Social Work Archive
Thomas Lee, division director of transition-aged youth services (second to left), shares information on Youth Moving On’s Peer Resource Center with Los Angeles Board of Supervisor Michael Antonovich (right). Looking on are Monique Holguin (left) and Jessica Petrass from Youth …
Written by Nooreen Akhtar, University of Aberdeen While the world mourns the lives lost in the devastating Germanwings plane crash, media speculation over what happened has intensified. The French prosecutor earlier concluded that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had sealed himself in the …
Written by Leticia Miranda ProPublica, March 26, 2015, 10:32 a.m. In the United States, 16-year-olds can’t vote or buy beer. But there is one place where they are treated as adults: New York state’s criminal justice system. New York is one …
By Judith Copeland MSW, ASW and DeeDee Sarvela MSW, ASW, LAADC NASW California Chapter Region E is proud announce it has launched the Social Workers in the Library (SWITL) initiative on February 24, 2015 in the Encinitas Library in San …
In the beginning, families lived close to one another. Children, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and other extended family members took care of one another. Those who did not have family were cared for by charitable institutions, mainly churches. Government did not …
This article was originally posted on the NASW-NYC Chapter blog, as well as in the New Social Worker Magazine. In 2007, I graduated with my MSW degree from what is now known as the Silberman School of Social Work at …
The hotel ballroom in downtown Sacramento was packed. Nearly two hundred youth and child welfare professionals had gathered for an evening of performances by current and former foster youth. When it was her turn at the microphone, fifteen-year-old Sade Daniels …
I would venture to say most social workers have little or no knowledge about the Dorothy I. Height and Whitney M. Young Social Work Reinvestment Act (H.R. 1466) that has been sitting dormant in the House Committee on Education and …
There are ten reasons that I can think of why we have a heroin/opiate epidemic, but before I go into all the reasons, let’s first get a few points established. A. The disease of addiction has three components: 1.Biological 2.Psychological …
More than 1200 South African social workers packed the auditorium at the Durban International Convention Centre Tuesday, March 24th for South Africa’s first Social Work Indaba. The event, sponsored by the Department of Social Development (DSD) which is somewhat akin …