Metro DC Policy Update: Combatting Homelessness, DC Gender-Affirming Care Cuts, GWU Layoffs, New GMU Discrimination Case, DC Higher Ed Funding Lawsuit, Student Loan Fears  (Week of July 21-25, 2025)  - NASW Metro DC Urges DC City Coun...

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Call for Session Proposals Now Open – Submit by September 29, 2025 Are you ready to step into the spotlight and help shape the future of social work? The 2026 NASW Virginia and Metro DC Annual Conference is seeking passionate, innovative,...

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Social Compact: DC City Council Member-at-Large Robert White met with NASW Metro DC staff to learn more about a potential DC social work social compact and to officially accept his 2025 Legislator of the Year Award last week. While the focus of City ...

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NASW and NASW Metro DC are grateful to the thousands of social workers answered our calls to action and urged lawmakers to stop the harmful budget bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives July 3 and signed into law July 4 by President Trump. ...

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(June 27, 2025) During its final day of session, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) ruled on a number of critical and controversial cases of importance to social workers and their clients and communities:   Birthright Citizenship: In a 6...

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Important Update: New DC License Renewal Guidelines In June 2024, DC Health updated its license renewal system to align with each licensee’s birth month. As a result, all licenses, certificates, and registrations issued on or after June 16, ...

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NASW is asking all social workers to contact U.S. senators to tell them to vote NO on any version of the U.S. Senate’s budget reconciliation bill that would cut key programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,...

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MEDICAID/MEDICARE: Mayor Bowser’s proposed budget would result in about 25,000 DC residents without Medicaid coverage, but adults without children and adult caregivers between 138%-200% of the federal poverty level would be moved to D.C. Health...

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DC BUDGET: Mayor Bowser released her overdue FY2026 budget Tuesday for the remaining financial year and for 2026-2026, calling it a “transformational growth agenda” that “will create new jobs, generate new revenue, and attract new b...

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The Metro DC Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) stands in strong solidarity, condemnation, and deep sympathy with Jewish social workers and the wider Jewish community after the fatal shooting May 21 of two Israeli embassy st...

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