How to Support Foster Children
When you choose to become a foster carer the rewards can be great. Supporting a child through a difficult period ...
Tag: Social Workers
Systems Perspective and the Myth of the Self-Made Man
As a social worker, we spend a good deal of time looking at systems, and systems work means we can’t ...
A Student Perspective: Social Work and First Responders
It may be rare for a social work student to reflect on an assignment as something inspirational rather than a ...
Environmental Social Work: A Call to Action
What is environmental justice? Dr. Robert Bullard, often called the father of the environmental justice movement, in an interview with ...
UMSSW’s Financial Social Work Initiative Celebrates 10 Years
The University of Maryland School of Social Work (UMSSW) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Financial Social Work Initiative (FSWI) during the 2017-2018 ...
BASW and SWU launch ‘Respect for Social Work’: The Campaign for Professional Working Conditions
With half of social workers intending to leave their jobs soon, BASW and SWU launch 'Respect for Social Work’: the ...
NASW-Michigan and Emerge Michigan Partner to Train Social Workers to Run for Office
NASW-Michigan Testimony for Public Hearing Re: House Bills 4188, 4189, 4190 (adoption/foster care) The National Association of Social Workers – ...
Increasing Workplace Diversity: The Glass Escalator Phenomenon in Female Dominated Professions
20 Jobs Dominated by Women - Business Insider Many assume that most workplaces are meritocracies where effort is rewarded by ...
Child Protection in Ireland Post McCabe
Sgt. Maurice McCabe The controversy surrounding the treatment of Sgt. Maurice McCabe by various State agencies has raised significant issues ...
A Teacher’s Response to Charlottesville for Social Workers in Practice with People with Disabilities
Officer patrols in front of a recent KKK rally in Charlottesville, Va. - Jill Mumie I am currently teaching a ...
Innovation in Social Work: Where Does it Come From?
As social workers, we often confront complex situations. And we are all about developing solutions and strategies for change. In ...
Innovation, Strategic Networks, and Social Media: Why I’m Here
I suspect that most of my academic colleagues think I’m crazy. They don’t understand social networking, especially not Twitter. And ...
Engaging Individuals Entrenched With Power and Privilege
University of Southern California Professor Melissa Singh with COBI Fellows in Washington, DC Like many Macro students trying to obtain ...
New NASW President Kathryn Wehrmann to Support Push to Modernize, Improve Services
Incoming National Association of Social Workers (NASW) President Kathryn Wehrmann will continue to support the association’s ongoing initiative to modernize ...
Helping Out: What Social Workers Do
By: Tricia Hussung Becoming a social worker is an ideal career path for those seeking to help others and make ...
Research Grant Aids Social Workers and Medical Providers in Identifying and Treating Sexual Abuse
The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) clinical nursing professor Kathleen Jordan is leading grant-funded research to aid medical ...
Social Workers Are the World’s Most Genuine and Unsung Humanitarians
On March 1st, 2017, celebrity and grammy award-winning singer, Rihanna received the 2017 Humanitarian of the Year Award from Harvard ...
No Mean City: Glasgow City Health Partners with Social Care in North East Glasgow
On World Social Work Day, alongside social workers across the world, we are celebrating our professional identity and ‘socialworkness’ while ...
Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Celebrates World Social Work Day
Today is World Social Work Day, a time to honor social workers and recognize the contributions they bring to society. ...
Social Work Day at the United Nations
Social Work Day at the UN 2007 Photo Credit: Monmouth University In September 2015, 193 world leaders agreed to 17 ...
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