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Episode 11: Social Work Speaks and NASW’s Policy Statements

NASW Social Work Talks Podcast

Social Work Speaks is a comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly. These policy statements set the parameters for NASW’s positions and actions on a broad range of public policy and professional issues.

In this episode, former NASW Senior Practice Associate Roxana Torrico Meruvia, MSW, talks about Social Work Speaks, the NASW policy statements and how members can get involved.

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Related Resources

Social Work Speaks Update, Spring 2017

This ebook includes nine revised and expanded policy statements on topics ranging from adolescent pregnancy and parenting to social work in the criminal justice system and transgender and gender nonconforming people.

Purchase Social Works Speaks Update ebook

NASW Policy Suggestion Form

NASW members may make suggestions at any time for edits to existing NASW policy statements, including combining or eliminating policies and proposing new policies.

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