The National Council for Mental Wellbeing
This message guide and toolkit equips youth-serving providers and organizations with the tools and resources necessary to support meaningful prevention messaging. The toolkit includes messaging on youth substance use prevention, tip sheets, social media graphics and shareables, videos, webinars, interactive worksheets, and an educational course.
Practice Alert
On March 11, 2021, the President Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. Among its provisions, the law includes supplemental fiscal year (FY) 2021 funding for two of the grant programs authorized by the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA).
NASW with support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation
Learn how the adolescent brain continues to develop, and how that knowledge can provide guidance on how social workers and other practitioners work with older youth, especially those who experience the child welfare system. This initiative was supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation and draws from several resources developed through the Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative.
NASW, with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has developed training resources that will give child welfare workers, social workers,foster parents and others who work with older youth critical information about how the adolescent brain develops.
NASW Clinical Team
One of the most frequently asked questions from NASW members is, “What is NASW doing to advocate for social workers?” In response to this popular question, the clinical team developed this advocacy booklet for members.
Annie E. Casey Foundation Grant
The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF) are teaming up to incorporate the latest research from AECF’s report, Building the Capacity of the Child Welfare Workforce: Supporting the Healthy Adolescent Brain Development, into training curriculum for Child Welfare workers.
Updates on what social workers need to know now.
Get Tips and Tools
Find resources that support your social work practice.
Visit the Research Library
Learn how NASW, our chapters and members are addressing this humanitarian crisis and what you can do to help.
Read the Child Migrant Protection Toolkit