They write on their website: "The Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work (NAASW) strives to amplify a practice of social work aimed at dismantling the prison industrial complex (PIC) and building the life-affirming horizon to which abolition aspires."

Their work includes: "ongoing political education, research / knowledge generation around carceral and abolition social work, developing an online hub of abolitionist social work resources, [and] broader organizing and advocacy efforts to insert abolitionist ideas and practices into social work."