Policy Issues
Promoting the Profession, Enhancing Social Well-Being
The services that social workers provide are vital to supporting the well-being of people throughout the United States. Social workers have become even more essential as economic inequality and health disparities increase, as the population ages, and as the middle class struggles to maintain stability.
Federal policymakers play critical roles in promoting policies that help individuals, families, and communities to fulfill their potential and to lead healthy, productive lives. NASW has developed a policy agenda, which asserts the association’s advocacy priorities for the legislative cycle.
NASW’s policy agenda is consistent
with the NASW policies in
Social Work Speaks, which is developed by
members of the association at Delegate Assembly.
NASW Responds to Trump 2.0
The National Association of Social Workers is alarmed by Trump Administration executive orders that could hamper health care and diversity, equity and inclusion efforts and hurt people who are immigrants or seeking gender affirming care.
Please read this press release to get regular updates on Trump Administration actions and what social workers can do to respond. And take time to look at sign on letters to see how NASW is working with coalitions to resist adverse Administration actions.
Congressional Bills NASW Helped Develop, 2022
Learn about the Congressional bills that NASW has helped to develop that have been introduced in Congress. The speaker is NASW Policy Director Sarah Butts, speaking at the 2022 NASW National Conference.
2021 Blueprint of Federal Social Policy Priorities
Recommendations to the Biden-Harris Administration and Congress
NASW looks to the Biden-Harris administration and Congress to galvanize the country around fighting the most devastating public health crisis in America since 1918, and its economic and many other impacts.
The rapid deployment of the COVID-19 vaccines is crucial in our recovery and the relief packages to date continue to be instrumental in mitigating the devastation. But more action is needed to save lives and livelihoods.