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Social Workers in the News: Article on Michelle Obama and DC’s Poor

From Social Justice and the First Lady - Newsweek by Eleanor Clift - July 3, 2009 "They are the legacy of a failed social policy that began in the 1980's with the de-institutionalization of people with mental illness on the assumption that communities with the help of pharmaceuticals would absorb their care. ...

Financial Planning Gets Personal: NASW Associate Counsel Quoted

Financial Planning Gets Personal at SmartMoney.com Source: www.smartmoney.com More financial planners are playing counselor with their clients. "Sherri Morgan, associate counsel for the National Association of Social Workers, says putting too many emotions on the table can cloud clients’ judgment. An adviser typically has complete access to client accounts; if an adviser also ...

Safford Unified School District v. Redding: NASW brief was cited by the Supreme Court

NASW's brief was cited by the Supreme Court in the decision on Safford Unified School District v. Redding. "Savana’s subjective expectation of privacy against such a search is inherent in her account of it as embarrassing,frightening, and humiliating. The reasonableness of her expectation (required by the Fourth Amendment standard) is indicated ...

Video Message: The Future of Social Work

National Association of Social Workers Executive Director Elizabeth J. Clark, PhD, ACSW, MPH recorded this important message about the future of our profession and I hope you will take a moment to view this video. Social Work Reinvestment Act Send a Letter to Your Representative in Support Send a Letter to Your ...

Social Workers in the News - June 15, 2009

Carole Bowdry, social worker who confronted child abuse, dies at 71 "Carole Bowdry spent most of her career confronting a problem that some people would rather have just ignored: child abuse." Dallas Morning News Social workers, psychologists to aid religious courts in divorce "Social workers and psychologists could soon become an integral part of ...

April’s Mom - Blogger Baby Hoax Writer Beccah Beushausen is NOT a professional social worker

Blogger Baby Hoax Writer Beccah Beushausen is NOT a professional social worker. Social workers say she is a young woman in pain who needs professional help with her grief. In response to a June 12 article in the Chicago Tribune and a related Associated Press story about “April’s Mom”, http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-baby-hoax-12jun12,0,5601624.story, ...

Gay Pride Month Celebration on HelpStartsHere.org

To honor Gay Pride Month we asked Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) social workers to tell us why they chose social work as their profession and to describe the unique challenges facing their community. Annmarie K. Agosta, MSW, LCSW, LMSW, East Brunswick, New Jersey Bruce M. Beckwith, MSW, LCSW, New York, ...

Social Work in the News - June 4, 2009

Dear Babs: College major for a wannabe therapist? - Kansas City Star - 6/4/09 "Another way to be a therapist is to get your Masters in Social Work, or MSW. A person with a MSW can set up private practice as a therapist, but cannot prescribe medication. These therapists are often ...

NASW Social Work Journal - A Special Issue on Racial & Ethnic Minorities

NASW Social Work Journal - A Special Issue on Racial & Ethnic Minorities will be available for July 2009. NASW Press has not published a special issue on racial and ethnic minorities since 1982(Vol. 27, No.1). Since that issue, the theoretical knowledge base undergirding social work practice with racial and ...

Leaders and Lessons to Guide Us

NASW News -Vol. 54, No. 6, June 2009 From the President Leaders and Lessons to Guide Us By James J. Kelly, Ph.D., ACSW, ...