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Practice
Enhancing Financial Security: A Comprehensive Review of Our Retirement Plan
Why employers should periodically benchmark their plans
Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part Three)
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...
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...
News
Enjoy Holiday Savings: 20% Off Select NASW Press Books and eBooks Through January 2
Designed to help practitioners build writing skills in a variety of settings, Social Work Documentation, 3rd Edition, by Nancy L. Sidell, is a how-to guide for social work students and practitioners interested in improving their record keeping and documentation...
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
Social Media Addiction and Teens
Algorithms analyze user behavior to lure them back
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
Advocacy
On Trans Day of Remembrance, NASW’s Committee on LGBTQ+ Denounce Attacks
A core value of Social Work is Social Justice
‘Father of Family Separation’ is Wrong Pick as Trump’s New ‘Border Czar’
History has shown mass deportations do not make borders more secure
NASW Files Amicus Brief in Ohio’s Parentage Law
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and its Ohio chapter partnered with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio to file an amicus curiae brief to the Ohio Supreme Court in the case In re LES. The lawsuit centers on Ohio’s parentage laws as they...
Voter Roll Purges Underway Ahead of the Election
Voting rights advocates say purges are a tool to suppress voting
Ethics & Law
In Supreme Court Case, NASW pushes to improve the status, well-being of transgender, gender diverse, & nonbinary people
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
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