HHS Extends Public Health Emergency

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has extended the public health emergency for another 90 days. The extension is effective January 21 and expires on April 21, 2021, unless again extended. The telehealth flexibilities that HHS implemented in early 2020...

NASW MLK Day Video Honors King, Remembers NASW Members Active in Civil Rights Movement

Social work pioneers Dorothy I. Height and former NASW President and Civil Rights icon Whitney M. Young, Jr., worked with Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others to organize the March on Washington for jobs and freedom...

HHS Civil Rights Office Tackles Health Care Discrimination of People With Disabilities

Civil rights officials at the Department of Health and Human Services issued a series of actions to protect people with disabilities from health care discrimination by medical providers during the pandemic. The actions, by...