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Second Chance Act Reintroduced: Seminal Criminal Justice Reform Legislation

Social Work Blog

By NASW Staff On April 16, 2024, the House of Representatives reintroduced a truly seminal bipartisan criminal justice reform bill called the Second Chance Act (SCA). This news of the reintroduction of SCA is more gratifying when we realize that it coincides with the act’s 16 th anniversary.

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Second Chance Act Reintroduced: Seminal Criminal Justice Reform Legislation

Social Work Blog

By NASW Staff On April 16, 2024, the House of Representatives reintroduced a truly seminal bipartisan criminal justice reform bill called the Second Chance Act (SCA). This news of the reintroduction of SCA is more gratifying when we realize that it coincides with the act’s 16 th anniversary.

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Call for chapter contributions: Pushing Boundaries in International Social Work

The International Association Of Schools Of Social

The primary target audience is practitioners, policy makers, social work instructors, researchers and related professionals, and may be used as a supplemental text for social work courses.

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Seven children and all she needed was a van: large families and the blindness of the child welfare establishment

Child Welfare Monitor

In its Study of the Root Causes of Juvenile Justice System Involvement ,” the District of Columbia’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council interviewed youth service providers with first-hand experience working with justice-involved and at-risk youth.

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Emily Henderson, LMSW, MSW ’13

University of Connecticut

Since her career path started, she has specialized in working with a wide variety of at risk populations; however, her main career focus has been to specifically work with those who are reentering society from the criminal justice system. At that time, she obtained her Bachelors in Social Work with a focus area in Criminal Justice.

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Emily Henderson, LMSW, MSW ’13

University of Connecticut

Since her career path started, she has specialized in working with a wide variety of at risk populations; however, her main career focus has been to specifically work with those who are reentering society from the criminal justice system. At that time, she obtained her Bachelors in Social Work with a focus area in Criminal Justice.

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?NASW Member Voices: Supreme Courts Ends Affirmative Action. What are the Implications?

Social Work Blog

Mel Wilson, LCSW, MBA, is a former senior policy advisor who continues to be active on a range social policy area including youth justice, immigration, criminal justice, and drug policy. He is a co-chairperson on the Justice Roundtable’s Drug Policy Reform Working Group.