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Boston Globe
11-07-2025
- General
- Boston Globe
Bid to remove LCSW exam does not put quality of care at risk
Upon receiving the MSW, an applicant for independent clinical practice is still required to successfully complete a challenging exam — the one for an LICSW — after completing two years of closely supervised practice by a licensed independent clinical social worker. Mary Byrne Cambridge The writer is a member of the board of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and a professor emerita in the School of Social Work at Salem State University.
Boston Globe
27-04-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Taking a measure of the repressive regime unfolding
Before World War II in Germany, Jews were first labeled traitors, then the insults and epithets got worse. Eventually they were 'pigs' and 'filth.' The rest is history. How we talk about human beings matters immensely to the trajectory of what happens to them — and to the rest of us. Advertisement Rebekah Gewirtz Newton The writer is executive director of the National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts chapter. The views expressed here are her own. Conservative judge's words taking Trump to task are required reading Re 'This is not a drill': Everyone in this country should read 'The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order. Further, it claims in essence that because it has rid itself of custody that there is nothing that can be done. This should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear.' Advertisement Kenneth Slaughter Worcester
Boston Globe
30-01-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Two more troublesome items in Governor Healey's budget plan
Perhaps Healey assumes that couples who can afford to give $10,000 can also afford the taxes on anything above that amount. Yet no one knows how the wealthy will react to the policy change, and the volunteer organizations — our state's thousand points of light — can ill afford to find out whether the governor bet wrong. Get The Gavel [Coming soon] A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Enter Email Sign Up While budgets need to be balanced, they should not be balanced on the backs of those in need or those seeking to come to their aid. Advertisement Peter J. Most Great Barrington Children in poverty would keenly feel the privations of program cuts Missing in the recent article This program, Transitional Assistance to Families with Dependent Children, had received modest additional funding over the last few years, thanks to the relentless advocacy of our statewide coalition to lift kids out of deep poverty and to our legislative champions. But the governor's budget would hamper this program by pausing In addition to the cuts to the Department of Mental Health and other social services mentioned in the article, this cut would set families on a path toward needing more government support and intervention, not less. In a time of relative plenty, with tax revenue rolling in from the Massachusetts millionaires tax and Advertisement Rebekah Gewirtz Executive director National Association of Social Workers, Massachusetts Chapter Boston
