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NASW strongly supports the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that has extended health insurance coverage to 20 million Americans. Social workers encounter the direct impact of the ACA as they work with vulnerable populations including families living in poverty and individuals with serious and chronic health conditions. The ACA has positively affected both client populations that social workers serve, and opportunities for professional social workers. NASW does not wish to see these gains reversed, and any changes to the regulatory landscape should only advance access to and coverage for health care. NASW proposes continued guidance on nondiscrimination provisions, strengthened mental health parity provisions, stronger essential health benefits, cost-sharing subsidies, state waivers to encourage innovative programs and initiatives at the state level, and funding for navigators and assisters.
Since January, NASW has organized social work voices through statements and alerts to members of the Advocacy Listserv about the efforts to repeal and/or replace the Affordable Care Act. Your voice makes a difference! The most recent effort in the Senate to repeal and replace the ACA fell short of the 51 votes it needed to pass. Over the course of this year, nearly 4,000 social workers responded to NASW’s calls to action. Social workers’ commitment and dedication, since the start of this process, was instrumental in staving off devastating cuts to Medicaid and preserving critical protections for our nation's most vulnerable citizens. Be sure to join the NASW Advocacy Listserv to be up to date on Congressional activity.
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Thank you to all of you who rallied with NASW and other groups near the U.S. Capitol on June 21 to protest the Better Care Reconciliation Act (BCRA), the Senate’s health care bill that would replace and repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and jeopardize health care coverage for millions of Americans.
Research-based and solutions-focused, the Global Advocacy Toolkit for the Social Service Workforce from the Global Social Service Workforce Alliance provides a common set of tools and messages to bring about greater political and programmatic priority for strengthening the social service workforce. The toolkit includes infographics, fact sheets, case studies, narratives, and tips.
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 Take a minute this summer to update your NASW member profile. By completing your NASW member profile, and keeping it current with info about your areas of practice, you help us pinpoint the resources and support that social workers need most in their daily work, such as issue briefs and ethics and legal guidance. You also help us better represent you and advocate more effectively nationally and locally for our profession and the clients and communities we serve. NASW has the greatest impact when we can attest to legislators and policy decision makers that NASW represents tens of thousands of social workers practicing in mental health, working with the aging population, and serving in schools or hospitals. Our voice is our strength – and you can help turn up the volume by completing your profile today. Thank you!
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 Editor-in-Chief Tricia B. Bent-Goodley, PhD, writes, “There are so many important events taking place in the nation and in the world at this time. Yet, in preparing for this issue of Social Work and reviewing the manuscripts, I was struck by the importance of families in addressing how individuals and communities process information and place meaning on the challenges around them. So often the first thought is to consider how to respond to the individual, the community, and the broader society. However, it is the family structure that is often left to negotiate these challenges and to help people navigate what is being experienced. Therefore, it is important to consider challenges facing contemporary families and the vital role that social workers play in responding to families in practice.”
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Social workers are critical to promoting racial and social justice. “Crossover youth,” a term used to describe youths who have contact with both the child welfare and juvenile justice systems, are an especially vulnerable but often overlooked population with whom social workers engage. A disproportionate number of crossover youth are African American.
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August 14
Last Day to Nominate Programs for the Circle of Life Awards
Shine a light on programs and organizations that serve as models or inspiration for other providers. The award honors innovative programs in palliative and end-of-life care in hospices, hospitals, health care systems, long-term care facilities, and other direct service settings.
August 16
Private Practice Q & A Call-in Session — Integrated Behavioral Health Services in a Primary Care Setting: A Role for Private Practitioners
An Hour With Private Practice: Questions & Answers (HOPP) is a free question and answer session for NASW members which focuses on a specific private practice subject. There is no registration and members can join in the discussion, ask questions, and make comments. These sessions provide members with important clinical social work updates impacting the delivery of mental health services.
Session starts at 12 p.m. ET. NASW members only. FREE
September 5
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September 14
NASW Virtual Career Fair
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 Following the 2016 Presidential election, NASW delivered to the new administration and the 115th Congress a comprehensive transition document on Advancing the American Agenda: How the Social Work Profession Will Help. The document outlines priority areas where social workers play a significant role in addressing social challenges and advancing the broader American Agenda. Selected statements are featured here.
NASW has a 60-year history of seeing the dignity, worth, and potential in
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The future of the Affordable Care Act is more uncertain than ever.
Over the weekend, Republicans were still reeling from their monumental loss after their plans to overhaul Obamacare were dashed in dramatic fashion.
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Science Magazine
In a tiny village just a few kilometers outside of Dakar, farmers struggle to get by on the equivalent of $2 a day. They live off the milk of their cows, sell the wool of their sheep at local markets and put their children to work tending the fields. Yet none of this is enough to raise them out of poverty. It’s like filling a leaking bucket with water: No matter how much effort they put in, they never succeed in making enough to meet their daily needs.
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U.S. News & World Report
The answer to the question in the title of this article is much the same as the answer to questions about other depression risk factors: It depends. Depression is rarely cut and dried; environmental, social and biological factors co-mingle in unpredictable ways, and every individual reacts to that mash-up differently. So when you add retirement to the equation, the best you can say is that it might increase the risk of depression in some, but not in others.
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