Yvonne M. Chase, PhD, LCSW, ACSW, will begin her three-year term as NASW president on July 1, 2023.

Dr. Chase is an Associate Professor at the University of Alaska, Anchorage. She’s also an NASW Social Work Pioneer, and a long-time champion of NASW.

We talk about some of her experiences as a social worker; why she's passionate about social work and about NASW; how the organization has changed over time; and what she envisions for her tenure as NASW's President.

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We speak with NASW member Kristen Lee, Ed.D., LICSW, about overcoming fear and learning to take risks.

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Monique Bingham, MSW, is NASW's 2022 Emerging Social Work Leader. She works as a mental health therapist at the Anti Recidivism Coalition, which works to end mass incarceration in California.

Ms. Bingham’s own father was incarcerated when she was a child and released when she was an adult. She has produced a documentary, “Unchained Scholars,” about formerly incarcerated social workers.

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Social worker Caitlin Ryan, is founder and executive director of the Family Acceptance Project. She talks with us about how her organization has worked for 20 years to help families support their children who are LGBTQIA2S+ and how social workers can also do this work.

We speak with Will Frances, Executive Director of NASW's Texas chapter about the aftermath of the horrific mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. 

Schools should be safe, supportive havens for students and staff. What can be done to stop the epidemic of mass shootings across the country? 

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Our guests are NASW Mississippi Chapter Executive Director and Special Populations Coordinator Gwen Bouie Haynes and Mary Velasquez, professor and director of the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. 

NASW and the NASW Foundation are partnering with the Health Behavior Research and Training Institute at The University of Texas at Austin Steve Hicks School of Social Work on Connect to End COVID-19, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funded initiative to support social workers and their clients in informed vaccine decision-making.  

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The limited Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) waiver, which is a short-term opportunity for borrowers to seek student loan forgiveness through Oct. 31, 2022.

Our guest is Lindsay Clark, Director of External Affairs at Savi, a company that helps student loan borrowers discover and understand repayment and loan forgiveness options.

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Guests Kyle Temple and Rio Bauce talk about how social workers can help people who are LGBTQIA+ overcome addiction to substances. Kyle Temple, LCSW, is Senior Director, Stonewall Project at San Francisco AIDS Foundation.  

Rio Bauce is on track to graduate in May 2022 with a master's in social work from California State University - East Bay.

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