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Social Workers in Solidarity Against Safe Policing for Safe Communities Executive Order

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Micki Marquardt
5 years ago

Social Work profession must do better!

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Marlen Gudiel
5 years ago

Cannot be part of policing in institutions built against people of color.

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Lynne Kavin
5 years ago

A. M., LCSW

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Louisa Lichtman
6 years ago

I am a LCSW in NOLA

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Molly Saldo
6 years ago

Social work as a profession and we as individuals need to commit to dismantling racist systems - not upholding them

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Kelsey Batson
6 years ago

The action taken by the NASW in this way has aligned this profession more with the racist and establishment side of viewpoints and those that are not widely shared, I believe, by most of us social workers with a conscience. It is time to reclaim, re-vitalize, and re-act.

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Lisa Wilson LMSW
6 years ago

I am so disappointed in the NASW. How are you upholding the code of ethics?

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ilima nitta
6 years ago

disappointed in NASW

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Stephanie
6 years ago

Social workers are trained and willing to help serve their communities!

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Alesa Rodriguez
6 years ago

The tenet of our profession is social justice .... advocacy and dismantling oppressive systems must be at the forefront of what we do .

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Robbin Mae Phelps
6 years ago

This executive order does not address the structural problems that create the epidemic of police violence, including the fat that police are doing social work without social work training or social work ethical understanding.

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Andrea Cennington
6 years ago

Social justice!

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Megan Fieleke
6 years ago

Social work is supposed to support social justice. Social work is supposed to empower and advocate for clients. Support of the police is completely counterintuitive and disgusting!!

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Elizabeth Lawrence LMSW
6 years ago

Black Lives Matter is demanding change and as social workers we should stand with them.

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Anonymous
6 years ago

You picked the wrong side and that is the one of the oppressor!

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Laura Heller
6 years ago

LICSW, Washington DC

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Annie Preston
6 years ago

I am signing this petition in solidarity from Montréal, Canada. I am a social worker, and community organizer here. I stand in solidarity with Black and radicalized social workers across the US; thank you for taking action against the long allegiance between social work and the police state.

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Liliana Mejia
6 years ago

WTH IS WRONG WITH NASW????!!!! This is why I won’t give them one penny of my money

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Kase Cragg
6 years ago Featured

The social work profession has a long and complex history of silencing and harm among BIPOC people, in large part due to its relationship with the criminal legal system. We owe it to our ancestors to imagine this work without policing and carceral responses to trauma.

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Kelin Hall
6 years ago

We must cease to be the handmaidens of the status quo and advocate for the values of our code of ethics.