Opinion
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 The phrase “peer on peer child sexual abuse” is well known. It implies an...
OPINION: The State of Social Work in 2020 And Beyond
By Alex Michel (she/her/hers)NASW-CA Chapter Membership Intern It is not enough to say that there is currently a crisis in...
OPINION: The Closure of Schools and the Decline of Child Abuse Reporting Due to COVID-19 — A Perspective from Five Social Workers
By: Rosie Wolfrum, Edlin Vazquez, Maria Fonseca, Ivonne Martinez, and Adriana Sandoval With the recent news that LAUSD will not...
Open Bridges: CalAIM and the Use of In Lieu of Services Offers Hope For Thousands of the Elderly Who Could Benefit From Skilled Nursing Facility Diversion/Transition.
By Jason Bloome California is currently requesting stakeholder input for their CalAIM proposal, an ambitious undertaking which will streamline the...
Unchained Scholar: Omar Pryce exemplifies mission of USC group designed for justice-involved MSW students
By: Omar Pryce For so many students who are justice involved and/or system impacted, reintegrating into society with the albatross...
Transformative Moments: Resilience and Legacy
By Kathleen Bigsby, PhD, LCSW Transformative Moments As we approach the one-year anniversary of wildfires that impacted thousands of lives,...
A Time of Reckoning: CMS Implements a New Payment System for Medicare Payments to Skilled Nursing Facilities
By Jason Bloome In July 2018, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a new case-mix classification model,...
Empty Hallways: Many Factors Contribute to Declining Skilled Nursing Facility Occupancy Rates
By Jason Bloome A managed long-term support and services (MLTSS) program, which involve capitated payments to managed care organizations (MCOs)...
