Congressional Research Institute for Social Work and Policy - CRISP

01/26/2021

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People who are deaf or hard of hearing can now view an American Sign Language interpretation of the press briefings, White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced on Monday.

03/19/2019

🔥🔥CONTEST ALERT!!!!🔥🔥Good morning everyone. We have started our morning program. Dr.Lewis announced a contest for the student/participant that has the most tags for today. Please use the and tags for the event today. The prize is free tuition to the CRISP Political Boot Camp!!!!!!!

03/19/2019

Good morning!! Today CRISP will meet with all Lobby Day participants at the US Capitol Visitors Center - the CVC Auditorium located at 1 E Capitol St NE Washington, DC 2003 at 8:30am. We are excited to see everyone! After the morning program, we will head over to the Hill!!

03/13/2019

The second bill that CRISP will be lobbying in support of will be the American Housing and Economic Stability Act of 2018 (S.3503) introduced by Senator and Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-MA).

The bill was introduced with the purpose of making housing more affordable, reversing the legacy of housing discrimination and removing barriers that isolate communities by expanding the rights under the Fair Housing Act. Senator Warren introduced this bill in September 2018.

To find out more about the American Housing and Economic Stability Act click here:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/3503

To find out more about Senator Elizabeth Warren click here: https://www.warren.senate.gov/

CRISP is excited to host MSW students and macro oriented social workers next week on the Hill!

Summary of S.3503 - 115th Congress (2017-2018): American Housing and Economic Mobility Act of 2018

03/13/2019

We are less than a week away from the 5th annual CRISP Advocacy Day!!!
CRISP will be lobbying in support of two bills the first is H.R 1 - For The People Act of 2019.

Critical elements of the For The People Act of 2019 include: addressing voter access barriers, election integrity, election security, political spending, ethics for the three branches of government, and the bill provides for states to establish independent, nonpartisan redistricting commissions.

The bill was introduced by Congressman John Sarbanes (D-MD) in January 2019. To find out more about H.R 1 click here: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1/text

To find out more about John Sarbanes click here: https://sarbanes.house.gov/

See you on the Hill next week!!! The second bill will be up in a few short minutes!

Text for H.R.1 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): For the People Act of 2019

03/12/2019

Jennifer Ross was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. While attending John Jay College, she discovered her passion for helping people. Jennifer's first time in the helping role was as a Youth Ambassador with Coro: Exploring leadership. Jennifer completed Coro's ten month leadership program. The program equipped her with the skills to create change at her high school. With the skills she learned at Coro, Jennifer created and facilitated her own anti-conflict workshops in an attempt to decrease conflict in her high school.

In 2017 Jennifer started working as a Client Advocate at the Deaf Wellness and Recreation Center. There, she helped bridge the gap between the deaf and hearing world by helping deaf clients access resources. Since then, Jennifer has been passionate about advocating for the deaf community.
Jennifer is currently a Masters of Social Work student at the Catholic University of America and is an Intern at the Homeless Children's Playtime Project. Jennifer Ross is an aspiring Social Worker who hopes to work work directly with the deaf community, so that she can continue to advocate on behalf of the deaf community and assist the deaf community in accessing the all the resources they need.

The CRISP Team is pleased to have this social work student on the leadership team, as she is well on her way! Advocacy is an ethical standard for all social workers. Way to go Jen!

03/01/2019

March is Social Work month.The theme for 2019 is: Elevate Social Work How do you think Social Work elevates individuals and communities? How are our skills useful to society? How will you elevate social work as a professional? In other words how do we "upgrade" society as social work professionals? Leave your insights in the comments! There are no wrong answers here!