NASW Ohio Chapter Region 7

07/07/2025

🧠✨ July is Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, and we are proud to continue advancing culturally responsive care in our communities.

We’re excited to host the 3rd Annual Black Mental Health Summit on Friday, July 18, 2025 — a professional development conference designed to deepen culturally competent care for the Black community.

This year’s summit will feature expert-led sessions and CEU-accredited presentations focused on healing, innovation, and equity, including:

🖤 Peace of Mind: Culturally Grounded
🖤 Racial Equity, Racial Justice, and Community Resilience for Homeless BIPOC Individuals
🖤 Black Feminist Strategies in Mental Health: Creative Approaches to Health Promotion
🖤 Date Your Therapist: A Framework for Supporting Black Clients in Accessing Culturally Competent Care

🎬 Special Feature: During lunch, we’ll present a screening of our short documentary, Rooted in Resilience: Diversifying Behavioral Health — highlighting the urgent need to build a more representative and inclusive mental health workforce.

📍 5600 Chapelle Crossing Blvd, West Chester, OH 45069
🗓️ Friday, July 18, 2025
⏰ Doors open at 8:30 AM | Event ends at 3:00 PM
🎓 CEUs available for professionals

Join us as we uplift Black voices, share vital strategies, and reimagine mental health care through a culturally grounded lens.

Register Here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/3rd-annual-black-mental-health-summit-tickets-1357090557389?aff=oddtdtcreator

07/07/2025

New things on the horizon!!! Welcome to our new region co-directors!

06/28/2025

The 2026-27 state budget cuts funding for services for everyday Ohioans and instead provides tax breaks to the wealthy, as well as $600 million for the Cleveland Browns. While the budget contains many harmful provisions, including underfunding public schools and libraries, we are focusing on the following issues due to their direct impact on social workers and the services we provide.

The budget:
- Threatens Medicaid expansion coverage by cutting state funding if the federal match falls below 90%, putting roughly 770,000 Ohioans at risk of losing healthcare. This will also severely impact the social work force.
- Defunds certain homeless shelters that support transgender youth
- Bans Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming mental health care for all ages

Call Governor DeWine at (614) 644-4357 to ask him to veto these parts of the budget!

Check out our partners, Equality Ohio, Policy Matters Ohio, and Honesty for Ohio Education for more information about their focus areas of the budget.

06/25/2025

Come join us! If you registered, you’ve got shoes!

Come join us at Poelking Lanes for our Region 7 meet & greet! Let's kick off the summer with some fun and bowling. Light snacks will be provided by us! You just need to RSVP! Can't wait to see you!
https://www.naswoh.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1967756&group=

06/16/2025

🎉 Early Bird Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2025 Ohio Social Work Conference! 🎉

Join us November 13–14 in Columbus, Ohio, for two powerful days of connection, learning, and inspiration with 400+ social workers and 60+ exhibitors. Earn CEUs, share resources, and be part of Ohio’s biggest social work event of the year!

🔗 Register now: www.naswoh.org/annualconference

06/13/2025

This is exciting news!!!

06/02/2025

Come join us at Poelking Lanes for our Region 7 meet & greet! Let's kick off the summer with some fun and bowling. Light snacks will be provided by us! You just need to RSVP! Can't wait to see you!
https://www.naswoh.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1967756&group=

06/02/2025

Happy Pride Month from NASW Ohio! Pride is about more than visibility and celebration — it’s a call to action. The rights of LGBTQIA+ people are being actively eroded by the Ohio General Assembly, federal administration, and Congress. We must do more than celebrate — we must organize, advocate, and fight back. Step up and Fight for Pride. Take action now: naswoh.org/currentlegislation