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| Social workers help to address today’s pressing social issues, from mental health, addiction, and homelessness, to immigration, gun violence, sexual and domestic violence, and more. We need your help to get legislation passed that will advance the profession and social justice. Read below to view current Congressional cosponsors of each legislation and to contact your representatives. Thank you.
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This bipartisan legislation enhances Medicare beneficiaries’ access to mental health services and boosts the rate that Medicare reimburses clinical social workers (CSWs) to 85% of the physician fee schedule. Currently, CSWs are reimbursed at only 75% of the physician fee schedule, the lowest payment rate of any mental health clinician in this major federal program. Email your lawmakers to urge them to cosponsor the Improving Access to Mental Health Act. View current Congressional cosponsors.
This legislation requires organizations that employ health care and social service workers to have a workplace violence prevention plan in place. Email your lawmakers to tell them to cosponsor this House bill. View current Congressional cosponsors.
This legislation ends family separations, strengthens protections for children and families, and provides standards to ensure that government funds are not used to traumatize or harm asylum seekers. Follow this and related legislation, find resources, and take action via NASW’s Child Migrant Protection Toolkit. View current Congressional cosponsors.
NASW is working with coalition partners, including Brady, to encourage cosponsors on S. 42, the Background Check Expansion Act. This legislation establishes new background check requirements for firearm transfers between private parties (i.e., unlicensed individuals). Specifically, it prohibits a firearm transfer between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer first takes possession of the firearm to conduct a background check. S. 42 would close the loophole and require background checks for private gun sales across the country. Email your Senators to urge them to cosponsor this urgently needed bill. View current Congressional cosponsors.
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 Quickly search by key words to find evidence-based research and client education, assessment tools, practice guidelines, and more at the NASW Research Library. Filter your results by type of source (academic journals, books, conference materials, reports, etc.), name of publication, publisher, university, language, and more. Use your NASW username and password to log in to the library.
Keyword Search: "background check expansion"
Document: Public support for gun violence prevention policies among gun owners and non-gun owners in 2017
Authors: Barry, Colleen L.;
Webster, Daniel W.;
Stone, Elizabeth;
Crifasi, Cassandra K.;
Vernick, Jon S.;
McGinty, Emma E.
Source: American Journal of Public Health. July 2018, Vol. 108 Issue 7, p878-881.
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Support for a comprehensive background check requirement and expanded denial criteria for firearm transfers: Findings from the Firearms Licensee Survey
Author: Wintemute, Garen J.
Source: Journal of Urban Health. April 2014, Vol. 91 Issue 2, p303.
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Preventing persons affected by serious mental illnesses from obtaining firearms: The evolution of law, policy, and practice in Massachusetts
Authors: Silver, James;
Fisher, William H.;
Silver, Emily
Source: Behavioral Sciences & the Law. June 2015, Vol. 33 Issue 2/3, p279-289.
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Regulating guns among young adults
Author: Kleck, Gary
Source: American Journal of Criminal Justice. October 2019, Vol. 44 Issue 5, p689-704.
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| | ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REMINDERS |
 October 17
NASW Virtual Forum — Day 2
Addressing Domestic Violence Through the Social Work Lens
Join us live, October 17, 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. ET to access cutting-edge education presented by leaders in the field on topics covering clinical practice, child welfare, LGBTQ, policy, and more as they relate to domestic violence in a social work setting. This two-day program will be live streamed from the NASW National office – view it from your home, office, or mobile device.
October 21
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NASW members enjoy discounts with Constant Contact. Take this webinar to understand the basics of creating and delivering email campaigns that get measurable results. Learn step-by-step how to create and send an email, upload your contacts, and interpret your reports.
October 30
Ethics in Private Practice: Pitfalls and Possibilities
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 pm ET
When social workers engage in private practice, they may be faced with challenging ethical issues in relation to maintaining professional boundaries, serving clients with special needs, and avoiding breaks in continuity of service.
Explore ways in which social workers can pre-empt and respond to ethical challenges in private practice, including working in small communities, managing dual relationships, offering reduced fees, negotiating part-time private practice with agency-based work, and preparing for contingencies such as illness, impairment, and death of a social worker (including the use of professional wills).
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October 31
Last Day to Submit Nominations for NASW National Elected Positions
NASW is seeking nominations for positions that will become vacant as of June 30, 2020, on the NASW Board of Directors and on the National Committee on Nominations and Leadership Identification (NCNLI). If you’re a visionary or creative thinker and are a current NASW member in good standing, nominate yourself. The NCNLI will meet on November 29, 2019, to develop the slate of candidates for the 2019 national election. Nominations must be in by October 31, 2019. Questions? Email governance@socialworkers.org or call 202.336.8270.
November 20
Private Practice Q&A Call-in Session – Preparing Your Practice for 2020: What's New
Call-in session is free, available to NASW members only, and starts at 12 p.m. ET. No registration is required.
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The School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Arlington is nationally ranked in the top 14% of social work programs. With internationally renowned faculty members conducting research and clinical practice, we prepare our students to be leaders addressing the challenges of a 21st century world. Celebrating 50 years and with a strong reputation, our more than 10,000 alumni are leaders in government, military, community and private organizations around the world helping to create a just society.
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| | SOCIAL WORK ISSUES IN THE NEWS |
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A new law recently signed by Gov. Newsom aims to prohibit the use of personal information stored in statewide databases for immigration enforcement purposes.
The bill followed recent news investigations that discovered Immigration and Customs Enforcement could access state-run databases, such as the Department of Motor Vehicles, containing personal information about participants in AB 60 driver’s license program.
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Kaiser Family Foundation
Drew Altman showcases a new KFF polling on the public’s views of President Donald Trump’s promise that he will have a “phenomenal” health care plan and protect Medicare, and analyzes what it means for health care politics.
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The Chronicle of Social Change
The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services hosted a press conference announcing the submission of its five-year Family First Prevention Services plan to the federal government next week.
“We’re here today because Nebraska is leading the nation as an early adopter of the federal Family First Prevention Services Act,” said Dannette R. Smith, chief executive officer of DHHS.
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