SWHELPER will host its four day annual virtual Global Social Welfare Digital Summit beginning on February 25th through February 28th, 2020. The Summit’s primary goal is...
Recently at WonderCon 2017, Alex Cox, Deputy Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF), led a revealing panel on the history of comics and their impact...
The foundational values of human rights and social justice have always been compounded with socialism and social democracy as core ideals and “right principles” of social...
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” Albert Einstein In times of change, challenge, and disillusionment, you might...
President Barack Obama, in what may be his most eloquent and thoughtful speech, helped us to understand the profound place in history held by those...
Social workers can learn from Mahatma Gandhi on how to step into the light. How to raise your voice and still be modest and a servant...
Like much of our nation’s civil rights history, the experiences of freedom summer of 1964 can be and have been used to illuminate all of the...
In the wake of #Ferguson, we can all agree that something needs to be done. I think we can all agree that we need to stand...
By the time Norma L. McCorvey was 21, she had abused drugs and was on her third child. While carrying that third child, her scheme to...
Airing live on CSPAN, Dr. Steve Perry gave a searing speech on the “The Role of A Social Worker” at the Clark Atlanta University Conference in Atlanta,...
When trying to build a coalition or community organize around a specific event or cause, it is necessary to have community organizing meetings to help coordinate...
A recent study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers provides evidence that CD4+ T lymphocytes — immune system cells also known...
Although extreme poverty in the United States is low by global standards, the U.S. has the worst index of health...
Recently, I had the opportunity to give a webinar on disability cultural competence to social service workers, but was met...
Pediatric neurologist Jane Tavyev, MD, has advice for parents looking to help their children learn social skills after pandemic isolation....