Diversity & Equity Archives

Affirmative Action

• *We Won’t Go Back: A Social Work Perspective on Affirmative Action: 1998 Issue Update
• *Standing Up for Affirmative Action (February 1998)
• *Give Life to the Spirit of Harmony (April 1997)
• *Racial and Ethnic Harmon

Civil Rights

• *Pickering Nomination Opposed

NASW Priorities on Civil Rights

Cultural Competence Standards in Social Work Practice

Ethnicity and Race

African Heritage

• *Black Caucus Newsletter (PDF) (May 2000)

American Indian Heritage

• *American Indian Caucus Newsletter (PDF)

Asian Pacific Heritage

• *Asian Pacific Islander Caucus Newsletter (PDF) (June 2000)

Latino Heritage

• *Latino Caucus Newsletter (PDF) (May 2000)
• *National Committee on Race and Ethnic Diversity (NCORED) Network News (PDF) (January 2005)
• *National Committee on Race and Ethnic Diversity (NCORED) Network News (PDF) (September 2002)

Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Issues

• NASW Recognizes 4th Annual National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Health Awareness Week (3/14/06)
• MA Supreme Judicial Court Rules For Lesbian/Gay Marriage (11/26/03)
• Promoting Positive School Environments For Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students: Survey Findings
  From Practice Update from the National Association of Social Workers, Volume 1, Number 2, August 2002 | pdf format
• NASW is partnering with Healthy Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students Project
• *Presidential Proclamation of Gay and Lesbian Pride Month (2000)
• *Presidential Proclamation of Gay and Lesbian Pride Month (1999)

Women's Issues

• Obtain CEUs While Cruising the Western Caribbean
  NASW has partnered with Ms. Magazine for the Third Annual Ms. Cruise from February 18-25, 2007. This remarkable experience of politics and prose, reflection and analysis, enjoyment and rejuvenation will feature social work and other special CEU programming with leading feminist thinkers, scholars, authors, activists, national leaders and many more. (8/24/06)
• NASW Celebrates National Women’s History Month 2006 (3/9/06)
• NASW Celebrates International Women’s Day (3/6/06)
• NASW Participates in the March for Women’s Lives
  On April 25, 2004, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) was a co-sponsor of the March for Women’s Lives. Thanks to more than 400 individual marchers, 271 additional supporters and 53 co-sponsoring NASW Chapters, social work had a strong presence at the March for Women's Lives on April 25, 2004.
  • Read NASW President Gary Bailey’s Speech From the March For Women's Lives (5/18/04)
• National Women's History Month 2004 (March 12, 2004)
• Urge Your Senators to Support the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women CEDAW! (June 11, 2002)
• Women and Health Care Issues and Responses
• President Bush's *Proclamation on National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (2001)
• President Clinton's *Proclamation on National Domestic Violence Awareness Month (2000)

NASW Press Resources on Diversity

Diversity & Equity Archives