NACSW

How Do I Integrate My Faith In Social Work?

Posted on August 16, 2013 by NACSW

As a social work educator, I find that I use my faith every day as a social worker even though I am not doing direct practice. I use my faith for personal strength as I go about my job as an educator. I need the Lord to guide me in my interactions with students and in my role as a mentor a...
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Trauma and the Killing of Trayvon

Posted on July 30, 2013 by NACSW

Early one Tuesday morning on September 11, 2001 a nation looked on in horror as fire and smoke, cinder and ashes bellowed from the Twin Towers in New York City. The United States of America had been assaulted by hatred. Images of an unidentified man jumping from the heights of a building plague ...
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Called to Marketplace Ministry

Posted on June 25, 2013 by NACSW

When I was 15 years old I saw a social worker kneel in front of a weeping, pregnant 13 year old. She assured this frightened unwed mother-to-be that despite what it seemed in the moment, there were hope and a future for her. The incident happened in a Cleveland, OH welfare office and not a churc...
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