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NASW News Hits May 2022

Social Workers Speak

Jeffrey Feldman, NASW New Jersey Chapter’s director of advocacy and communications, was quoted in a Politico New Jersey Playbook PM item on the state advancing regulations to mandate cultural diversity and implicit bias training to in the police basic training curriculum. Each article reached a potential audience of 61 million readers.

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Let’s Take Pride Back to its Basics

Social Work Blog

This month, and every month, recognize and affirm that you are, in the words of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Code of Ethics, treating every LGBTQIA2S+ person (perhaps including yourself) “in a caring and respectful fashion, mindful of individual differences and cultural and ethnic diversity” (NASW, 2021).

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All You Need To Know About Social Work Articles

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What are the 7 codes of ethics? Rethinking Social Work’s Role in a Rapidly Changing World : by Antoinette Lombard and Andre Viviers offer an overview of the need for social work in teh 21st century to adopt a more transformative social-policy approach, including policy advocacy. Where can I find social work articles?

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Members in the Media – June 1, 2023

Social Workers Speak

You can be a mental health advocate The Uptake Many therapists are involved in activism and advocacy. In fact, the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics states : “Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people.

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Members in the Media – June 1, 2023

Social Workers Speak

You can be a mental health advocate The Uptake Many therapists are involved in activism and advocacy. In fact, the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics states : “Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people.

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MEMBER VOICES: Social Workers Have Ethical Responsibility to Fight Bans on Gender-Affirming Care

Social Work Blog

Nevertheless, the NASW proclamation needed to go further and emphasize the organization’s ethical commitment to challenging social injustice and social workers’ ethical responsibilities to the broader society, as stated in Section 6 of the 2021 NASW Code of Ethics. Mathy is a volunteer therapist at A Home Within.

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NASW Member Voices: Social Workers Have Ethical Responsibility to Fight Bans on Gender-Affirming Care

Social Work Blog

Nevertheless, the NASW proclamation needed to go further and emphasize the organization’s ethical commitment to challenging social injustice and social workers’ ethical responsibilities to the broader society, as stated in Section 6 of the 2021 NASW Code of Ethics. This blog was prepared by Robin M.