Federal policymakers play critical roles in promoting policies that help individuals, families, and communities to fulfill their potential and to lead healthy, productive lives. NASW has developed a policy agenda, which asserts the association’s advocacy priorities for the legislative cycle.

2024年5月22日 · Through dedicated advocacy and public policy efforts, NASW has tackled legislative challenges, fought for better policies, and expanded access to critical mental health services. Dina Kastner, MSS, MLSP, NASW’s Public Policy and Advocacy Manager, shared insights into the organization’s work on key initiatives and some of the challenges faced.

NASW Practice Standards & Guidelines provide benchmarks that describe the services that social workers should provide; that employers should support and that consumers should expect.

Social workers advance social justice by helping individuals address their unique needs and challenges by connecting them with necessary resources to help them lead full, healthy, and productive lives.

It examines issues that relate to the work of social workers, including how to serve people who have multiple or complex needs and how public agencies and other structures deliver health and human services.

2021年10月26日 · It is a first-rate introductory social policy text that will spark dynamic and valuable debates on public policy and the role of social work in effecting social change. This edition includes 20 revised and expanded policy statements on topics ranging from affirmative action and early childhood care to health care and women's issues.

The Grand Challenges for Social Work sets a domestic policy agenda and creates common ground for social workers and allied professionals to solve through interdisciplinary science and community action at local, regional, and national levels.

The Social Work Policy Institute examines issues that relate to the work of social workers, including how to serve people who have multiple or complex needs and how public agencies and other structures deliver health and human services.

> Highlight social workers efforts as “policy change agents.” > Encourage connections between social work education programs and policy entities and government agencies. > Expand methods by which social work research reaches policy makers. > Identify and disseminate the policy-related efforts of practitioners, educators and students.

2023年8月3日 · Policy advocacy plays a vital role in social work, as it allows professionals to address systemic issues and effect meaningful change, such as facilitating equitable access to opportunities, services, and resources (Saxena & Chandrapal, 2022).