Opinion
Missing the Mark: CalAIM creates new barriers that prevent nursing home diversion/transition to assisted living [Opinion]
By Jason Bloome and John Amber When we spoke a few years ago with representatives at California Coordinated Care Managed...
OPINION: The passing of Proposition 22 and a possible role for social workers
by Brian Kaufman, LCSW Chair, NASW-CA Social Work Occupational Council One of the reasons I started the Social Work Occupational...
The Countdown Begins: California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (Cal AIM) will launch on January 1, 2022
By Jason Bloome After postponing it’s start due to COVID-19, California’s Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) plans to implement...
A Rare Find: Very Few Good Secured Nursing Homes In California Have Available Beds For Low-Income Alzheimer’s Patients Who “Wander” (OPINION)
By Jason Bloome By 2050, more than 5 million Americans will be living with dementia and, of this group, 6...
OPINION: Bypassing the Waitlist: New COVID-19 Hotspot Protocols for the California Assisted Living Waiver (ALW)
By Jason Bloome On September 17, 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medical Services allowed the California Department of Health...
OPINION: The Social Work and Law Enforcement Initiative At University of Southern California (USC) Suzanne Dworak Peck School of Social Work
Editor's Note: NASW-CA takes a strong stance to dismantle racist policing and systems of oppression throughout California and beyond. We...
OPINION: The Meaning of Kamala Harris’s Ascendancy To The White House
“We, the people, have the power to build a better future.” – Let us UNITE! by Janaki Santhiveeran, Ph.D., Professor,...
OPINION: Why you should vote NO on Prop 20
By Louis Libert, NASW-CA Staff California has made a lot of progress in criminal justice reform in the past 10...
OPINION: Decompressing Nursing Homes — California’s New Long-Term Care at Home Initiative
By Jason Bloome As the number of COVID-19 related cases and deaths continue to rise in nursing homes, the California...
OPINION: In Peer-on-peer Child Sexual Abuse, States Differ on Who’s a Peer
By Daniel Pollack and Lori Kornblum ...
