The second round of Social Work Speaks policies are now available for a 30 day comment period – until April 14, 2014.
NASW members may login and post comments about these policies here: https://www.socialworkers.org/dacommentspollprod/default.asp?CatID=1
These include half of the policies that are automatically referred to the 2014 Delegate Assembly:
* Affirmative Action
* Child Abuse and Neglect
* Child Welfare Workforce (renamed from Public Child Welfare)
* Electoral Politics
* Homelessness
* Long-Term Services and Supports (renamed from Long Term Care)
* Role of Government, Social Policy and Social Work
* Health Care (renamed from Health Care Policy)
* Women in the Social Work Profession
* Women’s Issues
* Youth Suicide
The other automatically referred policies were posted for comment in Fall 2013. The full list of automatically referred policies can be found here at https://www.socialworkers.org/da/da2011/policies/policies2014.asp
For more information on Social Work Speaks, please visit the NASW Press at http://www.naswpress.org/publications/practice/speaks.html
If you have suggestions for new policies or edits to policies that are not up for automatic review please comment here at https://www.socialworkers.org/DACommentsPollProd/Newcomments/Default.aspx
If you have any other questions regarding the NASW social work policy statements that are approved by the Delegate Assembly, please email naswpolicy@naswdc.org
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