Author: Susan Radcliffe and Daniel Pollack | Thursday, Jul. 23, 2020
[Originally published on RuralHealthVoices, part of the National Rural Health Association. Shared with permission from the author]
The allure of being a child social worker in a rural area is strong. Social workers who decide to work in smaller communities may forgo an ..Read More…
By Janlee Wong,
NASW-CA Executive Director
When I started my MSW program at San Francisco State University 45 years ago, I wanted to change a world filled with racism, inequality, poverty, and injustice. My classmates and I thought that we could make a significant difference with what we could learn in a professional social work program. We would ..Read More…
The National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign has joined with VotER, a nonpartisan civic engagement initiative that is making voter registration quick and easy in health care settings and beyond across the country. VotER knows that for decades social work has been out in front doing the hard work of voter registration. Therefore, they offered us their FREE Healthy Democracy Kit that makes voter ..Read More…
By Alex Michel (she/her/hers)
NASW-CA Chapter Membership Intern
It is not enough to say that there is currently a crisis in America. The truth is that the broken systems that have become so apparent in the last few months have always been there, created in a strategic way to oppress and exploit BIPOC communities. COVID-19 and ..Read More…
As a follow up to our June 7th discussion on re-opening your private practice – we are hosting a check-in on this same topic. Some clinicians have re-opened, some have closed their physical offices, some are still tentatively going to re-open if it is safe – some of us don’t know what to do as ..Read More…
Submitted by Elizabeth Juarez,
MSW Candidate at CSU Dominguez Hills:
The MHSA WET Stipend Program supports diverse communities and meets their professional needs. This stipend program was developed in efforts to support strength-based Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Nurse Practitioners, and Psychology students who will be entering the public mental health workforce upon graduation.
As the election approaches, we would like to remind our members that it is important to encourage your clients, colleagues, and families to register and vote. Many issues that affect the communities we serve are on the ballot in California, as well as many local officials that are in charge of making many decisions that ..Read More…
NASW Specialty Practice Sections (SPS) help members stay in-the-know in their specific area of practice and offers individual online communities of committed, like-minded peers. Along with the trusted communities, SPS offers more than 45 additional CE opportunities through live practice-specific webinars, newsletters, continuing education and other professional development activities.
We’d like to invite you to our upcoming Zoom meeting this Sunday, May 3, 2020 at noon. The purpose of the meeting will be to check in on how everyone and the communities we serve have been doing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone is welcome to attend! Please register by sending an e-mail to ..Read More…
