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Mar 27, 2018

Legislation would boost public access to social worker mental heath services, offer clinical social workers more adequate reimbursement 

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Mar 27, 2018

NASW standards call for at least one social worker per 250 students in schools

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Feb 23, 2018

Often it is young people who lead adults to do the right thing. NASW stands ready to support and work with them to make our nation a safer place.

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Feb 16, 2018

Public health crisis declaration would mandate officials to develop strategies to reduce gun-related deaths and injuries. 

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Feb 05, 2018

The theme of this year’s Social Work Month is “Social Workers: Leaders. Advocates. Champions."

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Jan 19, 2018

Association condemns President's racist comments toward Haiti, El Salvador and African nations

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Jan 04, 2018

NASW was deeply troubled when it was widely reported that budget employees for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were told by their leadership that in preparing their fiscal 2019 budgets, they could not use seven specific words and phrases. The offensive words include vulnerable, entitlement, diversity, transgender, fetus, evidence-based, and science-based. This is extremely problematic because the targeted words help to describe populations and quality control standards that are essential for managing threats to the nation’s public health and well-being.

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Dec 18, 2017

NASW is deeply troubled by reports that budget employees for the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were told by their leadership that in their FY2019 budgets, they could not use seven specific words and phrases. Removing words that are necessary terminology of public health professionals serves no useful purpose — and runs counter to our democratic principles.

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Dec 06, 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), a membership organization of more than 120,000 members with a long history of advocating for the nation’s most vulnerable and underrepresented populations, is writing in opposition to the confirmation of Don Willett to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  Judge Willett, a justice on the Texas Supreme Court since 2005, has held radical positions that have impinged on the rights of vulnerable and marginalized Americans throughout his career, both on and off the bench, and NASW opposes this federal lifetime appointment to the Fifth Circuit...

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Nov 28, 2017

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As a member of the broad national community of advocates for economic justice and equity for low and moderate income Americans, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is opposed to the Tax Cut and Jobs Act.  This bill, as written, would produce a windfall for the “super rich” while decimating safety-net programs that serve low-income elderly, children and families. The tax cut bill was recently passed by the House of Representatives and it is now in the hands of the Senate. The Senate’s version of the tax bill, which retains the massive tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy, ...

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