Authoritarian Crack down on Unhoused Population
In a recent NASW Facebook Live event, a panel gives marching orders to their colleagues to stand up for vulnerable populations.
Social Workers Respond to New Climate Change Agenda
Recent headlines signal that the federal government is willfully ignoring the potential dangers of climate change. In April, Reuters published an article titled, “State Department Nixes Climate Office.” A New York Times headline read, “Scientists Denounce Trump Administration’s Climate Report.” And Bloomberg featured an exposé, “Lights Out: How Trump’s War on Climate Science Is Weakening the U.S.”
Ethics & Law
SCOTUS conversion therapy case could affect ability of states to enforce standards of care
No matter the outcome, NASW will remain steadfast in its support of the LGBTQIA2S+ community
In Supreme Court Case, NASW pushes for rights of people who are transgender
Highest court considering case to uphold gender-affirming care ban in Tennessee
Mental Health Groups Decry Supreme Court Decision Upholding the Criminalization People who are Unhoused
Community-based housing, mental health services are better ways to address homelessness
In legal victory, Ohio Supreme Court extends parental rights to same-sex couples
NASW part of amicus brief that supports rights of parents in same-sex marriages