Advocacy takes on many forms within the social work practice. The micro, mezzo and macro levels of advocacy are used all the time. We’ve advocated for ourselves in the profession and advocated for our patients within the workplace at some point in our careers. We might advocate for our patient multiple times a day. This …
Advocacy and Social Work: We Can’t Have One Without the Other Read More »
Patients and Caregivers for Paid Leave AOSW is proud to join more than 20 patient and caregiver organizations telling Congress and the Biden Administration that we need paid leave to help families balance care and work. Public Service Loan Forgiveness In early October 2021, the Department of Education announced steps to overhaul the notoriously troubled …
It was March 2020 and I had just finished all preliminary testing – EKG, ECHO, pulmonary function studies and the like – and I headed to my final appointment with hematology to sign consent for transplant. “I’m sorry, but the hospital…COVID-19…your transplant has been postponed….Lockdown.”
In a time of partisan rancor and legislative gridlock and a presidential election cycle none of us will soon forget, would you be surprised to know there is a bill with genuine bipartisan support?
Progress is not automatic. The world grows better because people wish that it should, and take the right steps to make it better. — Jane Addams
As my term as Advocacy Director for AOSW comes to a close, I am reminded of the reasons for my interest in this very important position on the Board of Directors.
The patient is a 47-year-old single mother of two adolescents who has been diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer. This woman will soon start a concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment. She has revealed that she has stopped working, is experiencing financial difficulty and is without transport for her treatments that start in a week. The oncology …
AOSW Around the World: When Individual Advocacy Efforts Are No Longer Enough Read More »
This has been a busy year for AOSW in the advocacy arena. We started in January by issuing a Statement of Health Policy Principles. Based on these principles, AOSW issued public statements of opposition to several attempts in Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We were not alone in these efforts. Soon cancer advocacy …
News headlines the past calendar year have forced me to think about social justice quite often. The NASW Code of Ethics tells us that social justice is a value of our profession: Social workers pursue social change, particularly with and on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed individuals and groups of people…activities seek to promote sensitivity …
From the President-Elect: Challenging Social Injustice Read More »
Regina Diez is a social educator and national fundraiser at Foundation Josep Carreras, headquarters for the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry in Barcelona, Spain (REDMO, http://www.carrerasresearch.org/en). The foundation also supports a research institute to cure/stop leukemia and assist patients with some of their lodging needs at the transplant stage. We usually think of health care as …