Chapter News

NASW submitted comments to the Department of Education in response to the Reimagining and Improving Student Education Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. NASW argued that social work should be considered a professional degree for the purposes of student loan limits and that the Tiered Standard repayment plan should be eligible for PSLF.

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is deeply concerned by today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which sides with a counselor challenging Colorado’s ban on conversion therapy. While this decision is disappointing, NASW remains resolute in its opposition to conversion therapy and its commitment to protecting LGBTQ+ individuals.

The National Association of Social Workers – Colorado Chapter (NASW-CO) is alarmed and unequivocally opposed to today’s decision from the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Colorado’s law prohibiting the practice of conversion therapy with minors.

Conversion ‘therapy’ is not therapy. It is abuse, and it causes documented psychological damage. No ethical social worker or mental health clinician should be engaging in this practice, full stop, regardless of what any court decides. We stand with the legislators and advocates who have spent more than a decade fighting to protect LGBTQ+ youth in this state, and we will keep fighting alongside them.