Around the country, NASW chapters are organizing for racial justice.
Join NASW-NJ's Executive Director, Jennifer Thompson, MSW, Dr. Tawanda Hubbard, LCSW, and Dr. Widian Nicola, LCSW, for a discussion regarding race and trauma. This discussion examines the systems that perpetuate intergenerational trauma related to racism.
This webinar is part of NASW-NJ's Race, Responsibility, and Reconciliation Series.
Recorded on June 25, 2020.
Watch a community conversation with Dr. La'Tesha Sampson, LCSW, and Jennifer Thompson, MSW.
Recorded on June 19, 2020.
NASW Ohio is invigorated and inspired by the current shift in the United States to re-imagine community safety and policing as we know it. We recognize the many wins, both achieved and forthcoming, across the country that many of us never thought possible.
We’re eager to make meaningful progress toward racial justice. Help us by urging your legislators to advance An Act Relative to Saving Black Lives and Transforming Public Safety (SD.2968/HD.5128). This emergency bill, introduced by Senator Creem and Representative Miranda just last week, aims to reform Massachusetts’ policing practices by setting stricter standards and increasing accountability for law enforcement.
The NASW Texas Chapter stands in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. We must all call out the racism embedded in our country and communities at the macro and micro level, and as we watch the protests across the country escalate, we cannot remain silent about the outcomes people of color face in America.
The staff and leadership of NASW's Ohio Chapter wish to extend support and solidarity with all those protesting police violence and systemic racism in response to the unjust and extrajudicial murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and countless others, named and unnamed since the first enslaved African people were brought to what is now known as the United States of America.
NASW Ohio staff member, Colleen Dempsey, gave powerful testimony on June 9, 2020, in support of Senate resolution 14 to declare racism a public health crisis in Ohio. She also added comments about the need for social workers to do internal anti-racism work to not perpetuate oppression.
We continue to witness the brutal murder of Black men and women through police brutality. Although it is not the actions of all police, it is systemic through the criminal justice system. We must stop the systemic racism that plagues our country. We cannot sit idly by.
Watch a recording of this June 8, 2020, statewide social work conversation on racial justice during COVID-19.
Protest in North Carolina (Photo from NASW-NC member Chris Budnick)
NASW staff and membership are organizing and participating in town halls and other critical conversations.
Learn about our racial equity events
Protest in Fairbanks, AK (Photo by NASW-AK member Leigh Bolin)
NASW is committed to ending racism through public education, social justice advocacy and professional training. We need your help to do this work.