Article by Kim M. Simpson, Connect to End COVID-19 Communications Lead. A COVID-19 summer wave and new 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccines this fall—the virus is still a part of our day-to-day lives, but not the dominant force that it once was. Vigilance continues to be a...
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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...
News
All NASW Press eBooks on Sale: 15% Off
Going beyond clichéd self-help advice, Self-Care in Social Work, 2nd Edition applies a cognitive coping framework to social work activities to support practitioners in preventing or reducing burnout, secondary trauma, and vicarious trauma. This framework is woven into...
NASW Media Toolkit
Resources for the public and news media
Check Out NASW Press Summer Reads and Earn CEUs Too!
NASW Press offers continuing education credits on a wide array of books via the NASW Social Work Online CE Institute. Titles range from burnout, self-care, and meditation to ethical standards in social work, digital practice, economic well-being, social...
NASW Texas offers aid for those affected by Hurricane Beryl
Chapter also lists hurricane resources
Social Work Advocates Magazine
The Need for Bilingual Social Workers Grows as U.S. Becomes More Diverse
By Raju Chebium Maria Rangel earned her MSW in May from Loyola University Chicago and already has a job. The 50-year-old native of Mexico, who is fluent in Spanish and English, was offered a full-time job by the community service agency where she did one of two...
Understanding Today’s Housing Crisis
By Sue Coyle More than 650,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States on one night in 2023. Those were the results of the 2023 Point-in-Time Count, an annual count of individuals experiencing both sheltered and unsheltered homelessness required by...
Social Workers Present at International Symposium on Elder Abuse
The Elder Mistreatment Ecosystem: Emerging Innovations and Evolving Ideas
NASW supports Older Americans Act advocacy efforts
The Older Americans Act (OAA) funds social services and programs such as nutrition programs, family caregiver support, elder abuse prevention, and more. NASW submitted comments (bit.ly/NASW_OAA_2023comments) to the Administration for Community Living (ACL) in response...
Advocacy
Haitians in Springfield: The Tragedy of Race-Based Hatred against Black Migrants
Mistreatment of Haitian Migrants has long history
Bill introduced to grow nation’s mental health and behavioral workforce
STAR Act would create student scholarship
Sonya Massey’s shooting is a national shame
Her death underscores need for major policing reforms
A Step Backwards for Voting Restoration for the Formerly Incarcerated
By Mel Wilson, NASW Senior Policy Advisor The Nebraska legislature recently restored the voting rights of 7,000 people with felony convictions who have already completed their full sentences. However, two days before the law (Legislative Bill 20) was set to go into...
Ethics & Law
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
NASW amicus brief helps lead to court ordering children removed from Louisiana Angola Prison
Despite legal victory, Louisiana has appealed ruling by Fifth Court of Appeals
Courts Matter to Social Workers: A Call for SCOTUS Ethics Reform
The intersection of SCOTUS actions and the social welfare of marginalized Americans is unmistakable.