Chapter Highlights

Chapters call for ensuring the safety of social workers as they work for the most vulnerable.

NASW Alabama weighs in on recent Supreme Court ruling on frozen embryos.

Social work licensure reached a milestone in April, as the seven-state threshold needed to pass the interstate compact legislation was reached.

NASW-Ohio Executive Director Danielle Smith awarded the Excellence in a State Issue Campaign award at the Women in Government Relations’ Excellence in Advocacy Awards.

NASW chapters across the country look at book bans and discuss how they are impacted in different states with different laws.

NASW Hawaii and the social work community helped during the immediate aftermath of the Maui wildfires and will continue for the long haul.

On Feb. 9, 2023, Yahoo posted a headline “Missouri Republicans vote to allow children to carry guns.” But according to NASW-Missouri Executive Director Cassie E. Brown, who clarified what really happened, both the headline and the story were wrong.

NASW and our Ohio chapter also stood behind the abortion providers and against the lawsuit. The group and its local chapter specifically pointed to “pervasive, complex and interlaced obstacles that stand in the way of patients” suing to challenge government interference when seeking an abortion.

In a June 9 letter to Mayor David Weiss, executive director of NASW's Ohio Chapter, addressed some of the proposals in the “Charter Amendment to Create a Safer Shaker Heights and Modernize Public Safety.”

“Social workers are not agents of law enforcement,” Danielle Smith wrote on behalf of NASW Ohio, referring to passages in the proposed charter amendment that would put social workers, along with licensed mental health clinicians and medics, on a 35-member Non-violent Community Administrators Team.