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?NASW Member Voices: Social Work and Self-Care — A Review Through an Updated Lens

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By Violeta Donawa, LMSW, MA Dr. Kathleen Cox and Dr. Sue Steiner bring the concept of ‘self-care’ out of the shadows and demystifies its significance in the lives of social work practitioners and leaders. Experts also say social workers most likely to enter the field with financial stress are Black and Latinx women.

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COVID-19 Three Years Later: A Changing Landscape

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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) declared a 90-day public health emergency (PHE), which has been renewed every 90 days from 2020 to early 2023. million CDC-Funded initiative to support social workers and their clients in informed vaccine decision-making, Connect to End COVID-19.

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Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part Three)

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During the pandemic, social workers, like most helping professionals, were called to action. million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded initiative to help social workers and their clients to make informed decisions about life-saving vaccines. Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, more than 1.2

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Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part One)

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, social workers, like most helping professionals, ramped up quickly under intense circumstances to help individuals and families to make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments. More than 1,000 social workers have been trained and an app was created and launched. More than 1.2

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Social Work on the Front Lines of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Look Back, A Look Ahead (Part Two)

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Yet questions linger about the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on individuals, families, society, and social workers. Social workers, like most helping professionals, were called upon during the pandemic to help individuals and families to make informed decisions about COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.

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Planning for Medicaid Unwinding in 2023

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By Carrie Dorn, MPA, LMSW. Department of Health and Human Services first declared a 90-day public health emergency (PHE). Social Work Advocacy. Social workers also encourage clients to be on the lookout for mail, emails and phone calls that may alert them to the need to provide information.

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Federal Initiatives on Environmental Health, Justice, and Climate

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Carrie Dorn, MPA, LMSW Senior Practice Associate June 2023 Increasingly, social workers are recognizing the impact of environmental health and climate change on the individuals and communities they serve. The RewiringAmerica website provides fact sheets and information for households to access savings available. In 2021 The U.S.