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News Items – January 5, 2023

Social Workers Speak

It’s truly transformative for our state,” said Rebekah Gewirtz, executive director of the National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts chapter. Angelo McClain CEO National Association of Social Workers NASW. This road map is a game-changer. Yahoo News. “I

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News Items – December 22, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Hannah Ware is development associate for NASW-OH: Social workers: advocating for the world around them. Bureau of Labor Statistics , social workers help others prevent and cope with problems in their everyday lives. Social workers provide this support for others through years of training in the classroom and in person.

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Members in the News – June 29, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Mel Wilson is a member of NASW-DC: Lancaster city police looking to hire social worker Lancaster Online Mel Wilson was on staff with the National Association of Social Workers for 20 years until he retired about 18 months ago. For most of his time there, he managed its office of social justice and human rights.

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News Items – October 14, 2021

Social Workers Speak

Nealy, BA, MDiv, LCSW, PhD , died peacefully at his home in West Hartford, Connecticut after a difficult 18-month journey with cancer. Family placement, known as kinship care, provides more stability and is less traumatizing for a child than putting the child with non-kin foster parents, said Washington, a clinical social worker.

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News Items – July 22, 2021

Social Workers Speak

. “Much like there is social reckoning happening in our country that I think the pandemic has highlighted, the pandemic in Cuba is highlighting decades of human rights abuses that have been perpetrated by the government,” Lawrence said. Nygren, a licensed clinical social worker, treats abused children.

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News Items – May 4, 2023

Social Workers Speak

Singer, PhD, LCSW, discussed his advice for working with suicidal youth and their families. “I This has been a method for survival,” Kim Wheeler Poitevien, a licensed clinical social worker told WebMD. This is a form of respectability politics that social workers like Wheeler Poitevien reject.

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News Items – February 10, 2022

Social Workers Speak

Mildred “Mit” Joyner, DPS, MSW, LCSW, President of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), a Social Work Pioneer! Joyner currently oversees 55 chapters of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) throughout the United States. NBC Connecticut. Mental health is a person-powered field.