Chapter Activities for Racial Justice

NASW-MA Criminal Justice Committee, hereby offers response and recommendations to the omnipresent, and long-standing, national issue of police brutality and racist practices embedded in police systems and culture. While this response is offered in concert with media coverage and exposure of unjust and inhumane brutal police responses, it is written to highlight many concerning and commonplace practices ingrained in the culture of policing that actively serve to disparage, degrade, and disempower community members.

Watch this July 10, 2020, recording of a meeting that includes a p anel discussion with Q&A from NABSW, Mwanafunzi at Ohio State University and NASW Ohio chapter.

These broad ethical principles are based on social work's core values of service, social justice, dignity and worth of the person, importance of human relationships, integrity, and competence. These principles set forth ideals to which all social workers should aspire.

Listen to social workers on their experiences with policing and to their ideas on how to stop police brutality.

Hear guest speakers working in different aspects of social work, plus an open discussio. The goal was to gather opinions and ideas from our members on reconceptualizing public safety and policing. Part of a discussion series on Social and Racial Injustice

NASW-NYS humbly requests stories, experiences, and evidence of white supremacy and racism from BIPOC social workers within NASW-NYS, their social work education, and social work practice. Data collected will be used to support our Anti-Racism plan, and Town Hall series and Revolutionize Social Work work groups. All questions are options, so you may answer one or up to all four prompts.

NASW's Maine and New Hampshire chapters support the NASW national statement that strongly condemns the continued death of unarmed people who are African American at the hands of police. The urgency of the hour demands that we channel the energy and stand by the protesters to reform the police policies and culture and address the multiple factors of structural racism and violence.

Policing in America is racially violent. Calls to “defund the police” have spawned initiatives to rethink and reimagine policing. Social workers have been engaged in efforts to create more equitable and effective systems for public service for years. This virtual congressional briefing will feature the work of social and criminal justice scholars and practitioners.

This conversation discusses the history of LGBTQ pride including the 1966 Compton Cafeteria Riots, which preceded the well-known 1969 Stonewall Riots. Through the transgender community's activism around police brutality, the origins of pride began. Queer liberation and racial justice are still incorporated today's through the Black Lives Matter movement and rallies against police brutality and injustice.

Recorded June 30, 2020, and facilitated by Bianca Mayes, MPH, CHES of Garden State Equality and Jennifer Thompson, MSW Executive Director NASW-NJ

NASW-MS strongly supports changing the state flag of Mississippi to move forward in the best interest of all Mississippians. Recent discussions surrounding systemic and structural racism, racially insensitive symbols, and figures in our society have continued to place a negative spotlight on the flag of Mississippi and its residents.

NASW-GA asked members to contact their legislators to support Hates Crime Bill H.B. 426. We authorized our lobbyists to stay vigilant in ensuring that NASW-GA’s support of the Hates Crime Bill reached the General Assembly.

Additionally, our chapter joined a coalition led by the Atlanta-Metro Chamber of Commerce in signing a statement urging Members of the General Assembly to support, approve and sign into law a comprehensive, specific and clear bill against hate crimes. The coalition’s actions played a significant role in placing pressure on Members of the General Assembly and Governor Kemp to pass a Hate Crimes Bill into law.