Advocacy Archives

Government Relations Updates

• Update on Mental Health Parity (12/20/01)
• Update on Mental Health Parity (11/08/01)
• Update on Mental Health Parity (10/31/01)
• Update on Mental Health Parity (10/05/01)
• Update on Mental Health Parity (08/23/01)
• New Elementary School Counseling Grants Awarded (08/09/01)
• School Counseling Program Fact Sheet (07/01)
• Two Victories in Senate for School Social Work! (06/18/01)
• Update on Medicare Reimbursement for Clinical Social Workers Practicing in Skilled Nursing Facilities (06/06/01)
• No New Competition for Elementary School Counseling Program (01/24/01)
• Elementary School Counseling Program Gets Funding Boost! (12/19//00)
• U.S. Department of Education Announces Awards for Elementary School Counseling Grants! (08/31/00)
• Update on Reimbursement for Clinical Social Work Services Provided to Residents in Skilled Nursing Facilities (08/00)
• School Social Work (07/10/00)
• Applications Now Available for Elementary School Counseling Demonstration Program! (04/18/00)
• Timetable Slips for School Counseling Grants! (02/23/00)
• Comments on Proposed DHHS Privacy Regulations (02/14/00)
• Paycheck Fairness Act (02/00)
• $20 Million Grant for School Social Work (01/28/00)
• Legislative Victory for School Social Work (11/19/99)
• A Victory on the Financial Services Act of 1999 (11/99)
• Memorandum on Passage of Bipartisan Consensus Managed Care Improvement Act of 1999 (Norwood/Dingell - HR 2723) (10/13/99)
• Summary of Patients' Bill of Rights Passed by Senate, 7/15/99 (07/16/99)
• Privacy – Confidentiality and Privilege (04/99)
• Conference Committee Rejects Wellstone Amendment (10/07/98)
• Senate "Kills" Minimum Wage Increase (09/22/98)
• Letter from Members of Congress to Secretary Shalala in Support of Social Workers Who Provide Mental Health Services to Residents in Skilled Nursing Facilities (06/17/98)
• Second NASW Letter to Secretary Shalala Concerning Delivery of Social Work Services in Skilled Nursing Facilities (06/15/98)
• First NASW Letter to Secretary Shalala Concerning Delivery of Social Work Services in Skilled Nursing Facilities (05/28/98)
• NASW Seeks Urgent Meeting with HHS Secretary Shalala on Clinical Social Work Services Reimbursement in Skilled Nursing Facilities Under Medicare (05/28/98)
• NASW Letter on Managed Care (01/26/98)
• Share Your Innovations in Long-Term Care Quality (1998)
• NASW Letter to Congress about Managed Care (1998)
• NASW Joins the Ballot Initiative Center (BISC) (1998)
• Adoptions and Safe Families Act of 1997 (H.R. 867) Passes (12/97)
• Some Victories in FY1998 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Completed before Adjournment (11/20/97)
• Balanced Budget Act of 1997: Significant Changes in Children's Health, Welfare, Medicaid and Medicare (08/97)
• 1997 Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Act: Implications for Social Workers (06/97)
• NASW Comments on Proposed Changes to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) (04/10/97)
• NASW Comments on Child Abuse and Neglect Research Priorities (04/10/97)
• Information On the New Children's Health Insurance Program (1997)
• Recent Medicare Changes That Affect the Provision of Professional Social Work Services (1997)
• Congressional Wrap-Up of 104th Congress (10/30/96)
• New Laws Affecting Health and Mental Health Coverage (10/04/96)