SWHELPER Adults 50 and older are significantly less active than those younger than 50. Many fall short of the recommended 150 minutes of moderate to vigorous-intensity physical activity per… Read More

SWHELPER It’s striking and familiar. A new report finds women physicians across all races and ethnicities earn less than their male counterparts. In fact, women physicians earn be… Read More

Peter Miller The drawing and redrawing of electoral districts – which happens every ten years after the Census – is a hotly contested ritual in American politics. At the center o… Read More

Daniela Mansbach By Daniela Mansbach & Alisa Von Hagel Anti-abortion organizations aim to make abortion illegal for all women – or, barring that, to make abortion as difficult as p… Read More

SWHELPER Gun violence increased by more than 30% in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study by Penn State College of Medicine researchers.&nbs… Read More

Brian Adams Ideally, local governments as the smallest jurisdictions in the American political system allow citizens to engage in a direct and substantive way. Local elections are one way th… Read More

Garrett Rutledge On October 11th, the National Football League (NFL) community was shocked when news surfaced that Las Vegas Raiders Head Coach Jon Gruden announced his resignation just five… Read More

Tamika C. Odum Chanel, now a middle-class mother of one, is just one of many women who have used abortion to end a pregnancy. “In college,” she explained, “I had two aborti… Read More

Clare Daniel In the 1980s and 1990s, concerns about teen pregnancy voiced by policymakers and pundits helped garner support for welfare reform – as the public reached a consensus that… Read More

SWHELPER Each year, an estimated 800,000 people are trafficked globally, though the true number may be higher. In a quest to arm officials and stakeholders around the globe with more accurat… Read More

Diane M. Tober Egg and sperm donations in the United States have long proceeded under the cloak of secrecy. Twenty-five years ago, when I first started interviewing patients who used donors… Read More

SWHELPER Domestic violence remains a serious and widespread problem in the U.S., particularly for women from racial or ethnic minorities, who experience higher rates of abuse than the nation… Read More

Henna Budhwani By Henna Budhwani and Kristine Ria Hearld Contraception is complicated. Reproductive health scholars can comfortably weigh the protective benefits of condom use compared to th… Read More

SWHELPER BINGHAMTON, N.Y. — States with Democratic leaders tended to have responded more strongly to COVID-19 and have seen a lower rate of the spread of the virus, according to new re… Read More

Rachel G. Logan Dina took to Google after feeling some discomfort in her pubic area. Although she was in graduate school several hundred miles away, she waited to see a healthcare provider u… Read More

SWHELPER As COVID-19 took its toll on the U.S. in 2020, the numbers began to show that not everyone was equally affected by the virus. Data from the CDC and National Center for Health S… Read More

Grace E. Howard The intensifying avalanche of restrictive U.S. abortion laws since 2012 has made it more difficult for many people to terminate their pregnancies. These restrictions have als… Read More

Wendy Taylor As discussed in parts one and two, social emotional learning (SEL) skills have become an even greater focus now that students are limited in their opportunities to socialize, co… Read More

Elspeth Slayter A key part of anti-racist social work practice is engaging in the art of reflection as we consider the person in the environment. This also involves being aware of the larger… Read More

Wendy Taylor As discussed in part one, social emotional learning (SEL) skills have become an even greater focus now that students are limited in their opportunities to sociali… Read More

Christeen Badie Written by Christeen Badie & Karina Velasco There are approximately 10.5 million undocumented individuals in the United States according to Pew Research. Immigrants often… Read More

Wendy Taylor Social and emotional (SEL) skills involve more than just the concepts surrounding educational buzzwords like growth mindset, grit, and self-advocacy. SEL skills are being emphas… Read More

Wendy Taylor Distance learning has been hard on everyone, but even more so for families dealing with the challenges associated with executive dysfunction. In part one, we discussed the basic… Read More

Max Goldberg What do you get when you mix the taboo nature of discussing sexual intimacy with the social stigma surrounding intellectual and developmental disabilities? The answer: a heck of… Read More

SWHELPER Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has published a new study to assess consumer behavior towards companies th… Read More

Wendy Taylor Many of us don’t actually remember learning how to read. We may remember sitting on our kindergarten carpet squares, picking out new picture books at the school book fair… Read More

Sarah Rose Goldfinch I taught special education in a sub-separate classroom for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. I’ve also worked as a paraprofessional in inc… Read More

Alyssa Mareiro 2020 was filled with unprecedented events in all facets of life, and, as many have noted across the globe, the year became a landmark for the call to action against racism. Fr… Read More

Alyssa Mareiro The social work field is often full of situations that are not straight forward. On a Reddit social media post, a social worker reached out to the social work community for ad… Read More

Heather Kough Audre Lorde famously wrote that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” and in 2020, few passages ring truer. According to the Nat… Read More

Mia Hayden Becoming a social worker is never how I expected my career path to go. I always admired what they did but never believed myself capable of doing it. Now that I am in my graduate p… Read More

Garrett Rutledge On Monday, September 13th, the Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) held a webinar entitled Deleting the Broadband Affordability Divide: A Virtual Chat with FCC Acting Ch… Read More

Wendy Taylor Across school districts, students’ grades, scores, and standardized test results indicate a widespread drop in foundational skills, some of the more critical skills affili… Read More

Ivana Boyd “I understand these people. I know they are tired of living here. They have had difficulties. They have no one to help them.” – Chen Si Since the Nanjing Yangtze… Read More

Wendy Taylor As educators and mental health professionals, helping students manage their executive functioning is a critical aspect of building the foundation for academic, social, and emoti… Read More

Elspeth Slayter These days, many social workers are pretty clear that anti-racism is something they need to consistently work on in their practice, but when it comes to ableism, well, that&r… Read More

Alyssa Mareiro It is common for social workers and case managers to have some amount of firsthand experience with the problems their clients face, but what happens when that level of underst… Read More

Ivana Boyd “I don’t know if I did the right thing. Maybe I shouldn’t have.” Power differentials are present within the helping profession and may cause the helpee to… Read More

Wendy Taylor Creating engaging lessons and activities for learning is no easy task. With today’s technology, the Gen Z group has access to the most realistic and stimulating gaming gra… Read More

Sarah Daren Generally, when we think of healthcare, we think of an ever-progressing field that is often one of the first sectors to utilize new technologies and other means of improving pati… Read More

Corbin Standley At the age of 17, I lost my older brother, David, to suicide. As a gay man in his early 20s, David struggled with mental health conditions and social isolation. His loss affe… Read More

Kate Chaikovsky Social work can be an incredibly personal profession- exposing social workers not only to others’ traumas but often forcing them to face triggering experiences from the… Read More

Wendy Taylor As students progress through their education, reading assignments and materials naturally become more intense and time consuming. The literature itself becomes more complex and… Read More

SWHELPER Funding will help increase the number of social workers in areas short on health professionals Sacred Heart University’s School of Social Work recently received a $1… Read More

Mary King Now that unemployment numbers have revealed that women are bearing the brunt of job losses due to the Covid-19 pandemic, discussion  of America’s childcare crisis h… Read More

Kate Chaikovsky Back in October of 2020, single father Robert Carter adopted a set of five siblings so that they would never again be separated by the foster care system. Robert became inspi… Read More

Maurice Gattis In 2020, the population of homeless people grew for the fourth year in a row, and a single night count in January of that year revealed 580,000 people were experiencing homele… Read More

Mary King The COVID-19 pandemic powerfully clarified what most families have known for decades: Reliable, quality child care is essential to the round-the-clock functioning of the U.S. econo… Read More

Natalie Hengstebeck American families need help. Years of disinvestment and the pandemic have compounded stressors for families and those responsible for their education and care… Read More

Michael Swartz What will vaccine coverage look like when the world begins to return to normalcy? Expect rising costs, additional fees, and shifting coverage responsibilities. View Full Artic… Read More

SWHELPER The pandemic and a year of virtual schooling had an unexpected benefit for a little girl in Kenya who connected with Girls Who Code at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “… Read More

SWHELPER The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Foundation and the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute (HBRT) at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School o… Read More

SWHELPER Cities are hubs of human activity, supercharging the exchange of ideas and interactions. Scaling theory has established that, as cities grow larger, they tend to produce more of pre… Read More

Dr. Tonya Cross-Hansel Over the last year and a half, there has been no shortage of media coverage about the mental health implications of the pandemic. Generally, these articles fell into o… Read More

Eric Anderson COVID-19 led to an increase in alcohol consumption. Here's how to encourage Americans to level set. View Full Article - Drinking Increased During the Pandemic. What Happens Now… Read More

SWHELPER WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the nation looks at its long, cruel history of systemic racism, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) acknowledges that our profession and th… Read More

SWHELPER In collaboration with the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), SWHELPER, a digital publication for social work and helping professionals, will host a three-day Anti-Racism Virtu… Read More

Wendy Taylor The numerous accommodations and modifications that teachers make for students often amount to a lengthy list. These adjustments can involve altering not only instruction but als… Read More

Marcyline Bailey Maybe I am a hopeless romantic, but I believe that workplace environments are akin in many ways to romantic relationships. If we spend the majority of our time in a certain… Read More

Wendy Taylor Distance learning is tedious. Between the emails, Zoom meetings, various portals teachers utilize, and the individual workload of every class, juggling at-home learning during t… Read More

Alyssa Mareiro On August 12, 2020, Gordon Wayne began a 16 day, 550-mile trek from Virginia to Boston College, all on foot. At first glance, Gordon may appear to be an average, middle-class… Read More

Praise Iype Who (or what) comes to your mind when you think about active listening? For me, I think about my girlfriend Jo. She gives her complete attention to my stories, her sole intention… Read More

Kay Van Wey The rapid spread of COVID-19 across the United States caused a serious disruption in the daily lives of most American workers. Although many people are able to work from home, or… Read More

Heather Kough With barely seven weeks left until the 2020 presidential election, talk of voter mobilization has people across the country running hot and cold. Groups like Rock the Vote and… Read More

Gracen Vandermeide On October 7th, 2020, President Donald Trump went head to head against former Vice President Joe Biden, marking the beginning of the election season and the first debate o… Read More

Dustin MacDonald Social workers play many roles. As advocates, change agents, case managers, educators, facilitators, and organizers, Social Workers play an important part in helping people… Read More

Garrett Zink The Sierra Club did something very difficult: it admitted it had a problem. The long-standing conservation organization released a statement acknowledging the prejudices of its… Read More

Ivana Boyd The first presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden took place on September 29, 2020. The 90-minute debate featured a series of bitter… Read More

Alyssa Mareiro The first of three presidential debates touched on many hot topics, with President Donald Trump and presidential candidate Joe Biden having an impassioned debate over the inte… Read More

Ivana Boyd The 116th Congress, the current meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, is the most racially and ethnically diverse in history. Black, Latinx, A… Read More

SWHELPER We the board of the Texas Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers received the stunning news about the change to the Texas Social Work Code of Conduct that “slip… Read More

Stephenie Howard The nation saw an uptick in domestic violence calls in the midst of the pandemic and the shutdown. The convergence of social isolation, economic pressure, and psychological… Read More

Bedelia Nicola Richards Predominantly white institutions of higher education in the United States routinely point to rising enrollments of students of color as evidence of their commitment t… Read More

Evoke Care If you are a social worker, you probably know better than anyone just how much pressure has been put on professionals since the Covid-19 crisis began. It appears that more than 70… Read More

Lane Kenworthy Many Americans with young children want to prioritize both their family and their work. But childcare and preschool can be expensive. For families with incomes below $18,000 w… Read More

Evan Crawford This memo is part of a series on public policy challenges facing San Diego. Click here to read all memos in the series. There are over 10,000 local school distri… Read More

Bryan Grady Traditionally, academics and policymakers have determined whether an individual or family can afford to live somewhere by simply dividing their housing costs by their income. If… Read More

National Association of Social Workers WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), with support from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, has developed training res… Read More

Elspeth Slayter Conversations about police violence are happening all over the world from the killing of Mr. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob Black and so many other Black, Indigenous, an… Read More

National Association of Social Workers WASHINGTON, D.C. – The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) enthusiastically endorses Joe Biden for president in 2020. During his n… Read More

Marian Lindberg When it comes to Covid-19, unlike manliness, different approaches can be measured objectively by numbers of cases and deaths. By that measure, the heads of state who imposed… Read More

Munjal Shah Just as technology has transformed just about every industry imaginable, it has also sparked changes in healthcare. Among many revolutionary shifts in the field, it led to the cr… Read More

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University of Central Florida Sponsored Article  Teen substance abuse and addiction to drugs are all too dangerous epidemics occurring across the United States. The most recent national… Read More

Wendy Taylor Distance learning is now the norm, at least for the remainder of this school year and for summer school. Now that many students, teachers, and communities have somewhat adapted… Read More

Melinda Gonzalez At this time of uncertainty, it remains crucial that social workers are reminded of the importance of their roles in communities, legislation, and in their profession. After… Read More

Editor-in-Chief It is with great sadness that NASW announces the passing of former CEO Elizabeth “Betsy” Clark, PhD, MPH, ACSW. On behalf of NASW’s Board of Directors, staf… Read More

Paul Perry We’re all public health nerds now, and many of us have stepped up our games when it comes to washing our hands and sanitizing surfaces at home. With all the added stressors… Read More

SWHELPER As a profession, social workers are advocates. We’re led by values of social justice, the advancement of the vulnerable, and promotion of dignity and basic rights for all. In… Read More

SWHELPER The Tourette Association of America (TAA), the premier national nonprofit organization serving the Tourette Syndrome (TS) and Tic Disorder community, will host a series of virtual e… Read More

SWHELPER On May 15, 2020, Rep. Karen Bass, co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Foster Youth, and Rep. Gwen Moore will introduce the Dosha Joi Immediate Coverage for Former Foster Youth A… Read More

Paul Perry At difficult times like these, Fred Rogers followed his mother’s sage advice: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, &l… Read More

At difficult times like these, Fred Rogers followed his mother’s sage advice: “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look f… Read More

Many states have policies that attempt to help formerly incarcerated people find work by limiting an employer’s ability to access or use criminal records as part of the hiring process… Read More

COVID-19 has proven to be a worldwide tragedy. Four billion people are now under orders to stay at home. As of this writing, nearly two million individuals have tested positive worldwide for… Read More

The Ruderman Family Foundation, a leading disability rights organization, published a new white paper which offers recommendations to help health policymakers make decisions to ensure the li… Read More

SWHELPER Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires audiences to engage in positive social change, launched the Care For The People Who Care For You camp… Read More

Participant, the leading media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires audiences to engage in positive social change, today launched the Care For The People Who Care For You&nb… Read More

By:  Andrea Murray, MSW, LICSW The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has transformed every aspect of our lives over just a few weeks. The ethical dilemmas that have emerged would have bee… Read More

Social distancing has become the new urgency for different industries, sectors and corporations around the world. The creative challenge is to figure out how each of us will shape the nature… Read More