NASW Social Work Talks Podcast

Carla Gonzalez is a clinical social worker and domestic violence survivor who leverages her professional skills and her platform as Miss U.S. World Elite (among other titles) as a vehicle for speaking out against domestic violence, bullying and sexual assault.

For Brenda Wade, MSW, LCSW-C, CSSW, writing fiction is both a means of self-care  and a way to explore the challenges that she sees in her work as a school social worker.

Our guest, David Stoecker, LCSW, is founder and director of Better Life in Recovery. He recommends that we look at the opioid addiction pandemic through a harm-reduction lens, rather than a punitive one. He argues that abstinence is not the only path to recovery and that we need to create healthy communities and to provide recovery support to those who need it.

We speak with NASW President Kathryn Conley Wehrmann, PhD, MSW, LCSW, about her path to social work and her efforts to support those new to the profession.

Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly.

In this episode, Roxana Torrico Meruvia, MSW, former NASW Senior Practice Associate, talks about Social Work Speaks, the NASW policy statements and how members can get involved.

In this special episode, our guests weigh in on the crisis currently brewing around immigration in the United States, specifically related to the Trump administration's "zero-tolerance" policy and to children separated from their families at our southern border.

Our guests are Melvin H. Wilson, LCSW, NASW's Manager of Social Justice & Human Rights, and Guadalupe G. Lara, LMSW, NASW Board of Directors Member-at-Large.

Recorded onsite at the 2018 NASW National Conference.

Our guests in this episode are Heidi McIntosh, Deputy Director of Programs at NASW; and Julie E. Shroyer, MSW, Senior Policy Advisor at Polsinelli a top Washington, DC law firm.

We talk about the skills that social workers bring to the table, the importance of social workers participating in the 2018 mid-term elections; and the challenges of advocating for the disadvantaged in the current political climate.

With this year's conference just days away, we speak again with the conference organizers to give you idea of what you can expect, whether you attend in person or virtually.

May is Foster Care Month, so we speak with Matt Anderson and Malissa Flores, two social workers from the Children's Home Society of North Carolina who partner with public agencies to help kids move from foster care into permanent families.

Joan Levy Zlotnik, PhD, ACSW, discusses how public policy is an important part of social work and how social workers are working to shape policy.