Social Work Blog
JULY 28, 2023
Because Senate leadership felt DRA should be more closely aligned with the broader voting rights advocacy movement, they decided DRA should be carved out as a standalone bill. About The Author Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is the retired Senior Policy Advisor for the National Association of Social Workers.
Social Work Blog
JUNE 30, 2023
By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA The U.S. Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is a former senior policy advisor who continues to be active on a range social policy area including youth justice, immigration, criminal justice, and drug policy. He is a co-chairperson on the Justice Roundtable’s Drug Policy Reform Working Group.
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Relias
MARCH 12, 2024
Leia Salzman, PhD, LCSW, from the Tulane University School of Social Work, describes collective trauma as “an event, or series of events that shatters the experience of safety for a group, or groups, of people.” Collective trauma occurs when this type of event happens to an entire community.
Social Work Blog
JULY 28, 2023
Because Senate leadership felt DRA should be more closely aligned with the broader voting rights advocacy movement, they decided DRA should be carved out as a standalone bill. About The Author Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is the retired Senior Policy Advisor for the National Association of Social Workers.
Social Work Blog
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is the retired Senior Policy Advisor for the National Association of Social Workers. He continues to be active on a range social policy area including youth justice, immigration, criminal justice, and drug policy. About The Author.
Social Work Blog
OCTOBER 13, 2022
. . By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA. However, the vast majority of those arrested, convicted, and incarcerated for possession of marijuana are decided in state criminal legal systems. Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is the retired Senior Policy Advisor for the National Association of Social Workers. About The Author.
Social Work Blog
JUNE 14, 2023
By Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA The United States Supreme Court on June 8 made an important and unexpected decision by rejecting Alabama’s gerrymandered redistricting map that grossly diluted the Black vote. House Therefore, it is heartening the voting rights advocacy community seems to be putting the Milligan ruling in proper context.
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