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Read the latest testimony presented by NASW NYS/NYC to the Office of Mental Health on 12/18/24.

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Navigating the 2025 Political Climate: Some Resources to Use & Share
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🏳️‍⚧️ 2025 NASW-NYS/NYC Pride Series🏳️‍🌈
A Conversation on the Current State of Gender-Affirming Care
📅 Tuesday, June 17
🕕 6:00–7:00 PM ET
📍 Virtual | 💬 No CE credits

Join us for a powerful conversation on gender-affirming care in today’s shifting sociopolitical climate. We’ll explore the impact of recent policies and how social workers can protect access to inclusive, trauma-informed care for trans, nonbinary & gender-diverse communities.

🎙️ Featuring Antonia Barba, LCSW (she/her), founder of Inform Transform and leader in LGBTQ+ mental health and trauma care.

📌 Open to all. Social workers & allies welcome.
🔗 Register: www.naswnyc.org/CARESEvents

🗳️ NASW-NYS/NYC Members — Your Voice Matter

🗳️ NASW-NYS/NYC Members — Your Voice Matters!

🚨GET YOUR VOTE IN! POLLS CLOSING 11:59 P.M. TONIGHT 🚨

The Chapter Committee on Nominations and Leadership Identification (CNLI) invites all NASW-NYS and NASW-NYC members to vote.

Be part of history! Cast your vote in the 2025 Special Elections and help shape the very first Board and Divisions of our newly unified chapter, NASW-New York. This is a pivotal moment to influence the future of our profession—and we need your voice at the table.

🕛 Polls close at 11:59 p.m. ET on Friday, June 13 — don’t miss your chance to make an impact!

📧 Check your email for the voting link sent on Friday, May 23.

❌ Didn’t receive it? Contact: kmoskos.naswnyc@socialworkers.org

🔗 Learn more about the Board, Divisions, and candidates here: https://loom.ly/C8iqIxc (LINK IN BIO)

📢 NEW YORK, LET’S MOBILIZE! Join Stop the Ste

📢 NEW YORK, LET’S MOBILIZE!
Join Stop the Steal For Real for a powerful Rally + March to defend democracy and speak truth to power!

🗓️ Saturday, June 14
🕧 12:30–2:00 PM EDT
📍 MacDonald Park, 8720 Queens Blvd, Forest Hills, NY 11375

We’ll rally at MacDonald Park, then march down Queens Blvd to Maple Grove Park near Hoover Ave for a second rally. ✊

Organized by Stop The Steal For Real (STSFR) — a new community group standing up against the hijacking of our rights, freedoms, and institutions.

🔗 Learn more, volunteer, or sign up to speak: STSFR.org (LINK IN BIO)
📧 Email them: stsfr.queens@gmail.com

🕊️ This is a nonviolent action. Let’s lead with courage, unity, and peace.

Please join the Healthcare Education Project on Tu

Please join the Healthcare Education Project on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 to discuss how the New York Health Act — our state’s universal healthcare bill — will greatly expand healthcare for everyone who lives or works full-time in New York and make it truly affordable for all.

We will also discuss how to fight back against current threats to cut and privatize traditional, public Medicaid and Medicare, immigrant rights, and the barriers to healthcare that are impacting you and your community.

📆: June 17
⏰: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
🏢: Bronx Bethany Church
971 E 227th Street
Bronx, New York 10466

TO RSVP: https://loom.ly/KKjtNFg (LINK IN BIO)

🌟 Hot off the (digital) press! 🌟 The Spring

🌟 Hot off the (digital) press! 🌟

The Spring/Summer 2025 issue of CURRENTS is here! Since 1956, NASW-NYS/NYC’s newsletter has been your trusted source for insight, action, and inspiration.

This issue's theme: "Educate, Organize, Advocate: A Call to Action" — a powerful rallying cry for social workers across New York and beyond. 💪📚🗳️

🔗 Dive in now: www.naswnyc.org/CURRENTS (LINK IN BIO)

Cultural Considerations in Play Therapy for BIPOC

Cultural Considerations in Play Therapy for BIPOC Children Around Divorce, Separation and Family Rearrangements
June 17, 2025
10:00 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. ET
2 CE Contact Hours
Presenter: Lyrica Fils-Aime, LCSW-R, RPT-S

NASW-NYS or NASW-NYC Members: $30
Other Chapter Members (e.g., NASW-NJ, etc.): $50
Non-Members: $60

Divorce, separation and family rearrangements affect all children because their lives are changing, and things become unpredictable. BIPOC children are also faced with historical and current family separations due to various institutional traumas and political gains. How can a play therapist consider the cultural stigmas and impacts on a changing family structure? How do we work with blended families, self-blame and shame around divorce?

After completing this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the impact of divorce, separation, & breakups on children and recognize the impact of racism on BIPOC families.
- Identify the psychological tasks of children or divorce (and separation) and how BIPOC families are resilient in their coping strategies.
- Explain why play therapy is effective in treating children and families in separated situations and cultural considerations to incorporate into practice.

REGISTER: www.naswnyc.org/workshops (LINK IN BIO)

Empowering Practice with Youth: Effectively Suppor

Empowering Practice with Youth: Effectively Supporting Young People
June 12, 2025
12:30 - 3:30 p.m. ET
3 CE Contact Hours
Presenter: Shira Sameroff, LCSW

This interactive presentation offers practitioners theory and best practices to make a meaningful difference in the lives of the young people we serve. We will cover topics including; building authentic relationships based in mutual trust and respect, seeing, reflecting and bolstering young peoples’ strengths, understanding the impact of systems of oppression on young peoples’ lives, supporting young people to engage in social change and self-awareness as a practitioner. Participants will gain valuable insights and practical strategies to effectively engage with young clients in a way that honors their unique experiences, strengths, and perspectives.

After completing this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe and apply a strength-based approach to working with youth
- Identify and practice strategies for building authentic relationship with youth
- Explain and implement approaches to building empowering partnerships with youth
- Analyze the challenges—including systemic oppression—that impact youth
- Reflect on and utilize tools that promote self-awareness in your practice with youth

REGISTER: www.naswnyc.org/workshops (LINK IN BIO)

🚨🚨🚨ATTENTION NASW-NYC/NYS MEMBERS 🚨🚨🚨

YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO CAST YOUR VOTE!

The Chapter Committee on Nominations and Leadership Identification (CNLI) welcomes you to the 2025 NASW-NY Leadership Elections. All NASW-NYS & NASW-NYC members were sent an email announcement with the link to vote on Friday, May 23, 2025. If you are a member and did not receive an email inviting you to vote, please contact kmoskos.naswnyc@socialworkers.org . Last day to vote will be on Friday, June 13, 2025.

USE THIS LINK TO MEET OUR CANDIDATES AND LEARN MORE ABOUT THE CHAPTER BOARD AND OUR DIVISIONS!
https://loom.ly/C8iqIxc (LINK IN BIO)

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