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President Trump took steps to further undermine the health security of millions of Americans by ending a critical cost-sharing program for low income individuals and removing vital consumer protections on the sale of health insurance. While few observers of the health care debate are surprised by the President's actions, most are nonetheless outraged that he went forward with this clear attempt to use his executive powers to rescind the Affordable Care Act (ACA). A broad coalition of states, insurers, providers, and advocacy groups, who had encouraged the Administration to continue Cost Sharing Reduction (CSR) payments, has expressed strong opposition to the President's actions.
In response to feedback from NASW and other advocates, in October 2016 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) prohibited long-term care facilities from entering into predispute binding arbitration agreements with facility residents. However, in June 2017 CMS issued a proposed rule communicating its intent to reverse this ban, even allowing facilities to require residents to sign predispute arbitration agreements as a condition of admission. Read NASW's comments opposing the administration's proposal.
NASW observed Pain Awareness Month in September and participated in the Integrative Pain Care Policy Congress in October. Learn what NASW is doing to promote integrative pain care and find resources that will enhance your practice.
NASW, along with other key organizations, attended the National Consensus Project (NCP) Stakeholder Strategic Directions Summit in June to provide input to help define the scope and direction of the upcoming fourth edition of the NCP Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, scheduled for publication in July 2018. The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded a two-year grant in January to support the stakeholder summit and the development, endorsement, dissemination, and implementation of community-based palliative care guidelines. The new guidelines will build on the success and strategies of the third edition of the NCP Guidelines (2013). The goal of the next edition of the NCP Guidelines is to improve access to quality palliative care for all people with serious illness, regardless of setting diagnosis, prognosis, or age.
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Coverage in the media (print, broadcast, and social media) and widespread use of AMBER Alerts have increased public awareness of parental abduction over the years. From a policy perspective, there have been a number of policies implemented to address parental kidnapping on state, national, and international levels, including but not limited to the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act, and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of Child Abduction. NASW is seeking NASW members who are experts to help update NASW's current policy statement in this area of practice. If you are interested, please email your resume and biography to NASWpolicy@socialworkers.org by November 3, 2017.
| "Legal Issue of the Month" articles present an overview of a particular legal topic relevant to social work practice focusing on a recent court decision or emerging legal issue. This archive of articles for NASW members addresses commonly asked questions as well as hot-button emerging issues.
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What to Do When Access to Records is Requested
Social workers often provide counseling to married couples who end up filing for divorce. It is not uncommon for one of the parties to request the social worker's notes or for their attorney to subpoena the couple's therapy records in divorce or child custody proceedings. A common legal inquiry made by social workers to the NASW legal department is what to do when this occurs. This Legal Issue of the Month discusses confidentiality, privilege, and the applicable NASW Code of Ethics provisions pertaining to access to couples' therapy records.
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Enhance Your Knowledge and Skills in Nursing Home Social Work
The National Nursing Home Social Work Network, housed at the University of Iowa School of Social Work, launched a new webinar series in September for nursing home social workers. All webinars are free and available to the public, in live or archived format. Registration is not required; continuing education contact hours are not provided.
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November 1
2018 Global Observatory Survey Closes
Help promote community and environmental sustainability by contributing to the 2018 Global Observatory Data Collection. Your participation also will make your work more visible across the globe. The questionnaire welcomes examples of your resources, research, practice, and case studies to support your responses.
November 8
Nomination Deadline for NASW National Awards Extended Through November 8, 2017
Recognize and honor exceptional leaders within the profession and our communities who fully embody social work values and ethics. Awards categories include Social Worker of the Year or Lifetime Achievement, Public Citizen of the Year (for going above and beyond in the community), Public Elected Official of the Year (for leadership in public policy issues important to the profession), Knee/Wittman Lifetime Achievement (for exemplary contributions in health and mental health practice), Knee/Wittman Outstanding Achievement (for significantly affecting national mental health public policy, professional standards, or program models), and the International Rhoda G. Sarnat Award (for advancing the public image of social work). For more information, contact Sharon Burk at sburk.nasw@socialworkers.org or 202.408.8600, ext. 484.
November 15
Private Practice Q & A Call-in Session — Advocating for Private Practitioners: A Look at 2016-17
Call-in session is free, available to NASW members only, and starts at 12 p.m. ET. No registration is required.
November 30
Submission Deadline for Presentation Proposals for the 2018 NASW National Conference
Submit your proposal as an individual or collaboratively. Showcase your research, innovation, and methodologies during the conference.
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NASW signs on to letters to the U.S. Congress and the Administration to promote our public policy goals. NASW also writes statements and letters to the Administration on a wide range of policy issues. NASW signs on to letters with coalition partners to demonstrate unity on an issue and to push for change. Refer to this collection for practical applications of NASW public policy for a just and equitable society.
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NASW's advocacy bulletin, the Washington Update, makes it easy to stay current on NASW legislative activity, electoral work, and social justice activities in Washington, D.C.
Take action! These legislative alerts tell you what's going on, why social workers should get involved, and how to get involved. Sign up for advocacy email alerts and look up your elected officials.
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Schooling: The Nexus of Research, Practice, and Policy sprang out of the Society for Research in Child Development's (SRCD) 2004 Child Development Strategic Plan. The SRCD's plan is to play a leading role in the development of evidence-based policy regarding child development (SRCD, 2005).
 Following the 2016 Presidential election, NASW delivered to the new administration and the 115th Congress a comprehensive transition document, 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.
Expand funding for safety net programs. The official poverty rate in 2015
was 13.5 percent, down 1.2 percentage points from 14.8 percent in 2014.
In 2015, there were 43.1 million people in poverty, 3.5 million fewer than
in 2014. The 2015 poverty rate was one percentage point higher than in
2007, the year before the most recent recession. A persistent cycle of economic insecurity has entwined working
Americans for decades as they encounter the unpredictable events of social
life and the economic risk inherent in our economy. Household economic
insecurity is related to income volatility and the risk of downward mobility into
poverty. For instance, between 2009 and 2011, nearly one-third of the country
(31.6 percent) fell below the official poverty line for at least two months. By
contrast, only 3.5 percent of the U.S. population remained poor for that entire
period. Altogether, 13.5 million people who weren't poor in 2009 became
poor by 2011.
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Teenagers and young adults with severe autism are spending weeks or even months in emergency rooms and acute-care hospitals, sometimes sedated, restrained or confined to mesh-tented beds, a Kaiser Health News investigation shows.
These young people — who may shout for hours, bang their heads on walls or lash out violently at home — are taken to the hospital after community social services and programs fall short and families call 911 for help, according to more than two dozen interviews with parents, advocates and physicians in states from Maine to California.
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Harvard Business Review
By any metric, opioid-related overdoses in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. Many intertwined causes have led to this crisis, from reduced access to substance-abuse treatment, to increased unemployment spurring use of prescription opioids, to online pharmacies that illegally supply prescription opioids to patients.
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For Victor Murillo, the prospect of returning to the city of his birth is unthinkable.
The 30-year-old came to the United States from Guadalajara, Mexico, when he was 2, and doesn't remember his native country at all. But Murillo's status under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program protecting undocumented people brought to the United States as kids will expire less than a year from now, in September 2018.
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