NASW and the NASW Foundation, along with leading medical organizations, have partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Collaborative for Alcohol-Free Pregnancy, a cross-discipline public health initiative. Together, we are encouraging health professionals to use proven prevention strategies in routine patient care.

As part of this initiative, in 2018 and 2022 NASW, NASW Foundation and The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) Steve Hicks School of Social Work completed two successful four-year partnerships representing social work in the CDC’s Collaborative for Alcohol-Free Pregnancy—and embarked on a new four-year project partnership with UT Austin and CDC that started in 2022.  

This initiative, Engaging Social Workers in Preventing Alcohol- and Other Substance-Exposed Pregnancies, is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as part of a financial assistance award totaling $913,610 with 100 percent funded by CDC/HHS. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, CDC/HHS, or the U.S. Government.

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