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News Items – January 13, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Nneka Njideka, a licensed clinical social worker in Brooklyn, N.Y. , Some say harsher sentences over DCFS worker assaults won’t prevent them. “If we’re serious about protecting social workers, then we have to start spending the resources and the money to actually do that,” said Kyle Hillman with NASW-IL.

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News Items – January 27, 2022

Social Workers Speak

The National Association of Social Workers – New Jersey Chapter (NASW-NJ) is extremely disappointed at the Senate’s inability to move forward on the Freedom to Vote: John R. In 2019, UH Athletics Director David Matlin hired a part-time licensed clinical social worker psychologist to work with UH’s student-athletes.