By: Rachel L. MSW, LMSW The fifty-seventh presidential Inauguration Day is upon us. Officially Inauguration Day is January 20th, but because that day falls on a...
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By: Rachel L. MSW, LMSW Entitlement Reform Congress has set a March 1st deadline to address entitlement cuts. Social Work needs to be part of the...
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By: Rachel L. MSW, LMSW For the first time in eighteen years, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was allowed to expire. While everyone was focusing...
By: Rachel L. MSW, LMSW Today it was announced that Senator Barbara Mikulski has will become the first women to head the Senate Appropriations committee. The...
By: Rachel L. MSW, LMSW Senator Dianne Feinstein announced that she will be introducing legislation to ban assault weapons when the Senate returns to work next...
by Deona Hooper, MSW Another mass shooting occurred today in Newtown, Connecticut taking the lives of 20 children and 8 adults including the principal, but how...
By: Rachel L. West, MSW LMSW I came across this post on Tumblr. The blogger had been reading a book, The Revolution Will Not Be Funded,...
Not long ago, less than a year, was when the anti-homosexuality bill was opposed in Uganda and withdrawn by the Parliament discourse. Uganda is now reconsidering...
By: Rachel L. West, MSW LMSW Yesterday I posted a story On the Political Social Worker about Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker challenging someone on...
MTV Exit Live in Myanmar is a collaborative production with leading humanitarian foundations around the world who are fighting to end human trafficking and modern day...
By: Rachel L. West, MSW LMSW David Jarman has written a post for Daily Koos responding to Jan Crawford’s CBS article about Romney being shell-shocked by...
Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW The Political Social Worker Jan Crawford at CBS News has an article on Romney’s shell-shock following his failed bid for the...
Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW The Political Social Worker It was a big election night as well as a late one. President Barack Obama, having won...
Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW Last night in Iowa President Barack Obama made his final speech as a candidate. Regardless of how the election turns (fingers...
Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW Happy Election Day! This is an extremely important election and as Social Workers we should all be keenly aware of what...
by Rachel L. West, MSW, LMSW It is hard to believe, but it has been 10 years since United States Senator Paul Wellstone, his wife Sheila...
***Update*** View archived discussion on Voter ID laws and implications at SWHelpercom-chat-on-2012-11-12. Join us for a Live Twitter Chat on Voter ID laws and Implications with guest...
by Deona Hooper, MSW Social Workers marching in the streets are not exclusively happening overseas. Social Workers in the US are anxious to get back to...
The National Association of Social Workers’ website called “Social Workers Speak” recently did an article on the uproar of British Social Workers caused by the soap...
In person Early Voting officially started on October 18th here in the Tarheel State also known as North Carolina. Yesterday, I had the privilege of going...
Over the last year and a half, there has been no shortage of media coverage about the mental health implications...
COVID-19 led to an increase in alcohol consumption. Here's how to encourage Americans to level set.
Conversations about police violence are happening all over the world from the killing of Mr. George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jacob...
We’re all public health nerds now, and many of us have stepped up our games when it comes to washing...
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